[3] He moved to Georgia Tech for his graduate studies, working with Jessica Hodgins on simulations of basketball shooting.
Jenkins moved to the University of Southern California for his doctoral studies, where he worked with Maja Matarić on humanoid agents.
Jenkins works on robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), which looks to automate the processes behind human decision making and movement.
[3] Jenkins uses manifold learning (nonlinear dimensionality reduction) to identify dynamic processes and the fundamental structures of time series data.
[10] With Henry Evans, a gentleman paralysed by stroke, Jenkins delivered a TED Talk on how robotics can benefit humanity.
[11] Jenkins has called for more African Americans to get involved with robotics, and for people to be more aware of whether everyone is being given equal opportunities in education and academia.