Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri

Welcome To My Homepage

I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. My current research is primarily related to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) for Robotics. I have focused on hybrid methods that integrate automated task and motion planning, scheduling, as well as temporal and spatial reasoning. My goal is twofold: to combine heterogeneous representations for the purpose of obtaining “hybrid” KR formalisms that are able to express the many nuances of real-world robotics problems; and to develop efficient methods for reasoning with these formalisms.

I am also interested in the ethical and social implications of technology in general and robotics/AI in particular; as well as topics at the intersection of cultural studies and robotics.

Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, I was a postdoctoral researcher, followed by a permanent researcher contract, at the Cognitive Robotic Systems of the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University, where I received my PhD (2016) as well. I have also visited Prof. Nick Hawes’s robotics group at the Oxford Robotics Institute, and had research stay in Sven Koenig's lab at the University of Southern California.

Awards

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence

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Projects

CONVINCE

AI4EU

Semantic Robots

RACE project.

Contact

Emails: m-dot-mansouri-at-bham.ac.uk

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Research Interests

  • Hybrid Planning
  • Multi-robot Planning and Coordination for Industrial Vehicles
  • Integrated Reasoning in Robotics
  • Hybrid Knowledge Representation for Robotics
  • Robots and Cultural Theories

Publications

An updated list of publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile.

Current projects

  • CONVINCE Context-aware Verifiable and Adaptive Dynamic Deliberation (as a PI)
  • Critical Cultural Robotics Network (as a co-founder)

    • Postdocs and Phd Students

    • Postdocs
      • Charlie Street: Task and Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments within CONVINCE
      • Yassin Warsame: Task and Motion planning for root cause analysis of execution failure within CONVINCE
    • PhD students
      • Sara Carmesin: Multi-vehicle Routing Problem in Dynamic Environments (main supervisor)
      • Weijian Zhang: Human-aware Multi-formation Planning (main supervisor)
      • Toby Gosnall: A framework for developing culture in human-robot interactions (main supervisor)
      • Michalina Jakubczak: Explainability for Adaptive Robot Assistance to Older Adults
      • Joao Salvado: Multi-Robot Goal Allocation and Motion Planning Problem