Reuth Mirsky is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Computer Science Department at Bar Ilan University and is the head of the Goal-optimization using Learning and Decision-making (GOLD) lab. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Ben Gurion University and was a postdoc at the University of Texas until 2022. In her research, Reuth is interested in the similarities and differences between AI and natural intelligence, and how these can be used to extend AI. Reuth is an active member of the AI and HRI research communities and was selected as one of the 2020 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Rising Stars.

Tom Williams is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines, where he directs the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab. Prior to joining Mines, Tom earned a joint PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Tufts University in 2017. Tom’s research focuses on enabling and understanding natural language based human-robot interaction that is sensitive to environmental, cognitive, social, and moral context. His work is funded by grants from NSF, ONR, and ARL, as well as by Early Career awards from NSF, NASA, and AFOSR.

Maha Salem is a Senior User Experience Researcher at WhatsApp (previously at Google) focusing on International Research, Emerging Markets and Policy Research. Prior to her first industry research job at Google, Maha spent almost 7 years conducting academic research: she completed a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Robot Interaction at Bielefeld University, Germany, followed by a Research Associate role at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and a Research Fellow role at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Maha is particularly interested in robot errors and the dynamics of human-robot trust and is currently serving as a co-editor for the Research Topic on "Imperfect Human-Robot Interactions" which will appear in the journal 'Frontiers in Robotics and AI'. 

Friederike Eyssel is professor of psychology and head of the research group “Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research” at the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany. Friederike Eyssel earned her Masters degree in Psychology from University of Heidelberg in 2004. She received her PhD in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2007. Dr. Eyssel has held visiting professorships in social psychology at the University of Münster, the Technical University of Dortmund, the University of Cologne, and the New York University Abu Dhabi.  Dr. Eyssel is passionate about basic and applied social psychological research and she is interested in various research topics ranging from social robotics, trust, and acceptance of novel techlologies  to attitudes and attitude change. Crossing disciplines, Dr. Eyssel has published her research in leading venues the field of social psychology and  human-robot interaction. She is co-author of various textbooks on social robots, among them “HRI: An introduction (2020, Cambridge University Press), “Robots in Education” (2021, Routledge) or “Theory and practice of sociosensitive and socioactive systems” (2022, Springer).

Ingar Brinck is interested in embodied and situated cognition and communication from a philosophical and psychological perspective. Present work concerns social robots and HRI, being in dialogue with materials, improvisation, situated ethics and care, emotion-perception-motor cognition, 4E aesthetics, development, social cognition, cooperation, joint attention, intersubjectivity, engagement. Advisor of PhD dissertations in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy of religion. Interdisciplinary research group CogComLab. Member of Cognitive Modeling Group. Member of Management team of WASP-HS. Affiliated to Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. https://www.lucs.lu.se/lucs-robotics-group http://www.institutnicod.org/ https://wasp-hs.org/ Teaching philosophy since 1989.