Nikhil Churamani

I am a Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR) lab at the department where I also completed my PhD under the supervision of Dr Hatice Gunes on "Continual Learning for Affective Robotics" . My PhD research was funded by the funded by the EPSRC International Doctoral Scholarship and the Premium Research Studentship of the department. Please visit my personal website for recent updates.

My current research focusses on Lifelong or Continual Learning of Affect in Social robots, aimed towards enabling lifelong human-robot relationships. My other research interests include Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Federated Learning, Neuro-inspired AI, and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

 

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I served as the Computing Officer for Trinity Hall MCR from 2018-2020. I also served as the PhD student representative on the Faculty Board of the Computer Laboratory from 2019-2020 as well as the representative for the Rainbow group at the Graduate Students Forum from 2018-2020.