His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, social and behavioral psychology, and animal-computer interaction. He has a particular focus on computation as a tool to provide insight into human and nonhuman animal behavior in digital and real world environments. He received the Georgia Tech President's Fellowship and Student Research Excellence Commendation, multiple IBM Faculty Awards, best paper awards and nominations at International Conferences including Interactive Digital Storytelling, SIGCHI, Robot and Human Communication, Computational Intelligence in Games, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has also co-founded two startup companies commercializing nonhuman animal-computer interaction technologies, is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. Dr. Roberts works collaboratively with faculty and students in other departments on the design of hardware, software, and analytics for measuring, characterizing, and predicting animal temperament and behavior.