Biography Daniele Caligiore is a Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council placed in Rome (Italy). He received a Master Degree in Electronics Engineering in 2003 at the Universita’ degli Studi di Catania (Italy) and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 at the Universita’ Campus Bio-Medico di…
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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 Minoru Asada (Fʼ05) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 1977, 1979, and 1982, respectively. He became a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Computer-Controlled Machinery with Osaka University, in 1995. Since 1997, he has been a Professor with the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems,…
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Biography Benjamin Kuipers is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, and his Ph.D. from MIT. He served as Department Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Fellow of AAAI, IEEE, and AAAS. He investigates the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge,…
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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…
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Biography Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire. Daniel earned his PhD in 1996 followed by a research fellowship at the University of Mainz (Germany) with a stint in 1997 as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2000–2002 he was Fellow…
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Biography Roberto Prevete (MSc in physics, PhD in Information Science) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Dept.of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Director of the laboratory for Computational Vision and Neural Networks (ViNe) at DIETI. His current research interests include computational models of brain mechanisms,…
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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 Elmar Rueckert is the research group leader of the neurorobotics division at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) lab. He has a strong expertise in recurrent neural networks, learning movement primitives, probabilistic planning and motor control in tasks with contacts. He is the team leader of the European project GOAL-robots and was responsible for learning approaches in the…
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