Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
RNDr. Kristína Malinovská, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Malinovská
I.2 - Name
Kristína
I.3 - Degrees
RNDr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1985
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Applied Informatics FMFI UK
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
Assistant professor
I.8 - E-mail address
kristina.malinovska@fmph.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/24527
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Computer Science
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0001-7638-028X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2007
II.c - Study field and programme
Applied informatics
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2009
II.c - Study field and programme
Cognitive science
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava
II.b - Year
2014
II.c - Study field and programme
Informatics
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Assistant professor Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava 2020 -
Postdoc Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics 2018 - 2020
Assistant professor Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava 2015 - 2018

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Inclusive teaching and training course by international consultancy corporation In Dialogue Erasmus+ 2015

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Fundamentals of Programming Cognitive Science II. Computer Science
Introduction to Computational Intelligence Cognitive Science II. Computer Science
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Science master II. deg Computer Science
Human and Machine Vision Cognitive Science master II. deg Computer Science
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
5
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
9
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
11
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
17
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Cognitive Science Seminar Cognitive Science master II. deg Computer Science
Semester Project Cognitive Science master II. deg Computer Science

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
43
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
23
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
30
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
21
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
119
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
68
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
49
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
36
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
2
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Farkaš I., Malík T., Rebrová K.: Grounding the meanings in sensorimotor behavior using reinforcement learning. Frontiers in Neurorobotics 6(1). 2012. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2012.00001.

2

Rebrová K., Pecháč M., Farkaš I.: Towards a robotic model of the mirror neuron system. In International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, IEEE. 2013.

3

Šikudová E., Malinovská K., Škoviera R., Škovierová J., Uller M., Hlaváć V.: Estimating pedestrian intentions from trajectory data. In 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), IEEE. 19-25. 2019.

4

Malinovská K., Farkaš I., Harvanová J., Hoffmann M.: A connectionist model of associating proprioceptive and tactile modalities in a humanoid robot. In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). 2022.

5

Friebe, K., Samporová, S., Malinovská, K., Hoffmann, M.: Gaze Cueing and the Role of Presence in Human-Robot Interaction. In Cavallo, F., et al. (eds.), Social Robotics, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham. 402--414. 2022.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Friebe, K., Samporová, S., Malinovská, K., Hoffmann, M.: Gaze Cueing and the Role of Presence in Human-Robot Interaction. In Cavallo, F., et al. (eds.), Social Robotics, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham. 402--414. 2022.

2

Malinovská K., Farkaš I., Harvanová J., Hoffmann M.: A connectionist model of associating proprioceptive and tactile modalities in a humanoid robot. In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). 2022.

3

Malinovská, K. and Mišovský, J.: Robotic model of the mirror neuron system: A revival. In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 313-323). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.

4

Wand, M., Malinovská, K., Schmidhuber, J., Tetko, I.V.: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2024. Springer, Cham.. 2024.

5

Belanec, R., Lacko, P. and Malinovská, K.: Controlling the output of a generative model by latent feature vector shifting. In 2023 World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines (DISA) (pp. 24-30). IEEE. 2023

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Cruz, F., Magg, S., Weber, C., Wermter, S.: Training Agents With Interactive Reinforcement Learning and Contextual Affordances, In: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2016, 8(4), pp. 271–284

2

Su, H.,et al.: Recent advancements in multimodal human–robot interaction, In: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023, 17

3

Ezzati Amini, R., Katrakazas, C., Riener, A., Antoniou, C.: Interaction of automated driving systems with pedestrians: challenges, current solutions, and recommendations for eHMIs, Transport Reviews, 2021, 41(6), pp. 788–813

4

Hwang, J., Kim, J., Ahmadi, A., Choi, M., Tani, J.: Dealing with Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Imitative Interaction between a Robot and a Human by Using the Predictive Coding Framework, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2020, 50(5), pp. 1918–1931, 8276651

5

Heinrich, S., Wermter, S.: Interactive natural language acquisition in a multi-modal recurrent neural architecture, Connection Science, 2018, 30(1), pp. 99–133

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

2024-2026: Humanoid robot for social interaction NextGenerationEU//R&R Plan 09I01-03-V04-00047

2

2022-2026: Trustworthy human–robot and therapist–patient interaction in virtual reality APVV-21-0105.

3

2022-25: TERAIS: Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak University (EU Twinning project, budget 1,5M EUR, WP coordinator).

4

2022-25: Computational modelling of early development of social skills in human-robot interaction VEGA 1/0373/23.

5

2023-25: Towards excellence of middle-European interdisciplinary master programme in cognitive science KEGA 022UK-4/2023

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Membership in professional organisations Consortium MEi:CogSci (Central European Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Science) 2011 - to date
Membership in professional organisations Slovenská spoločnosť pre kognitívnu vedu 2018 - to date
Membership in professional organisations European Neural Network Society (ENNS) Executive Board 2022 - to date
Membership in editorial boards of journals Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland 2022 - to date
Membership in editorial boards of scientific conferences International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), proceedings editor of ICANN 2024 2018 - to date
Membership in editorial boards of scientific conferences Cognition and Artificial Life (CAL) 2015 - to date
Membership in editorial boards of scientific conferences 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2025

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Dejvice October 2018 - December 2019 Post doc on contract, working on UP-Drive and Smart Camera projects
Jagiellonian University in Krakow Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland 1-31.05.2012 CEEPUS
University of Vienna Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria 1-30.4.2010 CEEPUS

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Member of the State Examination Committee for the programmes Cognitive Science (II. degree), Applied Informatics (I. and II. degree). Supervision of semester and mobility projects for the Cognitive Science master's program. Organization of Special Session/Workshop on Neurorbotics at ICANN conferences (2022 on, currently main organizer), THRISS summer school (2024, main org.), MEi:CogSci conference (2018, 2024), ICANN conference 2021 (local committee), 2024 (programme committee), MatFyz Connections 2025. Dean's Award for the best bachelor thesis Sabina Samporova (2022): Experimental environment for exploring human-robot interaction with humanoid robot iCub. Science popularization: European Science Night (2024, 2025), Girl's day 2025, public dissemination activities and communication with media.

Date of last update
2026-04-09