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
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)
3
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
7
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
6
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
15
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
31
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
13
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
27
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
22
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
90
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
50
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
34
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
21
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
1
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
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

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.

2

Malinovská, K., Malinovský, Ľ., Krsek, P., Kraus, S., Farkaš, I.: UBAL: a Universal Bidirectional Activation-based Learning Rule for Neural Networks. In CIIS 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. 2019.

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

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

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.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

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

2

2022-25: Trustworthy human–robot and therapist–patient interaction in virtual reality APVV-21-0105.

3

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

4

2018-2019: Horizon 2020 688652: UP-Drive Automated Urban Parking and Driving (CIIRC CTU, Czechia).

5

2019: MV ČR VI20172019082: Smart Camera: New Generation Monitoring Center. (CIIRC CTU, Czechia).

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

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. Main organizer of the THRISS summer school (2024) and the MEi:CogSci conference (2018,2024). 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, promotional activities and communication with media.

Date of last update
2025-01-10