Congratulations to Dr Chaona Chen on Leverhulme fellowship and IEEE Best paper award
Published: 16 June 2021
Dr. Chaona Chen started her Leverhulme/LKAS Early Career Fellowship in INP in May 2021
We'd like to congratulate Dr. Chaona Chen on starting her Leverhulme/LKAS Early Career Fellowship with us in May 2021.
This 3-year fellowship is co-funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith (LKAS) scheme and intended to support the early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable research and establish their research independence toward a more permanent position at the end of the fellowship.
During her fellowship, Dr. Chen will lead the research programme of ‘equipping artificial agents psychologically-derived dynamic facial expressions’, in which she will work on deriving a broad spectrum of dynamic facial expressions used for a variety of social interactions and cultures, and transferring these socially- and culturally-nuanced dynamic facial expressions to popular artificial agents such as social robots.
Her interdisciplinary research will contribute to the knowledge advance across the fields of psychology, vision science and social robotics. Dr. Chen will also be integrated within the Centre for Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) and the UKRI centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents (Social AI CDT) to co-supervise undergraduate/postgraduate research projects and provide a high-quality research environment for students.
Dr. Chaona Chen and her colleagues Dr. Oliver Garrod, Dr. Robin Ince, Prof. Philippe Schyns and Prof. Rachael Jack also won Best Paper Award in the IEEE ICRA 2021 Workshop on Robot-Assisted Systems for Medical Training (RoPat21) for their paper “Modelling Variations in Dynamic Facial Expression of Pain”.
First published: 16 June 2021