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Francesca Stramandinoli

 

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Ms Francesca Stramandinoli

  • Job title: Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: A225, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: A225, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)17525 84908
  • Email: francesca.stramandinoli@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (ITN RobotDoC) 

Qualifications & background
Francesca Stramandinoli has a BEng in Computer Science Engineering and a MEng in Automation Engineering from the University of Calabria (Italy). She worked as External Expert at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Calabria, where she dealt with the design of CNN-based algorithms for medical images segmentation and the numerical integration of nonlinear partial differential equations. Currently, she works as Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom) in the European Project RobotDoC. Her research topic is about the grounding of language in humanoid robots with particular attention to abstract words. 



Research interests

Francesca Stramandinoli is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Plymouth (UK). She works in the European project RobotDoC on the grounding of abstract words in humanoid robots.

Until recently, cognitive systems have been successfully used for learning concrete actions and understanding each action's name but building intelligent systems that can learn the meaning of abstract words is still a challenging task for cognitive developmental robotics.

Currently Francesca is working at the development of a model based on Artificial Neural Networks for representing abstract concepts in the iCub humanoid robot. The goal of her research project is to obtain a semantic representation of abstract categories through the sensorimotor experience of the robot.

 


Publications

2011. Stramandinoli F., Marocco D., Cangelosi A., "The Grounding of Higher Order Concepts in Action and Language: a Cognitive Robotics Model", ``Neural Networks'' (in press).

2011. Stramandinoli F., "Neurorobotics Models for the Grounding of Abstract Words", abstract in a special anniversary volume of the `"Marie Curie Researchers Symposium, Warsaw, Poland, 25th - 27th September.

2011. Stramandinoli F., "Neurorobotics Models for the Grounding of Abstract Words", poster presented at the "Marie Curie Researcher Symposium", Warsaw, Poland, 25th - 27th September.

2011. Stramandinoli F., Cangelosi A., Marocco D., "Towards the Grounding of Abstract Words: A Neural Network Model for Cognitive Robots", Proceedings of IJCNN-2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose.

2011. Stramandinoli F., Rucinski M., Znajdek J., K.J. Rohlfing, Cangelosi A., "From Sensorimotor Knowledge to Abstract Symbolic Representations", abstract in the Procedia Computer Science, Volume 7, 2011, Pages 269-271, ISSN 1877-0509, 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.018, "FET11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition", Budapest, Hungary, 4th - 6th May.

2011. Stramandinoli F., Rucinski M., Znajdek J., K.J. Rohlfing, Cangelosi A., "From Sensorimotor Knowledge to Abstract Symbolic Representations", poster presented at the "FET11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition", Budapest, Hungary, 4th - 6th May (Second Prize Best Poster).

2010. Stramandinoli F., "Investigating the Grounding of Abstract Categories in Humanoid Robots through Multidisciplinary Collaborations", poster presented at the "Marie Curie Workshop", satellite event of the ESOF Conference, Turin.

2010. Bilotta E., Cerasa A., Pantano P., Quattrone A., Staino A., Stramandinoli F., "Evolving Cellular Neural Networks for the Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions", book chapter in "Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications" edited by Raymond Chiong, Thomas Weise and Zbigniew Michalewicz, (in press).

2010. Bilotta E., Cerasa A., Pantano P., Quattrone A., Staino A.,Stramandinoli F.,"A CNN Based Algorithm for the Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation, pp. 211--220, Springer.

 

Conferences organised

Conference General Chair in the ``Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition'' (RobotDoC-PhD) to be held in Lausanne, September 2012.

 



Additional information

Honors and Awards:

Invited Speaker at the Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission, Square - Brussels Meeting Centre, Brussels, 5th - 6th December.

Conference General Chair, ``RobotDoC-PhD Conference'' to be held in Lausanne, September 2012.

Second Prize Best Poster at the ``FET11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition'' held in Budapest, Hungary, 4th - 6th May 2011.