Oya Celiktutan
@oyaceliktutan.bsky.social
Scientist interested in developing algorithms to enable robots to interact seamlessly with humans 🧠🦾
Personal page: https://oceliktutan.github.io
SAIR's page: https://sairlab.github.io
Personal page: https://oceliktutan.github.io
SAIR's page: https://sairlab.github.io
What a day yesterday. Receiving a sequence of 4 emails from @neuripsconf.bsky.social starting with “we are delighted to inform you..” Australia here we come! #neurips2026
September 25, 2026 at 8:21 AM
What a day yesterday. Receiving a sequence of 4 emails from @neuripsconf.bsky.social starting with “we are delighted to inform you..” Australia here we come! #neurips2026
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Registration is OPEN for the 3rd HRI Intl Symposium!
📍 Nov 19th in Grenoble, France
🎓 Poster session with travel grants! Deadline: Oct 23rd
Registration (no charge): tinyurl.com/hri-symposium
🎤 @wendyju.bsky.social @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan, Emmanuel Senft
#HRI
📍 Nov 19th in Grenoble, France
🎓 Poster session with travel grants! Deadline: Oct 23rd
Registration (no charge): tinyurl.com/hri-symposium
🎤 @wendyju.bsky.social @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan, Emmanuel Senft
#HRI
September 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Registration is OPEN for the 3rd HRI Intl Symposium!
📍 Nov 19th in Grenoble, France
🎓 Poster session with travel grants! Deadline: Oct 23rd
Registration (no charge): tinyurl.com/hri-symposium
🎤 @wendyju.bsky.social @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan, Emmanuel Senft
#HRI
📍 Nov 19th in Grenoble, France
🎓 Poster session with travel grants! Deadline: Oct 23rd
Registration (no charge): tinyurl.com/hri-symposium
🎤 @wendyju.bsky.social @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan, Emmanuel Senft
#HRI
Waking up in the morning and the CMT account looks like this! 4 papers are accepted to IEEE Int. Conference on #Face and #Gesture 2026! Our papers focus on multimodal conversation modelling to human motion synthesis.
What a nice way to start the long weekend!
#FG2026 #SocialAI #MachineLearning
What a nice way to start the long weekend!
#FG2026 #SocialAI #MachineLearning
April 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Waking up in the morning and the CMT account looks like this! 4 papers are accepted to IEEE Int. Conference on #Face and #Gesture 2026! Our papers focus on multimodal conversation modelling to human motion synthesis.
What a nice way to start the long weekend!
#FG2026 #SocialAI #MachineLearning
What a nice way to start the long weekend!
#FG2026 #SocialAI #MachineLearning
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🤖 For World Engineering Day, we're celebrating @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social.
Oya, Reader in AI and Robotics at King's College London, designs robots that can read social cues, respond appropriately, and stay calm under pressure.
Read the full spotlight ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-oya-...
Oya, Reader in AI and Robotics at King's College London, designs robots that can read social cues, respond appropriately, and stay calm under pressure.
Read the full spotlight ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-oya-...
March 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
🤖 For World Engineering Day, we're celebrating @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social.
Oya, Reader in AI and Robotics at King's College London, designs robots that can read social cues, respond appropriately, and stay calm under pressure.
Read the full spotlight ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-oya-...
Oya, Reader in AI and Robotics at King's College London, designs robots that can read social cues, respond appropriately, and stay calm under pressure.
Read the full spotlight ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-oya-...
The best way to start the weekend by a message from my PhD student: CVPR accepted! We have 2 papers accepted focusing on motion generation and algorithmic fairness. So proud of my students! We will share the details soon! @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026
February 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM
The best way to start the weekend by a message from my PhD student: CVPR accepted! We have 2 papers accepted focusing on motion generation and algorithmic fairness. So proud of my students! We will share the details soon! @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026
📢 PhD Position in Human-Robot Interaction at King's College London!
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
January 19, 2026 at 7:59 PM
📢 PhD Position in Human-Robot Interaction at King's College London!
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
I will be speaking at Rewired 2026 about my collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust !
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...
Humanoid robots to feature at Digital Health Rewired 2026
Rewired 2026 attendees will have a chance to see a live demonstration of humanoid robots that could revolutionise NHS patient care.
www.digitalhealth.net
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I will be speaking at Rewired 2026 about my collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust !
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...
Our paper “Fair Domain Generalization: An Information-Theoretic View” is just selected to be presented at #AAAI2026 as ORAL! Among 31,000 abstract submissions with an acceptance rate of ~17% 😅🦾🧠
Preprint is available at arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05823?
Preprint is available at arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05823?
arxiv.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Our paper “Fair Domain Generalization: An Information-Theoretic View” is just selected to be presented at #AAAI2026 as ORAL! Among 31,000 abstract submissions with an acceptance rate of ~17% 😅🦾🧠
Preprint is available at arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05823?
Preprint is available at arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05823?
📣 📣 Postdoc position in #Robotics and #AI at the Department of Engineering, King's College London!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128205-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128205-...
Research Associate in Robotics & AI | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
📣 📣 Postdoc position in #Robotics and #AI at the Department of Engineering, King's College London!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128205-...
