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Tomislav
Stipancic is an Associate Professor in
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb.
His
research is chiefly focused on the areas of cognitive informatics,
affective and probabilistic robotics, artificial intelligence, context-based
reasoning and awareness, ubiquitous computing and human - agent
(robot) interaction. He also has a strong
interest in
philosophy (philosophy of mind).
In 2016, Tomislav Stipancic received a scholarship under Postdoctoral
Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He spent 8 months (17/04/2016 - 16/12/2016) at the Kyoto University as a postdoctoral researcher within Nishida Lab (Group of Applied Intelligence Information Processing) doing his own project "Computation Mechanism for Situated Sentient Robot SERENA”.
During
his work he participated in several scientific and technological
projects. He was a visiting researcher at Royal Institute of
Technology
(KTH) in Stockholm and URJC in Madrid.
In May 2013 he defended his
doctoral thesis, A cognitive model
for the control of a group of industrial robots (abstract).
Along to this, he worked a part-time job at
CARNet
(Croatian Academic and Research Network) for more
then ten years as an ICT specialist (e-mentor expert,
e-course designer and ICT teacher).
He is "passionate" about (semantic) web
technology and (web) design.
He is married and has two children. |
