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Our members are people with expertise from areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology, and engineering, and students heading that way.
LC255
4380
d.polani@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
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
LC260
3125
f.amirabdollahian2@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Robot House, Kaspar
Rehabilitation Robotics, Assistive Robotics, Technology to Support Ageing and Wellbeing, Safety of Robots, Ethical Robotics, Haptic Feedback, Physiological Sensing and Machine Learning, Agricultural Robotics, Robots for Education
EMERGENCE, AutoQGen, Kaspar and language, Kaspar Explains, CuPick, Robot House 2.0
LC257
j.t.kim@herts.ac.uk
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Biological Information, Bioinformatics, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Gene Regulatory Networks, Morphogenesis, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Plant Sciences, Programming, Software Engineering
LB214
4319
c.menon@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Profile
safety-critical autonomous systems; assurance mechanisms for autonomous systems; safety, security and social credibility of companion robots
Dr Catherine Menon is a principal lecturer within the adaptive systems group. Her research focuses on the intersection between safety and ethics in autonomous systems. She was PI on the AAIP funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility and is a member of the BSI AMT/10 and AMT/10/1 Committees, providing UK input into ISO/TC 299 (standardisation in robotics) and BS 8611 (ethical design and application of robotic devices).
LB206
77611
p.rattadilok@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
data fusion, IoT, autonomous systems
E114B
77576
c.salge@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Artificial Intelligence, AI in Games, Game AI, Artificial Life, Intrinsic Motivation
LC206
77594
f.foerster@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
human-robot interaction, robotic language acquisition, pragmatics, spoken dialogue systems, human-centric AI
E114A
8583
(external: 01707 28 9383)
p.holthaus@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
Robot House
Social robotics: nonverbal interactive signals; social credibility and trust in assistive and companion robots; interaction architectures and behaviour coordination; systems integration in heterogeneous environments
As the manager of Robot House, Patrick coordinates all research activities inside the house, supports internal and external collaborators in using the facilities, and advises them while conducting research. At the same time, he maintains the robots and all the other interactive technology in the house. Patrick has extensive expertise in social human-robot interaction and experimentation and is highly skilled with a large array of robotic and sensing technologies.
He is also a supervisor of several PhD students and a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, teaching advanced research topics in computer science and other modules.
Patrick is currently a CoI of the UKRI TAS hub's pump priming project Kaspar explains and an advisory board member of the Norwegian project Human Interactive Robotics in Healthcare (HIRo). He was also a CoI of the AAIP funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility. Previously, he been a postdoctoral researcher in the Robot House 2.0 project, an EPSRC strategic equipment grant, and in the Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment, a large-scale project within the DFG-funded excellence cluster CITEC where he was a member of the Cognitive Systems Engineering group.
LB204
1026
k.l.koay@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
human-robot interaction, social robotics, robotic home companions, agent migration and mobile robotics
Human-Robot Interactions, Social and Assistive Robotics, Acceptable and believable robotic behaviour and interactions, Etho-Robotics
Gabriella is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Hertfordshire. She completed her PhD in the field of Ethology analyzing Human-Dog Interactions, after which she transferred her skills to the field of human-robot interactions. Gabriella has extensive experience in the fields of human-robot interactions and robot-assisted therapy for children with autism. She participated in several large-scale European projects such as LIREC and BabyRobot, as well as in the EPSRC funded project Trustworthy Robotic Assistants. More recently, she has also been involved as a CoI of the UKRI TAS hub's pump priming round one project Kaspar explains, the EPSRC Network+ project EMERGENCE, the EU ERASMUS+ EMBOA project, and the Kaspar for Speech and Language Therapy project funded by the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund.
E115
1150
b.robins@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
Kaspar
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) with specific interest in the application of robotic systems in rehabilitation, therapy and education; Autism therapy; Dance Movement Therapy
3D printing, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rehabilitation Robotics, Robots in Therapy and Education, Assistive Robotics, Social Robotics.
