Biography Gianluca Baldassarre received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and the M.Sc. degree in cognitive psychology and neural networks from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science with the University of Essex, Colchester, U.K., in 2003, with a focus on…
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Biography Vieri Giuliano Santucci received the B.Sc. degree in philosophy from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, and the M.S. degree in theories and techniques of knowledge from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, U.K., in 2016,…
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Biography Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is Research Director (DR1) at Inria and head of the Inria and Ensta-ParisTech FLOWERS team (France). He studies computational mechanisms allowing robots and humans to acquire open-ended repertoires of skills through lifelong learning. This includes natural and artificial intelligence processes for curiosity, intrinsic motivation, the role of morphology in learning motor control, human-robot interfaces, joint attention and joint…
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Biography Andrew Barto is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, having retired in 2012. He served as Chair of the UMass Department of Computer Science from 2007 to 2011. He received his B.S. with distinction in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1975,…
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Biography Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition and the Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University (UK). Cangelosi studied psychology and cognitive science at the Universities of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Genoa, and was visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego…
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Biography Dr Sylvain Calinon is a permanent researcher at the Idiap Research Institute (http://idiap.ch) since 2014, with research interests covering robot learning and human-robot interaction. He is also a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), and an external collaborator at the Department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR), Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)….
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Biography Stephane Doncieux is Professor in Computer Science at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, in the ISIR lab. He got his MSc in 1999 and his PhD in 2003, in the LIP6, the computer science laboratory of UPMC. He has participated to the creation of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) in…
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Biography Verena Hafner is Professor of Adaptive Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Head of the Adaptive Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science. She holds a Master with distinction in Computer Science and AI from the University of Sussex, UK, and a PhD from the Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Before moving to Berlin,…
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Biography Georges Konidaris is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown. Before joining Brown, he was on the faculty at Duke, and a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. George holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and a BScHons in…
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Biography Georg Martius is currently building up a research group on Autonomous Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. Before joining the MPI in Tübingen, he was a postdoc fellow at the IST Austria in the groups of Christoph Lampert and Gašper Tkačik after being a postdoc at the Max Planck…
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