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128205-...
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A recent survey by researchers at the University of Washington found that people generally prefer the idea of robots designed for a specific purpose, rather than general-purpose humanoids, in their homes. 🤖 spectrum.ieee.org/home-humanoi... #Robots #Robotics
Do People Really Want Humanoid Robots in Their Homes?
Investors are pouring billions into humanoid robots, but do people actually want them in their homes?
spectrum.ieee.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A recent survey by researchers at the University of Washington found that people generally prefer the idea of robots designed for a specific purpose, rather than general-purpose humanoids, in their homes. 🤖 spectrum.ieee.org/home-humanoi... #Robots #Robotics
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#FG2026 1st submission deadline is approaching. #Kyoto is calling! fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org Abstract 25 September, Full paper 2 October!
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. It is co-spo...
fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org
September 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#FG2026 1st submission deadline is approaching. #Kyoto is calling! fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org Abstract 25 September, Full paper 2 October!
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PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute
PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested !
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...
The Interaction Lab - PhD position in Embodied AI
PhD Position: Multimodal Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Interaction Lab and National Robotarium , Heriot-Watt University
Collaboration with Toshib...
sites.google.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute
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Meet @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social, Reader in AI & Robotics at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏴 and ELLIS Member. She leads the award-winning Social AI & Robotics Lab, advancing robots & virtual agents that interact seamlessly with humans. Check out her advice for young scientists!
#WomenInELLIS
#WomenInELLIS
August 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Meet @oyaceliktutan.bsky.social, Reader in AI & Robotics at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏴 and ELLIS Member. She leads the award-winning Social AI & Robotics Lab, advancing robots & virtual agents that interact seamlessly with humans. Check out her advice for young scientists!
#WomenInELLIS
#WomenInELLIS
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🚨 Missed the main track deadline? No worries!
You can still present at the GENEA Workshop 2025 – we're now accepting poster submissions! 🎉
📅 Deadline: 19 September 2025
🔗 More info: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
#CoSpeechGestures #GestureGeneration #Evaluations
You can still present at the GENEA Workshop 2025 – we're now accepting poster submissions! 🎉
📅 Deadline: 19 September 2025
🔗 More info: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
#CoSpeechGestures #GestureGeneration #Evaluations
August 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🚨 Missed the main track deadline? No worries!
You can still present at the GENEA Workshop 2025 – we're now accepting poster submissions! 🎉
📅 Deadline: 19 September 2025
🔗 More info: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
#CoSpeechGestures #GestureGeneration #Evaluations
You can still present at the GENEA Workshop 2025 – we're now accepting poster submissions! 🎉
📅 Deadline: 19 September 2025
🔗 More info: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
#CoSpeechGestures #GestureGeneration #Evaluations
Reposted by Oya Celiktutan
Naver Labs Europe organizes a Workshop on AI for Robotics in the French Alpes (Grenoble), the 4th edition. This year the topic is 'Spatial AI', registration is open!
Major announcement ✨registration is OPEN✨
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
July 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Naver Labs Europe organizes a Workshop on AI for Robotics in the French Alpes (Grenoble), the 4th edition. This year the topic is 'Spatial AI', registration is open!
📣 Job alert! We are seeking motivated researchers to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position in #Robotics and #ArtificialIntelligence, funded by our new EPSRC project, Circular Robot 5.0!
More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...
More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics & AI
www.kcl.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
📣 Job alert! We are seeking motivated researchers to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position in #Robotics and #ArtificialIntelligence, funded by our new EPSRC project, Circular Robot 5.0!
More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...
More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...
🤖 Our work SANG — Socially Aware Navigation between Groups is now published in the International Journal of Social Robotics!
More info:
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHV...
More info:
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHV...
SANG IJSR
YouTube video by Viktor Schmuck
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🤖 Our work SANG — Socially Aware Navigation between Groups is now published in the International Journal of Social Robotics!
More info:
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHV...
More info:
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHV...
Reposted by Oya Celiktutan
Submissions are now open! Meet our amazing keynote speakers!
#GENEA2025
#ACMMM2025
#NonVerbalBehaviour
#EmbodiedAgents
#GENEA2025
#ACMMM2025
#NonVerbalBehaviour
#EmbodiedAgents
May 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Submissions are now open! Meet our amazing keynote speakers!
#GENEA2025
#ACMMM2025
#NonVerbalBehaviour
#EmbodiedAgents
#GENEA2025
#ACMMM2025
#NonVerbalBehaviour
#EmbodiedAgents
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🚀 #ICMI2025 Paper Submissions Now Open! 📢
🔗 Submit now: new.precisionconference.com/submissions 🚀
📅 Don't forget to check the Call for Papers and Author Guidelines for important details.
Join us in shaping the future of multimodal interaction!
#CFP #MultimodalInteraction
🔗 Submit now: new.precisionconference.com/submissions 🚀
📅 Don't forget to check the Call for Papers and Author Guidelines for important details.
Join us in shaping the future of multimodal interaction!
