ADRIANA TAPUS
Professor - ENSTA Paris

Adriana TAPUS is a Professor at ENSTA Paris, member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in the Autonomous Systems and Robotics Laboratory of the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Unit (U2IS). In 2011, she obtained Habilitation (HDR) for her thesis titled "Towards a personalized Human-Robot Interaction".

She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2005 and her degree in Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania in 2001. She has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California (USC), where she was among the pioneers in the development of socially assistive robotics, contributing mainly in machine learning, human modeling, and human-robot interaction. Prof. Tapus is Associate Editor of the International Journal on Social Robotics (IJSR), ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) and is on the steering committee of several major robotics conferences (IROS, ICRA, HRI, RO-MAN, etc.).

She has more than 150 research publications and received the Romanian Academy Award for her contribution in assistive robotics in 2010. In 2016 she was nominated as one of the “25 women in robotics you need to know about”. She has been the main coordinator of several national and international projects.