Affective Computing

Prof. Jainendra Shukla is the founder and director of the Human-Machine Interaction research group and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in joint affiliation with the Department of Human-Centered Design IIIT-Delhi. He is heading the Centre for Design and New Media and is associated with Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence. He enthusiastically investigates how empowering social robots and machines with adaptive interaction abilities can improve the quality of life in health and social care. His research has been disseminated in several journals and conferences of international reputation, including CHI, IMWUT, and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He is an active reviewer for several reputed conferences and journals in the field. He has been awarded the startup research grant by SERB, DST, and the research excellence award at IIIT-Delhi. He is the recipient of the prestigious Industrial Doctorate research grant by the Government of Spain in 2014. He received a B.E. degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai in First Class with Distinction in 2009. He pursued his M.Tech. Degree in Information Technology with a Specialization in Robotics from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) in 2012. He received his Ph.D. in excellent grades with Industrial Doctorate Distinction and International Doctorate Distinction from Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Spain, in 2018. He is an active member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Prof. Abhinav Dhall is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Head of Centre for Applied Research in Data Science at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Delhi. He received his PhD from Australian National University and later pursued post doc at University of Waterloo and University of Canberra. His research interests are in computer vision and affective computing. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing