Dr. Karinne Ramirez-Amaro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology since 2022. In 2019, she became an Assistant Professor at Chalmers in the research group of Mechatronics. Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her PhD (summa cum laude) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the TUM, Germany in 2015. She received the Laura Bassi award granted by TUM and the Bavarian government in 2015, also in that year she received the prize of excellent Doctoral degree for female engineering students, granted by the state of Bavaria, Germany. In 2011, she received the Google Anita Borg scholarship. In 2009, she was granted a scholarship for a PhD research by DAAD – CONACYT grant.  In 2022, Karinne was elected as a member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and she is the chair of the IEEE RAS Women in Engineering (WiE). Her research interests include Semantic Representations, Interpretable methods, and Human Activity Recognition and Understanding.

Dr. Emmanuel Dean is a senior researcher at Chalmers University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechatronics and brings over two decades of international research and teaching experience across Mexico, Germany, and Sweden. He has led and contributed to major EU, German, and Swedish projects on collaborative robotics, artificial skin, and intelligent rehabilitation technologies. His work bridges advanced robotics and human-centered design, resulting in systems that are safer, smarter, and more intuitive. Dean has co-authored over 80 publications, many in top-tier robotics and AI venues. He has supervised more than 40 theses and helped launch the careers of postdocs and PhD graduates now in academia and industry. At Chalmers, he co-founded the CASE AI Robotics Lab and leads initiatives under the CHAIR research center. He also co-chairs the IEEE RAS DEI committee and contributes actively to international robotics conferences. His current focus is on physical Human-Robot Collaboration, multimodal sensor fusion, and adaptive robotic physiotherapy.