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Group Members
Our members are people with expertise from areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, and engineering, and students heading that way.
The Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research has recently been restructured and some former members are now with the Robotics Research Group, see Alumni section.
Academic staff
Prof. Daniel Polani
Professor
(Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
LC255
4380
d.polani@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Principled Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Artificial Life; Origins of Intelligence and Life, Principles of Cognition, Evolution of Sensors and the Perception-Action Loop, Information-Theoretic Formalisms for Modeling Cognition; Complex Systems, Self-Organization and Emergence, Multi-Agent Systems, RoboCup
Recent Projects
Dr Jan T Kim
Principal Lecturer
(Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
LC257
j.t.kim@herts.ac.uk
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Biological Information, Bioinformatics, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Gene Regulatory Networks, Morphogenesis, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Plant Sciences, Programming, Software Engineering
Dr Christoph Salge
Reader
(Artificial Intelligence in Games)
Contact information
E114B
77576
c.salge@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, AI in Games, Game AI, Artificial Life, Intrinsic Motivation
Recent Projects
Group founders
Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn
Professor
(Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
Research interests
Human-Robot Interaction, Social learning, Robots in Therapy and Education, Socially Assistive Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents
Recent Projects
Prof. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Professor
(Mathematical and Evolutionary Computer Science)
Contact information
Research interests
Evolvability, Mathematics for Computational & Theoretical Bology, Meaning for Observers & Agents Post-Reactive Systems
Visiting academic staff
Prof. Lola Cañamero
Honorary Visiting Professor
(Adaptive Systems)
Contact information
Research interests
Affective and social robotics, adaptive intelligent behavior, artificial autonomous agents, emotion modeling, motivated behavior and social interactions, minimal and embodied cognition and affect, developmental and epigenetic robotics, emotion development and attachment in robots, embodied computational psychiatry
Dr Michael Walters
Visiting Lecturer
Contact information
LC262
4347
m.l.walters@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Human-Robot Interaction, human factors, preferences and perceptions of robot appearance and social behaviour, Human-Robot Proxemics, experimental ethodology development, User Interface and API design and development. Fuzzy logic, genetic algorithm and neural network systems development, and sensor data fusion for robotics applications, Robotics for Education.
Research staff
Dr Nicola Catenacci-Volpi
Research Fellow
(Vice-Chancellor Fellow in Information Theory for AI and Robotics)
Contact information
C114
4766
n.catenacci-volpi@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Planning, Decision-Making, Bounded Rationality, Intrinsic Motivation, Information Theory
Recent Projects
Dr Matthew Lewis
Early Career Research Fellow
(Autonomous Robots as Embodied Models of Mental Disorders)
Contact information
E308
4429
m.lewis4@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
robot models of mental disorders, affective decision-making, autonomy in companion robots
Visiting research staff
Dr Alessandra Rossi
Visiting Research Fellow
Contact information
Research interests
Robotics, Human-robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Cognitive Architectures, Behavior-based Robotics, User Profiling and Recommendation, Multi-agent systems, RoboCup
Dr Marcus M. Scheunemann
Visiting Research Fellow
Contact information
Research interests
Robotics, Autonomous Behavior Generation in Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interactions, Information-Theoretic Formalisms for Modeling Cognition, Robot and Human Social Cognition, Self-Organization and Emergence, RoboCup and Machine Learning
Research students
Stavros Anagnou
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
affect modelling, group dynamics, evolution of affect and culture, social hormones, artificial life, agent-based modelling, consciousness/cognitive science
Hippolyte Charvin
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Principles of Cognition, Sensorimotor Contingencies, Information Theory, Dynamical systems
Faizan Rasheed
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Information Theory, Intelligent Transport System, Robotics
Faizan Rasheed received his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Isra University, Pakistan, in 2018, and his master’s degree in computer science (by research) under a joint degree programme of Sunway University, Malaysia, and Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Faizan’s research interests include domain of intelligent transportation systems, robotics, information theory and machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning and deep learning.
