Ilaria Renna is associate professor at ISEP, working in the field of Human-Robot Interaction and Social Robotics.
She has completed Post-Doctoral duties at the Structures Formelles du Langage laboratory, where she focused on two projects: CIGALE and TYPANNOT.
She holds a PhD in Mechanics, Acoustics, Electronics and Robotics from the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique at UPMC - Sorbonne Universites and a PhD in Robotics, Neuroscience and Nanotechnology from Italian Institute of Technology - University of Genova (Italy). Previously, she obtained a MSc and a BSc in Biomedical Engineering, from the University Campus Bio-medico, Roma, Italy.
research
Leveraging state-of-the-art methodologies in signal and image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and mathematical modelling, in order to advance in the fields of biomedical engineering and human-robot interaction. Ilaria Renna has received the Best Paper Award "Theory in Robotics" at ICIRA 2009.
publications
2018
Is this the Era of Misinformation yet? Combining Social Bots and Fake News to Deceive the Masses
P Wang, R Angarita, I Renna
The Web Conference 2018 (WWW '18)
Learning with Robots in CS and STEM Education: A Case Study with ISEP-R0B0 P Wang, I Renna, F Amiel, X Zhang
2015
Characterisation of gestural units in light of
human-avatar interaction
I Renna, S Delacroix, F Catteau, C Vincent, D Boutet
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies
Typannot: a project for sign language
annotation using an ad-hoc glyph system D Boutet, P Doan, I Renna C Danet, CS Bianchini, M Rébulard, T Goguely
2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition ICSLA
2014
Annotating sign language using a dedicated glyph system
D Boutet, P Doan, I Renna, C Danet, CS Bianchini, M Rébulard, T Goguely
4th Australasian Deaf Studies Research Symposium
Caractérisation d'unités gestuelles en vue d'une interaction humain-avatar I Renna, S Delacroix, F Catteau, C Vincent, D Boutet
Workshop Affects, Compagnons Artificiels, Interaction (WACAI 2014)
2012
A Kicked Epidemic Sirs Model F Paladini, I Renna, L Renna
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Emblematic gestures recognition
R Chellali, I Renna
ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
Upper body tracking and Gesture recognition for Human-Machine Interaction
I. Renna
PhD Thesis - Defended on 11/05/2012 - PhD in Mechanics, Acoustics, Electronics and Robotics, University Pierre et Marie Curie (France) and PhD in Robotics, Neuroscience and Nanotechnology, University of Genova (Italy)
Final Mark: Summa Cum Laude (mention très honorable)
Détection et reconnaissance des gestes emblématiques
R Chellali, I Renna, E Bernier, C Achard
Actes de la conférence RFIA (Reconnaissance des Formes et l'Intelligence Artificielle) 2012
Combination of annealing particle filter and belief propagation for 3D upper body tracking
I Renna, R Chellali, C Achard
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
2011
A Discrete SIRS Model with Kicked Loss of Immunity and Infection Probability
JF Paladini, I Renna, L Renna
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Real and Simulated Upper Body Tracking with Annealing Particle Filter and Belief Propagation for Human-Robot Interaction
I Renna, R Chellali, C Achard
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
2010
Suivi du haut du corps humain combinant filtrage particulaire à recuit simulé et propagation de croyance
I Renna, C Achard, R Chellali
Vidéo-surveillance Intelligente : Systèmes et AlGorithmEs - VISAGE-RFIA 2010
2009
Combination of annealing particle filter and belief propagation for 3D upper body tracking 
BEST PAPER AWARD!
I Renna, C Achard, R Chellali
ICIRA '09 - 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
teaching
Lecturer
- C++ programming (Programmation orienté objet et C++ Avancé), 18h, Master M1 2011-2012
- Signal processing (Traitement numérique du signal et phénomènes aléatoires), 10h, Master M1 2011-2012
- Scientific Italian (Corso di Italiano Scientifico), 60h, Master International M1 (2009-2011)
Lab Assistant
- C++ programming (Programmation orienté objet et C++ Avancé), 12h, Master M1 2011-2012
- Information processing (Traitement de l’information), 24h, Master M1 2011-2012
- Signal processing (Traitement numérique du signal et phénomènes aléatoires), 28 hours, Master M1 2011-2012
- Pattern recognition (Introduction à la reconnaissance des forms), 48 hours, Master M2 2011-2012
- Neural networks (Méthodes connexionnistes et apprentissage), 32hours, Master M2 2011-2012
- Image processing for human analysis, 32 hours, Master International M2 (2009-2010, 2011-2012)
- Fundamentals of Electronics(Introduction à l’électronique), 40 hours, Bachelor (2008-2009)
- C programming for electronics (Programmation en langage C pour l’électronique), 16 hours, Bachelor (2008- 2009)
- Image processing (Traitement d’images), 16 hours, Master (2008-2009)
contact
ilaria.renna
isep.fr