Sylvain Calinon

Sylvain Calinon (*1980) is a research scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dept of Advanced Robotics, and a visiting research scientist at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received a PhD on robot programming by demonstration in 2007 from EPFL, which was awarded by the international Robotdalen scientific award, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) award and EPFL-Press distinction. From 2007 to 2009, Dr Calinon was a postdoctoral research fellow at LASA. His research interests cover robot programming by demonstration, learning by imitation and human-robot interaction.