Rahul Singh Maharjan, University of Manchester, UK Email:rahulsingh.maharjan@manchester.ac.uk Short Bio: Rahul Singh Maharjan is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on categorisation and concept representation in multimodal learning. Previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher, he conducted research on continual and multimodal learning for affective computing for human-robot interaction.
Haodong Xie, University of Manchester, UK Email:haodong.xie@manchester.ac.uk
Haodong Xie is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on abstract concept learning, with particular emphasis on learning concepts from multimodal information and exploring how hierarchical knowledge can enhance the interpretability of AI models.
Niyati Rawal, BITS-Goa, India Email:rawal.niyati@gmail.com
Niyati Rawal is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at BITS-Goa. She completed her PhD at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she was an early-stage researcher in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project "PERSEO". Her research focuses on combining vision and language for the application of Human-Robot Interaction. Specifically, she focuses on Vision-and-Language Navigation and Empathetic Dialogue Generation.
Luca Raggioli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Email:luca.raggioli@unina.it
Luca Raggioli is a PostDoctoral researcher at the University of Naples "Federico II", where he is part of the PRISCA Lab. He gained his PhD at the University of Manchester and was part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions ITN doctoral network e-LADDA. Currently, his research interests are socially assistive robotics, personalization in human-robot interaction, and machine learning for robots’ perception.
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester, UK Email:angelo.cangelosi@manchester.ac.uk
Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics and Co-Director of the Manchester Centre for Robotics & AI. An ERC Advanced Grant recipient, his research focuses on cognitive robotics, language grounding, and human-robot interaction. He has authored seminal books, including Developmental Robotics (2015) and Cognitive Robotics (2022), and serves as Editor-in-Chief for Interaction Studies and IET Cognitive Computation and Systems.
