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Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence,

Professor of AI, MIEEE, FHEA

Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems.

My Human-Centred AI research is concerned with both the understanding of human cognition and behaviour (psychology, human-computer interaction) and the development of intelligent systems and artefact that perceive human emotion and behaviour, and bridge the gap between machine and human being.

The Multi-Agent System research has applications in the modelling of Complex Systems, CyberPhysical Systems and Decision-Support Systems.

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Director of the Institute of Artifical Intelligence

Professor of AI, MIEEE, FHEA

2021

Gemeliarana, I. G. A. K., Hanggoro, D., Sari, R. F., & Romano, D. M. (2021, December).. In 2021 8th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) (pp. 71-76). IEEE.

Sari, R. F., Ilmananda, A. S., & Romano, D. M. (2021).. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 27(9), 979-998.

2020

Moge, C., Romano, D.M. (2020). . Heliyon 6 (2020) e05340  

Sharan, N., N., Romano, D., M., (July 2020). . Heliyon 6 (2020) e04572

Romano, D.M., Longson, T., Martin, N. (2020). . European European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry (2020) 28, 1–9.  

White, A., Romano, D.M. (2020). . SUM'20: State-based User Modelling, 13th ACM International WSDM Conference. February 3-7,2020, Houston, Texas USA.

2019

,  and  (2019). , , Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 931-943. 

Loboda O, Nyhan J, Mahony S and Romano D.M. (2019). . Proceedings 1st International Alan Turing Conference on Decision Support and Recomender Systems (DSRS-Turing 2019), London, UK

Alfat L., Rizkinia M., Sari, R.F., Romano, D.M. (2019). Feature Selection of Credit Score Factor Based on Smartphone Usage using MCFS. Proceesings of IEEE TIMES-iCONDS 2019, December 11-13, 2019, Bankok, Thailand.

2018

Loboda O, Nyhan J, Mahony S and Romano D.M. (2018). . Mobile HCI 2018: 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.

2017

Hanshaw ,J. , Liu ,W. , Romano, D.M. (2017). . IEEE 8th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications – 7, 11-14 September 2017 in Debrecen, Hungary. BEST PAPER AWARD

Nazry, N.N.M., Romano, D.M. (2017). . Computers in Human Behavior. Elsevier. Volume 73, August 2017, Pages 596–604 (IF 5-years 3.724, Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction). 

Attard, C. Mountain, G. Romano, D.M. (2017). Just In Time Collaborative Problem Solving Using Smart Mobile Devices at the Workplace. 2nd International Conference on Internet of things and Cloud Computing (). Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK, 22-23-March 2017. 

2016

Attard, C., Mountain, G., Romano, D.M. (2016). Problem Solving, . Computers in Human Behavior. Elsevier. Volume 61, Pages 300-312. (IF 5-years 3.724, Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction). 

Breslin, D. Burkitt, M., Dobson, S., Romano, D.M. (2016). . 6th European Academy of Management (EURAM), 1-3th June 2016, Paris, France.

Dobson, S., Burkitt, M., Breslin, D.A., Romano, D.M. (2016). . 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Rome. Italy, 25-28th April 2016.

Breslin, D., Romano, D., & Percival, J. (2016). . In Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior (pp. 137-157). Springer International Publishing.

Balakrishna, C., Romano D.M., James Patrick Henry Coleman J.P.H. (2016). CyberGaTE: A Gamified Virtual Training Environment for Cyber-Security, SOLSTICE Conference, Edge Hill University, UK, 89th-10th June 2016.

2015

Al-Saleh, M. and Romano, D.M. (2015). . AIIDE 2015, 11th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, United States of America, Santa Cruz, 14-18 November 2015.

Kurdi, O, Romano, D.M., Stannett, M. (2015). . 29th annual European Simulation and Modelling conference (ESM'2015), UK. October 26-28, 2015

Breslin, D., Romano, D., & Percival, J. (2015). , In Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior, Eds Secchi, Davide, Neumann, Martin. New Frontiers of Social Science Research, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-18152-3

2014

Hanshaw,J., Liu,W., Romano, D.M. (2014). . 5th IEEE CogInfoCom 2014, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 5-7 November 2014. ubiquitous.

Sakellariou, I., Kurdi, O., Gheorghe, M., Romano, D., Kefalas, P., Ipate, F., & Niculescu, I. (2014, September). . In Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2014 14th UK Workshop on (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Romano, D. (2014). Behaviour Research: Decision Making in Complex Systems. In USES 2014: The University of Sheffield Engineering Symposium, 24 June 2014, The Octagon Centre University of Sheffield.

Percival, J., Wood, N., Breslin, D.A., Romano, D.M. (2014). The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). Workshop IV: Modelling Organisational Behaviour and Social Agency. Bournemouth University, 27-28 January 2014.

2013

Gill L., Hathway A.E., Lange, E., Morgan, E., Romano, D.M. (2013). . Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design EPB 138-04. (ERA A* rated publication, ISI web of knowledge IF 0.826, Ranked 62/89 - Q3 in Environmental Studies).

Gill L., Lange, E., Morgan, E., Romano, D.M. (2013). . International Journal of E-Planing Research (IJEPR), 2(1), 1-19.

Romano, D.M. (2013). . Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulation (PARABS) Workshop, , Aachen (Germany) 26th-27th August 2013.

Vivekananda-Schmidt, P. , Romano, D.M. (2013). A Four Point Guidance to Analyse Ethical Issues in Serious Game Development. . Best Paper Award.

Martin, N., Longson, T., Stoke,C., Romano, D.M. (2013). . British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR), September 9-11, 2013, Bath, England.

2012

Martin N., Martinez Lazalde O., Stokes C.W., Romano D.M. (2012).. British Dental Journal, 212(6), 277-282.(IF 1.089)

Burkitt M, Walker D, Romano DM, Fazeli A., (2012). tract. THERIOGENOLOGY 77(4):703-16 · JANUARY 2012

2011

Martin N., Martinez Lazalde O., Stokes C.W., Romano D.M. (2011). . J Dent Res Issue 90: 93(BSODR), 2011. (ISI web of knowledge IF 3.486, Ranked 3/81- Q1 in Oral Surgery & Medicine)

Burkitt M, Walker D, Romano DM, Fazeli A. (2011). . Reproduction, Fertility and Development 23(8):976-989 2011. (ERA A rated publication, ISI web of knowledge IF 2.109, Ranked 22/146 - Q1 in Zoology)

Burkitt,M., Walker, D., Romano, D.M., Fazeli, A. (2011). . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 31 Mar. 2011. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, (IF 2.25).

Burkitt M, Walker D, Romano DM, Fazeli A. (2011) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB'11 141-149 2011.

Tsitrou, E. , Martinez, Lazalde, O., Romano, D.M., Pahinis, K.(2011). Development of a digital assistant for the evaluation of toot preparations performed by students. ADEE 2011 Annual Meeting Antalya, Turkey 7th - 10th September 2011

Lange, E., Gill. L., Henneberry J., Morgan, E. Romano, D.M. (2011). Addressing the three dimensions of sustainability in an urban river context via 3D Visualization. , March 30 - April 2, 2011, University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles, California, US.

Paul Richmond and Daniela Romano (2011).  GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition (Applications of GPU Computing Series). Editor: Wen-mei W. Hwu. Emerald Edition. Chapter 21, pp313-324. 

Daniela M. Romano, David C. Moffat, Dimitar Kazakov and George Tsoulas (Eds). (2011). Proc. of the Symposium on AI and Games, AISB'11 Convention, York, United Kingdom. The UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.

2010

Richmond P., Coakley S., Romano D.M. (2010). . Special issue: Parallel and Ubiquitous methods and tools in Systems Biology of the international journal: Briefings in Bioinformatics.  Advance Access published online on February 1, 2010, doi:10.1093/bib/bbp073. (ISI web of knowledge IF 5.202, Rankings: 3/47, Q1 in Mathematical & Computational Biology)

Arroyo Palacios, J., Romano, D.M. (to appear)..International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS), 2(4), 16-32.

Karmakham, T., Richmond, P., Romano, D.M. (2010). . In , 67-74.

Arroyo Palacios, J., Romano, D.M.(2010). 3rd AIBS 2010 Symposium: AI & Game, 29th-30th March 2010, De Monfort University, Leicester, UK. 

Gill, L., Kumar, V., Lange E., Lerner D., Morgan E., Romano D., Shaw E. (2010).  In: David A. Swayne, Wanhong Yang, A. A. Voinov, A. Rizzoli, T. Filatova (Eds.): International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) , Fifth Biennial Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. Student Paper Commendation.

Gill, L., E. Lange, E. Morgan & D. Romano (2010). . In: E. Buhmann, M. Pietsch & E. Kretzler (Eds.): Digital Landscape Architecture 2010, Wichmann, Berlin, 214-220.

