André Pereira
Associate Professor
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolAndré Pereira is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology with eight years of experience at the intersection of human-robot interaction, multimodal AI, and conversational systems. He leads large AI and Machine Learning courses, supervises graduate researchers, and bridges academia and industry through prior R&D roles at Furhat Robotics and Disney Research and a postdoc at Yale. His work combines machine learning, socially embodied agents, and mixed reality to create interactive experiences, with a track record of technology transfer, publications, and patents. Beyond academia he co‑founded a game studio, applying game design thinking to research problems—a practical thread that informs his approach to building engaging, deployable robotic systems.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Program, AI for Trading, Nanodegree Program, AI for Trading at UdacityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, French, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
andre-pereira/FurhatCSharpInterface
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
andre-pereira/PandemicTouchTable
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
This repository holds a clone for the Pandemic - Hot Europe board game designed for a multi touch table. Intended for research.
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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