Katerina Pastra Email & Phone Number

Research and Development on the computational semantic integration of Language, Perception and action based on experimental findings from Neuroscience. Embodied AI, Human-Robot Interaction applications, diverse domains.Highlights: # Founder and Director of the Language & Robots Lab# Founder and Director of CSRI, a non profit research organisation with a unique niche in Cognitive Systems. # Research Activity spanning > 24 years.# Coordinator and PI in > 11 R&D projects with international, multiparty consortia; including Coordinator of the POETICON projects (www.poeticon.eu, 8 years of focused research on integration of Language, Action and Perception in Cognitive Robots)# Supervisor of > 32 Graduates (MSc, PhDs) and PostDocs (thesis and/or line management)# Holder of > 15 personal grants for research activities from European research networks and GOOGLE;# Teaching > 5 modules including "Language and Cognitive Robotics", "Artificial Intelligence", "Human-Computer/Robot Interaction", "Natural Language Processing", and "Search Engines and Web Mining" in 4 postgraduate courses (MSc in Computer Science, MSc in Data Science, MSc in Language Technology, MSc in CyberPsychology), in the UK and Greece;# Invited Speaker in > 72 academic and research venues ranging from the University of Cambridge and the European Parliament, and events ranging from international conferences to Ted-X public events;# Invited Expert in > 5 by-invitation-only Innovation ThinkTanks, including the prestigious Ernst Strüngmann Forum (on “Interactive Task Learning"), the European Parliament (on “The Future of European Research Leadership in Robotics") and the EU Cognition Network (on “Challenges for Cognitive Systems”). # Author of > 65 scientific articles in a range of Journals and Conferences, including Nature-Scientific Data and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; # Developer of > 12 open-access datasets and open-source pieces of software;# Organiser of > 27 international academic events (conferences, workshops, seminars, tutorials and training schools);# Proposal Reviewer and R&D Consultant for > 15 years, for > 9 organisations involved in basic, applied and industrial R&D, including: 8 different European Commission ICT Units, the European Innovation Council, Marie Curie, the European Cooperation In Science and Technology (COST) office, the Eurostars-Eureka Organisation (for R&D-performing SMEs), the Danish Innovation Fund, and the French National Research Agency (ANR). # Project Reviewer for > 5 European Funded R&D Projects for their whole duration.

Listed skills include Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, and 40 others.