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Stephen W. Hart, Ph.D.
Post-Doc Researcher Robotics, Brain, & Cognitive Sciences Department Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Genova, Italy C.V. (pdf)
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I grew up in Lexington, MA and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst for both my graduate and undergraduate studies. I am currently employed as a Post-Doc at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, Italy working on the iCub.
From 2002-2009, I worked at the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics with Professor Roderic Grupen. I am currently working with Giorgio Metta at the Italian Institute of Technology. My research focus considers the long-term acquisition of dexterous behavior in humanoid robots. I believe that the development of such behavior will only occur through an understanding of principles of embodiment---how an organism can successfully engage its sensorimotor resources in its environment. My research draws upon the fields of robotics, machine learning, developmental psychology, computational neuroscience, computer vision, and signal processing.
Over the past few years, I have performed experiments on the iCub, UMass' humanoid robot Dexter, as well as the (first) NASA Robonaut, located at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
 The iCub |
 Dexter - The UMass Bi-Manual Humanoid |
 The NASA-JSC Robonaut |
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My graduate research was sponsored by NASA Space Grant Awards and a fellowship from the NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) |
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