Fellows
The RobotDoC Collegium has a membership of 16 Marie Curie Fellows (13 ESR - Early career Researchers and 3 ER Experienced Researchers). In addition, the Collegium includes over 15 Associate Fellows, who take part to some of its training activities
Marie Curie Fellows
- Alessandro Cristiano (ESR), Zurich University, Switzerland
- Elsner Claudia (ESR), Uppsala University, Sweden
- Handl Andrea (ESR), Uppsala University, Sweden
- Kiril Kiryazov (ESR), Skovde University, Sweden
- Kuppuswamy Naveen (ESR), Zurich University, Switzerland
- Lee Gauss (Cai Li),(ESR), Skovde University, Sweden
- Narayan Vikram (ESR), Bielefeld University, Germany
- Navarro-Guerrero Nicolas (ESR), Hamburg, Germany
- Ruciński Marek (ESR), Plymouth University, UK
- Francesca Stramandinoli (ESR), Plymouth University, UK
- Wilkinson Nick (ESR), IIT, Genoa
- Zhong Junpei (ESR), Hamburg, Germany
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Alessandro Cristiano (ESR), Zurich University, Switzerland
Cristiano received a Bachelor (BSc) and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in computer engineering respectively from the University of Catania and the Politecnico di Milano (Italy); the latter specialising in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is interested in biologically inspired control of humanoid robots, particularly in motor skill learning exploring the neuroscientific concepts of muscle synergy and muscle grouping.
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Elsner Claudia (ESR), Uppsala University, Sweden
Claudia received a BSc Degree in Pschology from the Technische Universität Dresden and has a Master Degree in Psychology from the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. She is currently doing her PhD at the Uppsala University working on the child`s sensory motor and cognitive development. Her research interests focus on how infants develop an understanding of other people`s intentions and actions. She is particulary interested in the functional role of motor cortex activation during action observation and in anticipating the goals of others actions.
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Handl Andrea (ESR), Uppsala University, Sweden
Andrea studied Psychology at the University of Leipzig (Germany), and obtained her Master of Science (MSc) degree in Psychological Research Methods at the University of London (United Kingdom). Specializing in developmental psychology, she is particularly interested in how, when and what infants learn about other people's communicatory actions.
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Kiryazov Kiril (ESR), Skovde University, Sweden
Kiril has a Master degree in AI and computer science from the Sofia University in Bulgaria. He works in the FEELING and WANT node. His interests are in creating hybrid affective models and implementing them in different virtual and real robots.
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Kuppuswamy Naveen (ESR), Zurich University, Switzerland
Naveen graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from the Anna University, Chennai (India) and a Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (South Korea). He works on adaptive sensorimotor control for biologically inspired robots with a special interest on mutual adaptation of model learning and adaptive control.
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Lee Gauss (Cai Li),(ESR), Skovde University, Sweden
Gauss received a Bachelor degree from Southeast University (SEU) and a Master degree in Electronics and Computer Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Kowloon. He is now doing research on the embodiment of emotional behaviors in autonomous robots.
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Narayan Vikram (ESR), Bielefeld University, Germany
Vikram received his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from University of Mysore, Mysore, India. He works on fusing top-down and bottom-up cues for attention in social interaction. He has ten peer reviewed publications in the domain of computer vision to his credit, and serves as a reviewer for major computer vision conferences.
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Navarro-Guerrero Nicolas (ESR), Hamburg, Germany
Nicolas studied Electronics engineering at the Technical University Federico Santa Maria in Valparaiso - Chile. He has experience with Soft-Computing techniques and is knowledgeable on the development of robotics and automation solutions. Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree working on "Neural Emotion and Action Integration".
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Ruciński Marek (ESR), Plymouth University, UK
Marek obtained his BSc degree in Computing Science in 2005 followed by a MSc degree in the same field in 2007 (specialising in Intelligent Decision Support Systems), both at Poznań University of Technology (Poland). Following his graduation, Marek underwent one-year traineeship in European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team (the Netherlands), where he was working on space applications of Artificial Intelligence. Currently Marek endavours to gain better understanding of the mechanisms behind human mathematical thought with the use of robotic modelling.
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Francesca Stramandinoli (ESR), Plymouth University, UK
Francesca has a Laurea/MEng degree in computer science and automation from the University of Calabria (Italy). She is working on the grounding of abstract words within the Plymouth THINK&TALK node.
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Wilkinson Nick (ESR), IIT, Genoa
Nick received a BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in 2005 and MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University, UK in 2008. He is now researching how robots can make use of motoric and contextual information in scene analysis.
