EDUCATION
2015 – PhD in Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
2012 – MPhil in Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
2011 – BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Anara Sandygulova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics at the School of Science and Technology. Dr. Sandygulova received her PhD from the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin. She was awarded a prestigious postgraduate Irish Research Council fellowship for her personally proposed research project. Her paper was invited for a highly selective participation in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneers Workshop at HRI’2014 in Bielefeld. In addition, for her research and outreach activities, Dr. Sandygulova was awarded the prestigious Google Anita Borg Scholarship in July 2014 among Europe, Middle East and Africa. As an undergraduate student, she studied Computer Science at University College Dublin and University of California Irvine (through Education Abroad Program). In addition to graduating with First Class Honors, her final year project received the “Best Project and Presentation” award and she was the 2011 class recipient of the John Kelly Memorial Medal for her exceptional studies.
Dr. Sandygulova is a member of EUCog (European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics) and an Associate Fellow of RobotDoc collegium (the Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network in Developmental Robotics).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Sandygulova’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, machine learning, and social robotics. She is interested in addressing social challenges of human-robot interaction by employing a combination of robotics, machine learning, and psychology techniques to make robots more socially appropriate and acceptable by the end-users.
Cross-cultural differences for adaptive strategies of robots in public spacesMussakhojayeva, S., Sandygulova, A.,
2017 RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017-January, p. 573-578
Cyrillic manual alphabet recognition in RGB and RGB-D data for sign language interpreting robotic system (SLIRS)Tazhigaliyeva, N., Kalidolda, N., Imashev, A., Islam, S., Aitpayev, K., Parisi, G., Sandygulova, A.,
2017 ICRA 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 4531-4536
Adaptive Strategies for Multi-party Interactions with Robots in Public SpacesMussakhojayeva, S., Kalidolda, N., Sandygulova, A.,
2017 Social Robotics - 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, p. 749-758
Should robots win or lose? Robot's losing playing strategy positively affects child learningBalkibekov, K., Meiirbekov, S., Tazhigaliyeva, N., Sandygulova, A.,
2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 706-711
PRIveT- A portable ubiquitous robotics testbed for adaptive human-robot interactionSandygulova, A., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2016 In : Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. 8, 1, p. 5-19
Children's Responses to Genuine Child Synthesized Speech in Child-Robot InteractionSandygulova, A., O'Hare, G.,
2015 HRI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts. IEEE Computer Society, 02-05-March-2015, p. 81-82
Children’s perception of synthesized voice: Robot’s gender, age and accentSandygulova, A., O’Hare, G.,
2015 In : Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 9388, p. 594-602
Real-Time adaptive child-robot interaction: Age and gender determination of children based on 3D body metricsSandygulova, A., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2014 IEEE RO-MAN 2014 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 826-831
Investigating the impact of gender development in Child-Robot interactionSandygulova, A., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2014 AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour,
Investigating the impact of gender development in child-robot interactionSandygulova, A., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, p. 284-285
Ubiquitous human perception for real-time gender estimationSandygulova, A., Swords, D., Abdalla, S., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2013 2013 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2013. IEEE Computer Society, p. 114-119
Electroencephalograms for ubiquitous robotic systemsSwords, D., Sandygulova, A., Abdalla, S., O'Hare, G.,
2013 Procedia Computer Science. Elsevier, 21, p. 174-182
BarterCell: An agent-based bartering service for users of pocket computing devicesAbdalla, S., Swords, D., Sandygulova, A., O'Hare, G., Giorgini, P.,
2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 8062 LNAI, p. 236-245
A study of effective social cues within ubiquitous roboticsSandygulova, A., Swords, D., Abdel-Naby, S., O'Hare, G., Dragone, M.,
2013 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. p. 221-222
A Portable and Self-presenting Robotic Ecology HRI TestbedSandygulova, A., Dragone, M.,
2013 Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer Verlag, 413 CCIS, p. 136-150
An open teleconference toolkit for roboticsDitrani, S., Caccavale, F., Sandygulova, A., Dragone, M.,
2013 2013 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2013. IEEE Computer Society, p. 108-113
Investigating agent-based mobile service applications integration with reliable wireless communicationsAbdel-Naby, S., Sandygulova, A., Zlydareva, O., O'Hare, G.,
2012 IFIP Wireless Days.
Immersive human-robot interactionSandygulova, A., Campbell, A., Dragone, M., O'Hare, G.,
2012 HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. p. 227-228
