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SCIENTIFIC ANIMATION
 
 
Editorial work - Conference organization - Program committees - Reviewer - PhD Jury - Teaching - Scientific collaborations - Popular science

 
I am heading the FLOWERS research team in INRIA Bordeaux Sud Ouest.
 
Editorial work
 
Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development
 
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neurorobotics, The Frontiers Foundation.
 
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer.

International Conference and Workshop Organization
 
(2006) I co-organized the Sony CSL Paris 10th anniversary and symposium, Maison Rouge, Paris.
 
(2006) I co-organized the Sony CSL Paris Technology Promotion Event, Maison Rouge, Paris.

NEWS ! (2006) I am co-organizing the Sixth International Conference on Epigenetics Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, which will take place in Hopital de la Salpétrière, Paris, in September.

(Nov. 2003) Organizer of the worshop "Origins of phonology, origins of syntax : looking forward", Paris.


Member of program commitees
 
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC'09), 2009
 
IEEE Alife 2009: 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
 
ABiALS 2008: The fourth workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
 
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'08)
 
Curious Places: Workshop on self-aware systems for intelligent environments, 2008
 
Artificial Life XI Conference, 2008
 
AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, 2007
 
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo. 2005
 
Epigenetics Robotics Conference 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
 
Parallel Problem Solving in Nature Conference, 2002, 2003, 2004
 
Colloque Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences Cognitives, 2002


Reviewer

International journals
:
International Journal of Social Robotics
International Journal on Humanoid Robotics
Speech Communication
Journal of Phonetics
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS-2)
Connection Science
Artificial Intelligence Journal
Artificial Life
Adaptive Behavior
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

International
Conferences:
IEEE International conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
International conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLAN)
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)
International conference on Epigenetic Robotics (Epirob)
Parallel Problem Solving in Nature Conference (PPSN)
Artificial Life conference (Alife)
European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci)
Humanoids Conference (Humanoids)
 
PhD Thesis jury
 
Matthieu Nottale (2008) Ancrage d'un lexique partagé entre robots autonomes dans un environnement noncontraint, Université Paris VI, France.
 
Kathryn Merrick (2007) Modelling Motivation For Experience Based Attention Focus in Reinforcement Learning, University of Sydney, Australia.
 
Magali Ochs (2007) Modélisation, formalisation et mise en oeuvre d'un agent rationnel dialoguant émotionnel empathique, Université Paris VIII.
 
Nicolas Gomond (2006) Des neurosciences à la robotique: modélisation de l'apprentissage conditionné, Université de Bordeaux II.
 



Scientific Collaborations

2005-present:
Expert for the ANR agency, for robot-related technologies.

2004-present : Participation to the
ECAgent european project. Other partners include: CNR-ISTC, EPFL (ASL), ULB, Collegium Budapest, Viktoria Institute, Humbold Univerisity, La Sapienza, University Pompeu Fabra, University of Tokyo.

2000-2004 : Participation to CNRS action
OHLL (Origin of Man, Langage and Langages), in the group Modélisation et Evolution du langage.


Teaching
 
2007: I gave one course on "Robotics and Speech" at Master IMA, Université Paris 8.
 
2006-present: I created and teach a course called "Concepts and Algorithms for Social and Entertainment Robots", for second year student in the engineering school ENSTA, Paris, France.

2004-present: courses on computer and cognitive techniques for entertainment robotics for second year engineering students in ENSEA, Cergy, France.
 
2006: I gave one course on "Robotics and Language" for third year university student in computer science in University of Caen, France.
 
2006: I gave one course called "Robots as tools for thinking the origins of language", to second year students in the engineering school, Institut de Cognitique, Bordeaux, France.
 

Popular science
 
see my invited talks
 
see my press interventions

Books and publications:

Oudeyer, P-Y. (in preparation) Des robots aux sources de la parole, collection Automates Intelligents, Vuibert.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006)
Où vont les robots ? Sciences et Devenir de l'Homme, Lettre aux générations 2000, MURS.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) dossier "
Des robots pour comprendre les origines de la parole", sur futura-sciences.com

A chapter summarizing my PhD thesis will appear in a book that gathers all the 2004 laureates of the Prix Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire, edited by Presses Universitaires de France.

Museum  installations: 

 
"Maîdo et Gurby, la création de la parole", was installed for 2 years in La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, in the exhibition "l'homme transformé".


General Public Talks

(7 dec. 2005) "Origine et croissance des formes du langage", Café des Arts et des Sciences, FNAC Digitale, Paris.

(16 oct. 2005) "Les robots à la conquète du langage", Espace Landowsky, Exhibition I live Tomorrow, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

(sept. 2001) "Expression et reconnaissance des émotions dans la parole", Conférence Le Rève de Vaucanson, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris.



 
 

PROJECTS HIGHLIGHTS

 

The Origins of Speech Sounds

Developmental Robotics and   Artificial Curiosity

 

The Playground Experiment

Emotional Speech Synthesis

 

Natural human-robot interaction

 

Acquisition and evolution of language