Research Experience 

2023.4-2025.08: Honorary Senior Research Fellow - Research Fellow with Prof. Nadia Berthouze @University College London. 

2021.8-2023.3: Research Associate on Trustworthy/Cognitive Robotics and AI at Prof. Angelo Cangelosi's Lab-Cognitive Robotics Lab (COROLAB) of the University of Manchester on project UKRI TAS Node in Trust (Funding). 

As a Co-Investigator,  I also work on UKRI TAS Integrated Project - Verifiably Human-Centric Robot Assisted Dressing. 

2017.9-2021.6: I received my Ph.D. degree at ASR Group (Autonomous Systems and Robotics) of U2IS, ENSTA-Paris,  IP-Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) supervised by Prof. Adriana Tapus (Director of the Doctoral School IP Paris). My past works in Paris are mainly about robotics, generative models, multimodal AI.

Publications (Google Scholar) 

• Chuang Yu, Baris Serhan, Angelo Cangelosi. ToP-ToM: Trust-aware Robot Policy with Theory of Mind.  IEEE ICRA 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610127. PDF

• Chuang Yu, Baris Serhan, Marta Romeo, Angelo Cangelosi. Robot Theory of Mind with Reverse Psychology. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2023.  DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580144.  ACM  PDF

• Chuang Yu, Guanyu Huang, Shuang Wu. Social Robot Nonverbal Vocalization System with Large Language Model. UK Speech 2023. PDF

• Chuang Yu, Yifu Liu, Bruna Petreca, Sharon Baurley, Nadia Berthouze. Textile Touch Gesture Recognition with Graph Representation of EMG. ACII 2023 International Conference on Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction – 2nd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction.  DOI: 10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388087. IEEE PDF

• Chuang Yu, Heng Zhang, Zhegong Shangguan, Xiaoxuan Hei, Angelo Cangelosi, Adriana Tapus. Speech-driven Robot Face Action Generation with Deep Generative Model for Social Robots.  International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2022 [Finalist Best Conference Paper]. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_6. Springer PDF

• Chuang Yu, Changzeng Fu, Rui Chen, Adriana Tapus. First Attempt of Gender-free Speech Style Transfer for Genderless Robot. Companion of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2022. [Best LRP Award]. DOI: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889533. ACM  IEEE PDF

• Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. SRG3: Speech-driven Robot Gesture Generation with GAN. 2020 16th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV). 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV50220.2020.9305330. [Oral Presentation]  Video  IEEE

• Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Thermal and RGB-D Cameras for Human-Robot Interaction. Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3378342. Video. ACM PDF      

• Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. Interactive robot learning for multimodal emotion recognition. International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2019.  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_59.  Springer PDF

• Chuang Yu. Emotion Detection from Gait and Thermal Face for Social Robot. Journee de L'ED Interfaces. 2018. [Best Poster Prize]  Poster

• Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. Human Emotion Detection based on Gait Data and Facial Thermal Images.  Journée « Robotique & I.A.» 2018. [Oral Presentation]  

• Chuang Yu, Helen Hastie, Angelo Cangelosi. Human-aware Robot Social Behaviour Dynamic for Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction.  IROS 2022 workshop on Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics (SCIAR). PDF  Presentation

• Xingrui Gu, Chuyi Jiang, Erte Wang, Zekun Wu, Qiang Cui, Leimin Tian, Lianlong Wu, Siyang Song, Chuang Yu. CauSkelNet: Causal Representation Learning for Human Behaviour Analysis. FG 2025 - 19th IEEE International conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. 2025. arxiv [Accepted] [Corresponding Author].

