Heni Ben Amor
Scholar

Heni Ben Amor

Google Scholar ID: UvUDb-kAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Human-Robot InteractionRoboticsMotor Skill LearningArtificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,042
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
66
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
9
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Received the Teaching Excellence Award 2024 at Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  • - Published a paper at the Conference on Language Modelling 2024 titled 'Task Success is not Enough'.
  • - Published four new papers at IROS 2024:
  • - Diff-Control: A Stateful Diffusion-based Policy for Imitation Learning
  • - SiSCo: Signal Synthesis for Effective Human-Robot Communication via Large Language Models
  • - Repairing Neural Networks for Safety in Robotic Systems using Predictive Models
  • - Active Learning for Forward/Inverse Kinematics of Redundantly-driven Flexible Tensegrity Manipulator
  • - Published four new papers at IROS 2023.
  • - Published a paper at ICRA 2023 titled 'Learning and Blending Robot Hugging Behaviors in Time and Space'.
  • - Received a Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS 2022 Robot Learning Workshop.
  • - Published two new papers at CoRL 2022.
  • - Received the ASU FSE - Top 5% Teaching Award in 2021.
Research Experience
  • - Worked with the team at Google DeepMind, demonstrating how to achieve human-level robot table tennis.
  • - Collaborated with Google X/Intrinsic on a paper titled 'A System for Imitation Learning of Contact-Rich Bimanual Manipulation'.
  • - Organized the ICRA 2021 workshop on 'Curious Robots'.
Background
  • Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Faculty at Google DeepMind. Research focuses on advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
  • - Interests include organizing academic workshops and giving invited talks.
  • - Has collaborations and interactions with institutions such as Samsung Forum, Stanford, USC, Cornell, and CMU.