Andrei D. Robu
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
C114
4766
a.robu@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Research interests
Information Theory in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Clements
M.Sc. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Informational constraints of decision making and navigation
Alumni
Dr Rene te Boekhorst
Dr Adeline Chanseau
Dr Philippe Capdepuy
Dr Udeshika Dissanayake
Dr Radhika Gudipati
Dr Caroline Lyon
Sílvia Moros
Dr Lars Olsson
Dr Maha Salem
Dr Joe Saunders
Dr Sudhir Sharma
Dr Dag Sverre Syrdal
Dr Azeemsha Thacham-Poyil
Dr Dari Trendafilov
Giulia Galizia
Dr Ataollah Ramezan Shirazi
The alumni section is a work in progress list and therefore incomplete that includes, at this stage, only a selection of alumni. If you feel that you should be on this list or want to suggest an update, please send us an e-mail.
Now Robotics Group
Staff
Prof. Farshid Amirabdollahian
Dr Catherine Menon
Dr Prapa Rattadilok
Dr Frank Förster
Dr Patrick Holthaus
Dr Kheng Lee Koay
Dr Gabriella Lakatos
Dr Ben Robins
Dr Hooman Samani
Dr Luke Wood
Dr Abolfazl Zaraki
Sílvia Moros Español
Dr Marina Sarda Gou
Students
Mubashir Ahmad
Shadiya Alingal-Meethal
Mohammad Hossein Bamorovat Abadi
Lewis Riches
Mohamad Reza Shahabian Alashti
Vignesh Velmurugan
Grigorios Skaltsas
Prof. Daniel Polani
Professor (Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
LC255
4380
d.polani@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Principled Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Artificial Life; Origins of Intelligence and Life, Principles of Cognition, Evolution of Sensors and the Perception-Action Loop, Information-Theoretic Formalisms for Modeling Cognition; Complex Systems, Self-Organization and Emergence, Multi-Agent Systems, RoboCup
Recent Projects
Dr Jan T Kim
Principal Lecturer (Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
LC257
j.t.kim@herts.ac.uk
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Biological Information, Bioinformatics, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Gene Regulatory Networks, Morphogenesis, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Plant Sciences, Programming, Software Engineering
Dr Christoph Salge
Reader (Artificial Intelligence in Games)
Contact information
E114B
77576
c.salge@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, AI in Games, Game AI, Artificial Life, Intrinsic Motivation
Recent Projects
Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn
Professor (Artificial Intelligence)
Contact information
Research interests
Human-Robot Interaction, Social learning, Robots in Therapy and Education, Socially Assistive Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents
Recent Projects
Prof. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Professor (Mathematical and Evolutionary Computer Science)
Contact information
Research interests
Evolvability, Mathematics for Computational & Theoretical Bology, Meaning for Observers & Agents Post-Reactive Systems
Prof. Lola Cañamero
Honorary Visiting Professor (Adaptive Systems)
Contact information
Research interests
Affective and social robotics, adaptive intelligent behavior, artificial autonomous agents, emotion modeling, motivated behavior and social interactions, minimal and embodied cognition and affect, developmental and epigenetic robotics, emotion development and attachment in robots, embodied computational psychiatry
Dr Michael Walters
Visiting Lecturer
Contact information
LC262
4347
m.l.walters@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
Human-Robot Interaction, human factors, preferences and perceptions of robot appearance and social behaviour, Human-Robot Proxemics, experimental ethodology development, User Interface and API design and development. Fuzzy logic, genetic algorithm and neural network systems development, and sensor data fusion for robotics applications, Robotics for Education.
Dr Nicola Catenacci-Volpi
Research Fellow (Vice-Chancellor Fellow in Information Theory for AI and Robotics)
Contact information
C114
4766
n.catenacci-volpi@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Planning, Decision-Making, Bounded Rationality, Intrinsic Motivation, Information Theory
Recent Projects
Dr Matthew Lewis
Early Career Research Fellow (Autonomous Robots as Embodied Models of Mental Disorders)
Contact information
E308
4429
m.lewis4@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Research interests
robot models of mental disorders, affective decision-making, autonomy in companion robots
Visiting research staff
Dr Alessandra Rossi
Visiting Research Fellow
Contact information
Research interests
Robotics, Human-robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Cognitive Architectures, Behavior-based Robotics, User Profiling and Recommendation, Multi-agent systems, RoboCup
Dr Marcus M. Scheunemann
Visiting Research Fellow
Contact information
Research interests
Robotics, Autonomous Behavior Generation in Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interactions, Information-Theoretic Formalisms for Modeling Cognition, Robot and Human Social Cognition, Self-Organization and Emergence, RoboCup and Machine Learning
Research students
Stavros Anagnou
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
affect modelling, group dynamics, evolution of affect and culture, social hormones, artificial life, agent-based modelling, consciousness/cognitive science
Hippolyte Charvin
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Principles of Cognition, Sensorimotor Contingencies, Information Theory, Dynamical systems
Faizan Rasheed
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Information Theory, Intelligent Transport System, Robotics
Faizan Rasheed received his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Isra University, Pakistan, in 2018, and his master’s degree in computer science (by research) under a joint degree programme of Sunway University, Malaysia, and Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Faizan’s research interests include domain of intelligent transportation systems, robotics, information theory and machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning and deep learning.