• Zhegong Shangguan, Chuang Yu, Wenjie Huang, Zexuan Sun, Adriana Tapus. What do I look like? A Conditional GAN Based Robot Facial Self-Awareness Approach. International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_28. [Corresponding Author]. ACM  Springer  PDF

• Zhegong Shangguan, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus, What do I look like? Dataset for Social Robot Facial Expression Self-Awareness. Workshop on the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2022. PDF

• Zhegong Shangguan, Mengyuan Ding, Chuang Yu, Chaona Chen and Adriana Tapus. Robot self-recognition via facial expression sensorimotor learning. IEEE RO-MAN 2023 (32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication).  DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309548. IEEE PDF

• Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Xiaoxuan Hei, Adriana Tapus. Semantic Gesture in Robot Humor: A New Dimension to Enhance the Humor Expression. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2024.  DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640710. ACM PDF

• Xiaoxuan Hei, Chuang Yu, Heng Zhang, Adriana Tapus. A bilingual social robot with sign language and natural language. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2024.  DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640549. ACM PDF

• Chuande Liu, Chuang Yu, Bingtuan Gao, Adriana Tapus, Towards a balancing safety against performance approach in human-robot co-manipulation for door-closing emergencies.  Complex & Intelligent Systems. 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s40747-021-00420-y. Springer PDF 

• Chuande Liu, Bingtuan Gao, Chuang Yu and Adriana Tapus, Self-protective motion planning for mobile manipulators in a dynamic door-closing workspace. Industrial robot: an international journal. 2021.  DOI: 10.1108/IR-02-2021-0025. Emerald PDF

• Hongbo Zhu, Chuang Yu, Angelo Cangelosi, Explainable Emotion Recognition for Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction.  Workshop on the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2022

• Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Chuang Yu, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren. Audio Event-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2023.3319233. IEEE PDF

• Lanmiao Liu, Chuang Yu, Siyang Song, Zhidong Su, Adriana Tapus. Human Gesture Recognition with a Flow-based Model for Social Robot.  Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2023 [Corresponding Author].  DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580145. ACM  PDF

• Hongbo Zhu, Chuang Yu, Angelo Cangelosi. Affective Human-Robot Interaction with Multimodal Explanations. International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_22. [Corresponding Author] [Finalist Best Student Paper]. Springer PDF

• Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. Towards a Framework for Social Robot Co-speech Gesture Generation with Semantic Expression.  International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2022.  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_10. [Corresponding Author] ACM Springer PDF 

• Heng Zhang, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus. Why do you think this joke told by robot is funny? The humor style matters. RO-MAN 2022 (31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication). 2022.  DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900515. IEEE ACM PDF 

Teach and Talk

• ROB311 2019 - Robotics + AI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Language: English. 

• ROB311 2020 - Robotics + AI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Language: English. 

• SoBo 2020 - Social Robotics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Language: English

• COMP61352 2023 - Cognitive Robotics, the University of Manchester, UK. Language: English.  

• PSYC0021 2024 - Affective Interaction, University College London, UK. Language: English.  

• [2020] Invited Report @NanChang Institute of Technology. Human-centered Robotics.  

• [2022] Invited Report @Hohai University. Human and Robot Behavior with AI.

• [2022] Invited Report @Cognitive Robotics Research Summer School by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Human/Robot Behavior Understanding and Generation with Deep Learning

• [2022] Tutorial:  4th Workshop @ EU Horizon 2020 Traincrease. Face Robotics and Human2Robot Face Mapping 

Professional Association Service

• Founder of Talk on Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)

• Founder - OpenGRO (Open General Robotics)

• Member of Youth Committee of ICACHI (International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction) 

• Member of Youth Committee of GCI (Society of Chinese Computer Scientists in Germany) 

Conference and Journal Service 

• 1st Workshop Affective Human-Robot Interaction on 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2022) [Corresponding proposer]

• 2nd Workshop Affective Human-Robot Interaction on 11th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023) [Organizer]

• 3rd Workshop Affective Human-Robot Interaction on 12th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024) [Organizer]

• Special Issue on Human-Like Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Achievements and Challenges at International Journal of Humanoid Robotics [Organizer]

• Special Session of Journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI  on Perceiving, Generating, and Interpreting Affect in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) [Topic Coordinators] 

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