JOURNALS, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
INVITED TALKS
Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction in the Real World: Aligning Robots to Expectations
Invited Talk, Human-Robot Interaction in Extreme and Challenging Environments (Exacting) workshop, International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 2025Conversational Robots with Large Language Models
Invited Talk, 2nd International Symposium on Humans at the Centre of HRI, NAVER LABS Europe, November 2024
Large Language Models in the RoMan Age: Exploring Social Impact and Implications for Design and Ethics Workshop
Panelist, International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2024
Weighing the Benefits of Autonomous Robot persoNalisation (WARN) Workshop
Panelist, International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2024
Large Language Models in Conversational Robots for Older Adults: Challenges and Recommendations
Postdoctoral Talk, KTH, May 2024
Building Brains: Cognition and Learning in HRI
Panelist, Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI), March 2024
Integrating Large Language Models to Conversational Robots for Older Adults: Challenges and Recommendations
Geriatronics: AI and Robotics for Health & Well-Being in Older Age workshop, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2023
Exploring Challenges of Large Language Models in Companion Robots for Conversations with Older Adults
WASP Interaction, Collaboration, and Visualisation Course, KTH Royal Institute of Techology, June 2023
Personal Robots in the Wild
Deep Dive Talk, KTH Digital Futures, April 2023Research in Industry
Invited Talk, ANIMATAS Career After PhD seminar, April 2022Personalisation in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction: Challenges and Suggestions
HEART TechTalk, SoftBank Robotics Europe, February 2021
Multi-modal Personalisation in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction
Behaviors.AI workshop (slides), April 2019
Demonstration of multi-modal user recognition
University Clinic of La Sabana (Colombia), April 2017
Social Learning Through Contingent Interaction
and
Programming NAO robot
Introduction to HRI workshop, Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito, April 2017
Introduction to QiChat
NAO Hackathon, University of Plymouth, February 2017
Teaching
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, COMPUTING (2016-2017)
BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY, COMPUTER ENGINEERING (2013-2016)
in media
In the News
Interview in colombian school of engineering, aprıl 2017
MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI 2026)
Publicity and Web Co-Chair
March 2025 - Present
Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction
(LEAP-HRI) Workshop at HRI
Founder, Coordinator, Co-organizer, and Panel/Debate Moderator
March 2020 - Present
Human-Robot Conversational Interaction (HRCI) Workshop
at HRI
Co-organizer
November 2022 - March 2023
Special Session on Short- and Long-Term Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction
at RO-MAN
Co-organizer
December 2021 - September 2022
6th Workshop on Behavior Adaptation and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR)
at RO-MAN
Co-organizer
December 2021 - August 2022
Women in Robotics Lunch
at RO-MAN
Co-organizer
September 2022
International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI 2020)
Student Volunteer Chair
March 2019 - 2020
Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot
Interaction (PLOT-HRI) workshop at HRI
Founder, Coordinator, and Co-organizer
March 2018 - 2019
3rd Summer School on
Social Human-Robot Interaction
Co-organizer
May - September 2017
APRIL Summer School on Interdisciplinary
Robotics Research Methods
Co-organizer
April - July 2016
International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Student Volunteer
May 2015
International Conference on
Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
Student Volunteer
November 2014
International Workshop on the Algorithmic
Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)
Student Volunteer
August 2014
REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES
