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Maja Pantic

Maja Pantic received the M.S. and PhD degrees in computer science from Delft University of Technology, in 1997 and 2001. From 2001 to 2005, she was an Assistant and then an Associate professor at the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where she was doing research in the areas of image and video analysis of face and body gestures, affective computing, behavioural and contextual interfaces, and multimodal human-machine interaction (HCI). In 2006, she joined the Imperial College Department of Computing, UK, where she is a Reader in Multimodal HCI working on machine analysis of human non-verbal behaviour and its applications to HCI. From November 2006, she also holds an appointment as the Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands She was the organizer and co-organizer of various meetings and symposia on Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis and Synthesis in conjunction with the IEEE Int'l Conf. Systems, Man and Cybernetics (2004), Int’l Conf. Measuring Behaviour (2005), ACM Multimedia (2005), ACM Multimodal Interfaces (2006, 2007), and Int’l Joint Conf. Artificial Intelligence (2007). She was the Special Session Chair for the IEEE Int'l Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2004 and she is the General Co-Chair for the IEEE Int’l Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2008 and the Belgium-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2008. She is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics and the Image and Vision Computing Journal, responsible for computer vision and its applications to human-computer interaction. She was also the Guest Editor for three Special Issues on human computing. She is the (co-) principal investigator in the large European, ongoing, SEMAINE project in the area of multimodal, affective, human-machine interaction. In 2002, for her research on Facial Information For Advanced Interface, she received Innovational Research Award of Dutch Scientific Organization as one of the 7 best young scientists in exact sciences in the Netherlands. She was an Associate Visiting Professor at the Face Group, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University in the period June – September 2005. She has published more than 70 technical papers in the areas of machine analysis of facial expressions and emotions, machine analysis of human body gestures, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction and has served as an invited speaker and an organization/program committee member at several conferences in these areas.

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