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Dr Gerard Canal

Dr Gerard Canal

  • Academics

Lecturer in Autonomous Systems

Research subject areas

  • Computer science

Contact details

Biography

Gerard is a Lecturer in Autonomous Systems in the Department of Informatics, King's College London. Prior to this, he was a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

In March 2020, Gerard completed his PhD in Robotics at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial under the supervision of Dr Guillem Alenyà and Professor Carme Torras.

In 2013, Gerard received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona, part of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Later, in 2015, he obtained a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

He has participated in different international and national projects such as I-DRESS and THuMP, and he is a Researcher Co-Investigator in the COHERENT project.

Research Interests

  • Assistive Robotics
  • Robot behavior personalization based on preferences
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Social Robotics
  • AI Planning applied to Robotics and HRI
  • Explainable Robot Behavior

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