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Heni Ben Amor, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

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Heni Ben Amor, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) where he leads the ASU Interactive Robotics Laboratory. He studied Computer Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau (GER) and earned a Ph.D in robotics from the Technical University Freiberg and the University of Osaka in 2010 where he worked with Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada. He received the NSF CAREER Award as well as the Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 2018. Prior to that, he was a Research Scientist at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at GeorgiaTech in Atlanta. Heni's research topics focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-robot interaction, robot vision, and automatic motor skill acquisition. He received the highly competitive Daimler-and-Benz Fellowship as well as several “Best Paper” awards at major robotics and AI conferences. He is also on the program committee of various AI and robotics conferences such as RSS, AAAI, IJCAI, IROS, and ICRA.