Prof. Iolanda Leite is  Associate Professor at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She received my PhD degree from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST). Before joining KTH, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Social Robotics Lab and an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research Pittsburgh. The goal of her research is to develop social robots that can capture, learn from and respond appropriately to the subtle dynamics that characterize real-world situations, allowing for truly efficient and engaging long-term interactions with people.

Dr. Laurel Riek is a Full Professor and David R. Miller Endowed Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, and also has appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Contextual Robotics Institute, and Design Lab. Dr. Riek directs the Healthcare Robotics Lab, and leads research in human-robot teaming, assistive robotics, embodied AI, and health informatics, and builds intelligent systems which work with people. Riek’s current research projects have applications in acute care, neurorehabilitation, and home health, and works on furthering health equity through community-driven research efforts. Dr. Riek has received the NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Qualcomm Research Award, and multiple best paper awards. Dr. Riek leads the ONR MURI HUDDLE project. Prof. Riek currently serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction (THRI), and previously served as the HRI 2023 General Co-Chair and HRI 2020 Program Co-Chair.

Minsu Jang, a Principal Researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, and an Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology, South Korea, specializes in advancing adaptive and open-world intelligence for social and service robots. His research aims to foster flexible and natural interactions between humans and robots, contributing to the development of robots that not only perform tasks efficiently but also learn effectively in real-world scenarios. He plays an active role in the Korea Robotics Society and in the academic community, organizing workshops and editing for robotics journals.

Somaya Ben Allouch is leading the Digital Life Research Group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She is an endowed professor of Human-System Interaction for Health & Wellbeing at the University of Amsterdam. Her research expertise involves human-centred interaction, acceptance, (long-term) use, and evaluation of digital technologies. Specifically, she investigates social robotics, ubiquitous technologies, assistive technologies, and wearables. Somaya Ben Allouch has been working from 2002 to 2014 at the University of Twente (The Netherlands), where she earned her PhD in 2008, focusing on developing, accepting, and using ambient intelligent technologies. Somaya has been a visiting researcher at the Ambient Intelligence Research Lab of Stanford University in 2011 and 2012. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments and a guest editor for journals such as the Journal of Social Robotics and the Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. She is involved in various (inter)national competitively third-party funded research projects and supervises various PhD projects.

Principal Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe, located in France and owned by the Korean internet giant Naver. NAVER LABS Europe is the largest private AI lab in France. Her work focuses on research in Human-Machine Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction. As Principal Scientist, she plays a cross-functional role across the various research groups within the Interactive Systems group, aiming to define interdisciplinary projects for the application and evaluation of machine learning techniques. Her research contribution lies in identifying user needs and informing technology development to meet them, mainly through qualitative studies. Recently, she has been studying the ethics of AI to inform the design of privacy aware robotics and trustworthy interaction with AI enabled technology.

https://europe.naverlabs.com/people_user_naverlabs/antonietta-grasso/

Alessandro Di Nuovo is a Professor of Machine Intelligence at Sheffield Hallam University, where he leads the AI, Robotics, and Digital research theme at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Institute and the Smart Interactive Technologies Research Laboratory. His distinguished career in machine intelligence and technological innovation has attracted over £3 million in research funding, supporting groundbreaking projects in neuro-developmental and socially assistive robotics. Notable projects include the Horizon Europe PRIMI project, the H2020 MSCA PERSEO and the EPSRC EMERGENCE and I’M-ACTIVE projects. Di Nuovo has served in various editorial roles, including Topic Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, and has been a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2014.

Patrick Holthaus is a Senior Research Fellow in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). His research focus is social robotics, including a robot's nonverbal robot signalling, social credibility, and trust in assistive robots. As manager of the Robot House, a unique facility for human-robot interaction, he brings together real-world applications and fundamental robotics research. Patrick is currently a CoI of the Horizon Europe project SWAG and the EPSRC Network+ EMERGENCE and has been a CoI of the UKRI TAS hub's pump priming project Kaspar explains and the AAIP-funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility. Patrick is an associate editor of three international journals and co-organiser of the SCRITA workshop series and various special sessions at the RO-MAN conference.