Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Co-organized an international workshop at IROS 2017 (Micro-Data Learning: the next frontier of Robot Learning?) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret].

• Co-organized an international workshop at ECAL'2017 (Evolution in Physical System) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret].

• Co-organized an international workshop at HUMANOIDS 2017 (Human-Humanoid collaboration: the next industrial revolution?) [Serena Ivaldi].

• Co-organized “Expressions, simulations, perceptions - Journées PsyPhINe 2017”, the third workshop of the PsyPhINe project (http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/manifestations/psyphine-2017) [Amine Boumaza].

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Serena Ivaldi was Publicity Chair of the international conferences HUMANOIDS 2017 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots) and of ICDL 2017 (IEEE Conference on Development and Learning)

Scientific Events Selection

Member of Conference Program Committees

• CEC 2017 (Congress on Evolutionary computation) [Amine Boumaza]

• CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning) [Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• ECAL 2017 (European Conference on Artificial Life) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• EVO* 2017 (EvoStar) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• GECCO2017 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• HFR 2017 (Human-Friendly Robotics Conference) [Serena Ivaldi]

• HUMANOIDS 2017 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots) [Serena Ivaldi, associate editor]

• ICRA 2017 & ICRA 2018 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) [Serena Ivaldi, associate editor]

• IROS 2017 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) [Serena Ivaldi, associate editor]

• JFPDA 2017 (Journée Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes) [Vincent Thomas]

• NIPS Bayesian Optimization Workshop [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

Reviewer for Peer-reviewed Conferences

• ICRA 2018 (2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) [Karim Bouyarmane, Francis Colas, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• IROS 2017 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) [Karim Bouyarmane, Francis Colas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• HUMANOIDS 2017 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Karim Bouyarmane]

• ICDL-EPIROB 2017 (EEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics) [Francis Colas]

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Jean-Baptiste Mouret co-edited a special issue of the Artificial Life journal (MIT Press), called “Evolution in Physical Systems” [19]

• Serena Ivaldi was an Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) and an Editorial Board member for the Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Frontiers in AI and Robotics [Amine Boumaza, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• Robotics and Automation Letters [Karim Bouyarmane, Francis Colas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• Autonomous Robots [Francis Colas]

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics [Karim Bouyarmane, Serena Ivaldi]

• International Journal of Robotics Research [Karim Bouyarmane]

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics [Karim Bouyarmane]

Invited Talks

• Jean-Baptiste Mouret was invited to talk at as the Centre for BioRobotics – University of Southern Denmark (distinguished speaker), at the LIRIS (CNRS / Univ. Lyon) at the “Evolution in Cognition Workshop” (GECCO 2017), and at the GT8 (Robotique et Neurosciences) meeting of the GDR Robotique (CNRS).

• Serena Ivaldi was invited to talk at XEROX Research in Grenoble, at IHEST in Paris, at the GT Robotique Humanoide in Montpellier, at the IEEE ICDL 2017 Workshop on Perception of Self, and at the the GT8 (Robotique et Neurosciences) meeting of the GDR Robotique (CNRS).

• Karim Bouyarmane was invited to give a presentation at the Seminaire Francilien de Geometrie Algorithmique et Combinatoire at Institut Henri Poincarre in Paris.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Jean-Baptiste Mouret is the chair of the “evo-devo-robot” task force of the IEEE technical committee “Developmental and Cognitive Systems”.

• Serena Ivaldi is the co-chair of the web task force of the IEEE technical committee “Developmental and Cognitive Systems”.

Scientific Expertise

• Serena Ivaldi was vice-president of the CES33 committee for evaluation of national projects for the ANR

• Francis Colas was member of the CES33 committee for evaluation of national projects for the ANR

• Serena Ivaldi is a member of the scientific experts committee for the upcoming Robots exhibition at the Cite de la Science in Paris.

• François Charpillet was member of the hiring committees:

  • CR2 Inria: Committee member (Bordeaux)

  • Maitre de conferences: Committee member for jury (UTT)

  • Professeur des Universités: Committee member for jury PR 4036 “Traitement du signal, conception de méthodes de décision, fusion de données” (UTT)

Research Administration

• Amine Boumaza is a board member of the Évolution Artificielle association.