
Dr Gerard Canal
Lecturer in Autonomous Systems
- RAEng UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research interests
- Computer science
Contact details
Biography
Gerard is a Lecturer in Autonomous Systems and a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics, King's College London.
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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Research

Health (Informatics)
The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.

Reasoning and Planning
The group focuses on the fundamental AI challenge of creating, representing and reasoning.
News
King's scientists explore the effects of AI on human life
Bringing the Human to the Artificial presents cutting-edge AI research at King’s.

International award for PhD thesis on assistive robots
Award for PhD thesis

Events

Brewing the Future
Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.
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Brewing the Future
Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.
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Features
Meet our new researchers from the Department of Informatics
We interview some of our academics who started September 2022.
Research

Health (Informatics)
The Health Hub centres on computational characterisation of medically relevant study cases and data.

Reasoning and Planning
The group focuses on the fundamental AI challenge of creating, representing and reasoning.
News
King's scientists explore the effects of AI on human life
Bringing the Human to the Artificial presents cutting-edge AI research at King’s.

International award for PhD thesis on assistive robots
Award for PhD thesis

Events

Brewing the Future
Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.
Please note: this event has passed.

Brewing the Future
Collaborate with TIAGo the Robot to make a cuppa.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Meet our new researchers from the Department of Informatics
We interview some of our academics who started September 2022.