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Apr 15, 2026 Our paper on the visual iconicity challenge is accepted at the main ACL 2026 conference
Apr 01, 2026 Registration open for Semi-Automated Workflows for Facilitating Multimodal Language Processing Workshop at MMSYM 2026
Mar 12, 2026 Joining the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing as Associate Editor
Mar 12, 2026 Workshop accepted at EMNLP 2026 - Multimodal INTeraction in face-to-face dialogue (MINT)
Dec 20, 2025 Donders Stimulation Fund Award
Dec 02, 2025 Guest Lectures 2025 @ Radboud University
Oct 07, 2025 PhD Opportunities Available at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics via MP-AIX
Sep 25, 2025 Invited Talk 2025 @ Utrecht University
Sep 05, 2025 We Are Hiring a Postdoc at Max Planck Institute on Gesture Generation in Face-to-Face Dialogue
Jul 23, 2025 NWO XS Open Competition - Domain Science Grant Awarded for Multimodal Gesture Generation Project
Jun 27, 2025 Paper accepted at ICCV on Semantics-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation!
Jun 23, 2025 Plenary Talk and Workshop on Multimodal Interaction at Summer School with Raquel Fernández
May 16, 2025 Two paper accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)
Dec 12, 2024 I gave a talk on “Understanding and Modelling Multimodal Dialogue Coordindation” at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Oct 21, 2024 I gave a talk on “Learning Representations in Dialogue through Contrastive Learning: An Intrinsic Evaluation” at the UvA SignLab.
Aug 16, 2024 Paper accepted at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction!
May 29, 2024 Research Talk @ Maastrich University on Visual Modeling of Human Behaviors: Multimodal, Interpretable, Grounded, and Self-Supervised Approaches
May 27, 2024 Guest Lecture on Body Language Modeling in the Master of AI, NLP2 Course at the UvA
May 24, 2024 Seminar Presentation: Co-Speech Gesture Modeling at Tilburg University
May 01, 2024 Two papers have been accepted at CogSci24
Apr 25, 2024 Pre-print on leveraging speech to detect co-speech gestures in multimodal communication
Nov 11, 2023 Lecture on Dialogue Modeling Module in the Master of AI, NLP1 Course at the UvA
Oct 24, 2023 Our Paper on Multi-Phase Co-Speech Gesture Detection accepted WACV!
Sep 07, 2023 Guest Lecture on Machine Learning for Multimodal Behavior at Upcoming Summer School Program
Jul 28, 2023 Our Research on Linguistic Alignment to Be Presented at Multidisciplinary Workshop in France
Mar 28, 2023 Teaching Natural Language Models and Interfaces at UvA
Oct 18, 2022 NLPitch at the ILLC!
Sep 01, 2022 New position at ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Jul 15, 2022 New paper published in Multimedia Tools and Applications
Nov 15, 2021 Paper accepted at FG21!
Jul 08, 2021 I defended my PhD thesis!