Bahar Irfan

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 2025

Conversational 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 2023

Research in Industry

Invited Talk, ANIMATAS Career After PhD seminar, April 2022

Personalisation 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)

MECH533:  Robotics and Automation : <i>Fall 2016</i>
AINT512:  Science and Technology of Human-Robot Interaction : <i>Fall 2016</i><br>
Guest lectures on Naoqi and QiChat

BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY, COMPUTER ENGINEERING (2013-2016)

CMPE150:  Introduction to Computing (C Programming) : <i>Spring and Fall 2015</i>
CMPE260:  Principles of Programming Languages : <i>Spring 2015</i>
CMPE150:  Introduction to Computing (Java Programming) : <i>Fall 2014</i>
CMPE300:  Analysis of Algorithms : <i>Fall 2014</i>
CMPE321:  Introduction to Database Systems : <i>Spring 2014</i>
CMPE250:  Data Structures and Algorithms (C++ programming) : <i>Fall 2013</i><br>
Voluntary Assistant

in media

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

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