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Shangguan

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman

I build machines that think, feel, and earn trust. Grounded in cognitive science — particularly embodied cognition and social psychology — my research advances AI models and designs robot companions that humans genuinely trust, from socially intelligent robots to autonomous vehicles. Currently working on the ERC-funded e-TALK project under Prof. Angelo Cangelosi at the Cognitive Robotics Lab, University of Manchester. PhD from ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.