photo of Leimin Tian with a Pepper robot

Leimin Tian (田㶟旻)

Emails:	Leimin[dot]Tian[at]data61.csiro.au Leimin[dot]Tian[at]monash.edu
Address:	Robotics, CSIRO Robotics, Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Other links:	Google Scholar Research Gate GitHub Repo orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-5610 Follow @LeiminTian

I am a senior scientist who leads the human-robot interaction team at the robotics group of CSIRO's Data61.
I am also an adjunct senior lecturer at the robotics lab of Monash University.
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Research Interests

My research spans over human-robot interaction, human-centred AI, and affective computing.
My work focuses on adopting interdisciplinary knowledge to develop robots that incorporate social-emotional intelligence in their perception, decision, and actions, thus enhancing their communication and collaboration with people in various applications.

Education

PhD in Informatics, Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK	Sep 2013 -- Mar 2018
Master in Artificial Intelligence (with Distinction), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK	Sep 2012 -- Sep 2013
Bachelor in Intelligent Science and Technology, School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China	Sep 2008 -- Sep 2012

Selected Publications

Crafting with a Robot Assistant: Use Social Cues to Inform Adaptive Handovers in Human-Robot Collaboration. 2023.
Leimin Tian, Kerry He, Shiyu Xu, Akansel Cosgun, and Dana Kulić.
HRI 2023.

Applied Affective Computing. 2022.
Leimin Tian, Sharon Oviatt, Michal Muszynski, Brent C. Chamberlain, Jennifer Healey, and Akane Sano.
ACM Books.

A Taxonomy of Social Errors in Human-Robot Interaction. 2021.
Leimin Tian, Sharon Oviatt.
THRI 2021.

Redesigning human-robot interaction in response to robot failures: A participatory design methodology. 2021.
Leimin Tian, Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Aimee Allen, Shanti Sumartojo, Michael Mintrom, Enrique Coronado Zuniga, Gentiane Venture, Elizabeth Croft, Dana Kulić.
CHI Case Study 2021.

Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information. 2019.
Michal Muszynski, Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai, Johanna D. Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun, Guillaume Chanel.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Miscellaneous

I am a Manchurian Chinese (Bordered Yellow Banner) from Beijing, China.

My name 田㶟旻 is pronounced as "tián lěi mín" in pinyin:

田 (tián) is my family name. It means the field or the earth

㶟 (lěi) is the ancient name of the Yongding River that flows through Beijing, where my family lives next to. It also means water.

旻 (mín) means autumn or the sky. I was born at the start of autumn.

My name can be loosely translated as "Someone from the Tian family living next to the Lei river who was born in autumn." And by including the earth (Tian), the water (Lei), and the sky (Min) in my name, I am free to explore the whole wide world 🌏

Last updated: 09/10/2024