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Full-time Professor of Affective and Behavioral Computing at Imperial College London

Head of the i·bug group at Imperial College London

Coordinator of Imperial College London Distinguished Seminar Series in Computing

Part-time Professor of Affective and Behavioral Computing at the University of Twente

The BCS Roger Needham Award made annually to an UK based researcher for a distinguished research contribution in computer science within ten years of their PhD.

Best Paper Award IEEE Int’l Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture 2011, for the work with Mihalis Nicolaou and Hatice Gunes

Best Demo Award ACII 2009, for “A Demonstration of Audiovisual Sensitive Artificial Listeners”

Best Student Paper Award IEEE Int’l Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture 2008, for the work with Sander Koelstra

ERC StG Fellowship awarded to 2% best junior scientists in any research field in Europe in 2007

SGAI Machine Intelligence Award 2007 for the best live demonstration of AI software, a demo of automatic facial emotion recognizer and an emotionally-biased automatic painting tool

Best Paper Award Int’l Conf. Computer Vision 2007, Workshop on HCI, for the work with Michel Valstar

Dutch Research Council Junior Fellowship (NWO-VENI) awarded annually 7 best young scientists in exact sciences in the Netherlands

EC FP7 FROG Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide

EPSRC E-Pain Pain Rehabilitation: E/Motion-based automated coaching

EC FP7 SSPNet Social Signal Processing Network of Excellence

ERC Starting Grant MAHNOB Multimodal Analysis of Human Nonverbal Behaviour in Real-World Settings

Editor-in-Chief Image and Vision Computing Journal

Associate Editor IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Associate Editor IEEE Transactions Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B

Guest Editor IEEE Transaction Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, Special Issue on Facial Expression Recognition Challenge

Steering Committee Member IEEE Transactions Affective Computing

Association Management Board member EU HUMAINE Project

Steering Committee Member UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network

Program Committee Member IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Program Committee Member Int'l Conf. Computer Vision

Program Committee Member European Conf. Computer Vision

Program Committee Member ACM Int'l Conf. Multimedia

Program Chair IEEE Int’l Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture 2013

Workshop Chair "What is in the Face?" Workshop, in conjunction with the European Conf. on Computer Vision 2012

Area Chair Int'l Conf Pattern Recognition 2012

Keynote Speaker IEEE Int'l Conf. Biometrics 2012 (BTAS'12), Washington, USA

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Systems (KES'12), San Sebastian, Spain

Keynote Speaker Royal Society of Edinburgh: Celebrating 100 Years Since the Birth of Alan Turing

Article Times Higher Education, 27 May 2010, p. 16, "Odds and Quads"

Article New Scientist, Issue 2715, 4 July 2009, pp. 34-37, "Emotional robots: Will we love them or hate them?"

TV Program "Hoe?Zo!", Netherlands Teleac/NOT TV Station (NL Channel 1), 30 jun 2009 and 25 August 2009

Radio Program "Science in Action", Science Radio Show, BBC World Radio, 24 April 2009

Article Popular science magazine 'Informatie' (Dutch), "Hoe de Computer een glimlach kan waarnemen"

TV Program "Het Klokhuis", Netherlands Channel 3