Research

Xavier Alameda-Pineda holds the position of Research Director at Inria and is the Leader of the RobotLearn Team. He obtained the M.Sc. (equivalent) in Mathematics in 2008, Telecommunications in 2009 from BarcelonaTech, and Computer Science in 2010 from Univ. Grenoble-Alpes (UGA). He then worked towards his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and obtained it in 2013, from UGA. After a two-year post-doc period at the Multimodal Human Understanding Group, at the University of Trento, he was appointed Research Scientist at Inria until 2024. Xavier is an active member of SIGMM, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ELLIS Fellow. He was the Coordinator of the terminated H2020 Project SPRING: Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare and co-lead the “Audio-visual machine perception and interaction for companion robots” chair of the Multidisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Xavier’s research interests are at the crossroads of machine learning, computer vision, and audio processing for scene and behavior analysis and human-robot interaction. More info here: Short CV — Full CV — GoogleScholar