Introduction

We are currently a small team, consisting of several researchers and research assistents.

Researchers (part-time and full-time)

• Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (PL NIFTi, CogX / Senior Researcher)
• Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (PL ALIZ-E / Senior Researcher)
• Bernd Kiefer (Senior Researcher)
• Hans-Ulrich Krieger (Senior Researcher)
• Miroslav Janicek (Research, PhD student)
• Shanker Keshavdas (Researcher, PhD student)
• Harmish Khambhaita (Researcher, PhD student)
• Benoit Larochelle (Software engineer, PhD student)
• Pierre Lison (Researcher, PhD student)
• Stefania Racioppa (Researcher)
• Sergio Roa (Researcher, PhD student)
• Hendrik Zender (Researcher, PhD student)

Research Assistants

• Raveesh Meena: intonation patterns for producing context-sensitive clarification dialogues
• (your name here?)

Former members

• John D. Kelleher (Post-doc; Oct.2004 - Sep.2005; now at DIT, Dublin)
• Henrik Jacobsson (Post-Doc till Oct.2008; now at Google, Zurich)
• Maria Staudte (RA/MSc; Oct. 2004-Sep.2006; now a PhD at Saarland University)
• Sabrina Wilske (RA/MSc; Sept.2004-May 2006; now a PhD at Saarland University)
• Thomas Horf (RA; Oct.2004-March 2006; now working in the United Kingdom)
• Katja Ignatova (RA; Nov.2005-Sep.2006; now Erasmus exchange student in Brentano, Italy)
• Murali Ramasamy (RA; Nov.2005-Sep.2006; now Erasmus exchange student in Leipzig, Germany)
• Lisa Beinborn: engagement strategies for human-robot interaction
• Trevor Benjamin: large-coverage OpenCCG grammars for situated dialogue in human-robot interaction
• Dennis Stachowicz: episodic memories