Invited Talks

Invited Speakers

Prof. Yukie Nagai

Yukie Nagai is a Project Professor at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence at the University of Tokyo. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University in 2004, after which she worked at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Bielefeld University, and then Osaka University. Since 2019, she has been leading the Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab at the University of Tokyo. Her research encompasses cognitive developmental robotics, computational neuroscience, and assistive technologies for developmental disorders. Dr. Nagai employs computational methods to investigate the underlying neural mechanisms involved in social cognitive development. In acknowledgment of her work, she received the titles of "World's 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics" in 2020 and "35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science" in 2022, among other recognitions.

Prof. Maria Eugenia Beltrán

Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltrán Jaunsarás, is Information Systems Engineer (Univ. Metropolitana, Venezuela), with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), and MBA in Health International Management (Thunderbird, Arizona).

She is currently Senior R&D Project Manager and Head of Big Data in LifeSTech. Her areas of interest are AI, analytics and decision support systems; human-robot & human-machine interaction; Health Technology Assessment (HTA); Intelligent interfaces, user experience, patient/citizen empowerment and social-behavioural change driven digital transformation; societal resilience; Big Data solutions and software architectures to support the integration of heterogenous ecosystem and multi-blockchain infrastructures, health data compliance; applying research of these areas to people at work, home, leisure, education or healthcare scenarios, for building a better society.

Panelists

Paola Ardón, PhD

Dr Paola Ardón is a Lead Researcher in Manipulation and BioRobotics in the Autonomous Robotics Research Center at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi. In the ARRC, she is focusing on applied research problems including aerial manipulation, generative AI for embodied systems and healthcare robotics. She completed her PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) at The University of Edinburgh, UK. Back then, she combined her PhD with a Research Assistant position in the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub. Overall, in her research career, she focuses on bridging perception-to-action by filling the technical gaps in classical robotic manipulation so that robots achieve ‘intelligent' behaviours to assist humans across multiple tasks. As such, her research interests are in robot grasping and manipulation, machine learning, task planning and human-centred robotics.

Rana Azzam, PhD

Dr. Rana Azzam is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Khalifa University Centre of Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS). She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2014), an M.Sc. by Research in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2016), and a Ph.D. in Engineering with a focus on Robotics (2020), all from Khalifa University.

She is currently working on developing intelligent UAV swarms using advanced learning approaches. Her research interests also include deep learning, navigation systems, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Dr. Azzam’s work is dedicated to advancing autonomous systems and introducing intelligence into various aspects of robotics.

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