Women Lunch Organizer Profile: Aude Billard
Event Date: 2007-04-12 12:35
| Organizer: Aude Billard
Affiliation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne EPFL
Country: Switzerland
Personal Website: Aude Billard
Research Group Website:
Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA)
Aude Billard is Associate Professor and head of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at the school of Engineering at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne), which she joined in 2002. She received her BSc (1994) and MSc (1995) in Physics from EPFL, with specialization in Particle Physics at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). She received her MSc in Knowledge Based System (1996) and her PhD in Artificial Intelligence (1998) from the department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. She, then, was a Post-doctoral Fellow at IDSIA and LAMI (EPFL, 1998-99). Aude Billard was a Research Associate (1999-2000), Research Assistant Professor (2000-2002) and remained an adjunct faculty since then at the Computer Science department at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Billard’s research interests cover the fields of Artificial Neural Networks, Robotics, Neural Modeling, Computational Neuroscience and more generally Machine Learning. Her work tackles special topics, such as Programming Through Demonstration, Imitation Learning and Language Acquisition. |
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