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2026

2025
  • Maher Mesto won the Best Paper Award at AJCAI 2025 conference.
  • We got three papers accepted (Hadha, Maher, and Zhijin) at AJCAI 2025 conference.
  • We got five papers (Chunyang, Joffrey, Oltan, Haopeng in collaboration with Marsha, and Maher) accepted at ACRA 2025 conference.
  • Maryam Hashemi has completed her PhD on the topic An Axiomatic Approach to Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
  • New journal article: Hashemi, M., Darejeh, A., & Cruz, F. (2025). Understanding user preferences in explainable artificial intelligence: A mapping function proposal. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 16(4), 1-37. Link.
  • We got three papers accepted (Shengyuan and Ahmed x2) at HRI 2025 conference.
  • New journal article: Harland, H., Dazeley, R., Senaratne, H., Vamplew, P., Cruz, F., & Nakisa, B. (2025). AI apology: a critical review of apology in AI systems. Artificial Intelligence Review, 58(12), 369. Link.
  • Francissco serves as an Area Chair of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2025, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • New journal article: Bamdad, M., Karimi, A., Sina, S., & Cruz, F. (2024). Modeling and dynamic analysis of fish robot with soft fluidic actuation. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 111(1), 2. Link.
  • We got AUD $196,955 funding from Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS). UNSW. UNSW Grant number: RG245588. Project A lab manager for CSE labs with specialised equipment (Lead CI Francisco). 2025.

2024
  • We got two papers (Marsha and Abdulrahman) and one poster (Maher) accepted at ACRA 2024 conference.
  • We got two papers accepted (Chris and Yifei) at AJCAI 2024 conference.
  • We got four papers accepted (Angel and Francisco in collaboration with Universidad Central de Chile) at LA-CCI 2024 conference.
  • We got two papers accepted (Maryam and Shengyuan) at UbiComp 2024 conference.
  • New journal article: Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Tejada, J., Ciria, A., Cruz, F., & Cardona, J. F. (2024). Advancing mechanistic explanations through natural and artificial embodied cognitive systems. Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(3-4), 111-113. Link.
  • We got one paper accepted (Yi in collaboration with Yifei) at ICDL 2024 conference.
  • We are organising the Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024.
  • New journal article: Ayala, A., Portela, L., Buarque, F., Fernandes, B. J., & Cruz, F. (2024). UAV control in autonomous object-goal navigation: a systematic literature review. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(5), 125. Link.
  • New journal article: Ly, A., Dazeley, R., Vamplew, P., Cruz, F., & Aryal, S. (2024). Elastic step DQN: A novel multi-step algorithm to alleviate overestimation in Deep Q-Networks. Neurocomputing, 576, 127170. Link.
  • We got AUD $205,000 funding from Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS). UNSW. UNSW Grant number: RG234616. Project Innovation Central Sydney (ICS) tech manager and sensors (Secondary CI Francisco). 2024.

2023
  • Along with the UTS Robotics Institute we are organising the 2023 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2023) at Kensignton campus, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
  • Francisco is a Guest Editor of the Research Topic Cognitive Inspired Aspects of Robot Learning in Frontiers in Neurorobotics (associated to Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics - LACORO), 2023.
  • We got two papers accepted (Angel and Francisco in collaboration with Universidad Central de Chile) at LA-CCI 2023 conference.
  • We are a co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO), Santiago, Chile, 2023.
  • New journal article: Harland, H., Dazeley, R., Nakisa, B., Cruz, F., & Vamplew, P. (2023). AI apology: interactive multi-objective reinforcement learning for human-aligned AI. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23), 16917-16930. Link.
  • New journal article: Millán-Arias, C., Fernandes, B., & Cruz, F. (2023). Proxemic behavior in navigation tasks using reinforcement learning. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23), 16723-16738. Link.
  • New journal article: Dazeley, R., Vamplew, P., & Cruz, F. (2023). Explainable reinforcement learning for broad-xai: a conceptual framework and survey. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(23), 16893-16916. Link.
  • We are co-organising the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS, London, UK, 2023.
  • Francisco is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Adaptive and Learning Agents in Springer Neural Computing and Applications, 2023.
  • We got AUD $28,188 funding from Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS). UNSW. UNSW Grant number: RG224190. Project Take the robots out the lab: Robot dogs for outdoors human-robot interaction and physical activities (Francisco Secondary CI - Inter-faculty collaboration). 2023.
  • We got AUD $248,480 funding from Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS). UNSW. UNSW Grant number: RG224193. Project A technician for the robotics and human-centered computing labs (Lead CI Francisco). 2023.

2022