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/VVV10/VVV09/VVV08/VVV07/VVV06).
For editing, you can ask for your own username/password (email sysadmin@liralab.it to get an account) or use the username "VVV12" and password "s*str*" with the first star replaced with "e" and the last star replaced with "i".
There are sometimes edits lost with many people editing the same wiki page at once with the same username. Suggestion: add an empty section for yourself first, like this:
== Your Name ==
Then save, and click the link to edit that specific section.
If you would like to, include in your profile a list of possible ideas for collaboration.
Giorgio Metta
IIT and Univ. of Genoa, pasa_(at)_liralab.it, 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
Robotics Brain and Cognitive Science, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, more info: website
Francesco Nori
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department my web page
Ugo Pattacini
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department webpage
Vadim Tikhanoff
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department webpage
Giacomo Spigler
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna -- File:Vvv12 presentation spigler.pdf
Serena Ivaldi
Institut des Systemes Intelligents et de Robotique Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris webpage
Mike Ciaraldi
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. webpage
Stéphane Lallée
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 :) Lab's page
Juxi Leitner
PhD Student at IDSIA in Lugano, Switzerland web: [1] email: juxi.leitner@gmail.com
Research Interests: * sensorimotor coordination * learning object manipulation, grasping from vision
Elena Ceseracciu
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
I am a in the middle of my PhD in RobotDoc project. I work in Sweden - Univeristy of Skovde ( 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
Research engineer at GIPSA-Lab, Speech and cognition department, Grenoble, France. 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
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
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
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
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
Currently working on Poeticon++ project
Research Interests: Embodied Language Processing Semantic Parsing Cognitive Experiment Analysis
personal webpage: http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/pdimitrakis.html
Konstantinos Theofilis
Adaptive Systems Research Group
University of Hertfordshire
Jorhabib Eljaik
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.
Research Interests: High-Fidelity Teleoperation Haptic Interaction Multi-Robot Systems
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
Senior research assistant on the Xperience project working under Aleš Ude at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Research interests: Object affordance learning 3D vision Self-supervised learning
Webpage
Kotaro Nagahama
PhD student at JSK Robotics Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan. more info: JSK website
Julian Schill
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Anthropomatics
Humanoids and Intelligence Systems Lab
Research interest: Haptic object exploration
Working in the Xperience project
Matej Hoffmann
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
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
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
Bielefeld University
Applied Informatics Group
Duarte Aragão
VisLab - Computer Vision Lab of the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (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
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
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
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
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
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 [2] Facebook page of the lab \o/
Grégoire Pointeau
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
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
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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
Graduate School of Engineering Science. Dep. of Systems Innovation. Ishiguro Laboratory. Osaka University. Japan.
Federico Da Rold
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
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
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 my webpage
Vicky Vouloutsi
Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group 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