Brief Biography
Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer studied theoretical computer science at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University Paris VI, France. He has been a permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years (1999-2007), working on developmental robotics and computational modeling of language acquisition and evolution. Since January 2008, he is now head of the INRIA research team FLOWERS at INRIA Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest, focused on developmental and social robotics. He is interested in the mechanisms that allow humans and robots to develop perceptual, motivational, behavioral, and social capabilities to become capable of sharing cultural representations. He also works on artificial curiosity, intrinsic motivation, and life-long learning. He has published a book, more than 60 papers in international journals and conferences, holds 8 patents, and received several prizes for his work in developmental robotics and on the origins of language. He is editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, and associate editor of Frontiers in Neurorobotics and of the International Journal of Social Robotics. He has co-organized the 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (2006), and is member of various regular international conferences in cognitive and social robotics as well as in complex systems (IVA, Alife, IAS, Epirob, PPSN). Web: http://www.pyoudeyer.com