An experimental dynamic identification & control of an overconstrained 3-DOF parallel mechanism in presence of variable friction and feedback delay. - Mohammad Sharifzadeh; Mehdi Tale Masouleh; Ahmad Kalhor; Pourya Shahverdi (Robotics Auton. Syst., 2018)

Learning Turn-Taking Behavior from Human Demonstrations for Social Human-Robot Interactions. - Pourya Shahverdi; Alexander Tyshka; Madeline Trombly; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (IROS, 2022)

A Sample Efficiency Improved Method via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Networks. - Qinghua Chen; Evan Dallas; Pourya Shahverdi; Jessica Korneder; Osamah A. Rawashdeh; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (RO-MAN, 2022)

Robot-mediated Group Instruction for Children with ASD: A Pilot Study. - Madeline Trombly; Pourya Shahverdi; Nathan Huang; Qinghua Chen; Jessica Korneder; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (RO-MAN, 2022)

Emotionally Specific Backchanneling in Social Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Human Interaction. - Pourya Shahverdi; Katelyn Rousso; Justin Klotz; Iman Bakhoda; Malek Zribi; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (IROS, 2023)

Robot-mediated Job Interview Training for Individuals with ASD: A Pilot Study. - Pourya Shahverdi; Katelyn Rousso; Iman Bakhoda; Nathan Huang; Kristin Rohrbeck; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (RO-MAN, 2023)

Exploring the Impact of Narrator Type on Response Latency and Utterance Length During Interactive Storytelling. - Iman Bakhoda; Pourya Shahverdi; Katelyn Rousso; Justin Klotz; Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie (ICRA, 2024)

Exploring Task-Level Contingent Mediations for Vocabulary Instruction across Robot, Virtual, and Human Teachers. - Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie; Tanya Christ; Pourya Shahverdi; Katelyn Rousso; Evan Dallas; Alexander Tyshka; Amanda Wowra; Kendra Barnett; Iman Bakhoda (RO-MAN, 2024)

"If a Robot was Teaching, Then Everybody Would Definitely Like School Better": An Analysis of Grade 3-5 Children's Perceptions of Learning STEM Vocabulary with an Educational Social Robot. - Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie; Tanya Christ; Amanda Wowra; Danielle Alexander; Iman Bakhoda; Pourya Shahverdi (RO-MAN, 2024)

Real-Time Imitation of Human Head Motions, Blinks and Emotions by Nao Robot: A Closed-Loop Approach. - Keyhan Rayati; Amirhossein Feizi; Alireza Beigy; Pourya Shahverdi; Mehdi Tale Masouleh; Ahmad Kalhor (CoRR, 2025)