Speakers

LECTURERS

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  Lorenzo Jamone

  University College London (UCL), UK, Computer Science Department

  Lorenzo Jamone is an Associate Professor in Robotics & AI at the Department of Computer Science of University College London (UCL), where he leads th...e CRISP group: Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the People. He received the MS degree (honors) in computer engineering from the University of Genoa (2006), and the PhD degree in humanoid technologies from the University of Genoa and the Italian Institute of Technology (2010), in Genoa (Italy). He was Associate Researcher at the Takanishi Laboratory of Waseda University (2010-2012), in Tokyo (Japan), and at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory of the Instituto Superior Técnico (2012-2016), in Lisbon (Portugal). He was a Lecturer (2016-2020) and then a Senior Lecturer (2020-2024) in Robotics at the Queen Mary University of London (UK), where he initially funded the CRISP group and he worked within ARQ (Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary). He has over 140 publications with an H-index of 31. His current research interests include cognitive robotics, robot learning, robotic manipulation, tactile sensing.

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  Danica Kragic (Online)

  Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden

  Danica Kragic is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. She received MSc in Mechan...ical Engineering from the Technical University of Rijeka, Croatia in 1995 and PhD in Computer Science from KTH in 2001. She has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and INRIA Rennes. She is the Director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems. Danica received the 2007 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Founding member of Young Academy of Sweden. She holds a Honorary Doctorate from the Lappeenranta University of Technology and Technical Univeristy of Rijeka. Her research is in the area of robotics, computer vision and machine learning.

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  Xavier Hinaut

  Inria (Mnemosyne team) & Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bordeaux France