Aude Billard
EPFL STI IMT LASA
ME A3 393 (Bâtiment ME)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 54 64
+41 21 693 09 39
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MED 0 1726 (Bâtiment MED)
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Fields of expertise
Robotics
Mechatronics
Dynamical Systems
Computational Neuroscience
Awards & Honors
Honors & Personal Awards- IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award
- IEEE Fellow
- Fellow Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- ERC Advanced Grant Awardee
- Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- Best Reviewer Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- The Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland
- Innovative Teaching Grant , Intel Corporation
Other Honors & Awards
Plenary Speaker :
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Dec. 14-18 Aukland, New ZealandIEEE/ASME Intern. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Sapporo, Japan, July 11-15 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Virtual, 27-31 December 2021Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC), Zurich, June 7-9, 2021
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, February 10, 2020
International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Long Beach, USA
- 11th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Vienna, Austria
- 12th Progress in Motor Control Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Wuhan, China
- 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, NZ
- IEEE International Conference on Humanoids, Seoul, Korea
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 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
Current work
President-Elect, IEEE Robotics and Automation SocietyVice-President for publication activities, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Research Council Member, Swiss National Science Foundation
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
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Microengineering
Mechanical Engineering
PhD Students
Etesami Erfan, Gupta Sthithpragya, Hu Luyin, Khurana Harshit, 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 , 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