Angelo Cangelosi

Professor Angelo Cangelosi

Job title: Professor in Artificial Intelligence And Cognition, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Address: A316, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586217
Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 586217
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 586300
Email: A.Cangelosi@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Director, "CRNS: Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems" (ITALK project)
Coordinator of EU FP7 Project "ITALK: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots" (ITALK project 2008-2012)
Coordinator of EU PF7 Marie Curie Doctotal Network "RobotDoC: Robotics for Development of Cognition" (expected start date May 2009)
Leader of Research Group "Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition" (ABC website)
School Coordinator for RAE2008 submission (UoA23 Computer Science and Informatics). Results: 25% 4* 50% 3* 25% 2*
Modules leader for "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", "Computational Intelligence", "Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life"; Additional teaching for modules "Interactive Intelligent Systems Workshop", "Computer Science Workshop" and "Alternative Computing Paradigms"

Qualifications & background

Laurea in Experimental Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza (1991)

PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Genoa (1997)

Roles on external bodies

JOURNAL MANAGEMENT ROLES

2008- Co-Editor-in-Chief, “Interaction Studies” (John Benjamin Publishing)
2012- Associate Editor, “Topics in Cognitive Science” (Cognitive Science Society Publishing)
2011- Associate Editor, “IEEE Transactions in Autonomous Mental Development” (IEEE Press)
2011- Associate Editor, “International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems” (IGI Global)
2010- Associate Editor, “Cognitive Systems Research” (Elsevier)
2007- Associate Editor, “Connection Science” (Taylor & Francis)
2007- Associate Editor, “Frontiers in Neurorobotics” (Frontiers in Neuroscience Foundation)
2006- Editorial Board Member, “Journal of Neurolinguistics” (Elsevier)
2006- Editorial Consultant Member, “International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems”
2003-07 Editorial Board Member, “Interaction Studies” (John Benjamin Publishing)
2006-07 Editorial Board Member, “Connection Science” (Taylor & Francis)
2006 Guest Editor, “Mind and Society” (Springer) – special issue
2005 Guest Editor, “Connection Science” (Taylor & Francis) – special issue

GRANT REFEREEING

2008 Croatian Ministry of Education (Unity trough knowledge Fund)
2006 Dutch Research Council (Technology Foundation STW)
2007- ESF European Science Foundation
2005- NSF-USA National Science Foundation
2005- Project evaluator for European Commission ICT Projects
2003- The Nuffield Foundation
2002- EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (also Large Grant Panel, 2008)
2002- ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (also Large Grant Panel member in 2007-08)

Teaching interests

artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, cognitive science, artificial life, psycholinguistics, human computer interaction

Staff serving as external examiners
PhD EXAMINATIONS

2011 External Examiner, Bielefeld University, Germany
2011 External Examiner, De Montfort University
2010 External Examiner (PhD transfer), University of Hertfordshire
2008 External Examiner, Queensland University, Australia
2007 External Examiner, University of York
2007 External Examiner, King’s College London
2007 External Examiner, University of Southampton
2006 External Examiner, University of York
2006 External Examiner, University of Hertfordshire
2006 External Examiner, University of Manchester
2006 External Examiner, University of Siena (5 students)
2005 External Examiner, VUB Free University Brussels
2005 External Examiner, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)
2005 External Examiner, University of Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli, Italy)
2003 External Examiner, University of Sussex
2003 External Examiner, University of Paisley
1999 Internal Examiner, University of Plymouth

MSc PROGRAMME EXAMINATIONS

2007 External Examiner, MSc Intelligent Systems, Univeresity of Sunderland

Research interests

Cognitive robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive science,Artificial Life, Adaptive Behaviour, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Language Evolution, Symbol Grounding, Psycholinguistics, Categorization, Computational Neuroscience, Model of neural development

For more details on my research, visit my HOMEPAGE

UoP Research group membership

Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)
Computer Science and Informatics

