Emilia Barakova

Dr. Ir. Emilia I. Barakova is affiliated with the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and simultaneously holds a Visiting Researcher position at RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan. She has Masters Degree in Electronics and Automation from Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and PhD in Mathematics and Physics from Groningen University (The Netherlands, 1999).

Barakova has expertise in behavioral robotics and functional brain modeling based on behavioral data from mice, monkeys, and humans, on learning methods, and human centered interaction design. Currently she is working on social interaction with intelligent agents, which includes measuring, recording, and analyzing human and robot behaviors. 

She has worked at different research institutes, among which RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan), GMD-Japan Research Laboratory (Japan), Groningen University (The Netherlands), Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), and Bulgarian Academy of Science. She is an Associate editor of Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, has organized several scientific workshops, special issues of journals, special sessions, and one IEEE conference.