Gill L., E. Lange, E. Morgan & D. Romano (2010). A Generative 3D Landscape Modelling System For Real-Time Decision Making. POSTER. 2010 International Conference on Integrative Landscape Modelling, 3rd - 5th Feb, 2010, SupAgro, Montpellier, France.

Burkitt M., Walker D, Romano D.M., Fazeli A. (2010). . 2010 Ninth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Methods in Verification, and Second International Workshop on High-Performance Computational Systems Biology. Enschede, Netherlands. 30th September, 1st October 2010.

Burkitt, M., Romano, D.M., Walker, D. C., Fazeli, A. (2010). . Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2010, The 28th conference organised by the Eurographics Association (" )., University of Sheffield, UK , 6-8 September 2010.

Underwood, C.M., Narracott, A.J., Walker D., Burkitt M., Fazeli A., Romano D.M., Lawford P.V.(2010). Analysis of Oviduct Flow based on Histological Data. ESB2010, 17th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 5 - 8 July 2010, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Romano, D.M. (2010). Look, Emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion. In , Wilks, Y. (Ed.). John Benjamins. 315 pp

Daniela M. Romano, David C. Moffat, Aladdin Ayesh (Eds). (2010). Proc. of the Symposium on AI and Games, AISB 11 Convention, York, United Kingdom. The UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.

2009

Fazeli, A., Burkitt, M. Walker, D., Romano, D.M. (2009). . BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION 81 : 299. (ISI web of knowledge IF 4.009, Rankings: 3/28 , Q1 Reproductive Biology)

Romano, D.M.(2009).. In Cognito - Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives, Vol 4, Num 1-2.

BinSubaih, A., Maddock, S., & Romano, D. (2009). . In Handbook of research on effective electronic gaming in education (pp. 451-477). IGI Global.

Fazeli, A., Burkitt, M., Walker, D., & Romano, D. M. (2009). The Virtual Oviduct: An Essential Tool for the Application of Computational Biology Approaches to Investigation of Maternal Interaction with Gametes and Embryo.

Romano, D.M., Lomax, L., Richmond, P.(2009). . The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09), London, UK, 25th-28th August 2009

Arroyo Palacios, J., Romano, D.M. (2009). . The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09), London, UK, 25th-28th August 2009.

Morgan, E., Gill, L., Lange, E., Romano, D.M. (2009). . 10th Conference on IT in Landscape Architecture, by Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Malta 21-23 May 2009. 

Richmond, P., Coakley, S., Romano, D.M. (2009). , HiBi09-High Performance Computational Systems Biology, 14-16 October 2009,Trento, Italy

Richmond, P.,Cloakley, S. Romano D.M.(2009).  Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , May 10-15, 2009 at the Europa Congress Center in Budapest, Hungary.

BinSubaih, A., Maddock, S., Romano, D. (2009). . Special Reports & Studies Series at the Research & Studies Center (Dubai Police Academy). 

Daniela M. Romano, David C. Moffat, Nick Taylor (Eds). (2009). , AISB 11 Convention, 6th-9thApril, 2009, Edinburg, United Kingdom. The UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.

2008

Burkitt, M., Romano, D.M. (2008). . , 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. 1-3 September 2008, Tokyo, Japan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.

Richmond, P., Romano, D.M. (2008). . . In conjunction with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. June 7, 2008, Island of Kos, Aegean Sea, Greece.

M. Burkitt, D. M. Romano, D. Walker and A. Fazeli (2008). Procedural Reconstruction of a Three Dimensional Graphical Model of an Oviduct. 1st Gemini Meeting - Maternal Interaction With Gametes and Embryos, Volos, Greece, 9th-12th October 2008

Richmond, P., Romano D.(2008). , Proceedings of  (European Simulation and Modelling), October 27-29, 2008, Universite du Havre, Le Havre, France.

Arroyo Palacios,J., Romano, D.M.(2008). .  Measuring Behavior 2008, the 6th international conference on methods and techniques in behavioral research, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26-29 August 2008.

Arroyo Palacios, A., Romano, D.M.(2008). . , The Third IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, March 17-19, 2008 Innsbruck, Austria. 

Schwarz, M., Romano, D.M., Gheorghe, M. (2008).   Symposium,  Convention Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence. April 1-4, 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

Shaarani, A.S., Romano, D.M.(2008).  , The Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Special Track on Virtual agents. Estoril, Portugal, 12-16 May 2008. 

Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2008). . , Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality and Social Behavior, Stanford University in March 26-28, 2008.

Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2008). . , The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Hyderabad, India, January 7-12, 2008.

2007

Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2007a). . Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (), 12th September 2007, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.  (LNCS) Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print), vol. 4738/2007, pp. 203-217.

Richmond, P., Romano, D.M.(2007). Automatic Generation of Residential Areas using GeoDemographics. 2nd International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information: Requirements, Acquisition, Modelling, Analysis, Visualisation ()

Shaarani, A.S., Romano, D.M.(2007). Perception of Emotions from Static Postures. Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (). 12th September 2007, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. (Extended abstract)

Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2007b). Using a Shared Representation to Generate Action and Social Language for a Virtual Dialogue Environment Third International American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, May 17-20, San Jose, California, US.

Gupta, S., Walker, M.A., Romano, D.M.(2007c). Generating Politeness in Task-Based Interaction: An Evaluation of the Effect of Linguistic Form and Culture. , 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation,Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 17-20 June 2007.

BinSubaih, A., Maddock, S., Romano, D. (2007). A Survey of Game Portability. Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-07-05, 2007, University of Sheffield. 

2006

Cauchard,J.R., Ainsworth, P.F., Romano, D.M., Banks, B (2006). Virtual Manuscripts for an Enhanced Museum and Web Experience 'Living Manuscripts'. In Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems,  Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, Volume 4270/2006, pp418-427. 

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M.(2006). A serious game for traffic accident investigators. The International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE), 3(4) Paper 6, Special issue: Computer Game-based Learning.

Cauchard,J.R., Ainsworth, P.F., Romano, D.M., Banks, B (2006). Virtual Manuscripts for an Enhanced Museum and Web Experience - "Living Manuscripts". . 12th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 18-20 October 2006, Xi'an, China.

Shaarani, A.S., Romano, D.M.(2006a) Emotional Body Movements.  22 September 2006 - 28 September 2006, Genova, Italy. 

Shaarani, A.S., Romano, D.M.(2006b) Basic Emotions from Body Movements.  The First International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and Interaction Design. HCI 2006 Workshops, The 20th BCS HCI Group conference. 12th September Queen Mary, University of London, UK. 

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M. (2006). An Architecture for Portable Serious Games. Doctoral Symposium, hosted at the 20th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming , July 3-7, 2006, Nantes, France.

2005

Romano, D.M. (2005). Virtual Reality Therapy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Journal. 2005 Sep;47(9):580

Romano, D.M., Sheppard, G., Hall, J., Miller, A., Ma, Z. (2005). BASIC: A Believable, Adaptable Socially Intelligent Character for Social Presence. , The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence, 21-22 September 2005, University College London, London, UK. [ ]

Romano, D.M. (2005). Synthetic Social Interactions.  Human-Animated Characters Interaction Workshop,  The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference Napier University, Edinburgh, UK 5-9 September 2005.

Romano, D.M., Sheppard,G., Miller,A., Hall,J., Ma,Z., Wong,A. (2005). A Model to generate Believable and Socially Intelligent Characters. Workshop on Emotion and Interaction, Event Organised by  Network of Excellence, Paris, March 10-11, 2005.

Gupta, S., Romano, D.M., Walker M. A. (2005). Politeness and Variation in Synthetic Social Interaction,  Human-Animated Characters Interaction Workshop,  The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference Napier University, Edinburgh, UK 5-9 September 2005.

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M. (2005d). Tabletop vs CVE Police Training (Poster). , The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence, 21-22 September 2005, University College London, London, UK.

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M.(2005c). Comparing the use of a 'tabletop' experiment and a collaborative desktop virtual environment for training police officers to deal with traffic accidents. International Conference on Engineering in Education , Global Education Interlink, Gliwice, Poland, 25-29 July 2005. 

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M.(2005b). Game Logic Portability. , ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment. Technology, Polytechnic University of Valencia(UPV), Spain, 15th - 17th June 2005.

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M.(2005a). OntRAT: Ontology-Based Rules Acquisition Tool. , 3rd International Conference on multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education. June 8-10th 2005, Caceres, Spain.

2004

Romano, D.M., Wong, A.K.L. (2004). Personality Model of a Social Character. Empathy in Human Computer Interaction Workshop, 7 th of September, HCI 2004, the 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 6-10 September. 

