Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Editorial boards

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as Editor of the IEEE CIS AMD Newsletter, and member of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental Development.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in Neurorobotics (Frontiers Foundation), International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer).

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as member of the editorial board of the book series Advances in Interaction Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Steering committees

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer has worked as member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, and participated to the setting up of the first joint conference with IEEE ICDL, i.e. the IEEE ICDL/Epirob conference that was held in Frankfurt, Germany.

Manuel Lopes participated in the steering committee of the IEEE TC on Robot Learning.

Conference Organization

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer participated in the coordination of the joint international event IEEE ICDL-Epirob 2011, which was be held in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2011.

Manuel Lopes participated in the organization of the Machine Learning Summer School, Bordeaux, September, 2011.

Program Committees

Freek Stulp was on the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning/Epigenetic Robotics.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was a member of the following program committees: IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011; HRI 2011 Workshop on “The role of expectations in intuitive human-robot interactions”; Ecal satellite workshop on Alife Approaches to Artificial Language Evolution, 2011.

Manuel Lopes was an associated editor for: International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11), International Conference on Intelligent Robotics Systems (IROS'11). He is a program committee member for Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'11) and Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS'11).

David Filliat was a member of the program committee of ECMR 2011 (European conference on Mobile Robots)

Journal Reviews

Freek Stulp reviewed articles for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Robotics and Automous Systems.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer reviewed papers for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development,

Manuel Lopes reviewed for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Advanced Robotics.

Alexander Gepperth reviewed articles for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and Neural Processing Letters.

David Filliat reviewed papers for the journals: International Journal of Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Conference Reviews

Alexander Gepperth reviews articles for the International Conference on Neurally Inspired Processing (ICONIP) and the ACM/IEEE HRI conference.

Freek Stulp has reviewed papers for the IEEE IROS 2011 conference, IEEE ICDL/Epirob, IEEE ICRA, IEEE-RAC Humanoids.

David Filliat was reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), International Conference On Advanced Robotics, Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was reviewer for IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011; Ecal satellite workshop on Alife Approaches to Artificial Language Evolution, 2011.

Olivier Mangin has reviewed papers for the IEEE IROS 2011 conference.

Pierre Rouanet has reviewed papers for the IEEE 2012 ICRA conference, IEEE 2011 IROS conference and IEEE HRI 2011 workshop "Expectations in intuitive HRI".

Thomas Cederborg has reviewed papers for the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

PhD Jury

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was rapporteur in the PhD jury of Sylvain Koos, for its PhD entitled “L’approche par transférabilité : une réponse aux problèmes de passage à la réalité, de généralisation et d’adaptation” and defended at ISIR/University Paris VI, France.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer participated to the PhD jury of Clément Moulin-Frier, for its PhD entitled “Rôle des relations perception-action dans la communication parlée et l'émergence des systèmes phonologiques : étude, modélisation computationnelle et simulations” and defended at University of Grenoble, France.

David Filliat was rapporteur in the PhD jury of Thomas Feraud, for its PhD entitled ”Rejeu de chemin et localisation monoculaire : Application du Visual SLAM sur carte peu dense en environnement extérieur contraint” defended at LASMEA, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, on December, 9th.

Manuel Lopes acted as member of the advising committee for the PhD thesis of: Pedro Sequeira entitled ”Biologically-inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Learning in Autonomous Agents”, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, and Salomon Ramire entitled ”Active Vision in the Peripersonal Space for Humanoid Robots”, University of Plymouth, England.

Expertise

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer was expert for the European Commission for review and evaluations of several FP7 projects and calls. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer participated to a jury for recruiting a “Chaire d'Excellence” Maitre de Conférence in Université Cergy-Pontoise. He was also reviewer for ANR project call “Contint”, participated to the jury for recruiting CR1 and CR2 researchers in INRIA Bordeaux, and was a member of Commission de Développement Technologique, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest.

Manuel Lopes participated in the Cost-Gtri: Groupe de travail des relations internationales du comite d'orientation scientifique et technologique.

Thomas Degris reviewed a project proposal in Reinforcement Learning for the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).