Dr Fernando E. Casado works as a Research Associate at the Personal Robotics Lab (PRL) since March 2023. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) in 2017, being awarded the prizes for the best academic record and thesis. In 2018, he studied for the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence Research offered by Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). In November 2022, he received his PhD at USC, obtaining the highest grade and the Cum Laude distinction. In his thesis, he developed new continual federated machine learning strategies, robust to scenarios where multiple devices or data owners collaborate over time to obtain a shared model. In particular, Fernando focused on situations involving heterogeneous and non-stationary data, as well as concept drift. The proposed algorithms were translated into different applications, including human activity recognition in smartphones and active assistance to robotic wheelchair users.
Fernando's current research interests involve multi-robot and multi-user machine learning to model, adapt and personalise robotic behaviours for trustworthy human-robot interaction. More information about Fernando can be found on his .
Publications
Journal Papers
- Quesada, R. C., Casado, F. E., & Demiris, Y. . ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Just Accepted.
- Casado, F. E., Lema, D., Iglesias, R., Regueiro, C. V., & Barro, S. (2023). . Machine Learning, 1-41.
- Criado, M. F., Casado, F. E., Iglesias, R., Regueiro, C. V., & Barro, S. (2022). . Information Fusion, 88, 263-280.
- Casado, F. E., Lema, D., Criado, M. F., Iglesias, R., Regueiro, C. V., & Barro, S. (2022). . Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-23.
- Casado, F. E., Rodríguez, G., Iglesias, R., Regueiro, C. V., Barro, S., & Canedo-Rodríguez, A. (2020). . Sensors, 20(4), 1189.
Conference Papers
- Gandhi, R., Casado, F. E., & Demiris, Y. (2025, August). Toward Shared Control for Mobile Bimanual Manipulation on a Robotic Wheelchair. In 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) . IEEE.
- Luo, H., Quesada, R. C., Casado, F. E., Lingg, N., & Demiris, Y. (2025, May). . In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 7385-7391). IEEE.
- Quesada, R. C., Casado, F. E., & Demiris, Y. (2024, August). . In 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) (pp. 1316-1322). IEEE.
- Casado, F. E., & Demiris, Y. (2022, October). . In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 9326-9331). IEEE.
