Cyber-physical Systems for Social Applications

Maya Dimitrova received her higher education in psychology from St Petersburg, Russia, in 1985. She obtained her MSc in psychology (by research) (with distinction) from Warwick University, UK, in 1995 and her PhD on Adaptive Human Computer Interface from Institute of Control and Systems Research at BAS in 2002. She is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Robotics at BAS, working on humanoid robotics for learners with special needs. Since 2017 she engaged with EU funded project of Cyber-physical systems for pedagogical rehabilitation in special education CybSPEED.

Hiroaki Wagatsuma is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting scientist at RIKEN Center for Brain Science and a Cross-Appointment Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. His areas of specialization are Nonlinear Dynamics, Emergent Intelligence, Episodic Memory and Emotion, Societal Robot, Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, Sport Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Support. His current research areas are Bio-medical Signal Processing and Sparse Coding, Sport Dynamics and Synergy analysis, Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Robotics, Neuroinformatics. In addition to being actively involved in interdisciplinary research to develop assistive devices to physically challenged people, he has authored books on Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robots, and a chapter of the Information Extraction from the Internet.