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Mary Cassin is a leading researcher in embodied AI and human-robot interaction, whose work bridges the gap between science fiction and functional robotics. Her primary contributions lie in developing artificial agents capable of natural, multimodal interaction—combining vision, language, and physical action. In her highly cited 2020 paper, “Imitating Interactive Intelligence” (43 citations), Cassin laid the groundwork for training robots to learn from human demonstration, enabling them to assist with physical tasks and communicate through natural language. She extended this vision in her 2021 work, “Creating Multimodal Interactive Agents with Imitation and Self-Supervised Learning” (32 citations), where she pioneered methods that allow agents to learn continuously from their environment without explicit human labels. Cassin’s research has been instrumental in moving beyond scripted robotic behaviors toward truly adaptive, socially aware machines. Her work is widely recognized for its practical impact on assistive robotics, and she is frequently invited to speak on the future of human-AI collaboration. For students and researchers, Cassin’s papers offer a clear roadmap for building agents that can sense, act, and converse as seamlessly as humans do.