Amit Kumar Pandey
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| Amit Kumar Pandey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bihar |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | LAAS-CNRS National Institute of Applied Sciences, University of Toulouse IIIT Hyderabad |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Amit K. Pandey is an Indian roboticist, scientist and public speaker.[1] He is the president and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Science Officer (CSO) at Hanson Robotics, Hong Kong,[2] the company that created the Humanoid robot Sophia.[3][4][5] He served as the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2019, and attributed with playing key role in bringing the conference for the first time in the Indian subcontinent.[6]
Education & career
Amit completed his B.Tech from JIIT, Noida, India in 2005. In 2007, he obtained MS by Research in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Robotics from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Robotics from INSA (National Institute for Applied Sciences), University of Toulouse, France. His Ph.D. thesis titled as Towards Socially Intelligent Robots in Human-Centred Environment, was conferred as the best three theses in Robotics in Europe for the prestigious Georges Giralt PhD Award in 2013 and eventually awarded the Second Prize (tie).[7]
Amit worked as Head Principal Scientist of SoftBank Robotics Europe (formally Aldebaran Robotics) until April 2014. He was also the head of collaborative research and development at SoftBank Robotics.[8] Currently, he is President, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Chief Science Officer (CSO) at Hanson Robotics.[9]
He is a Thought leader in the field and has spoken to many public platforms, and international conferences.[10]
Awards & Achievements
- Innovation Leadership Award 2019 by World Innovation Congress[5]
- Pravashi Bihari Samman Puruskar 2014 by Chief minister of Bihar, India[11]
- Among the three finalists in Robotics in the Entire Europe for the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2013, Awarded by European Union Robotics.[12][13]
Research & Publications
Amit contributed on many research & publications in Robotics. Below is the list of few:[14][15]
- Human-aware robot navigation:A survey, 2013, Thibault Kruse, Amit Kumar Pandey, Rachid Alami, Alexandra Kirsch, vol:61, issue:12, Pages:1726-1743, Publisher:North-Holland
- Mightability maps: A perceptual level decisional framework for co-operative and competitive human-robot interaction, 2010, Amit Kumar Pandey, Rachid Alami, Publisher:IEEE, Pages:5842-5848
- A mass-produced sociable humanoid robot: pepper: the first machine of its kind, 2018, Amit Kumar Pandey, Rodolphe Gelin, Vol:25, Issue:3, Pages:40-48, Publisher:IEEE
- A framework towards a socially aware mobile robot motion in human-centered dynamic environment, 2010, Pages:5855-5860, Publisher:IEEE
References
- ↑ "Speakers – CyPhySS 2020". Rbccps.
- ↑ "Leadership". Hanson Robotics.
- ↑ "Sofia Robot; She can't express emotions, but Sophia has a game plan". Hindustan Times. 1 March 2020.
- ↑ Service, Tribune News. "Humanoid Sophia strikes a chord". Tribuneindia News Service.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "World's first robot citizen attends conference in India; makers reveal Sophia can draw now". The Economic Times. 17 October 2019.
- ↑ "IEE RO-MAN Conference – 2019". ro-man2019.
- ↑ "talents". laas.fr.
- ↑ "Robot language tutors to get kids up to speed before school". New Scientist.
- ↑ "Hanson recruits Softbank Robotics scientist as CTO". TechCrunch.
- ↑ "TEDx Chandigarh - The Future. Reimagined". TechCrunch.
- ↑ "Amit Kumar Pandey, lauréat du Prix "Pravashi Bihari Samman Puruskar 2014" (Inde) | Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes". www.laas.fr (in français).
- ↑ "Indian Robot developer is finalist of 2013 Georges Giralt PhD award". www.eeherald.com.
- ↑ "SAPHARI - Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction - 2013 Euron Georges Giralt PhD Award Finalist". www.saphari.eu.
- ↑ "Amit Kumar Pandey (PhD, Robotics & AI) - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
- ↑ "dblp: Amit Kumar Pandey". dblp.org.
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