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Research Director, SAMSUNG AI Research Centre, Cambridge

Coordinator of Imperial College London Distinguished Seminar Series in Computing

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

Visiting Associate Professor Face Group, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Associate Professor Human-Machine Interaction, EEMCS, Delft University of Technology, NL

Assistant Professor Human-Machine Interaction, EEMCS, Delft University of Technology, NL

EU H2020 SEWA Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild

EC FP7 TERESA Telepresence Reinforcement-learning Social Agent

EPSRC 4D-FAB Automatic analysis of facial behaviour in 4D

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

EC FP7 SEMAINE Sustained Emotionally coloured Machine-human Interaction using Nonverbal Expression

Dutch BSIC MultimediaN - Project 2 Context-aware Multimodal Interaction

Dutch NWO VENI - FIFAI Facial Information For Advanced Interaction

Editor-in-Chief Image and Vision Computing Journal

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

Guest Editor Image and Vision Computing Journal, Special Issue on The Best of FG 2008

Guest Editor Image and Vision Computing Journal, Special Issue on Visual and multimodal analysis of human spontaneous behaviour

Guest Editor IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B, Special Issue on Human Computing

Guest Editor Int’l Journal of Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Anthropocentric Video Analysis: Tools and Applications (vol 2008–si.2)

Guest Editor Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence,Special Volume on AI for Human Computing

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

Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Associate Editor Computer Journal

Associate Editor Image and Vision Computing Journal

Board of Governers Member IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society

Steering Committee Member IEEE Transactions Affective Computing

Association Management Board member EU HUMAINE Project

Steering Committee Member UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network

Area Chair European Conf. Computer Vision 2018 (ECCV'18)

Area Chair IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Vision 2017 (ICCV'17)

Area Chair European Conf. Computer Vision 2016 (ECCV'16)

Area Chair ACM Int'l Conf. Multimedia 2016 (ACM-MM'16)

Area Chair IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Vision 2015 (ICCV'15)

Program Chair IEEE Int'l Conf. Biometrics 2015 (BTAS'15)

Area Chair British Machine Vision Conference 2014 (BMVC'14)

Area Chair European Conf. Computer Vision 2014 (ECCV'14)

Program Chair Int'l Conf. Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction 2013 (ACII'13)

Program Chair IEEE Int’l Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture 2013 (FG'13)

Area Chair Int'l Conf Pattern Recognition 2012 (ICPR'12)

Program Chair IEEE Int'l Conf. on Social Computing 2011

General Chair Int'l Conf. on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2009 (ACII'09)

General Chair Belgian-Dutch Conf. on Artificial Intelligence 2008 (BNAIC'08)

General Chair IEEE Int'l Conf. on Face and Gesture Recognition 2008 (FG'08)

Invited Speaker & Panelist Guardian Live Event -- The class of 2025: what's next for UK universities?

Invited Speaker & Panelist Royal Society of Biology event: Can Artificial Intelligence save the world?

Invited Speaker & Panelist New Scientist event - Instant Expert: Artificial Intelligence

Invited Speaker & Panelist The Economist Innovation Summit 2018, London UK

Keynote Speaker Financial Times Weekend Festival 2018, London, UK

Keynote Speaker French Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (RFIAP'18)

Invited Speaker & Panelist Imperial College event: Ethics of AI, London, UK

Invited Speaker & Panelist Guardian Live Event: The Future of Work

Invited Speaker & Panelist London School of Economics event: AI, algorithms and ethics, London, UK

Invited Speaker & Panelist Guardian's panel @ Huddle 2017 : Loving Robots - Will AI kill off human relationships?, London, UK

Invited Speaker & Panelist Science Museum & Royal Society event: When will Robots Outsmart us, London, UK

Keynote Speaker Financial Times China & Chinese Government event: China Premier Artificial Intelligence Conference 2017, Shanghai, China

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2017, Barcelona, Spain

Invited Speaker & Panelist AI & Machine Learning in Health: The Future

Invited Speaker & Panelist Collider Science -- Science Question Time: "Breaking Down The Walls: New Ideas For The Future"

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision (ISCV'17), Fez, Morocco

Invited Speaker & Panelist Guardian Live event: How will AI change our world?

Invited Speaker & Panelist British Academy Event: Does AI pose a threat to the society?

