Pamela Carreno-Medrano

Dr. Pamela Carreno-Medrano is a Lecturer and Early Career Research Representative in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University. Her research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), robot learning, and socially assistive robotics. She holds a PhD in Information & Communication Sciences (Université de Bretagne-Sud), Master's in Computer Science (École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest), and a Bachelor's in Computer Systems Engineering (Universidad EAFIT).

Her work emphasizes human-centered design for intelligent systems, including adaptive navigation algorithms, human-robot collaboration models, and affective computing applications. She leads projects on long-term human-robot interaction and has contributed to interdisciplinary studies on robot ethics and public space integration. Dr. Carreno-Medrano also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Universidad EAFIT and collaborates internationally on sustainable aging technologies through the ARC Training Centre for Optimal Ageing.

Current research themes include aligning task representations between humans and robots, modeling non-goal-driven human behaviors, and socially aware navigation strategies. She actively supervises postgraduate students in HRI, offering projects on interactive robot learning and embodied AI systems.