Graduating my 2nd PhD student 🎓 Huge congratulations to (soon to be called Dr) Edoardo Cetin for passing his viva with minor corrections yesterday.
Many thanks to his examiners Timothy P. Lillicrap and Tim Rocktäschel for the insightful discussions and valuable feedback.
A milestone: from the day I passed my PhD exam to the day my first PhD student passed his exam😊Huge congratulations to (soon-to-be Dr) Viktor Schmuck
@vik_dot_ai
for passing his PhD viva today. Many thanks to two amazing examiners, Prof Niki Trigoni and Prof Andrea Cavallaro!
My (developing) research group, Social AI & Robotics Lab (SAIR), and my first PhD students: Jian, Edoardo and Viktor 🤖 Can't find words to describe my excitement 🤩 May all the luck and success be on their side! 🧿
Excited to share my first grant has been funded by EPSRC:
"LISI - Learning to Imitate Social Interaction". 🥳
I am looking for a highly motivated and ambitious postdoctoral researcher to join us
@SAIRLab
@kcl_engineering
!
Thursday afternoon (01/09): Tuyen will present our paper "Agree or Disagree? Generating Body Gestures from Affective Contextual Cues During Dyadic Interactions" -- *nominated* for
#BestPaperAward
&
#OutstandingEarlyCareerScientistPaperAward
. Please cross your fingers for us🤞🧿
Happy to welcome TIAGo (to be personalised) from
@PALRobotics
to Centre for Robotics Research Group
@kings_core
@kcl_engineering
.. We can't wait to see our UG and MSc students working and advancing its artificial intelligence🧠🦾
so boring. i have to walk from strand to waterloo campus to teach random variables and stochastic processes every monday and i have to see this view each way. especially unbearable when sunny 😂😂😂 💛💛💛
making a toast for
#Sprout
— our collaborative project with
@airgiantsHQ
, led by my brilliant students Jef, Theo, & Bowen 💚
#Sprout
is on display
@SciGalleryLon
starting from today! More info:
It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science today. Did a bit of research to celebrate it by highlighting inspiring
#female
#engineers
on a mission to make buildings safer in
#earthquakes
. Disasters like in Turkiye and Syria could have been prevented ..
@WomenScienceDay
Social AI & Robotics team selfie by our
#Kaiko
! 📢📢📢 BTW we have a developing webpage now: ! Keep eye on our webpage to get updates on our research!
#socialAI
#HumanRobotInteraction
I had a great time at the
#AI4Robotics
workshop
@naverlabseurope
last week with amazing researchers, insightful discussions, and beautiful landscapes. Many thanks for having me!
Some cheerful news in lockdown🎉
Very proud of my PhD student Edoardo Cetin for getting his *first* paper accepted to
#ICLR2021
! Bravissimo Edoardo!
We introduce DisentanGAIL - towards making agents learn tasks by simply observing others: .
See u in May!
Congratulations to all authors of accepted
#ICLR2021
papers! 🎉
Notifications are being sent out today. We had 2997 submissions, of which 860 papers have been accepted. Of these, there will be 53 Oral, 114 Spotlight and 693 Poster presentations.
@CVPR
is there any tool to check plagiarism when a paper is submitted? some conferences provide similarity reports for ACs/PCs to reject such papers even before going into the peer review. it is shocking this has happened 😅
Was great to meet "Mirokai" in person yesterday! Its design is not only the cutest but also impressively functional.
Thanks again
@EnchantedTools
for the warm hospitality and the great discussions!
PS. As always, Paris was very beautiful.
cc.
@MutluCukurova
Well done our UG student Angelika Kasparova for getting a paper accepted to IGDT WS
@AcmIcmi
, introducing a novel approach to predict student engagement in collaborative problem solving purely from videos and potential applications in PBL
@kcl_engineering
.
1st paper in lockdown✌️
Well done, my PhD student Viktor
@vik_dot_ai
, whose paper - introducing a novel dataset for indoor crowd analysis from a robot's perspective - has been selected for
#UKRAS2020
.
Thank you,
@BShollock
,
@DanMagazzeni
, &
@kcl_engineering
, for your support!
"... your submission RICA: Robocentric Indoor Crowd Analysis Dataset has been selected for publication and poster presentation at the UKRAS2020 conference" - our paper with
@oyaceliktutan
, at
@kcl_engineering
- is one of the best things to read on a Tuesday afternoon.
#kclsair
Had a fruitful day at the pretty Royal Society of Arts, networking with chief executives, senior officials, academics, industry, and discussing
#emergingtechnologies
that can benefit the UK .. curiously waiting to see what these discussions will unfold ..😃
Our new paper "Automatic
#Detection
of
#Cognitive
#Impairment
with
#VirtualReality
" published this morning in Sensors as
part of the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Sensors for Assistive Technology and is available online:
So proud of my PhD student Edoardo Cetin who won the “King’s College Engineering Society Centenary Prize” 👏 🎊Keep up the excellent work, Edoardo!
@kcl_engineering
Privileged to share this special moment with Prof Khatib who has just been awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre de merite by the French Republic! Many congratulations!!! 👏🏻👏🏻
#robotics
@Stanford
@StanfordEng
@michaelluck
I'm flattered and honoured to have been selected as one of the recipients for the Best Reviewer Award of IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
#FG2018
! Thank you!
