SCIoI Alumni

Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos

Postdoctoral Researcher

Human Robot Interaction

HU Berlin

   

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Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos

Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos

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Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos is a computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction, social robotics, conversational agents, and multimodal communication.

He joined SCIoI in April 2023 to work as a postdoctoral researcher.

Dimosthenis received his PhD in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology under the supervision of Joakim Gustafson and Gabriel Skantze. During his doctoral studies, he visited Eric Horvitz’s group at Microsoft Research in Seattle, the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, and David Schlangen’s group at the University of Potsdam, where he also held a postdoctoral position after completing his PhD.

At SCIoI, Dimosthenis worked on integrating different social intelligence research projects.

His research investigates how the embodiment and nonverbal behaviors of conversational agents and social robots influence the establishment, maintenance, and repair of common ground during interactionand has been published in major human-computer interaction venues, including HRI, CHI, and ICMI, as well as psychology and computer science journals.

Dimosthenis is a former SCIoI postdoctoral researcher and currently collaborates with SCIoI externally.

 


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