Yasmin Kim Georgie
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About
Yasmin Kim Georgie is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, cognitive science, and psychiatry, whose work centers on the “active self”—the idea that the self is constituted through action and interaction with the environment. Her major contributions lie in developing computational and robotic models that enable machines to learn a sense of self, body ownership, and agency, which are critical for safe, adaptive human-robot collaboration in dynamic, unstructured spaces. Her most cited paper, “Sensorimotor Representation Learning for an ‘Active Self’ in Robots” (2021, 22 citations), surveys models that allow robots to learn appropriate social behaviors rather than relying on rigid rules. In parallel, her work “Computational models of the ‘active self’ and its disturbances in schizophrenia” (2021, 16 citations) bridges robotics and clinical psychiatry, using enactive frameworks to understand self-disorders as foundational to schizophrenia, not mere symptoms. Her interdisciplinary review on developmental indices of the minimal self (2019) further synthesizes human behavioral measures with robotic implementations. Georgie’s research is notable for its bold synthesis of philosophy, developmental psychology, and engineering, offering novel pathways for both more intuitive AI and deeper insights into human cognition.
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