Our
@icmlconf
2021 paper introduces a novel framework for
#ReinforcementLearning
, which enables agents to learn effective behaviour over a routine space - a new, higher-level action space, and improves performance and efficiency.
my exciting US journey is about to begin 🥳 first off to Amherst to attend
@ACMMM19
TPC meeting and workshop as an
#areachair
👩💻 then off to LA to attend
@cvpr2019
😎🏄♀️ 🌊 thanks go to
@sigmm
, PC chairs and my department for their support 😃
Sponsored by
@GoogleDeepMind
, we are pleased to announce that we will be offering a limited number of partial travel awards and registration fee waivers to support students from underrepresented communities in attending our
#CoRL23
workshop.
For more info, see below 👇👇👇
1/Framing action-selection as an iterative 'reasoning' process provides RL agents w/ unlimited expressivity & adaptivity to spend more resources on key decisions. Such benefits yield SotA results on Mujoco & DeepMind Control:
Check our
#NeurIPS2022
paper:
🌟Dear
#PhD
#students
, are you working in the area of
#AffectiveComputing
?
Consider submitting your work to "ACII 2023 Doctoral Consortium"
@acii_conf
. For more info, ..
⏳ Submission deadline: April 14, 2023
Our
#ICML2022
paper "Stabilizing Off-Policy Deep
#ReinforcementLearning
from Pixels" is now available🎉
Presenting a novel analysis of the causes of instability in pixel-based off-policy RL, and introducing ALIX, an effective regularisation layer, to remedy this 🤩
1/Why is pixel-based off-policy RL so difficult, requiring much task-specific engineering (image augs, aux. losses, large strides...)? We answer this and propose A-LIX, a general solution, achieving SotA in different domains. Check out our
#ICML2022
paper:
We are organizing the 1st International Workshop on REsponsible Affective CompuTing (REACT 2023) at
#ACMMM23
. If you are attending ACM-MM 2023 in person, please attend our workshop on 29th October. Website: ()
We are looking forward to the workshop!
🔊MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! (Yes, it deserves to be in caps).
We’re excited to announce our 2023 season in collaboration with
@FuturEverything
AI: Who’s Looking After Me?
Opening 21 June at Science Gallery London.
Learn more here >>
#AI4Me
Attended a unique conference today focusing on
#AI
and
#Comedy
together with my colleague Sanjay Modgil! I explained my research to comedians, mostly writers of
#HaveIGotNewsForYou
and Sanjay hosted a panel on the human face of technology! Thanks
@deYook
for inviting!
#jimmycarr
We are very happy to announce the fouth
#deeptails
seminar.
@oyaceliktutan
and Edoardo Cetin will present "Towards Observational Imitation Learning." This will happen on March 25th at 3PM (CET) here: . More information:
"So sang Parthenope, she felt a sweet pain. Her voice was an arrow that struck my heart." From the myth of the beautiful mermaid Parthenope, to the history, culture, food and nature, Naples is the perfect location for the state-of-the-art innovative
#robotics
#HRI
@ieeeroman2022
#INWED18
share your engineering story and put women in the picture. RA Oya always had a fascination with science and technology. She visualises a future where robots are part of our everyday lives and she always wanted to be an engineer to help fulfil this vision
maybe i’m biased but our special session was a great success ☺️ many thanks for all the speakers, participants & organisers who contributed to this. Special thanks to
@FerroFrancescoE
for the great industrial talk, insightful and interactive Q&A session afterwards 🤖
#SocialHRI
1/Framing action-selection as an iterative 'reasoning' process provides RL agents w/ unlimited expressivity & adaptivity to spend more resources on key decisions. Such benefits yield SotA results on Mujoco & DeepMind Control:
Check our
#NeurIPS2022
paper:
We’re excited to announce that Centre for Robotics Research will be taking part in
#RobotLabLive
- a mass robotics livestream event hosted by
@UKRobotics
! Watch our live demo from 4pm - 6pm BST on 21st June:
#RobotFest
#UKFR
We're thrilled to announce that
#RobotLabLive
will be returning for the UK Festival of Robotics 2023! 🤖
Join us on Weds 21st June 4pm - 6pm BST to see some of the UK's top robotics labs show-off their latest tech live on
@YouTube
.
#RobotFest
#UKFR
📣📣
#AAAI23
attendees, Edoardo
@edo_cet
will be presenting our paper "Learning Pessimism for
#ReinforcementLearning
"
@RealAAAI
this week in Washington, USA. Don't hesitate get in touch to discuss our research ..
Link to the paper:
It’s
#StarWars
day! In honour of all things Star Wars, we spoke with Dr
@oyaceliktutan
who is helping robots develop skills to understand and adapt to human behaviour. 🤖
#KingsQs
🧵
We're delighted to announce the 73 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday's AGM. Meet them all:
#RAEngFellows
🎉 🎉 🎉
Due to a number of requests, we extended the deadline to *April 15, 2023*.
Join us at the
#ICRA2023
Workshop
#SOLAR
- Socially acceptable
#robots
: concepts, techniques, and applications.
More info: .
@ieee_ras_icra
@sermas_eu
Congratulations to Professor Jian Dai at King’s College London who has been awarded the prestigious
@ASMEdotorg
Machine Design Award, making him the first UK national to receive the award in it's 62-year history!
#Robotics
#Reconfigurable
#Design