View source for VVV12 Participants

This is a placeholder for a list of participants at the VVV12 summer school.  It usually gets filled up at the first day of school, and is strictly voluntary.  We're expecting 40-something people this year.  Feel free of course to add yourself before arrival at the school.  For inspiration, see [[VVV11 Participants|VVV11]]/[[VVV10 Participants|VVV10]]/[[VVV09 Participants|VVV09]]/[[VVV08 Participants|VVV08]]/[[VVV07 Participants|VVV07]]/[[Present yourself|VVV06]]).

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== Giorgio Metta == 
  [[Image:giorgio2.jpg | 350px]]
  IIT and Univ. of Genoa, pasa_(at)_liralab.it, [http://pasa.cognitivehumanoids.eu homepage]
  I am senior scientist at the IIT and assistant professor at the University 
  of Genoa where I teach courses on anthropomorphic robotics and intelligent systems 
  for the bioengineering curricula. I hold a MS with honors (in 1994) and PhD (in 2000) 
  in electronic engineering both from the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2002 I was
  postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI-Lab where I worked on various humanoid robotic 
  platforms. I am assistant professor at the University of Genoa since 2005 and with 
  IIT since 2006. My research activities are in the fields of biologically motivated 
  and humanoid robotics and in particular in developing life-long developing artificial 
  systems that show some of the abilities of natural systems.

== Lorenzo Natale ==
   [[Image:nat09.jpg]]
   Robotics Brain and Cognitive Science,
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, more info:
   [http://nat.liralab.it website]

== Francesco Nori ==
   [[Image:iron.JPG]]
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
   Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
   [http://people.liralab.it/iron my web page]

== Ugo Pattacini ==
   [[Image:ugo.jpg]]
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
   Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
   [http://www.iit.it/it/persone/robotics-brain-and-cognitive-sciences-cognitive-humanoids-lab/post-doc/ugo-pattacini.html webpage]

== Vadim Tikhanoff ==
   [[Image:vadim.JPG]]
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
   Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
   [http://www.iit.it/it/persone/robotics-brain-and-cognitive-sciences-cognitive-humanoids-lab/post-doc/vadim-tikhanoff.html webpage]

== Giacomo Spigler ==
   [[Image:spigler12.jpg]]
   Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna -- [[ Image:Vvv12_presentation_spigler.pdf | presentation]]

== Serena Ivaldi ==
   [[Image:serena.jpg]]
   Institut des Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique
   Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
   [http://www.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?op=view_profil&id=236&old=N&lang=en webpage]

== Mike Ciaraldi ==

   [[Image:Ciaraldi.jpg]] [[Image:Moonraker.jpg]] [[Image:Prometheus.jpg]]
   [[Image:Authorized.jpg]]  [[Image:Robotcommand.jpg]]
   Professor of Practice
   Department of Computer Science
   Robotics Engineering Program
   Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA
   I am interested in all aspects of robotics engineering: Mechanical, electrical, and computational.
   Here are photos of some of the robots I have worked on: Moonraker lunar regolith excavation robot and Prometheus intelligent ground vehicle. 
   Also, signs from the robotics pavillion at the Kennedy Space Center.
   [http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~ciaraldi webpage]

== Stéphane Lallée ==

   [[Image:SL2011.jpg]]
   In transition between INSERM (France) and SPECS (Barcelona)
   EFAA Project
   I just graduated and I hope to be able to play with this robot for a few more years :)
   [http://www.sbri.fr/members/stephane-lallee.html Lab's page]

== Juxi Leitner ==
  [[Image:juxi.png]]
  PhD Student at [http://www.idsia.ch/ IDSIA] in Lugano, Switzerland
  web: [http://www.Juxi.net]
  email: juxi.leitner@gmail.com

  Research Interests:
   * sensorimotor coordination
   * learning object manipulation, grasping from vision

== Elena Ceseracciu ==
    
   [[Image:Elena.jpg]]
   Robotics Brain and Cognitive Science,
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
   I am a Post-Doc, working on software integration for the Xperience European Project.

== Kiril Kiryazov ==

    [[Image:kiril.jpg | 350px]]

   I am a in the middle of my PhD in  [http://www.robotdoc.org/ RobotDoc]  project. 
   I work in Sweden - Univeristy of Skovde ( [http://www.his.se/coin Interaction Lab]).
   I am dealing with emotional cognitive mechanisms and 
   how they help for autonomy under limited resources and better social interaction.

   email = kiryazov at gmail dot com

== Frédéric Elisei ==

  [[Image:elisei.jpg]]
  Research engineer at GIPSA-Lab, Speech and cognition department, Grenoble, France. [http://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~frederic.elisei/ See homepage]
  Working on face-to-face interaction, between humans... and soon with iCub !
  Especially interested in gaze, pointing gestures and vocalizations... and their accurate synchronisations.

