Elmira Yadollahi
Assistant Professor at Elsevier
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElmira Yadollahi is an assistant professor of computer science at Lancaster University specializing in human-robot interaction, explainable robotics, and child-robot interaction, with nine years of multidisciplinary research and teaching experience. She holds PhDs from EPFL and Instituto Superior Técnico and has developed cognitive decision-making and perspective-taking models that help robots collaborate and communicate more transparently with humans. Previously a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at KTH RPL, she combines hands-on robotic systems work (ROS, Python, Unity) with rigorous experimental design and statistical analysis across educational and social robotics deployments. As an associate editor for the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction and a former lab manager, she brings both domain leadership and practical lab operations experience. Her background in mechanical engineering and international research placements (KAIST, EPFL, IST) informs a rare blend of control, perception, and interaction design expertise.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics Control and Intelligent Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics Control and Intelligent Systems at EPFLDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Persian, Korean, French, PortugueseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ElmiraYadollahi/qml_ros_game
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
ElmiraYadollahi/ElmiraYadollahi.github.io
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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