Keynote Speakers
Daniele Pucci
Head of Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence - Researcher Tenure Track - Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)Keynote title: ergoCub: the Embodied AI human aware humanoid
Bio
Daniele received the bachelor and master degrees in Control Engineering with highest honors from ”Sapienza”, University of Rome, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. In 2013, he earned the PhD title with a thesis prepared at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, with the supervision of Tarek Hamel, Salvatore Monaco, and Claude Samson. From 2013 to 2017, he has been a postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) working within the EU project CoDyCo focusing on the balancing problem of the iCub humanoid robot. From August 2017 to August 2021, he has been the head of the Dynamic Interaction Control lab, a group of about 20 members focusing on the iCub locomotion walking problem. In this period, Daniele also laid the basis for the "Aerial Humanoid Robotics", a new branch of Robotics whose main aim is to achieve flying humanoid robots. Daniele has also been the scientific PI of the H2020 European Project AnDy, and now is: task leader of the H2020 European Project SoftManBot, coordinator of the joint laboratory between IIT and Honda JP, principal investigator (PI) in the Camozzi-IIT and Danieli Automation-IIT joint labs. Lastly, Daniele is the coordinator of the ergoCub project, a 5 million, three year joint project between INAIL and IIT. Since September 2021, Daniele is the PI leading the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence research line at IIT, a team composed of about forty members that combines AI and Mechanics to devise the next generation of the iCub humanoid robot.
He Wang
Tenure-track Assistant Professor - Peking UniversityKeynote title: Toward Human-Level Dexterous Grasping Data Synthesis
Bio
He Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies (CFCS) at Peking University. He founded and lead the Embodied Perception and InteraCtion (EPIC) Lab with the mission of developing generalizable skills and embodied multimodal large model for robots to facilitate embodied AGI. He is also the director of the PKU-Galbot joint lab of Embodied AI and the BAAI center of Embodied AI. He has published more than 50 papers in top conferences and journals of computer vision, robotics, and learning, including CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/TRO/ICRA/IROS/NeurIPS/ICLR/AAAI. His pioneering work on category-level 6D pose estimation, NOCS, received the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Outstanding Paper (WAICYOP) Award, and his work also received ICCV 2023 best paper finalist, ICRA 2023 outstanding manipulation paper award finalist and Eurographics 2019 best paper honorable mention. He serve as an associate editor of Image and Vision Computing and serve as an area chair in CVPR 2022 and WACV 2022. Prior to joining Peking University, He received my Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2021 under the advisory of Prof. Leonidas J.Guibas and his Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2014.
Roozbeh Mottaghi
Senior AI Research Scientist Manager Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)Keynote title: Leveraging Human Experience in Robotics
Bio
Roozbeh is a Senior AI Research Scientist Manager at FAIR and an
Affiliate Associate Professor in
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
at the
University of Washington.
Prior to joining FAIR, he was the Research Manager
of the PRIOR team
at the
Allen Institute for AI.
Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer
Science Department at
Stanford University.
Roozbeh received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
UCLA, advised by
Alan Yuille.
He obtained his Masters degrees from
Simon Fraser University and
Georgia Institute of Technology
and his Bachelors degree from
Sharif University of Technology.
Alessandro Vinciarelli
Full Professor at the University of GlasgowKeynote title: Introduction to Social AI for Robotics
Bio
Alessandro is Full Professor at the University of Glasgow, where he is with both the School of Computing Science and the of Neuroscience and Psychology. Alessandro is a member of the AI group, in collaboration with Tanaya Guha, Mary Ellen Foster, Mathieu Chollet and Marwa Mahmoud. His main research interest is Social Signal Processing, the computing domain aimed at modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal behaviour in human-human and human-machine interactions. The core idea of SSP is that nonverbal behaviour (facial expressions, gestures, vocalisations, etc.) is the physical, machine detectable evidence of social ad psychological phenomena. Correspondingly, his research focuses on the inference of psychological constructs (personality, conflict, attachment, roles, etc.) from nonverbal behavioural cues automatically detected in signals captured through multiple sensors.
Gaofeng Li
Tenure-tracked Professor under the Hundred Talents Program at Zhejiang UniversityKeynote title: Agile Telerobotic Systems: Embodied and Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Learning with Human-in-the-Loop
Bio
Gaofeng Li is currently a tenure-tracked professor under the Hundred Talents Program at Zhejiang University. He received his B.E. and Ph.D degrees from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He was a visiting student in Netbot Lab., Texas A&M University, USA from Nov. 2015 to Dec. 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy from Dec. 2018 to Feb. 2022.
His research interests include Lie Group in Robotics, Telerobotics, Robotic Manipulation, Imitation Learning, etc.. Dr. Li had been selected into the New Generation Star Project and attent the VIP dinner with the PC members of IEEE ICRA 2024. He was the Recipient of Capek's Ninth Annual Distinguished Young Scholar Award, the Qizhen Outstanding Young Scholar of Zhejiang University, the 2022-2023 Annual Outstanding Reviewer Award for
