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Alden Hung is a leading researcher in embodied AI and human-robot interaction, with a focus on building agents that can seamlessly collaborate with people in physical spaces. His work bridges imitation learning, self-supervised learning, and multimodal perception to create robots that understand natural language, interpret visual cues, and assist with real-world tasks. In his highly cited 2020 paper, “Imitating Interactive Intelligence” (43 citations), Hung laid the groundwork for training agents to mimic human-like interactive behaviors, moving beyond scripted responses toward adaptive, socially aware intelligence. He extended this vision in 2021 with “Creating Multimodal Interactive Agents with Imitation and Self-Supervised Learning” (32 citations), demonstrating how agents can learn from diverse sensory inputs—vision, language, and touch—without exhaustive human supervision. These contributions have helped shift the field toward more scalable, human-centric AI systems. Hung’s work is widely recognized for its practical implications in assistive robotics and smart environments, earning him a reputation as a key innovator in making the science fiction dream of intuitive, helpful robots a tangible reality.