I am an assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. I lead Cognitive Developmental Robotics (CoDeRs) group and co-direct AI for Robotics Laboratory (AIR-LAB).

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Adaptive Systems Group. And, I hold a Ph.D. degree in BioRobotics at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.

My research interests are Humanoid Robotics, Cognitive Systems, and Machine Learning.

If you are an undergraduate or an M.Sc. student looking for a thesis project in the areas of machine learning, interaction design, and robotics, drop me an email (mkirtay[@]uvt.nl) in English anytime.

News

• 16/10/2023: Our paper is nominated as the best paper award at IEEE ICDL 2023
• 09/09/2023: Two papers have been accepted at IEEE ICDL
• We are hiring a PhD student for a project on Large non-verbal language model
• 01/06/2023: Our paper has been accepted at IEEE Ro-MAN 2023
• 10/01/2023: Our journal paper has been accepted at IEEE TCDS
• 26/09/2022: Our paper has been accepted at IEEE Humanoids 2022
• 05/09/2022: Our paper has been accepted at International Journal of Social Robotics
• 15/06/2022: Our paper has been accepted at IEEE ICDL 2022
• 30/05/2022: Our paper has been accepted at IEEE Ro-MAN 2022

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