Oya Celiktutan
Reader in AI & Robotics, King's College London
Dr Oya Celiktutan is a Reader in AI & Robotics at the Centre for Robotics Research in the Department of Engineering and leads the Social AI & Robotics Laboratory. She is also the Honorary Robotics Lead at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Her research focuses on multimodal machine learning to develop autonomous agents, such as robots and virtual agents, capable of seamlessly interacting with humans. This encompasses tackling challenges in multimodal perception, understanding and forecasting human behaviour, as well as advancing the navigation, manipulation, and social awareness skills of these agents. Her work has been supported by EPSRC, The Royal Society, and the EU Horizon, as well as through industrial collaborations. She received the EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2021. Her team’s research has been recognised with several awards, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE Ro-Man 2022, NVIDIA CCS Best Student Paper Award Runner Up at IEEE FG 2021, First Place Award and Honourable Mention Award at ICCV UDIVA Challenge 2021.