== Karinne Ramirez-Amaro ==
 [[Image:Icub_Karinne.jpg | 350px]]

 I am a Mexican doing my PhD in Germany at the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Prof. Michael Beetz.
 My research interest involve Human motions in manipulation task and getting probabilistic models out of human observations in order to predict their intentions. 
 Please for more information visit my web page: http://ias.cs.tum.edu/people/ramirezk

== Marek Rucinski ==

 [[Image:Marek.jpg]]
 
 Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (RobotDoC ITN)
 Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems
 Plymouth University
 
 My research interest are in using humanoid robots to understand better
 the working of the human brain. In particular my studies focus on robotic
 modelling of mathematical cognition, with special emphasis
 on the role of embodiment in mathematical thinking.
 This includes such topics as interactions between numerical and motor skills
 and interaction of numbers with other representations in the brain.
 
 email: marek.rucinski (at) plymouth.ac.uk

== Katrin Solveig Lohan ==
   [[Image:Katrin.jpg]]
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
   Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
   Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (RobotDoC)

== George Karakatsiotis aka Erevodifwntas ==

No image :-P


George Karakatsiotis is a research associate at the Cognitive Systems Research Institute and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ATHENA Research Center). He holds a degree in informatics and a Master of Science in computer science from the Athens University of Economics and Business. His is a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics, working on the automatic translation of sign languages. He has participated in a number of European projects (POETICON++/FP7-ICT, POETICON/FP7, SmoothIT/FP7, InterMedia/FP6). His research includes the development of reasoning mechanisms for embodied cognition applications, embodied concept knowledge bases, mobile value-added services, network management and user-centric multimedia. 


For more information visit my web pages: http://www.gkarak.eu, http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/gkarakatsiotis.html

== Takato Horii ==
 [[Image:takato.jpg]]
 Master course student in Osaka University.
 I study Cognitive Robotics in Asada Lab.
 My research topic is emotional development in infant.
 I interest in human robot interaction to use emotion and tactile information.

== Panagiotis Dimitrakis ==
 Cognitive Systems Research Institute
 Greece<br/>
 Currently working on Poeticon++ project<br/>
 Research Interests:
 Embodied Language Processing
 Semantic Parsing
 Cognitive Experiment Analysis<br/>
 personal webpage: http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/pdimitrakis.html

== Konstantinos Theofilis ==
Adaptive Systems Research Group<br/>
University of Hertfordshire

== Jorhabib Eljaik ==
  [[Image:Jorhabib_pic.jpg]]<br/>
  Ph.D. Student at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department.
  Working on whole body control on iCub.
  Colombian, 23 yrs old.

== Eduardo Castello ==

 Graduate School of Engineering Science.
 Dep. of Systems Innovation.
 Ishiguro Laboratory.
 Osaka University.
 Japan.<br/>
 Research Interests:
 High-Fidelity Teleoperation
 Haptic Interaction
 Multi-Robot Systems<br/>
 Personal webpage: http://www.eduardo-castello.com

== Silvio Traversaro == 
  Master course student in University of Genoa, Robotics Engineering
  Doing a Master Thesis at IIT under Francesco Nori on inertial parameter estimation using FT sensors

== Barry Ridge ==
 [[Image:barry_ridge.jpg]]<br/>
 Senior research assistant on the [http://www.xperience.org/ Xperience project] working under [http://www.ijs.si/~aude/ Aleš Ude] at the [http://www.ijs.si/ijsw/JSI Jožef Stefan Institute], Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br/>
 Research interests:
 Object affordance learning
 3D vision
 Self-supervised learning<br/>
 [http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/barry/ Webpage]

== Kotaro Nagahama ==
   [[Image:Kotaro.jpg]]
   PhD student at JSK Robotics Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
   more info:
   [http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp JSK website]

== Julian Schill ==
   [[Image:JulianSestri.JPG]]
   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
   Institute for Anthropomatics
   Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab
   Research interest: Haptic object exploration 
   Working in the Xperience project

== Matej Hoffmann ==
[[Image:Matej.jpg]]
Originally from Prague, Czech republic, currently I'm about to finish my PhD at the AI Lab in Zurich, Switzerland. 
My research is centered around cognitive developmental robotics - in particular minimal cognitive phenomena like body schema, forward models, sensorimotor contingencies. So far, I've been mostly busy with a quadruped robot called Puppy.

http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/hoffmann/

== Giovanni Saponaro ==	
[[Image:Giosmall.jpg]]

VisLab, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Email and website: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~gsaponaro/

Interested in human-humanoid interaction mediated through hand gestures, pointing at objects, attention system. Possible goal: collaborative tasks (human starts an action, robot recognizes it and takes over).

