Scholar
Cristina Palmero
Google Scholar ID: V0c9xx0AAAAJ
Royal Academy Of Engineering Research Fellow, King's College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
957
H-index
17
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
33
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- June 2025 - First PhD student, Zejian Zhang, successfully defended his thesis titled 'Deep Learning Approaches for Human Activity Understanding'; May 2025 - Awarded the Extraordinary PhD Thesis Award from the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Barcelona; April 2025 - Papers led by PhD students German Barquero and Pablo Ruiz-Ponce accepted to CVPR 2025; March 2025 - Paper stemming from the EU EMPATHIC project accepted to IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Research Experience
- Over a decade of experience across academia and industry (e.g., Computer Vision Center, Noldus IT, Meta). Currently working as a Research Associate at the Social AI and Robotics Lab, King's College London, and leading the UDIVA dataset project within the HuPBA group at the University of Barcelona.
Education
- PhD in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the University of Barcelona, focusing on gaze estimation through spatiotemporal and multimodal deep learning; MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia; BEng in Audiovisual Telecommunications Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Background
- Research Interests: Computer vision and deep learning applied to human behavior understanding and synthesis. Introduction: A research associate in socially intelligent robotic systems at the Social AI and Robotics Lab, King’s College London, as part of the SERMAS project. Also leading the UDIVA dataset initiative within the HuPBA group at the University of Barcelona, to support context-aware modeling of social interactions.
Miscellany
- Website designed by Xiaoying Riley.