Mutual behaviour adaptation in Human-robot Interactions, Contextual reasoning, Development of Cognitive Systems for Autonomous robots, Social Robotics
Dr Abolfazl Zaraki is Senior Lecturer in Robotics at the Computer Science department of the University of Hertfordshire. Before joining UH, he was a lecturer at the School of Engineering and a member of the Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) at Cardiff University, Cardiff. He was the Co-chair of the Human-Like Artificial Intelligence (AI) working group and a member of the IROHMS leadership team.
He received a master's degree in mechatronics and automatic control engineering from University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2010, and a PhD degree in automatic robotic and bioengineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2014. Between 2014 and 2019, he worked as Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow at different research institutions in Italy and the UK.
In the past, Abolfazl worked on European projects EASEL (Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning), BabyRobot - NextGen Social Robotics, JAMES (Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems) and an Innovate UK funded project Piglet - Snake Robot Solution for Inspection in collaboration with industry.
Abolfazl's research interests include developing autonomous systems for social and industrial robotic platforms, trusted autonomy, closed-loop Human-Robot Interaction studies, and brain-computer interface (BCI) for research and assistive applications.
Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Assistive Robotics
Sílvia is a Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. She received an Industrial Engineering degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a PAIR Master degree in Automated Production and Robotics at the Fundació CIM - UPC and a Robotics and Automation Master degree at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. She also received a Psychology degree at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She was previously part of the now finished EU Horizon2020 BabyRobot project. Her research interests include social robotics, Human-Robot Interaction and design of robotic behaviours for children with autism.
Human-Robot Interaction, Social learning, Robots in Therapy and Education, Socially Assistive Robotics, Socially Intelligent Agents
Evolvability, Mathematics for Computational & Theoretical Bology, Meaning for Observers & Agents Post-Reactive Systems
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
LC262
4347
m.l.walters@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
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.
C114
4766
n.catenacci-volpi@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
Personal Website
Artificial Intelligence, Planning, Decision-Making, Bounded Rationality, Intrinsic Motivation, Information Theory
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4429
m.lewis4@herts.ac.uk
Research Profile
robot models of mental disorders, affective decision-making, autonomy in companion robots
Human-Robot Interaction, social robots, humanoid robots, attitudes towards robots
Robotics, Human-robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Cognitive Architectures, Behavior-based Robotics, User Profiling and Recommendation, Multi-agent systems, RoboCup
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
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Attention Models, Computer vision, Medical Imaging, CNN, Object Detection, Image processing
Signal Processing, Machine learning, Robotic Rehabilitation
affect modelling, group dynamics, evolution of affect and culture, social hormones, artificial life, agent-based modelling, consciousness/cognitive science
E122
4630
m.bamorovat@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Robotic, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Mobile Robot, Navigation, Vision Navigation, SLAM and Mechatronics.
Principles of Cognition, Sensorimotor Contingencies, Information Theory, Dynamical systems
Z203 (MacLaurin Building)
4536
a.marunchak@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Virtual & Augmented Reality interfaces, XR-mediated semiotics and abstraction, VR interventions for facilitating prosocial interactions among HE students
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.
E114
l.riches@herts.ac.uk
Robotics, Human-Robot interaction, Companion robotics, Social robotics, Planning
C114
4766
a.robu@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Information Theory in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence
Robotics, Mechatronics, Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Deep learning, Machine Vision, RoboCup
E114
1133
g.skaltsas@herts.ac.uk
Personal Website
Robotics research (HRI) using care-o-bot 3.x, "sunflower" robot, Pepper (SoftBank), ROS, python, C/C++, TensorFlow, User modeling and stress detection using: eye-tracking, galvanic skin response (GSR), accelerometers, gyroscopes, heart rate.
Rehabilitation robotics, Motor learning, Design for robotics, Aerial robotics
Informational constraints of decision making and navigation
Education; Social robotics; Children's literature; human-robot interaction; Social learning; humanoid robots; Robotics for Education.
Giulia Galizia got her degree in Scienze della Formazione Primaria (Teaching and Education for children between the age of 3 and 10 years old) in 2020 at the department of Education and Human Sciences of Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE). She is currently attending a PhD in Human Sciences at the department of Linguistics and Cultural studies in UNIMORE. Giulia is studying the use of digital storytelling and Social robotic in Education also for therapy purposes for children with special needs.