Associate Professor
Lund University, Sweden
Eren Aksoy is an Associate Professor (Docent) at Lund University, Sweden. He coordinates the Horizon Europe project ROADVIEW, which focuses on robust automated driving in extreme weather. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 2012. During his Ph.D. studies, he invented the concept of Semantic Event Chains to encode, learn, and execute human manipulation actions in the context of robot imitation learning. His framework has been employed as a technical robot perception-action interface in several EU projects such as IntellACT, Xperience, and ACAT. Prior to relocating to Sweden, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the H2T group led by Prof. Dr. Tamim Asfour at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Recently, as a visiting scholar, he conducted research on AI-based perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles at Volvo GTT and Zenseact AB in Sweden. Dr. Aksoy holds editorial appointments as Editor and Associate Editor for top-tier robotics journals and conferences, including RA-L, the Robot Learning Journal, ICRA, IROS, Humanoids, and ITSC. His research interests include scene semantics, computer vision, AI, and cognitive robotics. He actively works on creating semantic representations of visual experiences to improve the environment and action understanding of autonomous systems, such as robots and unmanned vehicles.