Other research

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

2012 First supervisor: Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda, PhD on co-adaptation of body and neural systems
2012 First supervisor: Fabio Ruini, PhD on evolutionary robotics and UAV modelling
2012 First supervisor: Gianluca Massera, PhD on evolutionary robotics
2009 First supervisor: Vadim Tikhanoff, PhD on cognitive robotics
2009 First supervisor: Eduardo Coutinho, PhD on psychophysiology modelling of musical emotions
2009 Second supervisor: Michele Burigo, PhD on psycholinguistics of spatial prepositions
2006 First co-supervisor: Isabella La Rovere, PhD in cognitive psychology
2004 First supervisor: Richard Holden, PhD on evolutionary architecture and MAS (November 2004)
2004 First supervisor: Davide Marocco, PhD in evolutionary robotics (January 2004)
2004 Second supervisor: Rohanna Rajapakse, PhD in information retrieval (February 2004)
2000 Second supervisor: Georgios Banavas, PhD in financial modelling (2000)

Grants & contracts
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EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network, €3,300,000 (€800,000 at Plymouth) “RobotDoc: Robotics for Development of Cognition). A. Cangelosi PI-Coordinator, R. Pfeifer (Zurich), C. von Hofsten (Uppsala), G. Sagerer, (Bielefeld), T. Ziemke (Skovde), G. Metta (IIT Genoa), S. Wermter (Sunderland), F. Becchi (Telerobot). Associate Partners: B. Scassellati (Yale USA), J. Tani (RIKEN), C. Goerick (HONDA), P. Robinson (BARA British Robot and Automation Association)
(2008-2012) EU FP7 – ICT Cognitive Systems Interaction Robotics, €6,250,000 (€1,655,000 at Plymouth) Integrating Project “ITALK: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots”. A. Cangelosi, project coordinator, T. Belpaeme (Plymouth), C. Nehaniv & K. Dautenhahn (Hertfordshire), S. Nolfi (CNR Rome), G. Metta & G. Sandini (IIT Genoa), G. Sagerer, B. Wrede & K. Rohlfing (Bielefeld), K. Fischer (Univ. Southern Denmark), D. Roy (MIT), J. Tani (RIKEN). (Principal Investigator)
2008-11 RCUK Cognitive Systems Foresight, £809,132 (£507,722 at Plymouth) “VALUE: Vision, Action, and Language Unified by Embodiment". PI-Coordinator (with R. Ellis, Psychology Plymouth, and M. Fisher, Dundee). Funding from EPSRC, ESRC and BBSRC.
(2007-2010) US Air Force Labs, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), US$150,000, “Communication and Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems”. (Principal Investigator). EOARD project on Distributed Control for Search and Rescue in MAVs
(2007) euCognition Action Network, €21,300. Five grants for students/staff exchange visits (Principal Investigator)
(2006) US Air Force Lab, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), $9,431, Two Travel grants for Fusion2006 and KIMAS2007 Conferences (Principal Investigator)
(2005-2006) US Air Force Labs, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), US$45,559, “Integrating language and cognition in autonomous systems”. (Principal Investigator) EOARD project on Language-Cognition Integration
(2005) US Air Force Labs, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), US$2643, Travel grant for KIMAS conference
(2005) Foundation Rosselli (Turin) and Italian Society for Cognitive Science, €1750, Support for organisation of 6^th International Conference on Language Evolution (Principal Investigator)
(2004) BBSRC, EPSRC & British Academy, £11,240, Support for 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Conference (Principal Investigator, with G. Bugmann, R. Borisyuk)
(2004-06) DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, £100,000, Liquid Cargo Management Limited. (with P. Robinson, G. Bugmann) (grant awarded but not initiated)
(2003-04) UK EPSRC Research Grant, GBP £141,752 "Computational modelling of quantifiers: The relative Influence of scalar and contextual factors (with K. Coventry and S. Newstead) Quantifier Homepage
(2001-03) UK EPSRC Research Grant, £152,606 A psychologically plausible model for the acquisition of spatial terms (with K. Coventry) Spatial Language Homepage
(2000-03) UK EPSRC Research Grant, £47,417 Multi-agent systems for modelling language evolution Language Evolution Homepage
(2000-01) Wellcome Trust SciArt Grant, £10,000 STI: Search for Terrestrial Intelligence (with M. Phillips et al.)
(1997-00) Nuffield Foundation, Award for Newly Appointed Lecturers, £3,000 Language evolution modeling

