Dr Robert Ross

DEE Strand Lead

Email Address: [email protected]

Dr. Robert Ross is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science in TU Dublin and a Principal Investigator within the Adapt Centre. Dr. Ross’s interests lie primarily in the application of machine learning methods to Human Robot Interaction, with specific projects across natural language processing, dialogue management, behavioural analysis, and user state estimation. Within Adapt, Robert lead’s the Digitally Enhanced Engagement strand where he supervises PhD topics focused on the identification and mitigation of confusion in human-computer interaction and on gesture in non-verbal communication. Robert also works extensively with industry and has led industry related projects across topics such as remote sensing, behaviour estimation, and predictive analytics. Dr. Ross holds a PhD in Situated Dialogue Systems for the University of Bremen in Germany, as well as an MSc and BSc in Computer Science & Experimental Physics from University College Dublin. Dr. Ross teaches courses on Deep Learning and Machine Learning methods as well as Advanced Topics in Computational Intelligence.
Research Domains
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Analytics
  • Deep Learning
  • Emotion
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Image and Video processing
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal Interaction
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Personalisation
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Semantic Representation

Publications by Robert Ross