Shinichiro Nakaoka

Affiliation:

Senior Researcher,
Humanoid Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)





Title:

How to make a humanoid robot dance

Biography:

Shin'ichiro Nakaoka received his Ph.D degree in computer science from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2006. Since then, he has been with the Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), where he is currently a Senior Researcher. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include humanoid robots and robotics software systems. He received the Best Paper Award of the Robotics Society of Japan in 2008, and the Best Paper Award (Robotics) of the 2012 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration.