Heni Ben Amor
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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.


Awards:
  • Fulton Outstanding Assistant Professor 2018-2019
  • NSF CAREER Award 2018
  • Top 5% Teaching Award, 2018, 2020, 2021
  • Nomination for "Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member" at IJCAI 2016
  • Daimler-and-Benz Awards for Professors and Postdocs (2012), Acceptance rate: 1.25%
  • Bernhard-v-Cotta Best Dissertation Award (2011)
  • Finalist for Best Dissertation in Computer Science Award/Germany, (2010)
  • TU Freiberg Scientific Excellence Award (2010)
  • Leisler-Kiep Award (2009)
Paper Awards and Nominations:
  • ICRA 2020 Space Robotics Workshop, Best Poster Award (2020)
  • Nvidia Best Poster Award (2019)
  • IEEE Humanoids 2016 Best Video Award (2016)
  • IEEE ICRA 2015 Best Paper Award Finalist (2015)
  • IEEE Humanoids 2014 Best Paper Award Finalist (2014)
  • IEEE ROMAN 2014 Kazuo Tanie Award Finalist (2014)
  • IEEE ROMAN 2009 Best Paper Award (2009)
  • ACM CASA Best Paper Award (2008)
  • IEEE Virtual Reality Honorable Mention (2007)
Workshop Organization:
  • HRI WS, "Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Collaborative Human-Robot Teams", 2019.
  • ICRA WS, "Ergonomic Physical Human Robot Interaction", 2018.
  • HRI WS, "The Inaugural International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction", 2018.
  • IJCAI WS, "Interactive Machine Learning: Connecting Humans and Machines", 2016
  • RSS Workshop, "Learning for Visual and Tactile Interaction", Rome, 2015
  • IEEE Humanoids Workshop "Policy Representations for Humanoid Robots", Madrid, 2014
  • IEEE IROS Workshop "Beyond Robot Grasping: Modern Approaches for Learning Dynamic Manipulation", Vilamoura, 2012
Committees:
  • NeurIPS 2019, 2020, Program Committee
  • ICRA 2018, 2019 Best Paper Award Committee
  • Robot Learning 2018 - Area Chair
  • Robot Learning 2017 - Program Committee
  • IJCAI 2016, 2017 - Senior Program Committee
  • RSS 2017, 2018, 2019 - Program Committee
  • RoboCup 2017 - Program Committee
  • HRI Pioneers Workshop - Program Committee
  • AAAI 2013, 2014, 2015 - Program Committee
  • IROS 2015, 2016 - Associate Editor
  • ICRA 2015, 2016 - Associate Editor
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AURO Special Issue on
Grasping and Manipulation
(Eds.) Ben Amor, Saxena, Hudson, Peters

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AURO Special Issue on
Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration 
(Eds.) Rozo, Ben Amor, Calinon, Dragan, Lee.
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