Erik Billing
Erik Billing has left the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University.
Please visit http://www.his.se/erikb for more information on Erik's future engagements.
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Public Appearances
Lärardagarna 2012
This year, Erik takes part in the education days for teachers at elementary and upper secondary schools, held by the Faculty of Science and Technology. October 31, Erik is responsible for a workshop on how to use robots in education.
Forskningsfredag
Research Friday is an event that takes place all over Europe, on September 28 2012. The goal of the event is to give people a chance to meet researchers in new and inspiring situations. Erik participates with a talk about the future of robotics, in Umivatoriet. More information at www.umu.se/forskning/popularvetenskap/evenemang/forskarfredag
Swecog Summer School
Erik attends the Swecog summer school week, August 13-18, with a lecture on the interaction between the fields of robotics and cognitive science.
Folkbladet
May 2, 2012, Erik apears in the local newspaper in an article about his past life as a PhD student.
NOT 2012
April 24 & 25, 2012. Within the project NOT (Nature and Technology) that brings pupils from elementary and secondary shools to Umeå University, Erik participates with the lecture Vad tänker robotar på?
Reading intentions
March 7, 2012, Erik presents his research at the workshop Reading Intentions, organized by Lund University and the Pufendorf Institute.
Computer Sweden
March 2, 2012, Erik appears in the popular news magazine Computer Sweden, commenting the current and future development in the field of intelligent robots. Author: Anders Lotsson
Ny teknik
February 15, 2012, Erik appears in the Swedish magazine Ny Teknik, presenting his research and possible applications. Author: Stefan Nordberg
Äkta människor
Februari 6, 2012. The newly baked doctor appears in Swedish radio P4 Jönköping, commenting the Swedish tv-series Äkta människor and the possiblities for real world humanoid robots.
Disseration!
January 26, 2012, Erik presents his PhD thesis Cognition Rehearsed - Recognition and Reproduction of Demonstrated Behavior. Read more at cognitionreversed.com and Robotnyheter.se.
Erik on the TV
January 24, 25 and 29, Erik appears in Swedish television SVT Västerbottensnytt, Nordnytt and Landet runt, discussing the future of humanoid robots.
True humans and real robots
January 23, 2012. Erik appears on InfoTech news and Robotnyheter.se, commenting the Swedish TV-series Äkta männisor and puts it in relation to the kind of robots that already exist, and may come in the future.
Lärarlyftet
November 1, 2011. Erik gives an introduction to intelligent robotics for teachers within Lärarlyftet.
Vetenskapslunch
September 15, 2011. A popular science lunch seminar at Café Station in central Umeå. The theme is: What do robots think about? The audience receives an crash course in intelligent robotics - what does it mean to say that a machine is thinking and how is our society changing when autonomous machines enters our homes, streets and battlefields. More information at Vetenskapslunchsidan. More information at InfoTech.
Workshop at Swecog Summer School
August 14, 2011. Erik is responsible for a workshop on data visualization at the Swecog Summer School. Read more at www.swecog.se.
Joint Statistical Seminar
May 31, 2011. Erik presents his research at a Joint Statistical Seminar. The seminar series is a cooperation between the Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.
Research presentation at the Swecog spring conference
May 14, 2011. Erik presents his research at the Swecog spring conference. Swecog is a Swedish National Graduate School on Cognitive Science and one of the main research networks on cognitive science in Sweden. More information is available at www.swecog.se.
Presentations for schools in Umeå
April 7, 2011. Within the project NOT (Nature and Technology) that brings pupils from elementary and secondary shools to Umeå University, Erik has two presentations with the title Fåglar, Fiskar, Flockar och Termiter.
Umestudent för en helg
March 13, 2011. Umestudent för en helg let students from upper secondary shools arround Sweden visit Umeå University in order to see what it is about. Erik participates with two presentations with the title What robots think about.
Erik on the radio
January 27, 2011, Erik was interviewed for the program Vetenskap in Swedish radio, channel P4. Read more, or listen to the interview at sverigesradio.se. More information at InfoTech.
Everyday robotics
October 29, 2010. Togeather with the rest of the Intelligent Robotics Group in Umeå, Erik is discussing robots steping into everyday environments, in an interview by InfoTech Umeå.
Licentiate thesis
December 16, 2009, Erik presents his Licentiate thesis with the title Cognition Reversed - Robot Learning from Demonstration. Read more at cognitionreversed.com.
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Publikationer
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Composer: A prototype multilingual model composition tool
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Cognition Rehearsed: Recognition and Reproduction of Demonstrated Behavior |
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Robot learning from demonstration using predictive sequence learning |
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Simultaneous control and recognition of demonstrated behavior |
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Cognitive Perspectives on Robot Behavior
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Model-free learning from demonstration
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A formalism for learning from demonstration
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Predictive Learning in Context
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Behavior recognition for learning from demonstration
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About
Erik finished his PhD in January 2012 and is now working for the Research lab Umit, doing visualisations of physical simulations. Erik is also part of the Intelligent Robotics Group here at the department and you can read more about their work at the Intelligent Robotics webpage.
Teaching
Erik is also working as teacher for several courses in computing science, including Artificial Intelligence, Emergent Systems and Python programming.
Thesis proposals
I also supervise bachelor and master thesis projects. If you are interested to do your thesis within artificial intelligence or intelligent robotics, please have a look at my current thesis proposals.
Kunskapsstruktur
Parallel to his Phd studies Erik is the manager for Kunskapsstruktur, a small company developing advanced web-applications for knowledge retrieval. The main product is a system for web surveys, called Formulär. You may also check out Erik's personal webpage where you can find information about master thesis and programming projects.
