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Gerard Canal is a Lecturer specializing in Autonomous Systems in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. Previously, he held the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. He completed his PhD in Robotics under the supervision of Dr. Guillem Alenyà and Professor Carme Torras at the Institut de Robòtica Informàtica Industrial. Gerard earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and went on to obtain a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from a collaboration of several institutions, including Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona. His research interests include Assistive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, AI Planning, and Explainable Robot Behavior. He has contributed significantly to international and national projects, including the I-DRESS and COHERENT projects, focusing on improving robot interaction and understanding in human environments. Gerard has published various papers on topics such as multimodal eye tracking, taxonomies in human-agent collaborations, and probabilistic planning for robotics, showcasing his extensive involvement in advancing this field.
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