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Leire Ozaeta Rodriguez

' If you ever feel invincible or useless just remember: once, an elderly woman with a shovel took down the 90% of a country's internet access. '

Personal Data

• Google Scholar

Studies

• PhD in the Computational Intelligence Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Department - Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).
• Master Degree in Advanced Computer Systems (2014/2015) - Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).
• Computer Science Engineer (2010/2014) - Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).

Working experience

• January 2016 - March 2021: Investigador predoctoral / PhD student researcher

Beca predoctoral / Predoctoral fellowship granted by Gobierno Vasco / Basque Government.

• February 2015 - December 2015: Personal Investigador Contratado / Hired researcher at Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Computational Intelligence Group.

Project: MODELADO MULTIAGENTE DE REDES FUNCIONALES CEREBRALES

• September 2014 - December 2014: Personal Investigador Contratado / Hired researcher at Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Computational Intelligence Group.
• October 2012 - January 2013: Desarrollador en prácticas / Trainee Developer at Datik
• March 2012 - June 2012: HTC Campus Ambassador at HTC European Co. Ltd.

Research areas

• Multi-agents systems
• Artificial Life
• Agent based social simulation
• Social robotics

Publications

2018

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

A View of the State of the Art of Dialogue Systems. In International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (pp. 706-715). Springer, Cham.

Itsaso Perez, Izaskun Rekalde, Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

Proposal of Robot-Interaction Based Intervention for Joint-Attention Development. In The 13th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (pp. 579-585). Springer, Cham.

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

On Intelligent Systems for Storytelling. In The 13th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (pp. 571-578). Springer, Cham.

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña, Maya Dimitrova, Alexander Krastev

Child oriented storytelling with NAO robot in hospital environment: preliminary application results. Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics Journal, No 69, 21-29. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Publishing.

2017

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña, Darya Chyzhyk

Dynamic Causal Modeling and Machine Learning for Effective Connectivity in Auditory Hallucination. Neurocomputing.

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

Agent-Based Spatial Dynamics Explaining Sustained Opinion Survival. In International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation (pp. 137-146). Springer, Cham.

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

Finding Communities in Recommendation Systems by Multi-agent Spatial Dynamics. In International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, pp. 577-587. Springer, Cham.

Manuel Graña, Leire Ozaeta, Darya Chyzhyk

Resting State Effective Connectivity Allows Auditory Hallucination Discrimination. International Journal of Neural Systems, 27(05), 1750019.

2016

Leire Ozaeta, Manuel Graña

Agent-Based Spatial Dynamic Modeling of Opinion Propagation Exploring Delaying Conditions to Achieve Homogeneity. In International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education, pp. 177-185. Springer International Publishing.

2015

Leire Ozaeta, Darya Chyzhyk, Manuel Graña

Some Results on Dynamic Causal Modeling of Auditory Hallucinations, Artificial Computation in Biology and Medicine, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 9107, 2015, pp 185-194. Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Álvarez-Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz López, F., Toledo-Moreo, F.J., Adeli, H. (Eds.), ISBN 978-3-319-18914-7. IWINAC 2015, Elche, 1-5 Junio 2015

Manuel Graña, J. David Nuñez-Gonzalez,Leire Ozaeta, Anna Kamińska-Chuchmała.

Experiments of trust prediction in social networks by artificial neural networks. Cybernetics and Systems, 46(1-2), 2015, pp 19-34.

Conferences

• The European Robotics Forum 2018, Tampere, Finland, 12-13 March, 2018. Attendee
• Cost Oriented Service Robotics 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria, 24 November, 2017. Contributor
• IWINAC 2017, A Coruña, Spain, 19-23 June, 2017. Contributor
• SOCO 2016, San Sebastian, Spain, 19-24 October, 2016. Contributor
• EuroPython 2016, Bilbao, Spain, 17-24 July, 2016. Contributor
• IABL 2016, Kavala, Greece, 22-24 April, 2016. Attendee
• IWINAC 2015, Elche, Spain, 1-5 June, 2015. Contributor

