Biography Kathryn Merrick is an associate professor in information technology at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Kathryn’s research interests lie in the field of autonomous mental development for machines, including machine learning. Kathryn’s research speciality within this domain is the development, use and evaluation of computational models of motivation. Kathryn has contributed…
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Biography Lorenzo Natale received his degree in Electronic Engineering (with honours) in 2000 and Ph.D. in Robotics in 2004 from the University of Genoa. He was later postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was invited professor at the University of Genova where he taught the courses of Natural and…
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Biography Kevin O’Regan is ex-director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Université Paris Descartes. After early work on eye movements in reading, he was led to question established notions of the nature of visual perception, and to discover, with collaborators, the phenomenon of “change blindness”. In 2011 he published a book with Oxford University…
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Biography Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and at the same time a senior research scientist and group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, where he heads the interdepartmental Robot Learning Group. Jan Peters has received the…
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Biography Justus Piater is a professor of computer science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he leads the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group. He holds a M.Sc. degree from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, all in computer science. Before joining the University…
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Biography Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is Associate Editor, amongst other, of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and Advances in Complex Systems, and currently president-elect of the International RoboCup Federation, PI of the Horizon 2020 projects WiMUST…
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Biography Felix Reinhart is Senior Expert for Machine Learning and Data Science at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design in Paderborn. He received his diploma in computer science at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2008. In 2011, F. Reinhart received a Ph.D. for his subsequent research at the Bielefeld Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab)….
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Biography Matthias Rolf (PhD with highest honors, MSc) is Senior Lecturer in robotics at Oxford Brookes University, UK since 2016. He previously was Specially Appointed Researcher and Assistant Professor at Osaka University, Japan (2013-2016) and research assistant at Bielefeld University (2008-2013) where he obtained his PhD in 2012. His research interest spans robotics, machine learning,…
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Biography Dr. Freek Stulp is head of the department of cognitive robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). His research interests include robotics, semantic planning, motion primitives, reinforcement learning, and continual “always on” learning for physical robot systems. He received his doctorate degree in Computer Science from the…
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Biography Olivier Sigaud is professor in Computer Science at University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI. He is centrally interested in the use of machine learning for animal decision making, human motor control and developmental robotics. He is or has been involved in the MACSi (http://macsi.isir.upmc.fr/), CODYCO (https://www.codyco.eu/) and DREAM (www.robotsthatdream.eu/) projects. He also holds…
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