IWSDS 2025

MEET THE

ORGANIZERS

Local Organisation:

• Josu Jugo (University of the Basque Country)

• Raquel Justo (University of the Basque Country)

• Asier López (University of the Basque Country)

• Ying Torres (University of the Basque Country)

• Amparo Varona (University of the Basque Country)

• Alain Vázquez (University of the Basque Country)

• Antonio Aparicio (University of the Basque Country)

• Javier Mikel Olaso (Vicomtech)

• Aitor Egusquizaga (Student)

Program Committee:

• Cristina Aceta, Tekniker, Spain

• Angus Addlesee, Heriot-Watt University, UK

• Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA

• Rafael E. Banchs, Intapp Inc., USA

• Timo Baumann, OTH Regensburg, Germany

• Leila Ben Letaifa, CESI, France

• Aakash Bhatnagar, Boston University, USA

• Susanne Burger, Solventum, USA

• Felix Burkhardt, audEERING GmbH, Germany

• Yuya Chiba, NTT, Japan

• Luis Fernando D’Haro, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

• Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK

• Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

• Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

• Daniel Hernández Garcia, Heriot-Watt University, UK

• Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University & NTT, Japan

• Stefan Hillmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

• Koji Inoue, Kyoto University, Japan

• Kristiina Jokinen, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Japan

• Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan

• Seiya Kawano, RIKEN, Japan

• Casey Kennington, Boise State University, USA

• Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan

• Maria Koutsombogera, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Fabrice Lefèvre, University of Avignon, France

• Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Oier López de Lacalle, University of the Basque Country, Spain

• Asier López Zorrilla, University of the Basque Country, Spain

• Naveen Sai Madiraju, Google, USA

• Khyati Mahajan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

• Wolfgang Maier, Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany

• Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Joseph Mariani, LISN-CNRS, France

• MIchael McTear, Ulster University, UK

• Masahiro Mizukami, NTT , Japan

• Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

• Mikio Nakano, C4A Research Institute Inc., Japan

• Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Disney Research, Switzerland

• Alexandros Papangelis, Amazon Alexa AI, USA

• Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS-ISIR & Sobornne University, France

• Jose Quesada, University of Seville, Spain

• Angela Ramirez, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

• Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy

• Sophie Rosset, LISN-CNRS, France

• Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology & RIKEN, Japan

• Oscar Saz, Emotech LTD., UK

• Bjoern Schuller, Imperial College London, UK / Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kore University of Enna, Italy

• Svetlana Stoyanchev, Toshiba Research Europe, UK

• Hiroaki Sugiyama, NTT, Japan

• David Traum, University of Southern California, USA

• Stefan Ultes, University of Bamberg, Germany

• Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Nicolas Wagner, University of Bamberg, Germany

• Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

• Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

• Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Kheng Hui Yeo, I2R, Japan

• Koichiro Yoshino, RIKEN & Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

• Akishige Yuguchi, RIKEN & Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan