Defense

The School of Digital Technologies, doctoral thesis defence of Abdallah Hussein Sham

05/15/2026 - 12:00 - 15:00

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On May 15, 2026 at 12.00 Abdallah Hussein Sham from the School of Digital Technologies will defend the doctoral thesis "Enactive Facial Expression Pipeline for Dyadic Interaction between Humans and Human-Like Agents".

Public defence will take place in Tallinn University hall M648.
The wider audience can follow the defence and ask questions from the degree applicant in .

Supervisors are Pia Tikka, Associate Professor at Tallinn University, David Jose Ribeiro Lamas, Professor at Tallinn University and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Professorial Fellow at Estonian Busines School.
Opponents are Giulio Jacucci, Professor at the University of Helsinki and Fernando Loizides, Associate Professor at Cardiff University.

The doctoral thesis is available in Tallinn University Digital Library .