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Iolanda Dos Santos Carvalho Leite

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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LINDSTEDTSVÄGEN 24

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About me

I am an Associate Professor at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning. I received my PhD degree from the Technical University of Lisbon. Before joining KTH, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Social Robotics Lab and an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research.

The goal of my research is to develop social robots that cancapture,learn from andrespondappropriately to the subtle dynamics that characterize real-world situations, allowing for truly efficient and engaging long-term interactions with people.

Ongoing Research Projects

PerCorSo: Perceiving and Communicating Correct-by-design Socially Acceptable Autonomous Systems,Co-Principal Investigator
Funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) NEST Program
2022 – 2027

S-FACTOR: Facilitation Robotics for Teams,Co-Principal Investigator
Funded by NordForsk
2021 – 2024

ISLA: Interactive Semi-situated robot LeArning, Principal Investigator
Funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), SSF Future Research Leaders 7 Programme
2020 – 2025

Advanced Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Principal Investigator with Co-PIs Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson, Christian Smith, Donald McMillan and Britt Östlund
Funded by Digital Futures
2020 – 2024

TECOSA: Center on Trustworthy Edge Computing, Co-Principal Investigator with Martin Törngren, James Gross, Jana Tumová, Elena Dubrova, Elena Fersman, Lei Feng, David Broman and György Dán
Funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency (VINNOVA)
2020 – 2024

RESCALE: Robots for rEal-world SoCiAL Environments, Principal Investigator
Funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
2020 – 2023

CorSA: Correct-by-design and Socially Acceptable Autonomy, Co-Principal Investigator with Jana Tumova
Funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
2019 – 2021

Gathering Collective Intelligence through Crowdsourcing for Social Robotics, Principal Investigator
Funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Starting Grant
2018 – 2021

Robust Non-Verbal Expression in Virtual Agents and Humanoid Robots: New Methods for Augmenting Stylized Gestures with Sound, Co-Principal Investigator with Roberto Bresin
Funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR)
2018 – 2021

Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship, Principal Investigator
Funded by the Jacobs Foundation
2018 – 2020

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

2023 Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

2021    Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

2020 Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

2019 Ten-year Technical Impact Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

2018 Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship

2017 Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

2012 Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Social Robotics

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND SERVICE
Awards Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023
Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2023
Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2017

Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on HRI, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters


Courses

Artificial Intelligence (DD2380), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, First Cycle (DA150X), assistant | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA231X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA239X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA250X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (DA256X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specialising in ICT Innovation, Second Cycle (DA258X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Industrial Management, Second Cycle (DA235X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Interactive Media Technology, Second Cycle (DA232X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Machine Learning, Second Cycle (DA233X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Systems, Control and Robotics, Second Cycle (DA236X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, Second Cycle (EA238X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, Second Cycle (EA250X), examiner | Course web

Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Systems, Control and Robotics, Second Cycle (EA236X), examiner | Course web

Social Robotics (DD2413), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web