Catharine Oertel
Principal Investigator
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”
Catharine received her PhD in 2017 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. After completing her postdoctoral position at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, she joined TU Delft in August 2019 as an assistant professor.
Her research interest lies in understanding and modelling human interaction to build socially aware conversational agents that can engage with people in a human-like manner. She uses multi-modal social signal processing techniques to estimate conversational dynamics and generate attentive and affective dialogue behaviours in the agent or robot. Much of her research has also focused on modelling interaction with and in groups, either in the context of unconstrained or “in the wild” social talk.
conversational agents
social robots
multi-modal social signal processing
human-robot teams
hybrid intelligence