Project Professor Yukie NAGAI of the university’s International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) was awarded the “Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES)” at IROS 2022 (The 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), one of the largest and most influential research conferences in robotics in the world, for her contributions in cognitive developmental robotics and robot learning research. She was invited to give a talk in a special session dedicated to WiRES awardees with four other renowned women researchers on October 25 at IROS.
Professor Nagai has also been named one of the 50 most prominent women in robotics in the world by the journal, Analytics Insight, in June 2020.
・IROS Kyoto 2022 HP
https://iros2022.org/
https://iros2022.org/program/iros-35th-anniversary-forum/
・Analytics Insight
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/analytics-insight-names-worlds-50-most-renowned-women-in-robotics/
・Dr. Nagai’s profile page
https://developmental-robotics.jp/en/members/yukie_nagai/
