Dr. Nicolas Pugeault

Biography

Nicolas Pugeault is a Reader in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. He completed his engineering studies at ESIEA Paris before moving to the UK for an MSc in Computational Intelligence at the University of Plymouth, and further studies at the University of Stirling with notable researchers Norbert Krueger and Florentin Woergoetter on the European project ECOVISION. He earned his PhD from the University of Göttingen in 2008. Following this, he held a half-time Assistant Professor position at the University of Southern Denmark and a Research Associate position at the University of Edinburgh, collaborating with Professor Norbert Krueger on European Union projects such as DrivSco and PACOPLUS. In 2009, he joined the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Professor Richard Bowden on projects related to autonomous driving and automatic sign language recognition. In 2016, he transitioned to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, focusing on deep neural networks for visual attention in scenes. He became a Reader at the University of Glasgow in June 2020. His research interests encompass cognitive vision and machine learning, specifically in the area of interpreting visual inputs from images and videos in complex control tasks, and understanding how human vision evolves through experience and attention in complex scenes.

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