BATUHAN SAYIS

Batuhan Sayis has focused on human-computer interaction, social-signal processing, and computational behavior modeling since 2015. His PhD at FubIntLab-UPF explored Extended Reality systems and created models for understanding social behaviors in children with Autism. His postdoctoral research, starting with the BEAM project, enhanced the ClassMood application for classroom mental health literacy and involved self-regulatory activities using psychophysiological measures. He completed a postdoctoral program with Margarita Salas Fellowship through a call from UPF. This fellowship focused on two research stays; (1) at Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR) Lab at University of Cambridge, and (2) at Council of the Research Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (CITIC-UGR) at University of Granada, where research delved into the deployment of technologies as socio-emotionally smart embodied personal devices (robotic systems as personal and/or self-management technology (e.g., a coach)). It included deploying robotic mental well-being coaches in the schools and developing new methodologies for learning socially appropriate robot behaviours with real-time explicit and implicit affective user feedback.