Robots, Autonomous Vehicles and Deep Learning

Juan Pedro Bandera got his PhD from the University of Malaga in 2010, and since 2017 holds a position as Assistant Professor in the same University. He has been involved in teaching and researching activities in this institution for the last 14 years. His research topics are in the field on social robotics and artificial vision, and more precisely in autonomous gesture recognition, learning by imitation, inner knowledge representations, multimodal interaction and attentional mechanisms. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals and conferences, co-tutored several Thesis in his research fields, and enjoyed research stays in R+D institutions in Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. He has participated in Spanish and European R+D projects, including the ECHORD++ FP7-ICT-601116 project CLARC, in which a socially assistive robot is employed to help clinicians in Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) procedures.