Sao Mai Nguyen
Unité d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie des Systèmes (U2IS)
Enseignante-Chercheuse
Interested in robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, I try to bridge these 3 aspects in my work, and started working in cognitive developmental robotics. I have special interest in linking research of machine learning, robotic embodiment, child development psychology and neuroscience. I also explore possibilities to make robots adapt to their physical and social environments.
This is why I strive to answer the questions: Can a robot learn like a child? How do children learn? How do human beings or other species learn? Can a robot learn through social interaction with humans?
Research and education activities
Latest publication :
Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Junshuai Zhu, Dominique Duhaut, Jerome Kerdreux. Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Multi-Task Learning Using Transfer Learning to Discover Task Hierarchy. Applied Sciences, MDPI, 2021, 11 (3), pp.975. ⟨10.3390/app11030975⟩. ⟨hal-03118190⟩
See list of publications on : https://hal.inria.fr/search/index/?q=%2A&authIdHal_s=sao-mai-nguyen&sort=producedDate_tdate+desc
HAL Publications
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Reconciling Spatial and Temporal Abstractions for Goal Representation
Communication dans un congrès Published on 07/05/2024 co-written by Mehdi Zadem, Sergio Mover, Sergio Mover, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Unsupervised Motion Retargeting for Human-Robot Imitation
Communication dans un congrès Published on 11/03/2024 co-written by Louis Annabi, Ziqi Ma, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Representation of Irregularly Sampled Time Series with Generative Language Models for Classification and Transfer Learning
Communication dans un congrès Published on 17/02/2024 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Benoit Leduc, Ioannis Kanellos -
A Medical Low-Back Pain Physical Rehabilitation Dataset for Human Body Movement Analysis
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2024 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Maxime Devanne, Olivier Remy-Neris, Mathieu Lempereur, Andre Thepaut -
Emergence of a Symbolic Goal Representation with an Intelligent Tutoring System based on Intrinsic Motivation
Poster de conférence Published on 16/12/2023 co-written by Mehdi Zadem, Sergio Mover, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Goal Space Abstraction in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Set-Based Reachability Analysis
Communication dans un congrès Published on 09/11/2023 co-written by Mehdi Zadem, Sergio Mover, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Prerequisite Structure Discovery in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Communication dans un congrès Published on 09/11/2023 co-written by Louis Annabi, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Goal Space Abstraction in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Reachability Analysis
Communication dans un congrès Published on 13/09/2023 co-written by Mehdi Zadem, Sergio Mover, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Prerequisite structure discovery for an intelligent tutoring system based on intrinsic motivation
Poster de conférence Published on 13/09/2023 co-written by Louis Annabi, Sao Mai Nguyen -
A Smart Home Digital Twin to Support the Recognition of Activities of Daily Living
Article dans une revue Published on 01/09/2023 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Juliette Grosset, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Xavier Puig -
Reconstruction of trajectories of athletes using computer vision models and kinetic analysis
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/06/2023 co-written by Qi Gan, Sao Mai Nguyen, Eric Fenaux, Stéphan Clémençon, Mounim El Yacoubi, Ons Jelassi -
Reconnaissance d’activités de la vie quotidienne au moyen de capteurs domotiques et d’apprentissage profond : lorsque syntaxe, sémantique et contexte se rencontrent
Article dans une revue Published on 30/05/2023 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Ioannis Kanellos, Benoit Leduc -
Evaluating Kinect, OpenPose and BlazePose for Human Body Movement Analysis on a Low Back Pain Physical Rehabilitation Dataset
Communication dans un congrès Published on 13/03/2023 co-written by Aleksa Marusic, Sao Mai Nguyen, Adriana Tapus -
Towards Automata-Based Abstraction of Goals in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Communication dans un congrès Published on 04/04/2022 co-written by Mehdi Zadem, Sergio Mover, Sao Mai Nguyen, Sylvie Putot -
Technical Feasibility of Supervision of Stretching Exercises by a Humanoid Robot Coach for Chronic Low Back Pain: The R-COOL Randomized Trial
Article dans une revue Published on 09/03/2022 co-written by Agathe Blanchard, Sao Mai Nguyen, Maxime Devanne, Mathieu Simonnet, Myriam Le Goff-Pronost, Olivier Rémy-Néris -
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in Smart Homes
Notice d’encyclopédie ou de dictionnaire Published on 12/11/2021 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Christophe Lohr, Ioannis Kanellos, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Using Language Model to Bootstrap Human Activity Recognition Ambient Sensors Based in Smart Homes
Article dans une revue Published on 01/10/2021 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Benoit Leduc, Ioannis Kanellos -
A Survey of Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes Based on IoT Sensors Algorithms: Taxonomies, Challenges, and Opportunities with Deep Learning
Article dans une revue Published on 09/09/2021 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Benoit Leduc, Ioannis Kanellos -
Guest Editorial Special Issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning
Article dans une revue Published on 01/06/2021 co-written by Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero, Sao Mai Nguyen, Erhan Oztop, Junpei Zhong -
Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Multi-Task Learning Using Transfer Learning to Discover Task Hierarchy
Article dans une revue Published on 01/02/2021 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Junshuai Zhu, Dominique Duhaut, Jerome Kerdreux -
Robots Learn Increasingly Complex Tasks with Intrinsic Motivation and Automatic Curriculum Learning
Article dans une revue Published on 01/02/2021 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Nicolas Duminy, Alexandre Manoury, Dominique Duhaut, Cédric Buche -
Fully Convolutional Network Bootstrapped by Word Encoding and Embedding for Activity Recognition in Smart Homes
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2021 co-written by Damien Bouchabou, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Ioannis Kanellos, Benoit Leduc -
Staircase Negotiation Learning for Articulated Tracked Robots with Varying Degrees of Freedom
Communication dans un congrès Published on 29/12/2020 co-written by Andrei Mitriakov, Panagiotis Papadakis, Sao Mai Nguyen, Serge Garlatti -
Découverte et exploitation de la hiérarchie des tâches par motivation intrinsèque
Communication dans un congrès Published on 22/06/2020 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen -
How An Automated Gesture Imitation Game Can Improve Social Interactions With Teenagers With ASD
Communication dans un congrès Published on 02/06/2020 co-written by Linda Nanan Vallée, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Ioannis Kanellos, Olivier Asseu -
Building An Automated Gesture Imitation Game For Teenagers with ASD
Article dans une revue Published on 01/01/2020 co-written by Linda Nanan N Vallée, Christophe Lohr, Sao Mai Nguyen, Ioannis Kanellos, O. Asseu -
Human Skeleton Detection, Modeling and Gesture Imitation Learning for a Social Purpose
Article dans une revue Published on 01/01/2020 co-written by Linda Nanan Vallée, Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Ioannis Kanellos, Olivier Asseu -
Staircase Traversal via Reinforcement Learning for Active Reconfiguration of Assistive Robots
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2020 co-written by Andrei Mitriakov, Panagiotis Papadakis, Sao Mai Nguyen, Serge Garlatti -
Human-Robot Interaction in senior health care: a qualitative cases-study research on seniors experiencing a robot-coached functional rehabilitation exercise
Pré-publication, Document de travail Published on 06/11/2019 co-written by Beatrice Le Gales-Garnett, Gilles Kermarrec, André Thépaut, Sao Mai Nguyen, Maxime Devanne, Olivier Rémy-Néris -
Recognition of Activities of Daily Living via Hierarchical Long-Short Term Memory Networks
Communication dans un congrès Published on 06/10/2019 co-written by Maxime Devanne, Panagiotis Papadakis, Sao Mai Nguyen -
An implementation of an imitation game with ASD children to learn nursery rhymes
Poster de conférence Published on 01/10/2019 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Nathalie Collot-Lavenne, Christophe Lohr, Sébastien Guillon, Patricio Tula, Alvaro Paez, Mouad Bouaida, Arthus Anin, Saad El Qacemi -
Hierarchical Affordance Discovery using Intrinsic Motivation
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/10/2019 co-written by Alexandre Manoury, Sao Mai Nguyen, Cédric Buche -
Learning-based modelling of physical interaction for assistive robots
Poster de conférence Published on 01/07/2019 co-written by Andrei Mitriakov, Panagiotis Papadakis, Sao Mai Nguyen, Serge Garlatti -
Generating Shared Latent Variables for Robots to Imitate Human Movements and Understand their Physical Limitations
Communication dans un congrès Published on 29/01/2019 co-written by Maxime Devanne, Sao Mai Nguyen -
CHIME: an Adaptive Hierarchical Representation for Continuous Intrinsically Motivated Exploration
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2019 co-written by Alexandre Manoury, Sao Mai Nguyen, Cédric Buche -
Learning a set of interrelated tasks by using a succession of motor policies for a socially guided intrinsically motivated learner
Article dans une revue Published on 01/01/2019 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Dominique Duhaut -
Learning Sequences of Policies by using an Intrinsically Motivated Learner and a Task Hierarchy
Communication dans un congrès Published on 18/09/2018 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Alexandre Manoury, Sao Mai Nguyen, Cédric Buche, Dominique Duhaut -
