Short Bio

I have an academic and research background in core Computer Science, with experience in embedded architectures, Internet of Things, computer security, and networking. My research interests focus on security and privacy in distributed systems, including distributed robotic environments, blockchain-based solutions, Human-robot interactions and AI-driven architectures.

Topic

This project targets two main research objectives: (1) how to build compact, yet semantics-preserving, embeddings to represent arbitrary social environments; how to fully characterize these embeddings, including their latent semantics; (2) precisely frame the socio-cognitive skill of social awareness enabled by social embeddings, and demonstrate it on social robots. The DC will particularly focus on social dynamics, by characterizing the trajectories of on-going social situations in the embedding space; discontinuities in the embedding space, that might represent unexpected changes of social dynamics; and social situation predictions, by extrapolating trajectories in the embedding space.

Host Institution:PAL Robotics SL – Barcelona, Spain

PhD Enrollment: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

PI: Dr. Severin Lemaignan