Dr. Xanthi Papageorgiou is currently Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from NTUA (2003) and Ph.D. (2009) on Neuro-Robotics on the subject of Motion Tasks. Main research interests include neuro-robotics, human/robot interaction, neuro-science, and rehabilitation, as well as motion tasks, force control, compliant, adaptive and optimal control methods, and their applications to robotic systems. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings and participated in international research programs.
Dr. Anastasios Roussos is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, UK. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Prior to these positions, he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He has studied Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD, Dipl-Ing) at the NTUA, Greece. His research specialises in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal and Image Processing, Variational Methods and Partial Differential Equations. He has more than 410 citations to his work, with an h-index of 12.
Dr. Mehdi Khamassi is currently a tenured research scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC). He is also a Visiting Researcher in the Robotics Lab at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. He obtained his Habilitation to Direct Researches in Biology from UPMC in 2014. His interests include decision-making, reinforcement learning, performance monitoring and reward signals during social interactions.
Dr. Athanasia Zlatintsi is a postdoctoral researcher at National Technical University of Athens, ICCS and Robotic Perception & Interaction (RPI) Unit / RC Athena. She holds a PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering focusing on Music Information Retrieval. Her main research interests are signal processing and analysis of musical signals, analysis of mono-/multimodal signals for saliency detection, human-computer/robot interaction with application to assistive living.
Dr. Vassilis Pitsikalis holds a PhD in signal processing and automatic speech recognition and served as a research associate with long experience in EU projects (FP6/7, H2020). Interests include artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction: machine learning for multimodal communication, with applications in assistive technologies involving speech and language, sign language, multimodal actions, gestures and fusion. Recent publications include an ACM MM’16 software platform for building new HCIs supporting online automatic recognition and “Social Human-Robot Interaction for the Elderly: Two Real-life Use Cases” in HRI’17.