Awards / Distinctions

• Best Paper Award : Sandra Devin and Rachid Alami: "An Implemented Theory of Mind to Improve Human-Robot Shared Plans Execution", ACM HRI 2016, Christchrch, New Zealand, March 2016
• Finalist for Best Student Paper Award : Grégoire Milliez, "A framework for endowing an interactive robot with reasoning capabilities about perspective-taking and belief management", IEEE RO-MAN 2014.
• Prix de la Meilleure Thèse 2012 du GDR Robotique (Best 2012 France Robotics Thesis) : Séverin Lemaignan, "Grounding the Interaction: Knowledge Management for Interactive Robots", R. Alami thesis PhD adviser.
• 2nd Best EURON (European Robotics Network) Thesis : Amit Kumar Pandey, "Towards Socially Intelligent Robot in Human Centered Environment " April 2013, R. Alami thesis PhD adviser.
• Prix de la Meilleure Thèse 2009 du GDR Robotique (Best 2009 France Robotics Thesis) : E.Akin Sisbot, R. Alami thesis PhD adviser. "Towards human-aware robot motions",
• Finalist for Best Student Paper Award : A. K. Pandey, Muhammad Ali, Matthieu Warnier and Rachid Alami, "Multi-State Visuo-Spatial Reasoning based Proactive Human-Rostrongot Interaction", ICAR 2011, Talinn, July 2011
• Best Paper Award : R. Ros Espinoza, S. Lemaignan, E.A. Sisbot, R. Alami, J. Steinwender, K. Hamann, F. Warneken "Which one ? Grounding the referent based on efficient human-robot interaction" , International Symposium in Robot and Human interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2010), Viareggio (Italy), September 2010
• Best Student Paper Award : L.F. Marin~Urias, E.A. Sisbot, and R. Alami. "Geometric tools for perspective taking for human-robot interaction", Mexican International Conference on
  Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008), Mexico, 2008.
• Best Paper Award: E. Lopez Damian, D. Sidobre, R. Alami, "Grasp planning for non-convex objects'', 36th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR'2005), Tokyo (Japan), November 2005