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Academics

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Full Professor​

Interests: AI for analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction

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Mary Ellen Foster

Senior Lecturer​

Interests: Social robotics, conversational systems, robots in public spaces

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Tanaya GUHA

Senior Lecturer​

Interests: AI for understanding human behaviour combining ML, computer vision and signal/speech processing

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MaRWA Mahmoud

Lecturer​

Interests: Multimodal behavioural modelling combining visual AI and multimodal perception for applications on `AI for social good'

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MAthieu chollet

Lecturer​

Interests: Human-agent interaction, intelligent virtual agents, virtual social reality, ML and HCI for social skills, team processes assessment

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Postdoctoral Research Associates

evdoxia taka​

Research Associate

Project: Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen (funded by Leverhulme Trust)


Mentor: Tanaya Guha

eva Fringi​

Research Associate

Project: SONICOM:Assessment of immersive audio in AR/VR settings informed by social interaction (funded by H2020)


Mentor: Alessandro Vinciarelli

Doctoral Students

Amelie Voges

Thesis: Human expectations of robot performance based on its appearance and behaviour​


Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Emily Cross

Andrew BLAIR

Thesis: Conversational human-robot interaction


Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster

Ana Carolina Torres Cresto

Thesis: Brain-based inclusive design


Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli

Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya

Thesis: Pedestrian detection for mass tourism


Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud

Areej BUKER

Thesis: Automatic detection of attachment style using verbal and non-verbal cues


Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli

Basmah M. Alsenani

Thesis: Enhancing privacy in speech emotion recognition systems


Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha

Bishal ghosh

Thesis: Speech-driven gesture generation


Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Emma Li

Max Christou

Thesis: Mitigating bias in automated facial expression recognition systems


Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Rachael Jack​


Morad Elfleet

Thesis: Enhancing Immersive Virtual Interactions with Real-time Behaviour- Driven Virtual Agents


Supervisor(s): Mathieu Chollet, Tanaya Guha​

Nesreen Alareef

Thesis: Predicting speaker personality traits in Virtual Reality environment


Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha

Raphael Cunningham

Thesis: Neural Networks for predicting stroke behaviour from Multimodal MRI


Supervisor(s): Cassandra Sampaio Batista, Tanaya Guha​

Sahar Altalhi

Thesis: An Analysis of Oral Presentations in View of an Analysis of Public Speaking


Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha

Sean Westwood

Thesis: Predicting learning performance from neural signals following reward and punishment


Supervisor(s): Marios Philiastides, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Serena Dimitri

Thesis: Social interaction in Virtual Reality


Supervisor(s): Lars Muckli, Alice Miller, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Sundas Rafat Mulkana

Thesis: Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environment


Supervisor(s): Emma Li, Tanaya Guha, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Shaul Ashkenazi

Thesis: Evaluating and Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction for Multiple Diverse Users in Real-World Contexts


Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith

Tongfei Bian

Thesis: Understanding social interaction from egocentric perspective


Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Mathieu Chollet

Xinyu LI

Thesis: Explainable framework for mental health assessment​


Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud

Zejian Feng

Thesis: AI assistive tools for monitoring mental wellbeing


Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud

ZOLTAN KISS

Thesis: Digital user representations and perspective taking in mediated communication


Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Dale Barr

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