Peter Robinson

Curriculum vitæ

Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson Professor of Computer Technology
University of Cambridge
Department of Computer Science & Technology
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
England CB3 0FD
http://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/pr/

Qualifications
1971-1974 Read Mathematics as Scholar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, with first class honours in all three years. Graduated BA & MA.
1974-1975 Read Part III Mathematics Tripos (one year post-graduate course), attained honours.
1975-1979 Research under Dr Neil Wiseman at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and sponsored by the BBC. Dissertation on Graphic Design with Computers covering aspects of interactive graphics. Graduated PhD.
1984 Amateur radio call sign G3MRX.
1993 Fellow of the British Computer Society, Chartered Engineer.
2002 Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2016 Graduated ScD.

Career
1979 Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory working on An environment for interactive systems.
1980-1983 Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory working on Design aids for Ferranti ULAs.
1983-1993 Assistant Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
1983 onwards College Lecturer, Director of Studies and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College.
1988 Sabbatical leave as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Adelaide.
1991 Visiting lecturer for course on electronic CAD at the University of British Columbia.
1993 Sabbatical leave as Visiting Scientist at Rank Xerox EuroPARC.
1993-2000 University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2000-2001 Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2001-2005 Personal Readership in Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2002 Sabbatical leave as Visiting Scientist at IBM Zurich Laboratory.
2003-2009 Deputy Head of Department at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2005 onwards Personal Chair in Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2015-2017 Deputy Head of Department at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2019 onwards Director of Research and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Technology at the University of Cambridge.

Appointments
1983 onwards Member of review panels for European Commission, ERC and research councils in UK, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland, Council of National Academic Awards, and numerous conferences, journals and publishers.
Member of programme committees for numerous international conferences.
1985 onwards Examiner for higher degrees in Cambridge and elsewhere.
1985-1996 Joint Editor of the Software Engineering Journal.
1996 onwards Editorial Board of the Computer Journal.
1996-1999 Feature Editor of the Computer Journal.
1997 Panellist for research review at Siemens Research.
1997-2005 Lecturer at Royal Institution masterclasses for secondary school children and as part of the University's Science Week.
Short listed by the Royal Institution to present a series of Christmas Lectures for young people in 2002.
1998-2000 External examiner at the University of East Anglia.
1999 Joint organiser of the EDSAC 99 meeting celebrating 50 years of computing in Cambridge.
2003 onwards EPSRC College.
2005-2008 Consultant to Toyota Motor Corporation.
2006 Invited exhibitor at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibitions in London and Glasgow.
Exhibited at IIT Mumbai Techfest in 2007.
2007-2010 Alfaisal University Engineering Programme Committee.
2008-2011 Visiting Fellow at Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
2008 BCS Computer Journal Lecturer.
2009 Joint organiser of the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Computation of emotions in man and machines.
2009 Organiser of Cambridge Philosophical Society Discussion Meeting on Emotions in an age of communication.
2013 Invited lecture, Faraday Institute.
2011 onwards Director of the EDSAC Replica Company and Trustee of the EDSAC Replica Project.
2013-2016 & 2019 onwards ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Awards
1984 Computer Journal Wilkes Award.
1985 RSGB Norman Keith Adams Prize.
1996 Cambridge Foundation Pilkington Teaching Prize.
2004 IBM Faculty Award.
2009 Nominated for best paper award at ACM CHI.
2011 Best video award at Pervasive Computing Conference.
2015 Winner Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis emotional intensity challenge at IEEE Face and Gesture.
2019 Runner up 10 year technical impact award at ICMI.

Selected publications
July 2021 Introduction: A computer technology perspective
in The robot will see you now: Artificial Intelligence and Christian faith (editors John Wyatt & Stephen Williams), SPCK, July 2021.
May 2021 Adaptive accessible AR/VR systems
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Yokaham, Japan.
August 2018 The ASC-Inclusion perceptual serious gaming platform for autistic children
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.
April 2018 GazeDirector: Fully articulated eye gaze redirection in video
Eurographics, Delft, The Netherlands.
December 2017 Fixed points in a changing world
Spiritualities of Human Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada.
May 2017 Estimating sheep pain level using facial action unit detection
IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Washington, DC.
October 2016 A 3D morphable eye region model for gaze estimation
European Conference on Computer Vision, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
July 2016 Automatic analysis of naturalistic hand-over-face gestures
ACMTransactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 6(2).
March 2016 OpenFace: an open source facial behavior analysis toolkit
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Lake Placid, NY.
December 2015 Rendering of eyes for eye-shape registration and gaze estimation
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Santiago, Chile, December 2015.
September 2015 Empirical analysis of dimensional affect
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Xi'an, China, September 2015.
May 2015 Cross-dataset learning and person-specific normalisation for automatic Action Unit detection
IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2015.
(Winner of Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis emotional intensity challenge.)
November 2014 Automatic detection of naturalistic hand-over-face gesture descriptors
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Istanbul, Turkey.
(Best student paper award.)
December 2013 Constrained local neural fields for robust facial landmark detection in the wild
International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia.
June 2012 3D Constrained local model for rigid and non-rigid facial tracking
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Providence, RI.
January 2012 Designing inclusive interfaces through user modelling and simulation
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
June 2011 The emotional computer
International Conference on Pervasive Computing, San Francisco, CA.
(Best video award.)
July 2010 Classification of complex information: inference of co-occurring affective states from their expressions in speech
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 32(7), pp 1284-1297.
September 2009 Empathizing with robots: Fellow feeling along the anthropomorphic spectrum
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, September 2009, ISBN 978-1-4244-4799-2.
April 2009 Territorial coordination and workspace awareness in remote tabletop collaboration
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Boston, MA.
(Nominated for best paper.)
September 2007 Detecting affect from non-stylised body motions
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference. Lisbon, Portugal.
(Best student paper award.)
October 2005 Generalization of a vision-based computational model of mind-reading
First International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Beijing, China, October 2005, pp 582-589.
July 2004 Real-time inference of complex mental states from facial expressions and head gestures
Real-time vision for HCI, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp 181-200, ISBN 0-387-27697-1.
June 2003 Temporal context and the recognition of emotion from facial expression
HCI International, Crete, June 2003, Volume 2, ISBN 0-8058-4931-9, pp 631-635.
February 2003 The Escritoire - a personal projected display
International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Plzen, Journal of the Winter School of Computer Graphics 11(1), February 2003, ISSN 1213-6972, pp 33-40.
September 2000 Self calibrating clocks for globally asynchronous, locally synchronous systems
Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Austin TX, September 2000.
May 2000 Adaptive routing for road traffic
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 20(3), May 2000, pp 46-53, ISSN 0272-1716.
September 1997 A framework for interacting with paper
Eurographics Conference.
April 1996 BrightBoard: A video-augmented environment
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. Vancouver, BC.
November 1994 The design of a human memory prosthesis
Computer Journal 37(3), pp 153-163.
See http://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/~pr/publications/publications.pdf for a full list of publications and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pr/publications/videos.html for some videos.