LACORO 2023 Speakers

LECTURERS

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  Tamim Asfour

  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  Tamim Asfour is full Professor of Humanoid Robotics at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). H...is research focuses on the engineering of high performance 24/7 humanoid robotics as well as on the mechano-informatics of humanoids as the synergetic integration of informatics, artificial intelligence and mechatronics into humanoid robot systems, which are able to predict, act and interact in the real world. In his research, he is reaching out and connecting to neighboring areas in large-scale national and European interdisciplinary projects in the area of robotics in combination with machine learning and computer vision. Tamim is the developer of the ARMAR humanoid robot family. He is scientific spokesperson of the KIT Center “Information · Systems · Technologies (KCIST)”, president of the Executive Board of the German Robotics Society (DGR), the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE-RAS Humanoids Conference Editorial Board, deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editor of the Robotics and Automation Letters.

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  Javier Ruíz Del Solar San Martín

  Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Chile

  Dr. Javier Ruiz del Solar is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile and Executive Director of the Advanced Mining Technology ...Center. He is interested on robots, autonomous systems and learning. His research focuses on two areas, fundamental research in perception and learning, and applications of robotics technology in the real-world, mainly in mining. In the last years his has focused on the application of deep reinforcement learning to mobile robot applications.

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  Yukie Nagai

  The University of Tokyo, Japan

  Yukie Nagai is a Project Professor at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence, the University of Tokyo. She received her Ph.D. in Engi...neering from Osaka University in 2004 and then worked at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Bielefeld University, and Osaka University. Since 2019, she leads Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab at the University of Tokyo. Her research interests include cognitive developmental robotics, computational neuroscience, and assistive technologies for developmental disorders. She was elected to '30 women in robotics you need to know about' in 2019, 'World's 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics' in 2020, and '35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science' in 2022.

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  Lorenzo Jamone

  School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK

  Lorenzo Jamone is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics at the School of Engineering and Materials Science of the Queen Mary University of London (UK). He is ...part of ARQ (Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary) and he is the founder and director of the CRISP group: Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the People. He received the MS degree (honours) in computer engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2006, and the PhD degree in humanoid technologies from the University of Genoa (Italy), and the Italian Institute of Technology, in 2010. He was an Associate Researcher at the Takanishi Laboratory, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) from 2010 to 2012, and at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) from 2012 to 2016. He has been a Turing Fellow since 2018. He has over 100 publications with an H-index of 26. His current research interests include cognitive robotics, robot learning, robotic manipulation, force and tactile sensing.

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  Pablo Barros

  Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Sony, Brussels, Belgium

  Pablo Barros is a machine learning scientist working at Sony R & D Center in Brussels, focusing on physiological and social signal processing applied ...to mental health solutions. Pablo holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Hamburg, in Germany, and over the last years, has worked on different projects involving social robotics and affective computing. In particular, his research focuses on social perception, in particular facial expression recognition, but also on modelling, based on artificial intelligence, the role of social agents while interacting with humans.

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  Bruno Lara

  Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), Mexico

  Llevó a cabo estudios de doctorado en el King's College de la Universidad de Londres en el área de mecatrónica. Esto fue seguido de un posdoc en el Th...eorieLabor en la Universidad Friedrich Schiller en Jena, Alemania en el área de robótica evolutiva. Este trabajo se concentró en la investigación e implementación de neurocontroladores para agentes artificiales autónomos a través de evolución artificial. Después el Dr. Lara hizo un posdoc en el Max Planck Institute for Psychology Research en la ciudad de Munich, Alemania. Aquí llevó a cabo investigación en el papel que juegan diferentes conceptos de las ciencias cognitivas en el control de comportamiento de agentes autónomos. Desde el 2005 el Dr. Lara es profesor investigador en el Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos en donde hasta el 2015 coordinó el cuerpo académico 'Sistemas Inteligentes de Percepción'. Desde el 2009 esta a cargo del laboratorio de robótica cognitiva, un espacio multidisciplinario, en donde convergen investigaciones desde diferentes áreas del conocimiento, incluyendo a la robótica, psicología, filosofía y computación entre otras. Durante el 2011 y 2012 llevó acabo una estancia sabática en el laboratorio de robótica cognitiva de la Dra. Verena Hafner en la Universidad Humboldt en Berlín. Esta colaboración se ha mantenido durante los años y resulto en una segunda estancia en el 2019-2020. Así mismo, el laboratorio de Robótica Cognitiva cuenta con múltiples colaboraciones nacionales e internacionales dentro de las que destacan la colaboración con la Dra. Alejandra Ciria, de la Faculta de Psicología de la UNAM y el Dr. Guido Schillaci del Joint Research Centre, de la Comisión Europea.

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  María José Escobar

  Electronics Engineering Department, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

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  Eduardo Benitez Sandoval

  Creative Robotics Lab, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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  Josip Josifovski

  Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich

  Josip Josifovski is a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich and a research assistant at the Chair for Robotics, Artificial Intelligence ...and Real-Time systems since September 2019. He received his master’s degree in Intelligent Adaptive Systems from the University of Hamburg in 2018 and his bachelor’s degree in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. At his current position, he is working within the Artificial Intelligence for Digitizing Industry (AI4DI) research project, where he is developing simulations and learning algorithms for robot control with a focus on continual robot learning and sim2real transfer. His previous experience includes research work in cross-modal robot learning with the Knowledge Technology research group at University of Hamburg and several years of industry experience in software development and computer vision.

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TUTORS

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  Lorenzo Jamone

  School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK

  Lorenzo Jamone is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics at the School of Engineering and Materials Science of the Queen Mary University of London (UK). He is ...part of ARQ (Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary) and he is the founder and director of the CRISP group: Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the People. He received the MS degree (honours) in computer engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2006, and the PhD degree in humanoid technologies from the University of Genoa (Italy), and the Italian Institute of Technology, in 2010. He was an Associate Researcher at the Takanishi Laboratory, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) from 2010 to 2012, and at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) from 2012 to 2016. He has been a Turing Fellow since 2018. He has over 100 publications with an H-index of 26. His current research interests include cognitive robotics, robot learning, robotic manipulation, force and tactile sensing.

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  Pablo Barros

  Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Sony, Brussels, Belgium

  Pablo Barros is a machine learning scientist working at Sony R & D Center in Brussels, focusing on physiological and social signal processing applied ...to mental health solutions. Pablo holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Hamburg, in Germany, and over the last years, has worked on different projects involving social robotics and affective computing. In particular, his research focuses on social perception, in particular facial expression recognition, but also on modelling, based on artificial intelligence, the role of social agents while interacting with humans.

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  Francisco Leiva

  Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile.