Professor Chihyung Jeon

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST (KR)

Chihyung Jeon's academic training is in STS (science, technology & society) with a focus on historical and anthropological analyses of human dimensions of technology. Jeon conducts research mainly on the relationship between humans and technologies within social and cultural contexts, examining various policy issues that arise from specific human-technology-society configurations. He is interested in the feelings of control, empowerment, intimacy, anxiety, and loneliness that humans have in front of machines. In 2024, he produced (with Heesun Shin) a documentary film on the use of eldercare robots in South Korea ("Hug Me Tight: A Robot Story"). Jeon has served as a council member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and is currently serving as the president of the Korean Association of STS. He is also a founding editor-in-chief of a Korean science-society magazine EPI.

Charlie Ovink

United Nations (UN)

Charles specializes in responsible innovation, the impact of emerging technologies on disarmament, and military uses of AI. He has served as Associate Political Affairs Officer at the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, Programme Manager for UNU-WIDER, and a consultant for UNU and Creative Environmental Networks. He has led responsible innovation work with New York University, Umeå University, Sorbonne University Pierre & Marie Curie, the University of Tokyo, Nanyang Technological University, and the ASEAN Foundation, among others. He is a frequent speaker on Responsible AI in the military domain, including for the Stockholm Security Conference, Nikkei AI Summit, and as an expert witness for the UK House of Lords. He has written on AI in his UN capacity for IEEE Spectrum and others. He is a member of the IEEE-Standards Association Group on Issues of Autonomy and AI for Defense Systems. 

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.

Dr. Carolina Parada

Google DeepMind (UK)

Dr. Carolina Parada is a Senior Director and lead of the Google DeepMind Robotics team, where our mission is to build the most advanced embodied AI responsibly to benefit humanity. Carolina is passionate about developing useful robots in everyday life through human centered robot learning, and her background is in controls and deep learning for robot-perception, mobility, simulation, and embodied reasoning. Before GDM Robotics, Carolina has also led perception teams for self-driving cars at Nvidia. At Google, she was also a lead in the Speech team, where she spearheaded multiple research efforts that enabled voice products at Google, including Voicesearch, Ok Google and Google Home.

Dr. Yoon Kyung Lee

Seoul National University

Dr. Yoon Kyung Lee is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Psychological Science, Seoul National University. Her research focuses on AI-generated empathy in human interactions and its impact on well-being. 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.

Tom Erez

Google DeepMind

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.

Serin Oh

Seoul National University 

Serin Oh is a master’s student in the Human Factors Psychology Lab at Seoul National University, majoring in cognitive psychology. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from Seoul National University. Her research interests include human–AI/robot collaboration aimed at reducing stigma, as well as technologies for active and healthy aging.

Seonu An

Seoul National University

Seonu An is a master’s student in the Human Factors Psychology Lab at Seoul National University, majoring in cognitive psychology. She had received a B.A. in psychology from Chung-Ang University. Her research focuses on cognitive appraisal, particularly how people interpret and evaluate situations in the context of human–AI interaction. She is currently working on a project developing an AI-based interactive program for active aging.

Metin Toksoz-Exley

Google DeepMind

Metin Toksoz-Exley is an AI Ethics and Safety Evaluations Manager at Google DeepMind. His work focuses on developing and implementing evaluations to assess and mitigate ethics and safety risks in frontier AI models.

Demetra Brady

Google DeepMind

Demetra Brady is an AI Ethics & Safety Manager at Google DeepMind. Her work focuses on supporting considerations around 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. 

Frankie Garcia

Google DeepMind

Dr. Vincent Boulain

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SE)

Vincent Boulanin is Senior Researcher and Director of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Programme at SIPRI. He leads SIPRI’s research on how to govern the impact of artificial intelligence on international peace and security. He has written extensively on the development, use and control of autonomy in weapon systems and military applications of artificial intelligence. He has briefed the UN Security Council on the impact of emerging technologies on international peace and security and presented several times before the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. He has led collaborative projects with international organisations such as the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Institute for Electronic and Electric Engineers (IEEE). He was appointed high-level expert to the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the military domain in 2024. 

Dr. Vikas Sindhwani

Google DeepMind (UK)

Vikas Sindhwani is Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in New York where he leads the Robotics Safety and Alignment Team. His interests are broadly in core mathematical foundations of machine learning, and in end-to-end design aspects of building large-scale, safe and robust AI systems.

His work has received the Best Paper Award at Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2013); the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Award in 2014; the Best Paper Award for Robot Manipulation at ICRA-2024; the Best RoboCup Paper Award at IROS-2024; and nomination for Outstanding Planning Paper Award at ICRA-2022.

He previously headed the Machine Learning group at IBM Research, NY. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a B.Tech in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai. His publications are available at: https:vikas.sindhwani.org/papers.html

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.