== David Schiebener ==
http://his.anthropomatik.kit.edu/img/ich_rdax_178x210.png
   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
   Institute for Anthropomatics, Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab
   Research on interactive visuo-haptic object discovery, segmentation and exploration
   Working in the Xperience project

== Christian Dondrup ==
 [[Image:Christian_dondrup.jpg]]
 Bielefeld University
 Applied Informatics Group

==Duarte Aragão==
  [[Image:Duarte-aragao.jpg]]
  VisLab - Computer Vision Lab of the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica ([http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt/ http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt/])
  I am adapting the iCub software and YARP to be used on the Vizzy (http://mediawiki.isr.ist.utl.pt/wiki/Vizzy) robot.
  email: daragao <at> gmail.com

== Ravin de Souza ==
   [[Image:ravin.jpg | 150px]]
   
I'm currently at Vislab - Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica in Lisbon, doing my Ph.D. within the framework of the IST-EPFL joint doctoral program. My research focuses on ways to use human expert demonstration in order to improve robot behaviour for grasping and manipulation.
email: rsouza_at_isr.ist.utl.pt or ravin.desouza_at_epfl.ch

== Kristsana Seepanomwan ==
   [[Image:krist.jpg]]
   MPhil./PhD. research student
   Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems
   University of Plymouth
I am doing a (re)search on Gestures in Humanoid Robots, currently on co-thought gestures for spatial problem solving e.g., mental rotation tasks.

== Giuseppe Cicala ==
   [[Image:giuse.jpg | 200px]]
   PhD student
   University of Genoa
   Email: giuseppe.cicala <at> unige.it

PhD student at University of Genoa
in the course "Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica, Robotica e delle Telecomunicazioni" (ICT and Robotics).
I'm working on a project related to formal verification of cyber-physical systems.

== Mirko Wächter ==
 PhD student at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
 Research on Interaction and Manipulation with Robots based on Motion-Graphs
 Working in the Xperience project
 mirko.waechter at kit.edu

== Marco Randazzo ==
   [[Image:Randaz_timone_small.jpg]]
   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
   Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department
   Email: marco.randazzo <at> iit.it

== Kail Frank ==
   PhD Student IDSIA
   Developmental Robotics, Mechanical Engineering
   Developed MoBeE / VirtualSkin
   Email: kail <at> idsia.ch

== Maxime Petit ==
   [[Image:Max_iCub.jpg]]
   PhD Student at the National Institute for Sciences and Medical Research (INSERM) of Lyon, France.
   Robotic Cognition Laboratory
   Human-Robot spoken language interaction, sense of self, memory
   Email: maxime.petit <at> inserm.fr   [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWM7Ic-SRc]
   [http://www.facebook.com/RobotCognitionLaboratory Facebook page of the lab \o/]

== Grégoire Pointeau == 
     [[Image:Greg-pointeau.png]]
     PhD Student at INSERM - Lyon - FRANCE.
     Human-Robot Interaction
     I am working on autobiographic memory, and representation of self.
     The aim is to create some models from psycology, and to implement them into the iCub.
     Email: gregoire.pointeau <at> inserm.fr

== Claudio Zito ==
     [[Image:CZito.jpg]]
     I am a PhD student at the University of Birmingham and my research is focussed on planning manipulation actions under pose uncertainty.
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxz004/index.html
     Email: claudio.zito.81 (at) gmail (dot) com

== Alex Escuredo ==
  *[[Image:Alex_2012.jpg]]
  I am electronics and mechatronics engineer working in 'Specs' UPF Barcelona as technical support for the robots include Icub.
  Email: alexescuredo(at)gmail.com

== Maryam Alimardani ==

[[Image:Maryam.jpg]]
 Graduate School of Engineering Science.
 Dep. of Systems Innovation.
 Ishiguro Laboratory.
 Osaka University.
 Japan.<br/>


== Federico Da Rold ==

 [[Image:Fede.jpg | 250px]]
 Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems
 Plymouth University
 federico.darold <at> plymouth.ac.uk
 My research topic is the grounding of abstract words from an embodied perspective

== Ilaria Gori ==

   [[Image:ilaria1.jpg]]
   PhD Student at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
   Mainly interested in computer vision and robotics, in particular I'm working on gesture recognition 
   and 3D object representation for manipulation.
   ilaria.gori <at> iit.it


== Uriel Martinez ==

[[Image:uriel-rock.jpg]]

   Automatic Control and Engineering Systems Department
   Psychology
   Active Touch Laboratory at Sheffield
   The University of Sheffield
   uriel.martinez <at> sheffield.ac.uk

== Hiroyuki Kidokoro ==

   Ph.D. Student at Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
   Intern Researcher at Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR
   Email: kidokoro <at> atr.jp
   [https://sites.google.com/site/hiroyukikidokoro/ my webpage ]


== Vicky Vouloutsi ==

[[Image:Vicky.jpeg]]

   Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group [http://specs.upf.edu/people SPECS]
   Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
   Interested in emotions and how we can make robots better social agents
   Part of the EFAA project
   Email: vicky.vouloutsi <at> upf.edu