projects
Research projects including ongoing and past work. Each project includes a brief description, the methods used, and links to relevant resources.
ongoing
● ongoing
e-TALK: Embodied Trust, Affect & Language in Human–Robot Interaction
ERC-funded project developing cognitive robot companions that earn and maintain human trust through natural language, facial expression, and affect-aware behaviour. Under Prof. Angelo Cangelosi at University of Manchester.
● ongoing
Fluid-Xpress: Empathic Robot Facial Reaction
Emotion-aware dual-loop framework enabling robots to generate empathic facial reactions in real-time human–robot interaction, integrating affect recognition with expressive motor control.
● ongoing
Multimodal Haptic Feedback for Autonomous Driving Takeover
Designing and evaluating pneumatic and vibrotactile haptic interfaces on steering wheels to improve human takeover responses in autonomous vehicles, considering arousal, personality, and age.
past
○ past
Robot Facial Self-Awareness via Sensorimotor Learning
Enabling a humanoid robot to recognise its own facial expressions through a sensorimotor learning loop using conditional GANs and self-supervised feedback from a mirror-like setup.
○ past
Emotional Driving: Arousal, Personality & Behaviour
Large-scale study examining how emotional arousal interacts with age and personality to shape driving behaviour, using physiological sensing and naturalistic driving datasets.
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○ past
PhD Thesis: Social Robot Facial Expression & Self-Awareness
Doctoral research at ENSTA Paris investigating how social robots can learn, generate, and self-recognise facial expressions using deep generative models and sensorimotor feedback. Supervised by Prof. Adriana Tapus.