Publications

For a full list of publications (including downloadable papers), visit my PUBLICATION PAGE

Reports & invited lectures

INVITED/KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS

2009 Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Cognitive Society, Campinas Brazil (September 2009)
2008 UK NanoForum2008, University of Bristol, 29-30 October 2008
2008 Doctoral Programme, Lecture Series on AI and Robotics, Hanse-WissenschaftsKolleg, Delmenhorst Germany, October 6-7 2008
2008 Summer Institute of “Mind & Society”, Montreal June 27-July 6 2008
ICCS07 7^th International Conf. on Complex Systems, Special Session on “Language and Complexity” (Boston, 2007)
Science Festival, Workshop on “Language Acquisition in Robots and Children” (Genoa, 2006)
Workshop on Language and Cognition, planning meeting for research priorities in the EU Framework VII (IST-Cognitive Systems) (Luxemburg, 2006)
International School on Semiotic Dynamics, Language and Complexity (Erice 2005)
Conference on Cognitive Dynamics and the Language Sciences (Cambridge, 2005)
IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems: KIMAS’05: Modeling, Evolution, and Engineering (Boston, 2005)
Summer School on Neural Network Models of Perception, Action and Embodied Knowledge, (Bologna 2005)
CiE2005 Conference on Computability in Europe (Special Session on “Epistemology and Methodology of Computing”)
Symposium on Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems, Hertfordshire, 26-29 August 2003.
International Conference on Learning and Concept Formation, University of Lund, 13-14 June 2003
International Workshop on Language and Motor Integration: Neuroimaging and Computational Modeling, University of Edinburgh, 23-25 September 2002
ESF Workshop on The Neurobiology of Communication: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives on Receptive Language, MRC Cambridge, 25-26 September 2002
TENNET XIII Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology Conference, Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience of Categorization, Montreal, June 2002
ECCS Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science, Melbourne, 28/1/2000
International Workshop on the Evolution of Syntax, Budapest Collegium, June 1997

SEMINARS AND LECTURES

University of Sunderland, 13/7/2007
University of Rutgers at Newark, 8/4/2007
University of Bath, 10/2/2006
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, 1/2/2006
University of East Piedmont, Vercelli 24/5/2005
Media Lab MIT, 22/4/2005
Harvard University, 21/4/2005
National Technical University of Trondheim, Norway 10/3/05
CNR National Resarch Council, Rome 2/2/2005
De Montfort University, 19/5/04
National Technical University of Trondheim, Norway 24/10/03
Universita’ della Calabria (Cosenza), 25/10/2002
Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 28/5/2002
University of Sussex, 15/5/2002
University of Pavia, 27/11/2001
University of Genoa, 25/11/2001
University of Middlesex, 5/10/2001
University of Edinburgh, 12/1/2001
Universita' di Genova, 21/4/1999
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, 4/2/1998
Universita' di Pavia, 15/12/1997
Centre for Neural and Adaptive Systems, University of Plymouth, 11/11/1997
RUG University of Groningen, Holland, 6/11/1996
University of Edinburgh, 25/10/1996
University of Southampton, 30/10/1996
University of Southampton, 10/10/1996
University of California at San Diego, USA, 9/5/1995
University of California at San Diego, USA, 15/12/1994

Conferences organised
See details in my online CV

Additional information

Collaborations with industry

Telerobot SpA Italy (partner in EU Marie Curie network proposal ROBOT-DOC)
Honda European Research Lab, Germany (associated partner in EU Marie Curie network RobotDoc)
BARA British Automation & Robot Association (associated partner in EU Marie Curie network RobotDoc)
US Air Force Lab, Hanscome MA, USA (Dr. Perlovsky)
Ordnace Survey, Research & Innovation Division, Southampton, UK (EPSRC grant proposal)

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