Invited Talks and Lectures

Demistifying the Human-like Robot, Invited talk, The Hay Culture and Literary Festival, UK, 1 June 2018.

Creating Technology with Socio-emotional Intelligence, Invited talk, The Pint of Science Festival Cambridge, UK, 16 May 2018.

Automatic Recognition of Affect from Face, Invited talk, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong, 16 April 2018.

Interaction Design: What, why and how?, Invited talk, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong, 13 April 2018.

Towards Disruptive Technologies for Wellbeing - Explorations in Affective VR, Interactive Public Art, and Telepresence Robotics , Invited talk, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong, 12 April 2018.

Creating Technology with Socio-emotional Intelligence , Invited talk, the Royal College of Art, London, UK, 21 February 2018.

Towards Disruptive Technologies for Wellbeing: Explorations in Affective VR, Telepresence Robotics and Social Transference, Invited talk, MIT Media Lab, MA, USA, 30 October 2017.

Sensing for Social Human-Robot Interaction, Invited talk, Sensors Day 2017, Robinson College, Camridge, UK, 20 October 2017.

Human Behaviour Analysis for Social Robotics, Invited talk, BMVC'17 Workshop on Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding, Impeial College, Lodon, UK, 7 September 2017.

Analysis of Affect and Personality for Autonomous and Telepresence Robotics, Invited talk, The 2017 Workshop on The Emerging Social Neuroscience of Human-Robot Interaction Bangor University, Wales, UK, 17 August 2017.

Affect and Personality in Robots vs. Humans, Invited talk, The 2017 Conference of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 13 July 2017.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Computer-Robot Interactions, Invited seminar, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 12 June 2017.

Computational Analysis of Affect and Personality: From Empathic Architecture to Empathic Robots?, Keynote, 4TU.NIRICT Workshop on Empathic Technologies, the University of Twente, the Netherlands, 19 May 2017.

Socio-emotional Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge Philosophical Society Scientific Meeting on New Frontiers in Robotics, Cambridge, UK, 24 Mar. 2017.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Computer-Robot Interaction, University of Cardiff, UK, 8 Feb. 2017.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Robot Interaction, University of Plymouth, UK, 20 Jan. 2017.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Robot Interaction, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 8 Dec. 2017.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Computer-Robot Interactions, Keynote, the 6th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2016) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16 Oct. 2016.

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Social Signals, Google Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 22 Sep. 2016.

Sensing Emotions, Being There Showcase: Humans and Robots in Public Space, Bristol, UK, 13 Sep. 2016.

Affective and Social Signal Processing, VISUM Summer School, Porto, Portugal, 7 Jul. 2016.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 22 Jun. 2016.

Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction, Wheeler Lecture Minute Madness, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, 24 May 2016.

Automatic Affect Recognition from Face and Voice, Guest Lecture on Emotion Recognition for the MSc in Machine Learning, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London (UCL), 8 Mar. 2016.

Automatic Recognition of Human Affect and Social Signals, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of EEIT, Sydney, Australia, 23 Oct. 2015.

Automatic Recognition of Human Affect and Social Signals, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, 21 Jul. 2015.

Automatic Recognition of Human Affect and Social Signals, invited talk, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), UPMC Sorbonne Universites (l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Paris, France, 8 Jun. 2015.

Machine Understanding of Human Social Signals, Lightning talk at EECS 2015 Research Showcase, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 22 Apr. 2015.

Automatic Affect Recognition from Face and Voice, Guest Lecture MSc in Machine Learning, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London (UCL), 24 Mar. 2015.

Automatic Recognition of Affective and Social Signals, Media and Arts Technology Forum, EECS, Queen Mary University of London, 23 Oct. 2014.

Automatic Recognition of Affective and Social Signals, TELECOM ParisTech, France, 10 Sep. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, Koc University, Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey, 10 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, Sabanci University, Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey, 10 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, Ozyegin University, Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey, 10 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, Bilkent University, Electronic Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey, 7 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, Baskent University, Computer Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey, 7 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition: Why, What and How, TOBB University, Electronic Engineering Department, Ankara, Turkey, 7 Mar. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition from Face and Voice, Guest Lecture on Emotion Recognition for the MSc in Machine Learning, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London (UCL), 11 Feb. 2014.

Automatic Affect Recognition from Face and Voice, Guest Lecture on Emotion Recognition for the MSc in Machine Learning, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London (UCL), 19 Feb. 2013.

Automatic Affect Recognition, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 30 Apr. 2012.

Affective and Social Signal Processing, Interaction and Media (IMC) Seminar, EECS, Queen Mary University of London, 16 Feb. 2012.

Automatic Analysis of Emotions and Social Signals, Multimedia and Vision (MMV) Group Seminar, EECS, Queen Mary University of London, 1 Feb. 2012.

Automatic Analysis of Emotions and Social Signals, Forum for Media and Arts Technology students, EECS, Queen Mary University of London, 8 Dec. 2011.

Perception and Computation of Human Beauty, International Workshop on Social Signal Processing in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 1 Dec. 2011.

Automatic Measurement of Emotions: Past, Present and Future, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Campus, Ankara, Turkey, 8 Jul. 2011.

Automatic Measurement of Emotions: Past, Present and Future, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Kalkanl?, Güzelyurt, KKTC, Mersin 10, Turkey, 7 Jul. 2011.

Automatic Measurement of Affect in Dimensional and Continuous Spaces, CCNY Media Laboratory , Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College and Graduate School, City University of New York, NY, USA, 24 Sep. 2010.

Automatic recognition of affect in dimensional and continuous spaces: Why, what and how?, Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing (ACSSP 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 30 Aug. 2010

Automatic Human Nonverbal Behaviour Analysis, Office of Learning Technologies , Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain, 28 Sep. 2009.

Affective Computing, The Finance IT Network , London, U.K., 8 May 2009.

Automatic Assessment of Aesthetics by Using Image Processing and Supervised Learning Techniques, The e-Markets Research Group Seminar Series, Faculty of IT, UTS, Sydney, Australia, 14 Sep. 2007.

From Monomodal to Multimodal: Affect Recognition Using Visual Modalities, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ) ICT Centre HAIL Seminar Series, Sydney, Australia, 28 Aug. 2007.

Towards Automated Analysis of Bimodal Face and Body Expression Dynamics for Emotion Recognition, HCSNet SummerFest 2006, University of Sydney, Australia, 30 Nov. 2006.

Fusing Expressive Face and Body Display for Bi-modal Emotion Recognition, Man-Machine Interaction Research Group"s Seminar Series (MMI colloquium), Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, 7 Dec. 2005.

Bi-modal affect recognition from expressive face and upper-body gesture by single frame analysis and multi-frame post integration (poster presentation), National ICT Australia (NICTA) - HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop,Sydney, Australia, 13-14 Sep. 2005.

Combining expressive face and upper-body gesture for affect recognition, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Gestural Interaction Workshop 2005, Sydney, Australia, 27-28 Apr. 2005.

Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Principle Component Analysis, CVRG Group Seminars, UTS, Sydney, Australia, 1 Sep. 2003.

Computer Vision-Based Analysis of Facial Expressions (A Review),5th Annual Research Student Conference, UTS, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2003.

Automatic Classification of Female Facial Beauty, Computer Vision and Image Processing Workshop, UTS, Sydney, Australia, Feb.2003.

Measuring Female Facial Beauty, poster presentation and demo representing Yildiz Technical Univ. at the 13th Symposium of Head of the Computer Engineering Departments in Turkey,Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 26 Oct. 2001.