Heni Ben Amor is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University where he leads the ASU Interactive Robotics Laboratory. In 2018, he received the NSF CAREER Award - the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. He also received the Outstanding Assistant Professor Award and Fulton Teachg Award in 2018. Prior to that, he was a Research Scientist at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GeorgiaTech in Atlanta. Heni studied Computer Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau (GER) and earned a Ph.D in robotics from the Technical University Freiberg and the University of Osaka in 2010 where he worked with Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada. Before moving to the US, Heni was a postdoctoral scholar at the Technical University Darmstadt working with Jan Peters. Heni's research topics focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-robot interaction, robot vision, and automatic motor skill acquisition. He received the NSF CAREER Award, the highly competitive Daimler-and-Benz Fellowship, as well as several best paper awards at major robotics and AI conferences. Heni has lead several international and national projects as a principal investigator, including projects for NASA, NSF, Intel, Daimler-Benz, Bosch, Toyota, Honda. He is in the program committee of various AI and robotics conferences such as RSS, AAAI, IJCAI, IROS, and ICRA.
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AURO Special Issue on
Grasping and Manipulation (Eds.) Ben Amor, Saxena, Hudson, Peters 
AURO Special Issue on
Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration (Eds.) Rozo, Ben Amor, Calinon, Dragan, Lee. |
