Peter Tisnikar

Hi, and welcome to my personal webpage. My name is Peter, and I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, where I work with Professor Stephen Roberts and Professor Michael Osborne on identifying human moral preferences and values from large-scale survey data.

I am motivated by the goal of enabling intelligent systems, such as interactive and embodied agents, to respond more effectively to the people around them. My research focuses on methods and algorithms that allow such systems to model and learn from humans. In particular, I am interested in developing improved methods and representations for inferring latent aspects of human behaviour (e.g., capabilities, affective states, and preferences, among others) from behavioural and multimodal data, and in leveraging these inferences to support adaptation and decision-making in human–robot interaction and collaboration.

I completed my PhD in AI and Robotics at King’s College London, where I was advised by Dr Matteo Leonetti and Dr Gerard Canal. I received my Master’s degree in Human and Biological Robotics from Imperial College London, where I worked on adaptive footstep planning algorithms for bipedal locomotion as part of the Robot Intelligence Lab. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University London.