Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Dr. Karinne Ramirez-Amaro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology since 2022. In 2019, she became an Assistant Professor at Chalmers in the research group of Mechatronics. Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her PhD (summa cum laude) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the TUM, Germany in 2015. She received the Laura Bassi award granted by TUM and the Bavarian government in 2015, also in that year she received the prize of excellent Doctoral degree for female engineering students, granted by the state of Bavaria, Germany. In 2011, she received the Google Anita Borg scholarship. In 2009, she was granted a scholarship for a PhD research by DAAD – CONACYT grant.  In 2022, Karinne was elected as a member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and she is the chair of the IEEE RAS Women in Engineering (WiE). Her research interests include Semantic Representations, Interpretable methods, and Human Activity Recognition and Understanding.

EEN095- Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor level (Lecturer)

SSY236- Decision-making for Autonomous Systems, Master level (Examiner and main responsible)

Journal guest editor

• Guest editor for the special issue on the Robotics and Autonomous System (2018): Managing guest editor of the Robotics and Autonomous System (RAS) special issue on “Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots” (SPAR). This special issue is a follow-up outcome of two successful IROS workshops held in 2015 and 2017. The expected publication of the special issue is September 2018.

Associate Editor

• Associate Editor and member of the Conference Editorial Board for the 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018) to be held on November 6-9, 2018 in Beijing, China.

• Associate Editor and member of the International Program Committee of the IEEE-SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII 2019) to be held in January 14-16, 2019 in Paris, France.

IEEE-RAS volunteer work

• IEEE Associate Vice President - Conference Operations Committee (2018-2019): Main coordinator of the operations team of the IEEE RAS Conference Activities Board. This committee helps and supports the conference organizers sponsored by IEEE in maintaining high standards and to coordinate activities between different conference organization teams.

• IEEE WIE member (2018-2019): IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is one of the largest international professional organizations dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists. The main goal is to inspire girls around the world to follow their academic interests to a career in engineering.

Workshop Organization

I have been involved in the organization of 7 workshops.

• Co-organizer of the event WeLead (2018) - Women Leaders in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Engineering. The main objective of this event is to encourage the next female generations to take up engineering career paths by showing the extraordinary work that women are currently achieving in these fields. This event will host around 500 attendees hosted at the Technical University of Munich, 17th November 2018.

• Co-organizer of the IROS Workshop “Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots (SPAR 2018)”.Accepted to be a full day workshop proposed for October 5th, 2018, as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2018 conference (IROS). This workshop will host around 100 participants, Madrid, Spain.

• Co-organizer of the IROS Workshop “Latest Advances in Big Activity Data Sources for Robotics & New Challenges” (2018). Accepted to be a full day workshop proposed for October 1st, 2018, as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2018 conference (IROS). This workshop will host around 50 participants, Madrid, Spain.

• Main Organizer of the IROS Workshop “Semantic Policy and Action Representa- tions for Autonomous Robots (SPAR 2017)”. It was a full day workshop proposed for September 24th, 2017, as part of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017 conference. This workshop hosted around 90 participants and it took place in Vancouver, Canada. https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/workshop-iros-spar17/

• Main organizer of the event women@TUM get-together (2016). The aim of this event was to motivate women in the areas of computer science and engineering to build a TUM community, sponsored by Google, Diversity TUM office and the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS). This workshop hosted around 40 participants and it was held in Munich at ICS-TUM the 19th February 2016. https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/event-womentum/

• Co-organizer of the Factory-in-a-day EU-project workshop (2014). Workshop for the project consortium on hands-on Multi-modal Artificial Skin & Task Specification. The workshop was held in Munich at ICS-TUM the 8th and 9th of April 2014.

• Main organizer of the workshop on “Understanding Human Everyday Activities” (2011). The workshop was held in Munich at the Intelligent Autonomous System group at the Technical University of Munich on the 7th and 8th of March 2011. http://ias.cs.tum.edu/events/workshop-understanding-human-everyday-activities

Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

• Conferences: AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, IROS, ICRA, Humanoids, ICAR, RO-MAN, CORE, ISICS, etc.

• Journals: Neuronal Networks, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Journal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)-Computer Vision, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), Journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, etc.