Rééducation fonctionnelle assistée par robot humanoïde
Chapitre d'ouvrage Published on 06/06/2018 co-written by André Thépaut, Sao Mai Nguyen, Maxime Devanne, Olivier Rémy-Néris -
Learning a Set of Interrelated Tasks by Using Sequences of Motor Policies for a Strategic Intrinsically Motivated Learner
Communication dans un congrès Published on 05/04/2018 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Dominique Duhaut -
A co-design approach for a rehabilitation robot coach for physical rehabilitation based on the error classification of motion errors
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2018 co-written by Maxime Devanne, Sao Mai Nguyen, Olivier Rémy-Néris, Beatrice Le Gales-Garnett, Gilles Kermarrec, André Thépaut -
Effects of social guidance on a robot learning sequences of policies in hierarchical learning
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2018 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Dominique Duhaut -
Multi-level Motion Analysis for Physical Exercises Assessment in Kinaesthetic Rehabilitation
Communication dans un congrès Published on 15/11/2017 co-written by Maxime Devanne, Sao Mai Nguyen -
Plug and play your robot into your smart home: Illustration of a new framework
Article dans une revue Published on 01/08/2017 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Christophe Lohr, Philippe Tanguy, Yiqiao Chen -
A humanoid robot for coaching patients for physical rehabilitation exercises
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2016 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Philippe Tanguy, Olivier Rémy-Néris, André Thépaut -
Computational Architecture of a Robot Coach for Physical Exercises in Kinesthetic Rehabilitation
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2016 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Philippe Tanguy, Olivier Rémy-Néris -
Strategic and interactive learning of a hierarchical set of tasks by the Poppy humanoid robot
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2016 co-written by Nicolas Duminy, Sao Mai Nguyen, Dominique Duhaut -
Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation for Robot Learning of Motor Skills
Article dans une revue Published on 03/03/2014 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation for Robot Learning of Motor Skills
Article dans une revue Published on 03/03/2014 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
A Curious Robot Learner for Interactive Goal-Babbling : Strategically Choosing What, How, When and from Whom to Learn
Thèse Published on 27/11/2013 by Sao Mai Nguyen -
Learning to recognize objects through curiosity-driven manipulation with the iCub humanoid robot
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2013 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Serena Ivaldi, Natalia Lyubova, Alain Droniou, Damien Gerardeaux-Viret, David Filliat, Vincent Padois, Olivier Sigaud, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Object learning through active exploration
Article dans une revue Published on 01/01/2013 co-written by Serena Ivaldi, Sao Mai Nguyen, Natalia Lyubova, Alain Droniou, Vincent Padois, David Filliat, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Olivier Sigaud -
Self-Organization of Early Vocal Development in Infants and Machines: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation
Article dans une revue Published on 01/01/2013 co-written by Clément Moulin-Frier, Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Interactive Learning Gives the Tempo to an Intrinsically Motivated Robot Learner
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/12/2012 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Properties for Efficient Demonstrations to a Socially Guided Intrinsically Motivated Learner
Communication dans un congrès Published on 13/09/2012 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Whom Will an Intrinsically Motivated Robot Learner Choose to Imitate from?
Communication dans un congrès Published on 13/09/2012 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Active Choice of Teachers, Learning Strategies and Goals for a Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation Learner
Article dans une revue Published on 01/09/2012 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Socially Guided Intrinsically Motivated Learner
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2012 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Bootstrapping Intrinsically Motivated Learning with Human Demonstrations
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2011 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Adrien Baranes, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Constraining the Size Growth of the Task Space with Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation using Demonstrations.
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2011 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Adrien Baranes, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer -
Real-time face swapping as a tool for understanding infant self-recognition
Communication dans un congrès Published on 01/01/2010 co-written by Sao Mai Nguyen, Masaki Ogino, Minoru Asada