About

Peter Jones MD PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and honorary clinical consultant psychiatrist at www.CPFT.nhs.uk where he co-established the multi-disciplinary Cameo early intervention service for young adults with a first episode of affective or non-affective psychotic illness. His research interests lie in the epidemiology, causes and treatments of psychotic disorders, though these interests have broadened to depression and anxiety as it has become clear these are common aspects of psychotic syndromes in young people at the early phases of their condition, and share common causes. For research publications see: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0387-880X

Ana Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) from the University of Lisbon and former Coordinator of GAIPS – “Group on AI for People and Society” at INESC-ID. Prof. Ana Paiva was also a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Prof. Paiva’s addresses problems and develops techniques for creating social agents that can simulate human-like behaviors and interact with humans in a natural and social manner. Over the years she has addressed this problem by engineering agents that can exhibit specific social communication competencies, including affective communication, culture, non-verbal behavior, empathy, collaboration, and others. Her more recent research combines methods from AI, social robotics and social modelling to study hybrid societies of humans and machines, in particular to engineer agents that lead to more cooperative, prosocial and altruistic societies. She has published extensively and received best paper awards in different conferences, in particular she won the first prize of the Blue Sky Awards at the AAAI in 2018. She has further advanced the area of artificial intelligence and social agents worldwide, having served for the Global Agenda Council in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the World Economic Forum and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Science Europe. She is an EurAI fellow, an ELLIS fellow and member of the extended core group of the CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI research in Europe).

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze is a Full Professor in Affective Computing and Interaction at the Interaction Centre of the University College London (UCL). She received her PhD in Computer Science for Biomedicine from the University of the Studies of Milan, Italy.