Scholar
Ginevra Castellano
Google Scholar ID: DoX2DJIAAAAJ
Professor at Uppsala University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,542
H-index
32
i10-index
62
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 10-Year Technical Impact Award at ACM ICMI 2019
- Outstanding Associate Editor Award from Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021)
- Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
- General Chair of IVA 2017
- General Chair of HRI 2023
Research Experience
- Coordinator of the EMOTE project (2012–2016), developing educational robots to support teachers in classrooms
- Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator of MICRO (2025–2028): Measuring children’s wellbeing and mental health with social robots, in collaboration with University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Bielefeld University
- Principal Investigator of CYBERBOT (2024–2028): Large language model-powered social robots for cybersecurity applications
- Co-PI of 'Children’s Intuitive Theory of AI' (2021–2026), funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
- Involved in SymAware: Symbolic logic framework for situational awareness in mixed autonomy systems
Background
- Professor in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Leads the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab
- Adopts an interdisciplinary approach grounded in social sciences to develop computational social abilities for socially intelligent robots
- Focuses on natural human-robot interaction with social intelligence
- Applies research in socially assistive contexts such as education and assistive technology to benefit children and other groups requiring specialized support
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