Sheffield Robotics Seminar: “Is this how I use it?”

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Short Bio: I am an Associate Professor of Robotics and AI, and the deputy leader of the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) research team, in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. I am a roboticist who has been tinkering for more than 15 years in the various forms of robotics, including human-robot interaction, HCI, navigation, manipulation, mechanism design, machine learning, computer vision, and mixed reality, focusing on applications in surgical robotics, telerobotics, therapy, occupational training, among others. Prior to joining CS @ UoN, I was a Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy, leading the VICARIOS Mixed Reality and Simulations Lab. I have been organising the XR-ROB workshop exploring the confluence of extended reality (XR) and robotics technologies, the only gathering of its kind at the IEEE/RSJ IROS international conference. I have been PI and co-I for multiple collaborative projects, with R&D funding exceeding €7 million, working closely with stakeholders, including surgeons, firefighters, and construction workers, and demonstrating the project outcomes in public dissemination events, including to the President of Italy in 2022. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on Robotics, in 2012, from the North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA, my Master's in Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering in 2007, from NCSU itself, and my Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the College of Engineering (COEP), Pune, India.