Yasser Mohammad

About

Yasser Mohammad is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on enabling robots to learn naturally from human demonstrations and gestures. His major contributions lie in developing unsupervised learning frameworks that allow robots to simultaneously recognize gestures, actions, and their associations—a breakthrough that reduces the need for explicit programming. His 2009 paper on this topic has garnered 55 citations, reflecting its foundational impact. Mohammad has also pioneered methods for learning interaction protocols using Augmented Bayesian Networks and for detecting natural interactive behavior through physiological signals, with works accumulating 37 and 36 citations, respectively. His research on constrained motif discovery in time series (45 citations) and robust learning from demonstrations using multidimensional SAX (20 citations) has advanced the field of robot skill acquisition. Notable achievements include his work on mutual adaptation between humans and robots (19 citations) and autonomous gaze control development (19 citations), which explore the subtle dynamics of social interaction. Mohammad's 2012 paper on "Fluid Imitation" (19 citations) further demonstrates his commitment to creating robots that can seamlessly learn and adapt, making him a key figure in the quest for intuitive, human-friendly robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Unsupervised simultaneous learning of gestures, actions and their associations for Human-Robot Interaction

   55 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Learning from Demonstration

   47 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Constrained Motif Discovery in Time Series

   45 citations · 2009
4. 4
   Learning interaction protocols using Augmented Baysian Networks applied to guided navigation

   37 citations · 2010
5. 5
   Using physiological signals to detect natural interactive behavior

   36 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Toward combining autonomy and interactivity for social robots

   28 citations · 2009
7. 7
   Robust learning from demonstrations using multidimensional SAX

   20 citations · 2014
8. 8
   Fluid Imitation

   19 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Autonomous development of gaze control for natural human-robot interaction

   19 citations · 2010
10. 10
    Human adaptation to a miniature robot: Precursors of mutual adaptation

    19 citations · 2008

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