Aude Billard
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Fields of expertise
Robotics
Mechatronics
Dynamical Systems
Computational Neuroscience
Awards & Honors
Honors & Personal Awards- WiRES Recipient
- IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
- IEEE Fellow
- ERC Advanced Grant
- Excellent Women Academics, AcademiaNet
- Elected Member, Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).
- Best reviewer award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- Swiss National Science Foundation Career Award
- Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation, Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce
- Innovative Teaching Grant, Intel Corporation, USA
Other Honors & Awards
Plenary Speaker :
- 2024 IEEE Int. Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob, 1-4 Sept, Heidelberg 2024
- 2024 IEEE Int. Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE, Bari, Aug 28- Sept 1
- 2023 3rd International Conference on Embodied Intelligence, March 22-24 2023, Online
- 2022 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Aukland, New Zealand, Dec. 14-18
- 2022 IEEE/ASME Intern. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Sapporo, Japan, July 11-15
- 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Virtual, 27-31 December 2021
- 2021 Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC), Zurich, June 7-9, 2021
- 2020 17 International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, Japan, June 22-26, 2020
- 2020 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, February 10, 2020
- 2020 Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Long Beach, USA
- 2019 11th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 12th Progress in Motor Control Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2019 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Wuhan, China
- 2019 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, NZ
- 2017 IEEE International Conference on Humanoids, Seoul, Korea
- 2016 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2015 IEEE Symposium on Human-Robot Interactive Communication, Nashville, USA
Best Paper Awards:
- Best Student Paper Award, Robotics Science and Systems, (RSS)
- Finalist Best Overall Conference Paper Award, Robotics Science and Systems, (RSS)
- King-Sun Fu Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE & Robotics and Automation Society
- Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- JTSC Novel Technology Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. Intellig. & Robotics Syst. (IROS)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction (ROMAN)
- Best Paper Award, Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUATT)
- Finalist for Best Paper Award, Neural Information Processing Symposium
- Finalist for Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots
Professional course
Full Professor
EPFL
2013
Associated Professor with Tenure
EPFL
2006-2012
Assistant Professor
EPFL
2002-2006
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
2000-2002
Education
PhD
Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
1998
MSc
Knowledge-Based Systems
University of Edinburgh
1996
BSc & MSc
Physics
EPFL
1995
Awards
2023 : WiRES Recipient
2022 : IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2020 : IEEE Fellow : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2017 : ERC Advanced Grant : European Research Council
2015 : Excellent Women Academics : AcademiaNet
2013 : Elected Member : Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
2003 : Best reviewer award : IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
2003 : Swiss National Science Foundation Career Award : Swiss National Science Foundation
2001 : The Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation : Swiss Junior Chamber of Commerce
1996 : Innovative Teaching Grant : Intel Corporation
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Microengineering
Mechanical Engineering
PhD Students
Etesami Erfan, Gupta Sthithpragya, Hu Luyin, Liu Yang, Peng Baiyu, Zhang Hanli,Past EPFL PhD Students
Amanhoud Walid , Batzianoulis Iason , Bombile Michael Bosongo , Calinon Sylvain , De Chambrier Guillaume Pierre Luc , De Souza Ravin Luis , Ferreira Duarte Nuno Ricardo , Fichera Bernardo , Figueroa Fernandez Nadia Barbara , Gonon David Julian , Gribovskaya Elena , Günter Florent , Hernandez Sanchez Jacob , Hersch Micha , Huber Lukas , Iwane Fumiaki , Khadivar Farshad , Khansari Zadeh Seyed Mohammad , Khoramshahi Mahdi , Khurana Harshit , Kim Seungsu , Koptev Mikhail , Kronander Klas Jonas Alfred , Li Miao , Lukic Luka , Mirrazavi Salehian Seyed Sina , Noris Basilio , Petreska von Ritter-Zahony Biljana , Sauser Eric , Shukla Ashwini , Sommer Nicolas , Ureche Ana-Lucia , Yao Kunpeng , Yin Hang ,Courses
Machine learning programming
Robotics practicals
- Teaching Robots to Accomplish a Manipulation Task
- Experimenting with haptic interfaces
- Controlling a serial robot ABB IRB 120
- Control of the Micro Delta Direct Drive robot
- LiniX, linear axis, assembly and control