Laura Cohen is an associate professor (maître de conférences) in ETIS lab at CY Cergy-Paris Université since 2020. She obtained her PhD in 2015 from Sorbonne Université (ISIR) under the supervision of Prof. S. Régnier and Prof. M. Chetouani, cosupervised by Prof. S. Haliyo in natural interfaces for micromanipulation in virtual reality. She was a PostDoc in Prof. A. Billard’s lab (LASA) at EPFL on the AlterEgo H2020 European project on human-robot social interaction applied to new therapies for patients with social deficits such as schizophrenia. She is now with the Neurocybernetics team in ETIS, where she continues her research on human-robot interaction, cognitive modelling, developmental robotics and machine learning. She is particularly interested in topics such as language development, communication and symbols acquisition in infants and robots (ANR JCJC GISMo, EUTOPIA PhD cotutelle with VUB and SOBA-INS2I projects) and in understanding how intention impacts movement kinematics in social contexts (IPAL PhD cotutelle with Singapour, ANR ENHANCER).
She is currently cosupervising 3 PhD students and 2 Master students.
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