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Paul Vogt is a computational linguist and human-robot interaction researcher whose work spans two interconnected domains: the emergence of language and meaning in artificial agents, and the use of social robots in education. Beginning his career at the VUB AI Laboratory and Sony Computer Science Laboratory in the late 1990s, Vogt made early foundational contributions to understanding how embodied robotic agents can autonomously develop shared language and meaning through interaction — work captured in his highly cited papers on adaptive language games (252 citations) and the physical symbol grounding problem (194 citations), which remain touchstones in the field of symbol grounding and language evolution. Vogt later pivoted toward applied human-robot interaction, becoming a leading voice in social robot-assisted second language learning. His large-scale studies and design guidelines for robot language tutors — collectively accumulating hundreds of citations — demonstrated that robots can effectively teach vocabulary to young children across multiple sessions. His 2018 guidelines paper (160 citations) and 2019 large-scale study (137 citations) have significantly shaped how researchers and educators approach robot-assisted pedagogy. More recently, his attention to the ethical dimensions of educational robots (88 citations) reflects a commitment to responsible innovation, making his portfolio as thoughtful as it is influential.