CoRL/Humanoids Workshop 2025

Organising Committee

Demetra Brady

Google DeepMind (UK)

Demetra Brady is an AI Ethics & Safety Manager at Google DeepMind. Her work focuses on supporting considerations around the the societal implications of the technology developed at Google DeepMind, with a focus on large language models, robotics foundation models, and vision-language models for agentic applications. She holds an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Leeds. She previously also held a position as a Student Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Alva Markelius

University of Cambridge (UK)

Alva is a PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR), Department of Computer Science, at the University of Cambridge and recipient of Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ award 2024. She is also chair of Centre for Human Inspired AI Early Career Community Committee. Her main research interests are the ethics of social AI and robotics, specifically in the intersection of embodied robotics and large language models. She obtained her MSt degree in AI Ethics & Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Tom Erez

Google DeepMind (UK)

Tom Erez is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on the open-source physics simulator MuJoCo. Tom got his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, and co-developed MuJoCo during his post-doc with Emo Todorov in Seattle.

Laetitia Tanqueray

Lund University (SE)

Laetitia Tanqueray is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Technology and Society, at Lund University, Sweden. Laetitia holds law degrees in English, Welsh and French Law (LLB and Master 1 respectively) and a Master's (MSc) in Sociology of Law. She investigates human-robot interactions (HRI) from a socio-legal lens in the context of health care. Her published work has mostly focused on informing HRI design, including in collaboration with HRI experts in the context of peripartum depression and informal caregivers.

Dr Yoon Kyung Lee

Seoul National University (KR)

Dr. Yoon Kyung Lee is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Psychological Science, Seoul National University. She previously held research roles at the University of Texas at Austin and lectured at the Samsung Art and Design Institute. Her research focuses on AI-generated empathy in human interactions and its impact on well-being. Her work has been presented in the areas of affective computing, human factors, and human-robot interaction. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Cognitive Psychology from SNU and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Iowa. Her current projects involve designing socially appropriate cues for robots using foundation models and evaluating how these cues align with human expectations, as well as investigating AI-based support for active, healthy aging

Professor Hatice Gunes

University of Cambridge (UK)

Hatice Gunes is a Full Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics & Director of the AFAR Lab at University of Cambridge. She spearheads award-winning research on multimodal, social, and affective intelligence for AI systems, particularly embodied agents and robots, by cross-fertilizing research in Machine Learning, Affective Computing and Nonverbal Behaviour Understanding. Prof Gunes has been named among the “World's Top 2% Scientists” by Stanford University in Elsevier for 5 consecutive years, she has also been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Fellowship to investigate adaptive robotic EQ for wellbeing and named a Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Professor Sowon Hahn

Seoul National University (KR)

Prof. Sowon Hahn is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Seoul National University and serves as the Head of the Active Aging HAI Center at the SNU AI Institute. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Riverside. Her work centers on human factors, affective science, and human-robot interaction. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in Psychology from Seoul National University.

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