Oksana Hagen

Academic profile

Oksana Hagen

Research Fellow
Peninsula Dental School (Faculty of Health)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Oksana's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 09: SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

About Oksana

I received my BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NCTU (Taiwan), and my MSc in Computer Vision and Robotics at Erasmus+ ViBOT programme from Heriot-Watt University (UK), University of Burgundy (France) and Unversity of Girona (Spain) with a thesis focused on statistical multi-target tracking. I am currently working towards PhD in computing at the University of Plymouth (UK) on representation learning for embodied agents. 

I first became interested in computer vision and robotics when I joined ITRI CCMA (Taiwan) in 2011 as a software engineering intern. As a research engineer for a speech processing lab at NCTU (Taiwan) I developed a Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech demo application and was briefly working on a medical imaging project at the University of Girona (Spain) as an intern. After developing a target tracking feature for an early-stage AI start-up, I got interested in machine learning and joined Aldebaran AI lab (France) as a robotics researcher under Marie Currie Fellowship (2016-2019). Later I got involved in social robotics research for the AgeIn project at the University of Plymouth (UK), where we developed a series of experiments on older people's interactions with a robot. I am currently working with the ICONIC project on developing telephone AI assistant and underwater telepresence applications using co-design.

My research interests are in machine learning, robotics and design.

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