Mehdi KHAMASSI

Responsibilities

Co-director of studies and pedagogical council member for the Cogmaster program (ENS-PSL / EHESS / Univ. Paris Cité); Advisor for the TESaCo project (Emerging Technologies and Collective Wisdom)

Awards

3 best paper awards (La Recherche 2010; SAB 2012; IEEE RO-MAN 2018)

Selected publications

- Bailly, G., Khamassi, M.* and Girard, B.* (2022). Computational Model of the Transition from Novice to Expert Interaction Techniques. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, In press. (* equally contributing authors).

- Khamassi, M. (Ed.) (2021). Neurosciences cognitives. Éditions de Boeck Supérieur. ISBN : 978-2-8073-2921-8.

- Wittmann, M.K. and Fouragnan, E. and Folloni, D. and Klein-Flügge, M.C. and Chau, B. and Khamassi, M. and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2020). Global reward state affects learning, the raphe nucleus, and anterior insula in monkeys. Nature Communications. To appear.

- Zaraki, A.*, Khamassi, M.*, Wood, L., Lakatos, G., Tzafestas, C., Amirabdollahian, F., Robins, B. and Dautenhahn, K. (2019). A Novel Reinforcement-Based Paradigm for Children to Teach the Humanoid Kaspar Robot. International Journal of Social Robotics, 12(3):709-720. (* equally contributing authors).

- Chatila, R., Renaudo, E., Andries, M., Chavez Garcia, R.O., Luce-Vayrac, P., Gottstein, R., Alami, R., Clodic, A., Devin, S., Girard, B. and Khamassi, M. (2018). Towards Self-Aware Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5:88.

- Khamassi, M. and Girard, B. (2020). Modeling awake hippocampal reactivations with model-based bidirectional search. Biological Cybernetics. Vol 114, Pages 231-248.

- Staffa, M. and Rossi, S. and Tapus, A. and Khamassi, M. (2020). Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Artificial Perception for Assistive Robotics (Editorial). International Journal of Social Robotics. Vol 12 No 3, Pages 613-616.

- Wittmann, M.K. and Fouragnan, E. and Folloni, D. and Klein-Flügge, M.C. and Chau, B. and Khamassi, M. and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2020). Global reward state affects learning, the raphe nucleus, and anterior insula in monkeys. Nature Communications. To appear.

- Schut, E.H. and Alonso, A. and Smits, S. and Khamassi, M. and Samanta, A. and Negwer, M. and Kasri, N.N. and Navarro Lobato, I. and Genzel, L. (2020). The Object Space Task reveals increased expression of cumulative memory in a mouse model of Kleefstra Syndrome. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Vol 173, Pages 107-265.

- Alexandre, F. and Dominey, P.F. and Gaussier, P. and Girard, B. and Khamassi, M. and Rougier, N.P. (2020). When Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience meet. Marquis, P., Papini, O. and Prade, H. (Eds.) A guided tour of artificial intelligence research, Vol. 3 Interfaces and applications of artificial intelligence, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, publisher. Pages 303-335.

International collaborations

National Institute of Health / University of Maryland (USA), National Institute of Health / University of Michigan (USA), University of Oxford (UK), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Radboud University (The Netherlands), University of Trento (Italy), University of Southern California (USA)

Industrial collaborations

Softbank Robotics, Blue Ocean Robotics