Victor Nikhil Antony
I am a Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University advised by Dr. Chien-Ming Huang. I work on designing, building and evaulating social robots. I am interested in understanding how social robots can support well-being in longitudinal and in-the-wild settings. Prior to joining Hopkins, I was a undergraduate student at the University of Rochester supervised by Dr. Ehsan Hoque and Dr. Zhen Bai.
For any inquiries, feel free to reach out to me via mail!
Publications
2025
Victor Nikhil Antony, Maia Stiber, and Chien-Ming
Huang
Xpress: A System For Dynamic, Context-Aware Robot Facial
Expressions using Language Models
Conference: The Proceedings of 2025 IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI'25)
paper
Victor Nikhil Antony, Clara Jeon, Jiasheng Li, Ge Gao,
Huaishu Peng, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, and Chien-Ming Huang
The Design of On-Body Robots for Older Adults
Conference: The Proceedings of 2025 IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI'25)
paper
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Mengchi Li*, Shu-Han Lin, Junxin
Li, and Chien-Ming Huang
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review
Journal: International Journal Of Social Robotics
paper
Amama Mahmood, Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber,
Victor Nikhil Antony, and Chien-Ming Huang
Voice Assistants for Health Self-Management: Designing for
and with Older Adults
Conference: The Proceedings of 2025 ACM CHI conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'25)
paper
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Zhili Gong*, Guanchen Li, Clara
Jeon and Chien-Ming Huang
Lantern: A Minimalist Robotic Object Platform
under review
paper
Shiye Cao*, Jiwon Moon*, Amama Mahmood,
Victor Nikhil Antony, Ziang Xiao, Angie Liu and
Chien-Ming Huang
Interruption Handling for Conversational Robots
under review
paper
2024
Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang
ID. 8: Co-Creating Visual Stories with Generative AI
Journal: ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent
Systems
paper
Ulas Berk Karli, Juo-Tung Chen,
Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang
Alchemist: LLM-Aided End-User Development of Robot
Applications
Conference: The Proceedings of 2024 ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI'24)
paper|
Ulas Berk Karli, Juo-Tung Chen,
Victor Nikhil Antony and Chien-Ming Huang
Designing Social Robots that Engage Older Adults in
Exercise: A Case Study
Workshop: HRI for Aging in Place at the 2024 ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI'24)
paper
2023
Victor Nikhil Antony*, Sue Min Cho*, and Chien-Ming
Huang
Co-Designing with Older Adults, for Older Adults: Robots to
Promote Physical Activity
Conference: The Proceedings of 2023 ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI'23)
paper|
2022
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Victor Nikhil Antony, Aidan
Goldfarb, Melissa Welsh, Dillanie Sumanthiran, M Rafayet Ali
and Ehsan Hoque
Demographic Feature Isolation for Bias Research using
Deepfakes
Conference: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International
Conference on Multimedia
paper|
2021
Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Md Saiful Islam,Victor Nikhil Antony, Harshil Ratnu, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Abdullah Al Mamun,
Ellen Wagner, Stella Jensen-Roberts, Emma Waddell, Taylor
Myers, Meghan Pawlik, Julia Soto, Madeleine Coffey, Aayush
Sarkar, Ruth Schneider, Christopher Tarolli, Karlo Lizarraga,
Jamie Adams, Max A Little, E Ray Dorsey, and Ehsan Hoque
Detecting parkinson disease using a web-based speech task:
Observational study
Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research
paper
2020
Victor Nikhil Antony, Adira Blumenthal, Ziyue Qiu,
Ashely Tenesaca, Wanyin Hu, Zhen Bai
Projection-Based AR for Hearing Parent-Deaf Child
Communication
Workshop: Frameless
paper