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The executive committee

The YorRobots executive committee consists of colleagues from across the University.

Professor Ana Cavalcanti

Ana Cavalcanti is Professor of Software Verification at York and RAEng chair in Emerging Technologies working on 'Software Engineering for Robotics: modelling, validation, simulation, and testing'.

She held a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit award and a Royal Society Industry fellowship to work with QinetiQ in avionics. She has chaired the programme committee of several well-established international conferences, is on the editorial board of four international journals, and is chair of the Formal Methods Europe association.

She is, and has been, principal investigator on several large EPSRC grants. Her research is on theory and practice of verification and testing for robotics. She has published more than 150 papers.

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Professor Ian Fairlamb
Dr Cade McCall

Cade McCall, PhD, is a social psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of York.

His research focuses on human affect and social interactions. McCall specialises in the use of virtual environments, motion capture, and psychophysiology for studying psychological processes as they unfold in naturalistic settings.

Cade's recent work investigates the role of social cognition in driving and in interactions with autonomous vehicles.

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Dr Nathan Wales
Nathan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. As a member of Archaeology’s BioArCh facility, Nathan applies scientific methods to archaeological samples to understand the human past. His main area of research is the recovery and analysis of ancient DNA from archaeological plant samples, allowing him to study the use of different crops and the process of domestication. 
Nathan and his BioArCh colleagues are using robotics to automate archaeological science methods, including the pipetting of liquids to more efficiently processing of protein and DNA samples. 

 

Dr Michael T. Stuart

Michael Stuart is a philosopher working on the consequences of ML methods being used in science. He combines traditional philosophical approaches with qualitative and quantitative sociological methods. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2015, and has been a researcher or lecturer at the Universities of Bielefeld, Cambridge, Geneva, LSE, NYCU, Pittsburgh, Tubingen, and Zurich. Visit his website here: https://michaeltstuart.com/

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Dr Jihong Zhu

Dr. Jihong Zhu is a lecturer in robotics at the School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology, and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York. He leads the Robot-Assisted Living Laboratory (RALLA) at York, where his research primarily focuses on deformable objects and assistive manipulation. Before joining York, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at both Cognitive Robotics, TU Delft, and Honda Research Institute, Europe. Jihong obtained his PhD at the University of Montpellier, where he conducted his research at LIRMM, supported by the H2020 VERSATILE project. He is presently an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), ICRA, and IROS. He is the founding co-chair of IEEE Working Group on Deformable Object Manipulation.

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