Iolanda Leite

Universitetslektor

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolanhttps://www.kth.se/profile/iolanda

Arbetar vid

ROBOTIK, PERCEPTION & LÄRANDE

Adress

LINDSTEDTSVÄGEN 24

E-post

iolanda@kth.se

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Om mig

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 robots that can capture, learn from, and respond appropriately to the subtle dynamics that characterize real-world situations, allowing for truly efficient and engaging interactions with people.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

2024 Finalist of theBest Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award, andBest Paper on Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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

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

2020 Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

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

2018 Jacobs Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship

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

2012 Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND SERVICE
Co-editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
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 the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Research Projects

[2022 – 2027]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

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

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

[2020 – 2024]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 – 2023]RESCALE: Robots for rEal-world SoCiAL Environments, Principal Investigator
Funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)

[2019 – 2021]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)

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