Aly Magassouba
Assistant Professor in Robotics and AI, Faculty of Science
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Biography
Aly Magassouba is an assistant professor in Robotics and AI in the Computer Science Department as a member of the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) research group. He received a M.Sc. in Robotics in 2012 from Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, and a Ph.D. in Signal Processing and Robotics from Inria/Rennes University in 2016. From 2017 to 2021, he was a research fellow at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Kyoto. He then was a fixed-term lecturer at INP SIGMA Clermont. He joined the University of Nottingham in January 2024.
Research Summary
The research of Dr. Magassouba aims to enhance the interactivity and user-friendliness of collaborative robots by incorporating natural language as a means of interaction. In fact, an intuitive way… read more
Current Research
The research of Dr. Magassouba aims to enhance the interactivity and user-friendliness of collaborative robots by incorporating natural language as a means of interaction. In fact, an intuitive way to interact with robots is through verbal communication. Such an interaction does not require any expertise in robotics. For example, with verbal communication, an operator should be able to decrease the speed of the robot when feeling tired in a collaborative task. With recent breakthroughs in natural language processing and AI, his research explores multimodal models that allow robots to understand and dynamically adapt their behavior to non-expert users.