Biography Vieri Giuliano Santucci received the B.Sc. degree in philosophy from the University of Pisa, Italy, and the M.S. degree in theories and techniques of knowledge from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Plymouth, U.K.. From 2010 he is a…
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Biography Kathryn Merrick is an associate professor in computer science and deputy head of school (teaching) in the School of Engineering and IT at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Kathryn’s research interests lie in the field of autonomous mental development for machines, including machine learning. Kathryn’s research speciality within this domain is the…
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Biography Jochen Triesch received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Bochum, Germany, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. After two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Computer Science Department of the University of Rochester, USA, he joined the faculty of the Cognitive Science Department of UC San Diego, USA as an Assistant Professor. In 2005 he became…
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Biography Gianluca Baldassarre received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and the M.Sc. degree in cognitive psychology and neural networks from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science with the University of Essex, Colchester, U.K., in 2003, with a focus on…
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Biography Emre Ugur is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Department, Bogazici University, Turkey. After receiving his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Middle East, he worked at ATR Japan as a researcher (2009-2013), at the University of Innsbruck as a senior researcher (2013-2016), and at Osaka University as specially appointed assistant professor (2015,…
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Biography Dr. Matej Hoffmann was born in Prague, Czech Republic, and received his MSc degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2006. Between 2006 and 2013 he completed the PhD degree and then served as Senior Research Associate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,…
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Biography Jochen Steil received the diploma in mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in 1993 and 1999, respectively and the venia legendi in Neuroinformatics in 2006. From 2007-2016, J. Steil has been directing the Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) at Bielefeld University and has been member of…
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Biography Jun Tani received a doctor of engineering degree in electrical engineering from Sophia Univ. in Tokyo in 1995. He worked for Sony Corp. and later for Sony Computer Science Lab as a researcher from 1990 to 2001. Then, he worked at Riken Brain Science Institute from 2001 to 2012 where he has been a…
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Biography Verena Hafner is Professor of Adaptive Systems at at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a Master with distinction in Computer Science and AI from the University of Sussex, UK, and a PhD from the Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Before moving to Berlin, she worked as an associate…
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Biography Bruno Castro da Silva is a professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral associate at the Aerospace Controls Laboratory, at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew…
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