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Curriculum Vitae Joshua George Hale B.A. M.A. M.Sc. PhD.

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Nationality: British

EMPLOYMENT 2004- Research engineer, Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, ATR, Japan 2002-2004 Research assistant, Computer Vision & Graphics Laboratory, University of Glasgow 2001 Intern Research engineer, Human Information Science Laboratory, ATR, Japan 2000 Intern Research engineer, Human Information Processing Laboratory, ATR, Japan 1997 Research engineer, Hardware Compilation Group, Oxford University   EDUCATION 1998-2003 Ph.D. "Biomimetic motion synthesis for synthetic humanoids" Glasgow University 1997-1998 M.Sc. in Computer Science Edinburgh University Distinction awarded 1994-1997 B.A. in Computation (Hons) 1st Class Pembroke College, Oxford University Winner of the C.A.R. Hoare Prize for Computation 1997 M.A. awarded (2002)   RESEARCH INTERESTS Dynamic simulation, robotics, synthetic humanoid motion, human motion perception and performance, texture mapping   ATTACHMENTS & EXPERIENCES 2004 Invited session organizer and chair, Machinista 2004 Multimedia Art festival, Glasgow 2004 Undergraduate lecturing, University of Glasgow 2003 Invited session organizer, Concurrent Engineering 2003, Madeira 2001 Visiting researcher, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan 1999 Undergraduate demonstrating, University of Glasgow   EXPERTISE Dynamic simulation for computer animated and robotic articulated bodies Texture mapping, texture extraction and texture re-mapping for 3D computer graphic models Software development in C, C++ and Java, including numerical optimisation, software optimisation and GUI design Professional translating of Japanese scientific documents Professional editing of English language scientific documents Fluent Japanese with 1st Kyu JLPT certification (79% overall in 2005, with 91.5% in reading and grammar) and 5th Kyu KANKEN Teaching of Japanese language Japanese-English interpreting Basic functional French Video editing Instructing martial arts, with 9 years teaching experience, currently 2nd Dan Shorinji Kempo practitioner and Thai boxer   PUBLICATIONS   E. Oztop, J. Babic, J.G. Hale, G. Cheng & M. Kawato: From Biologically Realistic Imitation to Robot Teaching Via Human Motor Learning, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-69159-4, 214-222, 2008 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Sticky Hands, in Humanoid Robots, New Developments, A.C. de Pina Filho (ed.), I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-3-902613-00-4, 2007 J.G. Hale, B. Hohl, S-H Hyon, T. Matsubara, E. Martin Moraud & G. Cheng, A highly precise dynamic simulation environment for humanoid robots, Advanced Robotics, 2008 (in press) T. Matsubara, J. Morimoto, J. Nakanishi, S-H Hyon, J.G. Hale & G. Cheng, Learning to acquire whole-body CoM movements to achieve dynamic tasks, Advanced Robotics, 2008 (in press) G. Cheng, S-H Hyon, J. Morimoto, Ude, A., J.G. Hale, G. Colvin, W. Scroggin & S.C. Jacobsen: CB: A humanoid research platform for exploring neuroscience, Journal of Advance Robotics, 21, 10, 1097-1114, 2007 S-H Hyon, J.G. Hale & G. Cheng: Full-body compliant human-humanoid interaction: Balancing in the presence of unknown external forces, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 23, 5, 884-898, 2007 T. Matsubara, J. Morimoto, J. Nakanishi, S-H Hyon, J.G. Hale & G. Cheng: Learning to acquire whole-body humanoid CoM movements to achieve dynamic tasks. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), 2007 J.G. Hale: Simulation and control environment for humanoid robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2007) Workshop: Towards the Realisation of the Computational Brain with Humanoids Robots, 2007 J.G. Hale: Software systems for CB, JST-ATR-CMU Joint Workshop, 2007 J.G. Hale: Simulation and control environment for humanoid robots, ICORP Collaboration Workshop, 2007 E. Oztop, J. Babic, J.G. Hale, G. Cheng & M. Kawato: Robot behavior synthesis via human motor learning, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2007) Workshop: Towards the Realisation of the Computational Brain with Humanoid Robots, 2007 E. Oztop, J. Babic, J.G. Hale, G. Cheng & M. Kawato: From biologically realistic imitation to robot teaching via human motor learning, 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2007), 2007 T. Matsubara, J. Morimoto, J. Nakanishi, S-H Hyon, J.G. Hale & G. Cheng: Learning to acquire whole-body humanoid CoM movements to achieve dynamic tasks with a policy gradient method, Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop: Towards a New Reinforcement Learning?, 2006 J.G. Hale: Sub-matrix analysis for contact force resolution in humanoid simulation, Syroco06, 8th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, September 2006 J.G. Hale: Contact Handling with Static and Dynamic Friction for Dynamically Simulated Articulated Figures, Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, Posters & Demos, 27-28, September 2006 J.G. Hale: J.G. Hale: Practical and theoretical research into humanoid motion and interaction, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society eNewsletter, December 2005 F.E. Pollick, J.G. Hale & M. Tzoneva-Hadjigeorgieva: Perception of Humanoid Movement, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2(3):277-300, September 2005 J.G.Hale & F.E. Pollick : 'Sticky Hands': Learning and Generalisation for Cooperative Physical Interactions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, November 2005 J.G. Hale, F.E. Pollick & M. Tzoneva, The Visual Categorization of Humanoid Movement as Natural, Third IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2003), TU München and U Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2003 F.E. Pollick, J.G. Hale & P. McAleer, Visual Perception of Humanoid Movement, Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, MA, USA, August 4-5, 2003 J.G.Hale Biomimetic motion synthesis for synthetic humanoids, Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Visual analysis of movements generated by biomimetic motor production criteria and displayed via computer animations and humanoid robots, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 9-14, 2003 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Biomimetic motion synthesis for the upper limb based on human motor production, Workshop on motor control in humans and robots (SAB 2002), Edinburgh University, August 10 - 11, 2002 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Playing 'Sticky Hands' With A Humanoid Robot, First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, September 7 - 8, 2000 C.G. Atkeson, J.G. Hale, S. Kotosaka, F.E. Pollick,M. Riley, S. Schaal, T. Shibata: Using a Humanoid Robot to Study Human Motor Control , IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Humanoids, July 2000 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: "Sticky Hands" interaction with an anthropomorphic robot, 2000 Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE-2000), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 30 - May 1, 2000 J.G. Hale : Texture re-mapping for decimated polygonal meshes, 1998 M.Sc. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998

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