Since August 2018 Kerstin Dautenhahn has been Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She has a joint appointment with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering and is cross-appointed with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. In Waterloo she is director of Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL). The main areas of her research are Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Assistive Technology and Artificial Life.
Chrystopher Nehaniv is a Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Researcher, and, since August 2018, Full Professor in the Departments of Systems Design Engineering and of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is also affiliated with the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, where he served as Director of the Centre for Computer Science & Informatics Research prior to coming to Canada, leading research in the Algorithms, Adaptive Systems, and Wolfson Royal Society Biocomputation Research Groups there as Professor of Mathematical and Evolutionary Computer Sciences.
Prior to joining SIRRL in 2020, Moojan Ghafurian was the Inaugural Wes Graham postdoctoral fellow at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. She got her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University, and her interests and background are in human-computer/robot interaction, artificial intelligence, affective computing, and cognitive science.
My research goal is to develop autonomous robots that can assist people in their daily lives. Towards this goal, I develop cognitively-inspired computational models that can allow robots to continually adapt over their lifetime.
My research goal is to develop social robots for well-being. In my PhD, I worked on a project to enhance children’s handwriting with help of a social robot. This research contributed to education, pedagogy, interaction design and social robotics.
I am a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. My research interests are mostly in the area of developing social and intelligent robots.
I am a PhD student at the System Design Engineering Department in both SIRRL and SHEVS Lab. The focus of my research is on socially compliant mobile robots that can navigate in pedestrian-rich environments.
My research interests are in the area of machine learning, control, and robotics. Now, I am working on planning and decision making in human-robot interaction.
I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. I'm interested in applying intelligent assistive technologies to health issues.
I am a PhD candidate in Systems Design Engineering Department. In my research I am borrowing from dramaturgy to design social robotic systems that can be used for fostering anti-bullying peer-support between children. I am also a Student Researcher at Robotics, Google Brian.
My research focuses on the creation of visual capabilities for robotic platforms. Previously I have investigated anthropomorphic visual systems. Currently, I am exploring cognitive architectures that could enable robotic platforms with making memory informed vision-dominant decisions.
I am a research assistant in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My research focuses on using robots as assistive tools for children with special needs.
I am a MASc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am interested in exploring cognitive architecture, memory reconstruction/retrieval, and adaptive behaviours in assistive robots.
I am a MASc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Waterloo. I am interested in working on cognitive architectures, and robot behaviour adaptation in human-robot interaction. I am especially interested in contextual memory and memory visualization.
I am a MASc student (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Waterloo. I will be working on ML techniques for speech and language therapy.
Victoria started her MASc in Mechatronics Engineering in Spring 2022, co-supervised by Kerstin Dautenhahn (SIRRL) and Yue Hu (A.I.R Lab), researching in the field of social human-robot interactions (HRI), more specifically in child HRI.
I am a MASc student specializing in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I hope to bring some new insights to the world of Social and Intelligent Robotics.
I am a 4th year student in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. My work involves the use of social robots and human interaction.
I'm a third-year Psychology major working as a co-op student at SIRRL. My work involves research on social robots used in health and well-being. I conduct literature reviews and verify information from published research articles.
I'm a 3rd year Computer Engineering student working as an undergraduate research assistant. My research interests are machine learning and robotics. I will be working with the Fetch robot.
I'm a Systems Design Engineering student working at the SIRRL as an undergraduate research assistant. My work involves designing interfaces for social robots used in health and well-being.
