Tesca Fitzgerald

Asst. prof at @Yale CS. I work on robots that learn from people 🤖
Formerly postdoc @CMU_Robotics, PhD @GeorgiaTech, BSc @Portland_State. (she/her)

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

I’ve just accepted a tenure-track faculty offer from @Yale! Starting this Fall, I'll be an assistant professor in the Computer Science department @YaleCompsci @YaleSEAS. 🥳🎓🤖
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[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

🔥🦾Inquisitive Robotics Lab representing at the #NortheastRoboticsColloquium #NERC2026

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

Check out our latest work!

[Ulas Berk Karli @uberkkarli]

🔥Bringing INSIGHT to VLAs through token-level uncertainty.

Our new work INSIGHT is the first to bring inference-time introspection to VLAs models, letting them know what they don’t know so they can ask for help.

📄 Paper: https://t.co/GHvxVtGYIn
🌐 Web: https://t.co/mrzwSGdxfe

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

#CoRL2025 folks! My alum Eason is presenting his MS research on single-demonstration generalization for new task orientations. Go say "hi" and check out his cool work! He'll be at Poster #58 on Monday, Sept 29.
Check out his TReF6 paper: https://t.co/GdwsXpmArp

[The HRI Conference @HRI_Conference]

Getting HRI ready to officially welcome everyone at the conference 🎉

#HRI2025

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@cjdamato Congratulations!!

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@hadmoni Love this!

[Henny Admoni @hadmoni]

My 15 minutes of fame.

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

Our CoRL paper is out! TLDR: INQUIRE is a robot learning system that optimizes over multiple query types: demonstrations, preferences, corrections, and rewards. It results in faster, more robust learning than SOTA using single or fixed-pattern query types. https://t.co/UL7Ck3ah5G

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@p_alvesoliveira @amazon Congratulations!! They are lucky to have you!

[HARP Lab @harp_lab_cmu]

"INQUIRE: INteractive Querying for User-aware Informative REasoning" was accepted as a Poster at the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022! Authors include lab members Tesca Fitzgerald, Pallavi Koppol, Patrick Callaghan, and Henny Admoni. 🥳

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@lorisfichera @alex_chiluisa @WPI_Robotics Congrats!

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

Calling all undergrads interested in AI! 🤖 Applications for the AAAI Undergrad Consortium are due on Nov 6. Travel funding available, with priority for students local to the DC area and students with multiple marginalized identities. Details here: https://t.co/Ge7Zz2THI6

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@_TheodoreKim Hope you feel better soon!!

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

Thank you @WPI_Robotics for a fantastic visit!

[WPI Robotics @WPI_Robotics]

Robotics Engineering Colloquium Series continues this Wednesday 12-1 pm at UH520.
Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, will be presenting research on "Learning to address novel situations through human-robot collaboration".#WPIRobotics

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@vdean314 Good luck today!

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@p_alvesoliveira @mayacakmak @elinbjorling @UW @uw_robotics @uwcse @ProjectEMAR Congrats Patrícia! What are you up to next?

[Yale Engineering @YaleEngineering]

Novel tasks can be overwhelming to a robot if it has not been properly trained. New CS faculty member Tesca Fitzgerald is developing algorithms to enable robots to ask for help in novel situations. Learn about her work and more: https://t.co/2Fv7AwsxuA
#Robotics @tescafitz

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

9 new faculty at @YaleSEAS CS this year. I'm excited to be one of them! 🥳 https://t.co/nNlG1XsiLZ

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@mlittmancs Thanks for a great talk!

[Tesca Fitzgerald @tescafitz]

@lrhammond It sure caught my attention!