Research Scientist and lead of the Adaptive Systems Section at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence. Research in human-robot teaming, increasing the capabilities of robots that work around humans, developing systems that can adapt their performance to unforeseen or unpredictable changes in the environment. Implementer of theory-driven and technical HRI systems.

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Riek develops cognitively and clinically assistive robots and embodied AI systems which have applications in neurorehablitation, dementia caregiving, and acute care. A key tenant of Riek’s work is to further health equity via community-centered research, through long term collaborations with disabled people and healthcare workers. As HRI 2020 Program Chair, Riek started a new theme area on Reproducibility in HRI, the results of which are discussed in this paper. 

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Bhattacharjee wants to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations with activities of daily living. His work spans the fields of human-robot interaction, haptic perception, and robot manipulation and focuses on addressing the fundamental research question on how to leverage robot-world physical interactions in unstructured human environments to perform relevant activities of daily living. 

Professor and Director of General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Lab. Research interests began with modular robots that are made up of identical active components that can be arranged to form many different configurations, ranging from a snake robot to a humanoids. Yim has the world's record for the smallest flying self-powered robot and the first robot made out of ice. He is currently investigating truss robots for locomotion on the moon, microscopic robot locomotion and very high (100+) DOF snake-like robots.

Professor and Associate Director for Research in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. Research focused on human interaction with unmanned systems, including systems that incorporate a single human interacting with a single unmanned system in close proximity, multiple distributed humans interacting with swarms and colonies of unmanned systems, and decision support systems that support humans’ decision making processes with complex unmanned systems. Research efforts incorporate ground, aerial and marine unmanned systems in field and laboratory environments.

Founder and Executive Director of Semio Community. Semio Community is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization facilitating community-driven robotics hardware, software, and studies to foster reproducible, replicable, and generalizable science within human-robot interaction. Semio Community actively encourages multidisciplinary collaboration among academia, industry, and the public sector to drive innovation, ethical practices, and the widespread adoption of human-centered robotics technologies. * Mead is also a co-organizer.

Assistant Professor of Research in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. Wilson is a cognitive scientist specializing in human-robot teaming for uncertain and dynamic problem-solving, refining and deepening the decision support that mobile robots can provide to address the real-world challenges faced by domain experts. * Wilson is the main organizer, email her with questions.

Associate Professor in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. Research interests include physical human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics, haptics, robots in education, and robotic entertainers. Fitter aims to equip robots with the ability to engage and empower people in interactions from playful high-fives to challenging physical therapy routines.

Professor and Associate Director for Academics in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. Research interests cover the areas of human-robot interaction, long-term autonomy, software architectures for robotics, and the intersection of robots, law, and policy. 

PhD Student in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University. His doctoral work focuses on socially assistive robots for improved health behaviors, as well as impacts of robot appearance and robot-initiated prompting. Research interests broadly cover physically and socially assistive robots, robot appearance and communication methods, robustness in unstructured environments and during long-term persistent usage, and verification and validation of measures and methods.