About Me
Learning is my Passion!
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning (RPL).
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Educational Background
My undergraduate and graduate studies have been conducted in 4 different countries
JOINT PhD
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Expected PhD. in Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems (EDRS)
JOINT PhD
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon,
Lisbon,
Portugal
Expected PhD. in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (DEIC)
MASTERS
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon, South Korea
MSc. in Mechanical Engineering in Acoustics, Sound, and Vibration
BACHELOR
Sharif University of technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran
BSc. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
A Roboticist Interdisiplinary guide to the Artifial Cognition
HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
User studies and interaction modeling
AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
Emotion expression and recognition in robots
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Cognitive Systems and robot learning to adapt
COGNITIVE ROBOTICS
Cognitive architectures and emodiment
CHILDREN AND EDUCATION
K12 education and children’s perception
What I have done
Projects
Main PhD Projects
Cozmo Maze
This project explores fostering perspective taking in child-robot interaction scenarios using Cozmo and Vector robots..
Perspective Framework
This project aims at developing a cognitive behavioral model of a social robot for interaction with children in learning activities.
CoReader
The CoReader platform supports the collaborative reading of stories between a child and a robot.
My Technical Expertise
It spans over programming languages, mechanical engineering software, and numerical, statistical computing environments, and machine learning algorithms
PYTHON, PYGAME
Expert:
Most of my PhD Projects
ROS
Expert:
Most of my PhD Projects
QML
Expert:
Some of my PhD Projects
SOLIDWORKS, AUTOCAD, CATIA
Expert:
Multiple projects in Bachelor, Masters, and PhD
MATLAB
Expert:
Multiple projects in Bachelor, Masters, and PhD
C, C++, C#, JAVA
Professional:
Different Projects in Bachelor, Masters, and PhD
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What About the Rest of My Life?
Extracurricular Activities
Latest News
Recent activity related to my doctoral studies and researchRecent activity related to my doctoral studies and research
HRI 2021 Conference
Attending ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction as a HRI Pioneers Workshop General Chair. The conference includes Keynotes from Hiroshi Ishiguro, Mary-Anne Williams, and Mark Billinghurst. Amazing papers on broad[…]
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General Chair at HRI Pioneers Workshop 2021
Co-organizing the 16th annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop which will be held on the hybrid format in conjunction with the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. HRI Pioneers workshop[…]
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Organizing Workshop at ICSR 2020 Conference
It is my pleasure to announce that I am co-organizing the Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction: Present and Future Relationships at ICSR 2020 conference together with Marta Couto and Shruti Chandra. You can check the workshop[…]
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elmira.yadollahi [at] epfl.ch
elmira.yadollahi [at] gaips.inesc-id.pt