Experience

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Interaction Lab, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh, UK. April 2020 - Present

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate.
  • Research on Human-Robot Interaction in social robots for elderly care in the scope of the H2020 SPRING project.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester. Manchester, UK. January 2019 - March 2020

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate.
  • Research on Human-Robot Interaction in social robots for elderly care in the scope of the H2020 MoveCare projects.
  • Research on neuro-robotics architectures, and deep learning approaches, interactive learning of actions and scenes representations, and their grounded linguistic descriptions.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth. Plymouth, UK. April 2017 - January 2019

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Human-Robot Interaction.
  • Research on Human-Robot Interaction in social robots for education and therapy; developing Robot-Enhanced Therapy (RET) and child-friendly tutor robots for second language learning in the scope of the DREAM and L2TOR projects.
  • Study the potential of Deep Learning for social robotics. Can Deep Learning be used to have access to the social world, allowing the robot to make better decisions.

Lecturer/Demonstrator School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics. University of Plymouth. Plymouth, UK. September 2017 - September 2018

• Demonstrator, Marker, and Lecturer for different modules.
  • ROCO224 Introduction to Robotics (17/SP/SB/M)
  • PRCO304 Computing Project (17/SP/SB/M)
  • MECH533 Robotics and Control (17/AU/SB/M)
  • SOFT152 Software Engineering (17/AU/SD/M)
  • AINT352 Computational Intelligence (17/AU/SB/M)

Affiliated Researcher - iCub. Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Genoa, IT. March 2017

• Affiliated Researcher in the iCub lab. Working with the event-driven iCub under Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi.
  • Integrating spiking networks and an embodied cognitive robot into a neuromorphic system, using asynchronous event-based vision sensors and the SpiNNaker spiking neural processor.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth. Plymouth, UK. April 2016 - March 2017

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive and Neuro-Robotics (BABEL Project).
  • Research in real-time implementations of brain language models within the SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture on the humanoid robot iCub.

Research Assistant. RoboticsLab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Madrid, ES. October 2008 - December 2014

• Research assistant and PhD candidate.
  • Research activities in the fields of Humanoid Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Robot Collaboration, Learning Algorithms, Learning from Demonstration, Cognitive Systems and Robot Control.
• Demonstrator for various courses for the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation.
  • 15694 Industrial Informatics (Informática Industrial)
  • 14026 Control Engineering I (Ingeniería de Control I)
  • 14032 Control Engineering II (Ingeniería de Control I)

Visiting Researcher. LASA, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Lausanne, CH. March 2010 - June 2010

• Visiting researcher at Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) under Dr. Aude Billard.
  • Worked on learning within the framework of programming by demonstration, encoding robot’s end-effector trajectories with dynamical systems. Developing interfaces for natural human-machine type of interactions. Implemented 3 controllers learning the position and orientation of the end-effector in a manipulation task.

Research Engineer. Sartenejas Technology Park. Caracas, VE. February 2008 - August 2008

• R&D traffic engineering and intelligent transport systems (ITS) project researcher.

Development Engineer. EINPHOS. Caracas, VE. September 2007 - August 2008

• Development Engineer for the Automatization of the Theatrical Rigging System of the Ríos Reyna Hall at The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, Caracas, Venezuela.

Visiting Researcher. IAI, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, ES. August 2006 - December 2006

• Visiting researcher at Instituto de Automática Industrial (IAI) under Prof. Dr. Manuel Armada.
  • Design and Implementation of Human­Robot Interface for the REST Robot.

Teacher Assistant. Electronics and Circuits Department, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Caracas, VE. September 2005 - March 2006

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for the Electronics and Circuits Department.
  • EC2721 Computer Architectures I (Arquitectura del Computador I).
  • EC3731 Computer Architectures II (Arquitectura del Computador II).

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation. Ph.D. thesis: Robot Skills Adaptation of Learned Models with Tasks Constraints. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. 2011 - 2014

Master in Robotics and Automation. Master thesis: Human-Robot Remote Collaboration and Learning of Skills. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. 2008 - 2010

Degree in Electronic Engineering. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. 2001 - 2007

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