I have successfully defended the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” or HDR [FR, EN]. The dissertation’s title was:
Towards Probabilistic Generative Models for Socially Intelligent Robots
Learning Multi-Person Robot Interactions from Audio-Visual Data
The dissertation was defended [recording here] in front of a Distinguished Committee:
Prof. Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine [Reviewer]
Dr. Emmanuel Vincent, Inria Nancy Grand-Est [Reviewer]
Prof. Christian Wolf, Institut National de Sciences Appliquées, Lyon [Reviewer]
Prof. Rita Cucchiara, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia [Examiner]
Prof. Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin [Examiner]
Dr. Edmond Boyer, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes [Examiner]