BinSubaih A., Maddock S., Romano, D.M.(2004c). A collaborative Virtual Training Architecture for Investigating the Aftermath of Vehicle Accidents. , Philadelphia. University, Amman, Jordan, September 14-16, 2004.

Bin Subaih, A., S.C.Maddock, D.Romano (2004b). A Domain-Independent Multiplayer Architecture for Training. Procedings. , The Second Annual International Workshop in Computer Game Design and Technology. 15-16 November 2004, Liverpool.

Bin Subaih, A., S.C.Maddock, D.Romano (2004a). An Architecture For Domain-Independent Collaborative Virtual Environments. Procedings GAME-ON 2004, 5th Annual Conference on Simulation and AI in computer Games.November 25-27, 2004 - Het Pand, Ghent, Belgium.

Louchart S., Romano D.M., Aylett R., Pickering J.(2004). Speaking and Acting - Interacting Language and Action for an Expressive Character.  Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents Workshop. Mexico City, Mexico, 26-27 of April 2004. see also on  

Louchart S., Aylett R., Pickering J., Romano D.M.(2004). Don't hit me! - combining language and action in FearNot. AISB 2004 Convention: Motion, Emotion and Cognition, University of Leeds, UK, 29 March - 1 April 2004 University of Leeds, UK, 29 March - 1 April 2004. 

2003

Romano, D.M.(2003). . , 3(2).  

Romano, D.M., Brna, P. (2003). Action Controlled Learning. Human Factors of Decision Making in Complex Systems Conference, 8th-13th September 2003, Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.

2002

Romano, D.M., Brogni, A., Steed, A., Slater, A. (2002). Progress Report: Agoraphobia ResearchIn Proceedings of Equator's Annual Meeting October 2002, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. [ (272KB)] 

Romano, D.M., Brna, P. (2002). laboration, Presence and Performance in Virtual Learning Environments: Can collaboration be used to measure shared presence?fth Annual International Workshop, , Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, October 9, 10, 11 , 2002.

Dew, P., Galata, A., Maxfiled, J., Romano, D. M. (2002). . See  ). Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, . Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2002. 

2001

Romano, D.M., Brna,P.(2001). Presence and Reflectionin Training: Support for Learning to Improve Quality Decision Making Skills under Time Limitations . CyberPsychology & Behavior Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 4:2 , pp265- 277.

Romano, D.M.(2001). Features that Enhance the Learning of Collaborative Decision Making Skills under Stress in Virtual Dynamic Environments. Unpublished Ph.D.thesis, Computer Based Learning, University of Leeds, UK, August 2001.  [ (11.9KB)].

2000

Whitelock, D., Romano, D.M.,Jelfs, A., Brna, P. (2000).  Education and Information Technologies, 5:4, pp277-289. 

Romano, D.M., Brna,P., (2000).  3rd International Workshop on Presence, Delft, The Netherlands,27-28 March 2000.

1998

Romano, D.M.,Brna,P.,Self,J.A.,(1998).  1st Presence In Shared Virtual Environments workshop, BT labs, UK, 10 -11 June 1998. 

Romano, D.M., Brna,P.,(1998).  , VRET'98conference, City University, London, UK, 7 - 8 July 1998.

Romano, D.M., Brna,P.,(1998).   conference, Exeter,UK,5 September 1998.

Agent-based modelling, Human-Cntred AI, Human-Computer Interaction, AI & Games,3D Graphics, Virtual (VR) Augmented (AR) and Mixed Reality (XR)

Mobile Robotics

Foundations of Artificila Intelliegence

• Ph.D in Training Decision making under stress with serious games and intelligent agents
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• BSc & MSc in Computer Science with Maths

Recent External Awards

2017 Best Article - Hanshaw,J., Liu,W., Romano, D.M. (2017). Improving SSVEP-BCI Performance Using Pre-Trial Normalization Methods. IEEE 8th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications – CogInfoCom 2017, 11-14 September 2017 in Debrecen, Hungary.

2014 Best Article - IGI Global Sixth Annual Excellence in Research Journal Awards. Publication: Gill, L., Hathway, E. A., Lange, E., Morgan, E., & Romano, D. (2013). Coupling real-time 3D landscape models with microclimate simulations. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 2(1), 1-19.

2013 Best Article - Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT award. Publication: Vivekananda-Schmidt, P. Romano, D.M. (2013) A Four Point Guidance to Analyse Ethical Issues in Serious Game Development Responsible Innovation in ICT Repository (RICT).

