Yiannis Demiris
Professor of Human-Centred Robotics
Leads the Personal Robotics Laboratory, developing machine learning and vision so assistive robots personalise help to people.
Yiannis Demiris's lab at Imperial works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots and robot perception & SLAM. 19 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly ICRA and RA-L. 9 PhD students. 26 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 47%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 26
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 0
- 8 papers2024 · T1 3
- 8 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, RA-L, IROS, Artificial Intelligence, ICASSP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots12 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM12 papers
- robotics laboratory0 papers
- assistive robots0 papers
- personal0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20253 papers
- ACM Transactions on Human-Robot InteractionAn integrated 3D eye-gaze tracking framework for assessing trust in human–robot interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Human-Robot InteractionCognitive modelling of visual attention captures trust dynamics in human-robot collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LGarment diffusion models for robot-assisted dressing (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- RA-LBenchmarking and simulating bimanual robot shoe lacing (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) / Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence / Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial IntelligenceDanceMVP: Self-Supervised Learning for Multi-Task Primitive-Based Dance Performance Assessment via Transformer Text Prompting
- IROS (T1)Learning bimanual manipulation policies for bathing bed-bound people (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning self-confidence from semantic action embeddings for improved trust in human-robot interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Model predictive control with graph dynamics for garment opening insertion during robot-assisted dressing (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Human-Robot InteractionMulti-dimensional evaluation of an augmented reality head-mounted display user interface for controlling legged manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- ROMANOn the effect of augmented-reality multi-user interfaces and shared mental models on human-robot trust (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LVTTB: a visuo-tactile learning approach for robot-assisted bed bathing (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- ICRA (T1)Bi-manual manipulation of multi-component garments towards robot-assisted dressing (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Bi-manual robot shoe lacing (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Contrastive self-supervised learning for automated multi-modal dance performance assessment (opens in a new tab)
- TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous SystemsCooking up trust: eye gaze and posture for trust-aware action selection in human-robot collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Design and evaluation of an augmented reality head-mounted display user interface for controlling legged manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence (T1)Risk-aware controller for autonomous vehicles using model-based collision prediction and reinforcement learning (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Visible and infrared image fusion using deep learning (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LVisual-tactile learning of garment unfolding for robot-assisted dressing (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went26 listed
Apply to Imperial2027 (Apr/Oct)
Computing PhD
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- Round 2 (1 Dec 2026)
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- English
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- Fee
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