Professional
Grant and Award
JSPS Summer Program: 2 months collaboration with the Prof. Takayuki Kanda at ATR over summer 2019.
The Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award: 2nd position.
Programme Committee
AAMAS 2019 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) - Robotics Track
Symposium and Workshop organisation
Social Robots in Therapy and Care (HRI 2019) - Committee member
AI-HRI (AAAI Fall symposium 2018) - Program Committee Chair or Committee member since 2017
Visiting Researcher
IRC lab (with Prof. Takayuki Kanda) ATR, Japan - Social Navigation - 8 weeks (June - August 2019)
IDLab (with Prof. Tony Belpaeme) Ghent University, Belgium - 6 weeks (November - December 2018)
Center for Biomechanics (Prof. Marcela Munera and Prof. Carlos A. Cifuentes) Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito, Bogota, Colombia - Social Robots for Cardiac Rehabilitation - 3 Weeks (March - April 2017)
Reviewing
I have been reviewing for the following journals, conferences and workshops:
Scientific Reports - Nature.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Nature.
JIST - Intelligent Service Robotics.
SORO - Internation Journal of Social Robotics.
ICRA 2018 - International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
SBLI 2017 - Workshop on Synergies between Learning and Interaction.
MECH - Mechatronics, The Science of Intelligent Machines, Elsevier journal.
IBERDISCAP2017 - IX Iberoamerican Congress in Assistive Technology.
HAI 2017 - 5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.
JHRI - Journal of Human-Robot Interaction.
IS - Interaction Studies Journal.
HRI 2019 - 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (full paper and Pioneers workshop), Daegu, Korea.
HRI 2018 - 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (full paper, Extended Abstract and Pioneers workshop), Vienna, Austria.
HRI 2017 - 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (full paper, Extended Abstract and Pioneers workshop), Vienna, Austria.
HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand.
ICSR 2016 - 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, Kansas City, USA.
ICSR 2015 - 7th International Conference on Social Robotics, Paris, France.
HUMANOID 2015 - 15th IEEE RAS Humanoids Conference, Seoul, Korea.
RO-MAN 2015 - IEEE 24th Int. Symp. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Kobe, Japan.
TAROS 2015 - 16th Towards Autonomous Robotic System conference, Liverpool, UK.
Teaching
From autumn 2015 to autumn 2017, I have been demonstrator for 3rd year students for ROCO 318 - Mobile and Humanoid Robots. I was in charge of a practical work about bipedal walking, where students have to optimise gaits and to design and implement a line following algorithm with the Drake Robot, a robot developed at Plymouth University and used for teaching.
Background
I have a background in robotic engineering with a B.Sc. in Micro-Engineering and a M.Sc. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. During my master project, I worked on hybrid optimisation of locomotion for the modular robot: roombots. Some of the achievements accomplished during this project were:
- first execution of gaits for structure of 3 and 4 modules with the real prototype.
- first execution of reconfiguration between two structures with appropriate gaits.
- first execution of docking on a grid with a metamodule. (achieved in a post-master short time contract).
See video below.