Scholar
Tony Belpaeme
Google Scholar ID: RRwtqEAAAAAJ
Ghent University / imec
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,747
H-index
43
i10-index
102
Publications
20
Co-authors
95
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His research is regularly used as a showcase of funding success by agencies such as Research Councils UK, EPSRC, and the European Commission. His work has been exhibited at the Natural History Museum London, the Wellcome Trust, the London Science Museum, and the National Space Centre. He has featured in IEEE Spectrum, Communications of the ACM, and Scientific American. In 2012, his work was named one of 'ten life-changing ideas under research at UK universities' by Research Councils UK, and in 2014, it was lauded as one of '20 new ideas from the UK that will change the world'.
Research Experience
- Currently, he is a Professor at Ghent University and Visiting Professor of Cognitive Systems and Robotics at Plymouth University. He is a member of IDLab – imec at Ghent and is associated with the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth. Tony and his team aim to further the science and technology behind AI and social robots, resulting in a spectrum of results from theoretical insights to practical applications.
Education
- Until April 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish fund for scientific research (FWO Vlaanderen) at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also held a guest professorship at the same university, where he taught introductory artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.
Background
- Research interests include social systems, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence in general. His work is based on the premise that intelligence is rooted in social interaction, aiming to advance the science and technology behind AI and social robots.
