Fares Abu-dakka is a senior researcher at Intelligent Robotics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation of Aalto University. His research lies in combining robot learning and control with Riemannian geometry in order to enhance robot manipulation performance and safety.
Matteo Saveriano is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and at the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. His research is at the intersection between learning and control and attempts to integrate cognitive robots into smart factories and social environments through the embodiment of AI solutions, inspired by human behavior, into robotic devices.
Jeannette Bohg is an assistant professor for robotics at Stanford University. She is also directing the Interactive Perception and Robot Learning Lab. Jeannette enjoys research at the intersection of Robotics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision applied to problems in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation.
Matej Hoffmann completed the PhD degree and then served as Senior Research Associate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Prof. Rolf Pfeifer, 2006–2013). In 2013 he joined the iCub Facility of the Italian Institute of Technology (Prof. Giorgio Metta), supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. In 2017, he joined the Department of Cybernetics, FEE, CTU, where he is currently serving as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in humanoid, cognitive developmental, and collaborative robotics.