Recent University Awards

2018 UCL Student Choice Award – Nominated for Excellent Personal Tutoring

2017 UCL Student Choice Award – Nominated for Outstanding Research Supervision, Excellent Personal Tutoring and Active Student Partnership

2014 Best Technology Presentation to the general public - Battle of the Engineers Award, 26 June 2014, Sheffield University

2014 Outstanding Mentor - Recognition within the University of Sheffield Impact Mentoring Programme, award for providing mentorship and support to improve the progression of researchers and new lecturers 2014

IEEE Member

• 2021 CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme)

Ahmed Ali - Digital Twins in Agriculture

Recent Invited Talks

2020 Keynote speaker for Symposium XR for Artificial Intelligence and Human computer Interactions, International Congress of eXtended Reality (XR) in Sciences (#DIMENSIONSXR2020) Online, October 28, 2020 - October 30, 2020

2020 Keynote speaker for International Conference on Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2020) and 20 December 2020, Kolkata, India.

2020 Invited speaker, UCL CDT in Foundation Artificial Intelligence, 16^th September 2020.

2020 Invited Mentor for ACM IMX 2020 (interactive Media Experience) Doctoral Consortium 17-19 June 2020

2020 Invited to deliver a research talk as part of the module Future Interfaces at UCL, 2^nd March 2020.

2019 Invited to deliver a workshop on Affective Computing by the University of Indonesia, Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2019.

Recent Editorial Boards Memberships 

Review Editor for Frontiers in Virtual Reality, member of Editorial Board of Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour 

Editor for Special Issue of Access Journal Electronics on Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Reality and Interactive Media Experience’ 2021

Recent Conference Organization

2021 Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2021 (ITS2021), Workshop Chair, 7-11 June 2021, Athens

2021 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experience (IMX 2021), Virtual Conference Chair, 21st – 23rd June 2021, New York, USA

2020 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020), Senior Program Committee. Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020

2020 Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2020) Conference, International Advisory Committee member, 28-30 November 2020, Kolkata, India

2020 Chair Symposium XR for Artificial Intelligence and Human computer Interactions, International Congress of eXtended Reality (XR) in Sciences (#DIMENSIONSXR2020) Online, October 28, 2020 - October 30, 2020

2020 ACM CHI 2020, Associate Chair, Committee Understanding People Theory, Concepts, Methods. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA, April 25-30, 2020

2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experience (IMX 2020), Doctoral Consortium Mentor, 17-19 June 2020, online conference.

2019 Track Chair and member of Program Committee Foundation of Digital Games (FDG) conference in Ottawa, Canada. International conference in cooperation with ACM SIGAI, SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.

2018 Organiser 9^th Symposium AI, Games & Virtual Reality, AISB’18 Convention, University of Bath.

2017 Technical Program Committee 8^th International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunications (CogInfoCom 2017), 11-14^th Sept 2017, Debrecen, Hungary.

June 2020 / December 2020, UCL’s EPSRC IAA 2020-21 Impact Acceleration Account, ClearStations, project in collaboration with Costain and Network Rail, PI £ 14987 (+ £ 25,200 Costain contribution in cash and in kind) Award Number: 174591

October 2018 / Mar 2019, Innovate UK Audience of the future: Design Foundations, The House of Alternative Realities, Project lead by the company 3Rooms, CO-I £59,972

Sept 2017 / December 2018, Sheffield Hospitals Charity Research Funds, Remote Clinical Consultations for Integrated Patient Care – A pilot study, PI: Claire Field, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry Charles Clifford Dental Hospital; Co-I: Professor Nicolas Martin, Professor and Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, University of Sheffield; Dr Chris Stokes, Senior University Teacher, School of Clinical Dentistry, Sheffield; D.Romano UCL

May 2017 / Dec 2017, DSTL Themed Call: Revolutionise the Human Information Relationship for Defence, AViD: A Virtual Assistant for Data Visualisation - Towards the Zero UI, Project lead Daden Ltd, CO-I £79,770. 

Nov 2015 / Feb. 2017, Higher Education Award (HEA), a project funded by the Department of Media Culture and Sport (DCMS), A Gamified Training Environment for Cyber-Security (CyberGaTE), Co-I for Edge Hill Commuter Science, £71,151.

May-2014/March-2016 South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, PREMONITION; Preventative and Predictive Modelling of Community Fire Risk Behaviours, PI, £94,276