I’m a Ph.D candidate at IRI in the Perception and Manipulation Group advised by Dr. Guillem Alenyà and Prof. Carme Torras. Since 2017, I’ve been holding a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship as part of an Innovative Training Network (ITN) called SOCRATES. The ITN focuses on Quality of Interaction in Eldercare. Prior to coming to IRI, I’ve been working at Cogisen for almost 8 years.
My research interests are in the areas of human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-centered design technologies for older adults with cognitive impairments. My work focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating interactive social systems that personalize and adapt to their users over short-term and long-term interaction, based on individual needs and goals. I believe in the future, robotic systems will be able to take over repetitive tasks such as cognitive and physical training, leaving time for therapists to focus on activities that better leverage their medical skills.
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PhD in Control, Robotics and Vision, Ongoing, 2017
Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
MEng in Artificial Intelligence, 2009
Sapienza, University of Rome
BSc in Computer Engineering, 2006
Sapienza, University of Rome
Some ongoing projects
Summary #During my postdoctoral research at Rutgers University, I focused on using computational approaches to study various facets of …
The goal of HuMoUR is to develop novel computer vision tools to estimate and understand human motion using a simple camera and use this …
The María de Maeztu scientific excellence seal has been awarded to IRI by the Spanish State Research Agency for the period …
SOCRATES is a training program for 15 PhD students, created to develop the field of Social Robotics with an application focus on …