#CFP #MultimodalInteraction
PCS
new.precisionconference.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚀 #ICMI2025 Paper Submissions Now Open! 📢
🔗 Submit now: new.precisionconference.com/submissions 🚀
📅 Don't forget to check the Call for Papers and Author Guidelines for important details.
Join us in shaping the future of multimodal interaction!
#CFP #MultimodalInteraction
🔗 Submit now: new.precisionconference.com/submissions 🚀
📅 Don't forget to check the Call for Papers and Author Guidelines for important details.
Join us in shaping the future of multimodal interaction!
#CFP #MultimodalInteraction
Reposted by Oya Celiktutan
ACM MM'25 (abs): DL today, good luck (21h)!
ACM MM'25 (paper): 7 days + 21h.
CORL'25: 24 days.
NeurIPS'25 (abs): 37 days.
NeurIPS'25 (paper): 41 days.
ACM MM'25 (paper): 7 days + 21h.
CORL'25: 24 days.
NeurIPS'25 (abs): 37 days.
NeurIPS'25 (paper): 41 days.
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
ACM MM'25 (abs): DL today, good luck (21h)!
ACM MM'25 (paper): 7 days + 21h.
CORL'25: 24 days.
NeurIPS'25 (abs): 37 days.
NeurIPS'25 (paper): 41 days.
ACM MM'25 (paper): 7 days + 21h.
CORL'25: 24 days.
NeurIPS'25 (abs): 37 days.
NeurIPS'25 (paper): 41 days.
Hello, SERMAS! Meet a Human-like Virtual AI Assistant 🦾
On the family day, Cristina Palmero Cantariño, Megha Quamara, Luca Viganò, and I will be showcasing the #SERMAS agent! Come by, see it in motion, and give it a try!
On the family day, Cristina Palmero Cantariño, Megha Quamara, Luca Viganò, and I will be showcasing the #SERMAS agent! Come by, see it in motion, and give it a try!
The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence is returning to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social from Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 24 May. Find out more about what we've got planned and check out the full programme of free, public events. Registration is open now! ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/festiva...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/festiva...
From mental health to magic: Festival returns exploring AI in healthcare, education, sustainable business
King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence returns 20 – 24 May with events and workshops on AI and education, healthcare, creativity, sustainability, business and more.
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hello, SERMAS! Meet a Human-like Virtual AI Assistant 🦾
On the family day, Cristina Palmero Cantariño, Megha Quamara, Luca Viganò, and I will be showcasing the #SERMAS agent! Come by, see it in motion, and give it a try!
On the family day, Cristina Palmero Cantariño, Megha Quamara, Luca Viganò, and I will be showcasing the #SERMAS agent! Come by, see it in motion, and give it a try!
Reposted by Oya Celiktutan
Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
www.kcl.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
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📢 #CallforPapers is now live for the 6th #GENEA Workshop @ACMMM25! We’re excited to welcome your contributions on all things non-verbal behaviour and embodied agents 🤖✨
🗓️ Deadlines (AoE):
Abstract: 2 July 2025
Submission: 4 July 2025
🔗 Full details: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
🗓️ Deadlines (AoE):
Abstract: 2 July 2025
Submission: 4 July 2025
🔗 Full details: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
GENEA Workshop 2025
genea-workshop.github.io
March 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📢 #CallforPapers is now live for the 6th #GENEA Workshop @ACMMM25! We’re excited to welcome your contributions on all things non-verbal behaviour and embodied agents 🤖✨
🗓️ Deadlines (AoE):
Abstract: 2 July 2025
Submission: 4 July 2025
🔗 Full details: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
🗓️ Deadlines (AoE):
Abstract: 2 July 2025
Submission: 4 July 2025
🔗 Full details: genea-workshop.github.io/2025/worksho...
I couldn’t agree more. This is especially true for domains like human-robot interaction, where large datasets are not available and data collection is extremely restricted due to ethical considerations.
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I couldn’t agree more. This is especially true for domains like human-robot interaction, where large datasets are not available and data collection is extremely restricted due to ethical considerations.
Reposted by Oya Celiktutan
Excited to announce that the GENEA workshop will take place at ACM MM’25 in Dublin, Ireland this year! Follow us & stay tuned for more details! #GENEA #ACMMM2025
Organising committee:
Taras Kucherenko
Youngwoo Yoon
Alice Delbosc
Oya Celiktutan
Rajmund Nagy
Laura B. Hensel
Gustav Eje Henter
Organising committee:
Taras Kucherenko
Youngwoo Yoon
Alice Delbosc
Oya Celiktutan
Rajmund Nagy
Laura B. Hensel
Gustav Eje Henter
March 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Excited to announce that the GENEA workshop will take place at ACM MM’25 in Dublin, Ireland this year! Follow us & stay tuned for more details! #GENEA #ACMMM2025
Organising committee:
Taras Kucherenko
Youngwoo Yoon
Alice Delbosc
Oya Celiktutan
Rajmund Nagy
Laura B. Hensel
Gustav Eje Henter
Organising committee:
Taras Kucherenko
Youngwoo Yoon
Alice Delbosc
Oya Celiktutan
Rajmund Nagy
Laura B. Hensel
Gustav Eje Henter