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Maria Koskinopoulou
Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision,
Heriot-Watt University
Dr. Maria Koskinopoulou is currently an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision at the Institute of Signals, Sensors and Systems (ISSS), of the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS), of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Before that, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biomedical Robotics Laboratory at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, Genoa). She holds a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a MSc in Computational Neuroscience and a PhD in Computer Science. Her research interests and expertise are in the areas of Robotic Manipulation, Perception and Robot Vision, Medical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction and Machine Learning.