Research team

People behind the research

A focused team at the University of Agder working on neuromorphic vision, event-based human perception, and human-in-the-loop robotics.

Academic leadership

Professors

The project connects robotics and engineering sciences with ICT, autonomous systems, and cybersecurity expertise.

Project leader

Professor Filippo Sanfilippo

Department of Engineering Sciences · University of Agder

Professor Filippo Sanfilippo leads the project and provides its scientific direction. His research spans robotics, wearables, software engineering, human–robot collaboration, artificial intelligence, and control theory. He guides the integration of neuromorphic perception with biomechatronics and collaborative robotics, with emphasis on systems that can understand and respond to people safely and intelligently.

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Professor

Nadia Saad Noori

Associate Professor, Department of Information and Communication Technology · University of Agder

Nadia Saad Noori is a computer and control systems engineer with more than 20 years of combined academic and industry experience. Her work contributes expertise in autonomous and cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, control, and machine learning, strengthening the project’s cross-departmental approach to dependable human–robot teaming.

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PhD researchers

Research team

The PhD researchers develop the event-vision methods, datasets, learning frameworks, and robotic perception experiments presented across the nine projects.

PhD Researcher

Muhammad Hamza Zafar

Department of Engineering Sciences · University of Agder

Researcher in neuromorphic vision, event-based human perception, sim-to-real transfer, and human–robot collaboration.

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PhD Researcher

Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi

Department of Engineering Sciences · University of Agder

Researcher contributing to event-based perception, deep learning, human action understanding, and privacy-aware collaborative robotics.

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Research collaboration and project enquiries

For collaboration, dataset access, student projects, industrial demonstrations, or technical discussions related to event-based perception and human-in-the-loop robotics, contact the relevant team member above.

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