Oksana Hagen

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.