Tenure Track Researcher, Principal Investigator at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Bio: Experienced Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Human-robot Interaction, Sensory Integration, Action-Perception, Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Humanoid Technologies from Università degli Studi di Genova and Italian Institute of Technology.

Most recent work:​ After a period as Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at DIBRIS (Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi), University of Genoa, with an affiliation to IIT, she is now working at IIT. In July 2018 she was awarded the ERC STARTING GRANT wHiSPER, on the investigation of human shared perception with robots. Since March 2019 she has been a Tenure Track Researcher, Principal Investigator of the COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit (CONTACT) at IIT.

Research Scientist in Robotics, AI, & Tactile Intelligence at BMW Research

Bio: senior research scientist in tactile intelligence, robotics , and machine learning at the BMW research. Prior to that, Dr. Kaboli was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), the Technical University of Munich (TUM), from September 2017 till August 2018. He received his Ph.D. degree with the highest distinction (summa cum laude) in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning focusing on tactile perception and learning in robotics from TUM in 2017. He also was finalist for the best European Ph.D. thesis award in robotics, Georges Giralt Ph.D. Award 2019.

Research Interest:​ interested in designing methods to tackle key challenges for active tactile object perception and learning in robotics via multi-modal artificial robotics skin. His research mainly is focused on developing probabilistic active pre-touch and touch-based framework to enable the robotic systems to explore their unknown environment, localize objects, learn about objects via their physical properties (such as surface textures, center of mass, stiffness, thermal conductivity, and etc.), re-use their prior tactile knowledge while learning new objects (Active Tactile Transfer Learning), and to safely manipulate deformable objects with dynamic center of mass.

joining the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2021.

Bio: I am an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I work with Dr. Sidd Srinivasa at the Personal Robotics Lab. I am working on food manipulation in the context of assistive feeding tasks. I did my Ph.D in Robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at Georgia Tech. I worked with Dr. Charlie Kemp at the Healthcare Robotics Lab. My Ph.D dissertation was on rapid haptic perception using force and thermal sensing.

Research Interest:​ I want to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations with tasks for daily living. These tasks, which are very different from one another, require physical interaction between the robots and their immediate surroundings in unstructured and/or cluttered human environments. The fundamental research question that I am interested in is how to leverage robot-world physical interactions in unstructured human environments to perform relevant activities of daily living? This spans research in the fields of Human-Robot Interaction, Haptic Perception, and Robot Manipulation. I am not only passionate about developing algorithms that solve fundamental problems in these domains but also strongly believe in developing real robotic systems, deploying them in the real world, and evaluating them with real users.

Software Scientist for Robotics with a PhD in Human-Robot Interaction at SoftBank Robotics Europe

Bio & Research Interest:​ Robotics are like magic to me: tell the right words (software), and the robot will animate (hardware). For more than 10 years, my job has been to develop GUI tools and SDKs to help users become wizards of robotics.With Softbank Robotics Europe, we want to move beyond. So they funded my PhD at ISIR, attached to Sorbonne Université, to demonstrate that users at home can teach new behaviors to robots using the spoken language.With this new expertise in Human-Robot Interaction, and indeed AI, we make the robots' cognitive system more powerful, and make human and robots understand each other better. Such development involve intense teamwork with good organization and communication, and indeed a lot of programming skills.