Andrei D. Robu
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
C114
4766
a.robu@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Research interests
Information Theory in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Clements
M.Sc. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Informational constraints of decision making and navigation
Alumni
Dr Rene te Boekhorst
Dr Adeline Chanseau
Dr Philippe Capdepuy
Dr Udeshika Dissanayake
Dr Radhika Gudipati
Dr Caroline Lyon
Sílvia Moros
Dr Lars Olsson
Dr Maha Salem
Dr Joe Saunders
Dr Sudhir Sharma
Dr Dag Sverre Syrdal
Dr Azeemsha Thacham-Poyil
Dr Dari Trendafilov
Giulia Galizia
Dr Ataollah Ramezan Shirazi
The alumni section is a work in progress list and therefore incomplete that includes, at this stage, only a selection of alumni. If you feel that you should be on this list or want to suggest an update, please send us an e-mail.
Now Robotics Group
Staff
Prof. Farshid Amirabdollahian
Dr Catherine Menon
Dr Prapa Rattadilok
Dr Frank Förster
Dr Patrick Holthaus
Dr Kheng Lee Koay
Dr Gabriella Lakatos
Dr Ben Robins
Dr Hooman Samani
Dr Luke Wood
Dr Abolfazl Zaraki
Sílvia Moros Español
Dr Marina Sarda Gou
Students
Mubashir Ahmad
Shadiya Alingal-Meethal
Mohammad Hossein Bamorovat Abadi
Lewis Riches
Mohamad Reza Shahabian Alashti
Vignesh Velmurugan
Grigorios Skaltsas
Stavros Anagnou
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
affect modelling, group dynamics, evolution of affect and culture, social hormones, artificial life, agent-based modelling, consciousness/cognitive science
Hippolyte Charvin
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Principles of Cognition, Sensorimotor Contingencies, Information Theory, Dynamical systems
Faizan Rasheed
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Information Theory, Intelligent Transport System, Robotics
Faizan Rasheed received his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Isra University, Pakistan, in 2018, and his master’s degree in computer science (by research) under a joint degree programme of Sunway University, Malaysia, and Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Faizan’s research interests include domain of intelligent transportation systems, robotics, information theory and machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning and deep learning.
Andrei D. Robu
Ph.D. Student
Contact information
C114
4766
a.robu@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Research interests
Information Theory in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Clements
M.Sc. Student
Contact information
Research interests
Informational constraints of decision making and navigation
Alumni
Dr Rene te BoekhorstDr Adeline Chanseau
Dr Philippe Capdepuy
Dr Udeshika Dissanayake
Dr Radhika Gudipati
Dr Caroline Lyon
Sílvia Moros
Dr Lars Olsson
Dr Maha Salem
Dr Joe Saunders
Dr Sudhir Sharma
Dr Dag Sverre Syrdal
Dr Azeemsha Thacham-Poyil
Dr Dari Trendafilov
Giulia Galizia
Dr Ataollah Ramezan Shirazi
The alumni section is a work in progress list and therefore incomplete that includes, at this stage, only a selection of alumni. If you feel that you should be on this list or want to suggest an update, please send us an e-mail.
Now Robotics Group
Staff
Prof. Farshid AmirabdollahianDr Catherine Menon
Dr Prapa Rattadilok
Dr Frank Förster
Dr Patrick Holthaus
Dr Kheng Lee Koay
Dr Gabriella Lakatos
Dr Ben Robins
Dr Hooman Samani
Dr Luke Wood
Dr Abolfazl Zaraki
Sílvia Moros Español
Dr Marina Sarda Gou
Students
Mubashir AhmadShadiya Alingal-Meethal
Mohammad Hossein Bamorovat Abadi
Lewis Riches
Mohamad Reza Shahabian Alashti
Vignesh Velmurugan
Grigorios Skaltsas