Workshops, Trainings, and Curses

• First CybSPEED training on Children, Robots, Art and the Human Brain by Cristina Dardani and Professor Hiroaki Wagatsuma. Sofia, Bulgaria, 30 of March - 3 of April, 2018. Attendee
• Seminar at IR-BAS on "Humanoid robot NAO programming for communication with children in hospital settings". Sofia, Bulgaria, 2 of November, 2017. Speaker
• Lecture Curse of the Doctoral School of BAS in "Modeling Human-Robot Systems", given by Assoc. Prof. Maya Dimitrova. Sofia, Bulgaria, October, 2017. Attendee
• "Big Data meets Machine Learning" workshop. Wroclaw, Poland, 21-24 May, 2015. Attendee

Activities

Review

• ICEUTE 2018
• EUROCON 2015

Research stays

• Apr 22-May 22, 2018. Kyutech. Kitakyushu, Japan.

Host investigator: Associate Professor Dr. Hiroaki Wagatsuma.

• Sep 12-Dec 12, 2017. Bulgarian Academy of Science, Institute of Robotics. Sofia, Bulgaria.

Responsible investigator: Associate Professor Dr. Maya Dimitrova.

Dolly @ Zientzia Astea 2016

Science communication

• Introductory curse to programming with robots in Orixe ikastola, San-Sebastian, Spain, February 26-27 and March 7-9, 2018.
• Special event for children on introduction to robotic programming in Orixe ikastola, San-Sebastian, Spain, May 1-2nd and 5th, 2017.
• Coordinator of the stand "Charlando con robots / Robotekin hizketan" at Zientzia Astea, San Sebastian, Spain, 3-5 November, 2016.
• Special event for children on sensitization on robotic research, San-Sebastian, Spain, November 11th, 2014.

Organization

• Core organizing committee member of Europython 2017, Rimini, Italy, 9-16 July, 2017.
• Local organizing committee member of SOCO 2016, CISIS 2016, and ICEUTE 2016, San Sebastian, Spain, 19-21 October, 2016.
• Local organizing committee member of Python San Sebastian 2016 Pyss 2016, San Sebastian, Spain, 30 September-2 October, 2016.
• Local organizing committee member of Europython 2016, Bilbao, Spain, 17-24 July, 2016.
• Local organizing committee member of Python San Sebastian 2015 Pyss 2015, San Sebastian, Spain, 24-25 October, 2015.
• Local organizing committee member of Europython 2015, Bilbao, Spain, 20-26 July, 2015.

Other activities

• Aspanogi collaborator as a programmer and technical support for hospital setting activities with robots.
• Member of the non-profit Python San Sebastian society (AcPyss)
• Referee at First Lego League Open European Championship ( FLLOEC), Pamplona, Spain, 28-31 May, 2014.
• Referee at First Lego League (FLL), 2013 - 2017.

Congress of interest

• ALIFE, Cancun, Mexico, 4-8 July, 2016.

Work samples

• Bcig and ACPySS Christmas message starring Endor (2017)
• HPC Knowledge Meeting 17's welcome talk (Cursos de Verano)
• Robotic initiation for children (basque) (1) (2) (Conclusions)
• Bcig, ACPySS, and El Sindicato Christmas message starring Endor with Charlie, Dolly, and a Jumping Sumo (2016)
• "Endor, ipuinak kontatzen zituen Nao robota" or "Demo effect at its finest"
• Welcome to EuroPython 2016 by Fabio Pliger and Endor
• Fearless John by Endor (spanish)
• Bcig and ACPySS Christmas message starring Endor (2015)
• Pyss15 welcome talk by Endor and Oier

Media

Роберта

• Доц. Димитрова: Роботът Роберта помага на децата да усвояват нови знания, Radio Bulgaria, 2018.
• "Роберта" - роботът, който ще помага на деца със специални потребности, Bulgarian National Television, 2018.
• “La idea es lograr una interacción natural entre personas y robots”, Noticias Cursos de Verano, 2017.
• «Soy Endo, ¿quieres que te cuente un chiste?», Diario Vasco, 2016.
• ¿Qué es el Europython?, Radio Euskadi, 2016.

Pending tasks

• Simulate social phenomena in multi-agent systems.
• Build intelligent multi-agents systems capable of learning.
• Create a multi-agents system that would be considered "alive".
• Implement Skynet.