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Zhong Junpei, Hamburg, Germany
Junpei received his BEng in control science and MPhil in electrical engineering from South China University of Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, respectively. He is now working on Neural Cognitive Integration with Department of Informatics in University of Hamburg.
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- Bentley Barry, Plymouth University, UK
- Caligiore Daniele, Bologna University, Italy
- Chuang Julie Li-Wen, NTUST, Taiwan
- de Greeff Joachim, Plymouth University, UK
- Dermitzakis Konstantinos, Zurich University, Switzerland
- Di Nuovo Alessandro, Catania University, Italy
- Ferrauto Tomassino, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
- Larcombe Chris , Plymouth University, UK
- Lee Kyuhwa, Imperial College London, UK
- Morse Anthony, Plymouth University, UK
- Paraense, Andre Luis University of Campinas, Brazil
- Peniak Martin, Plymouth University, UK
- Pierris Georgios, University of Wales Newport, UK
- Ramirez-Contla Salomon, Plymouth University, UK
- Read Robin, Plymouth University, UK
- Ruini Fabio, Plymouth University, UK
- Tomasevic Leo, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
- Tucker Roy, Plymouth University, UK
Bentley Barry, Plymouth University, UK
Barry is currently reading Computer Science at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom), where he is collaborating with Martin Peniak and the European Space Agency, investigating the application of evolutionary concepts to the design of autonomous planetary rovers.
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Dermitzakis Konstantinos, Zurich University, Switzerland
Konstantinos Dermitzakis received his BSc in Computer Science and MSc in AI from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a PhD candidate at the AI Lab, UZH. His research interests are in prosthetics, bionics, sensorimotor control, machine learning and neurosciences in general.
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Ferrauto Tomassino, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
Tomassino has a Laurea/MEng in computer engineering and automation from the University of L'Aquila (Italy). He is a PhD student at the University of Plymouth and is now working at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome on language and action compositionality within the ITALK project.
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Lee Kyuhwa, Imperial College London, UK
Kyuhwa studied on computer vision and machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology where he obtained his Master of Science degree in Computer Science. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree at Imperial College London focusing on the problem of “what to imitate” with various attentional mechanisms to enhance the quality of interactions between humans and robots.
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Paraense, Andre Luis University of Campinas, Brazil
André Luis studied Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas (Brazil), and obtained his Master of Science (MSc) degree in the same field at the University of Campinas in 2008, specializing in Cognitive Decision Support Systems. He is currently doing his PhD at the University of Campinas, working with the Cogsys Group on cognition and consciousness, particularly aimed at conceiving and implementing a computational cognitive architecture to be applied to artificial creatures.
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Peniak Martin, Plymouth University, UK
Martin received first BSc degree (with the best student award) in computing from The University of Plymouth. He previously collaborated with the European Space Agency on an evolutionary robotics approach for space research project. He is currently doing his PhD for the iTalk project where he explores integration of actions and language on a humanoid robot iCub.
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Pierris Georgios, University of Wales Newport, UK
Georgios holds a degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is currently developing hierarchical cognitive models for tactile gesture learning, and reproduction on humanoid robots in University of Wales, Newport within the ROBOSKIN project.
Ramirez-Contla Salomon, Plymouth University, UK
Salomon has a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is currently doing his MPhil/PhD at the University of Plymouth in the iTalk project. His researh topic is on bio-inspired representations of the reachable space for humanoid robots.
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Read Robin, Plymouth University, UK
Robin obtained a BSc in Design Engineering in 2008 (Middlesex University), an MSc in Robotics in 2009 (University of Plymouth), and is now undertaking a PhD in Human-Robot Interaction as part of the ALIZ-E Project. He is investigating non-linguistic interaction through both the utterance and gesture modalities using the Nao robot platform.
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Ruini Fabio, Plymouth University, UK
Fabio completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), from which he received a BSc in Economics, Networks and Information and a MSc in Economics and Management of Networks and Innovation. His PhD research, carried out at the University of Plymouth (UK) and sponsored by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, focuses on the application of an Evolutionary Robotics approach to the autonomous control of Micro-unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
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Tomasevic Leo, ISTC National Research Council, Italy
Leo obtained a Laurea/MEng in Electronic Engineering at the University "la Sapienza" in Rome, Italy. He is currently investigating sensorimotor control in humans at LET'S (Laboratory of Electrophysiology for Translational neuroScience), part of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome. He is also PhD student at the University of Plymouth - Rome Node.
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