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA'16), Oulu, Finland

Invited Speaker Global Innovation Summit 2017, London, UK

Keynote Speaker Science Festival: State of Emotion, Berlin, Germany

Keynote Speaker European Commission's Digital Assembly 2016, Bratislava, SK

Invited Speaker & Panelist Royal Society Event: Driverless Cars, London, UK

Invited Speaker Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016, London, UK

Invited Speaker & Panelist Royal Society Event: Learning Machines & How Computers Got Smart, London, UK

Invited Speaker World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting 2016, Davos, Switzerland

Keynote Speaker Asian Conf. Pattern Recognition (ACPR'15), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Invited Speaker RI Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Keynote Speaker BMVA Event on The Computational Face, London, UK

Keynote Speaker Chinese Conf. Computer Vision (CCCV'15), Xi'an, China

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces 2015 (ACII'15), Xi'an, China

Keynote Speaker European Conf. Mobile Robotics (ECMR'15), Lincoln, UK

Keynote Speaker IEEE Int'l Conf. Multimedia & Expo 2015 (ICME'15), Turin, Italy

Invited Speaker & Panelist Royal Academy Spring Symposium 2015, London, UK

Keynote Speaker Biometrics 2014, London, UK

Keynote Speaker ACM / IEEE Int'l Conf. Human-Robot Interaction 2014 (HRI'14), Bielefeld, Germany

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Information Visualisation 2013 (iV'13), London, UK

Keynote Speaker Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 2013 (SCIA'13), Espoo, Finland

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

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Systems 2012 (KES'12), San Sebastian, Spain

Keynote Speaker Int'l Conf Measuring Behaviour 2012 (MB'12), Utrecht, The Netherlands

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

Roger Needham Award Lecture Royal Society, London, UK

Invited Speaker Royal Society event on Computation of Emotions in Man and Machines, London, UK

Keynote Speaker 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction 2008 (MLMI'08), Utrecht, Netherlands

Keynote Speaker Int’l Conf. Articulated Motion & Deformable Objects 2008 (AMDO'08), Mallorca, Spain

Keynote Speaker Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition 2008 (DAGM'08), Munich, Germany

Keynote Speaker IFIP Conf. Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations 2006 (AIAI'06), Athens, Greece

Wired podcast “Businesses need to understand AI before putting it to work”

Article Guardian, 16 November 2018, "UK Government urged to halt academic brain drain to tech firms"

Article Evening Standard, 2 November 2018, "Robot who mimics Donald teaches autistic children to express emotions"

Radio Program BBC World "The Why Factor" -- 2 April 2018, interview on Machines and Morals

Radio Program BBC 4 "Woman's Hour", 17 January 2018 -- interview on robotics and gender gap in AI

Radio Program Voice To America, 7 January 2018 -- interview on Big Tech Companies and GDPR regulations in UK

Article The Times, 1 December 2017, "Facebook develops facial recognition cameras that feed shop staff their customers' profile details"

Article Evening Standard, 30 November 2017, "Facebook to scan faces in shops to find out your mood and what to sell you"

Article Guardian, 1 November 2017, "Big tech firms' AI hiring frenzy leads to brain drain at UK universities"

Article Guardian, 1 November 2017, "We can't compete: why universities are losing their best AI scientists"

Article Guardian, 1 November 2017, "Artificial intelligence risks GM-style public backlash, experts warn"

TV Program Channel 4, "Old People's Home for 4 Years Olds", on automatic recognition of depression, July 2017

Article CityA.M., 21 June 2107, "Calling all women: London’s thriving tech sector needs you"

TV Program Korean Arirang TV, 26 March 2017 -- interview on Face Technology and Future AI

TV Program ITV News, 17 February 2017 -- interview on our work on TERESA EU project

TV Program ITV News, 16 February 2017 -- interview on our work on De-Enigma EU project

TV Program ITV News, 21 December 2016 -- interview on AI@Home technology

TV Program UNI Global Union TV, "The Future World of Work"

TV Program CBS 60 minutes, "Artificial intelligence positioned to be a game-changer", 9 October 2016

TV Program BBC World News, 1 July 2016 -- interview on driverless car technology

TV program "Lessons from Davos", FRANCE24 "People & Profit" TV program, 1 February 2016

TV program "Oko (Eye)", Serbian RTS (RTS Channel 1), 22 January 2016

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