Speakers

Keynote: Dr Katie Seaborn

Katie Seaborn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics (IEE), Associate Faculty Member in the Engineering Sciences and Design (ESD) program, and Director of the Aspirational Computing Lab (established 2020) at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). Before academia, Dr. Seaborn worked in the public and private sectors as an interaction designer, user experience developer, and web programmer in Canada and the UK.

Panelist: Dr Bahar Irfan

Bahar Irfan is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Digital Futures fellow at KTH. Her research focuses on creating personal robots that can continually learn and adapt to assist in everyday life. She is the founder and coordinator of the Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI) workshop at the HRI conference since 2021. Currently, she is working on lifelong learning in large language models to develop a conversational companion robot for older adults. Prior to joining KTH, she held research positions at Evinoks and Disney Research. She received her PhD from the University of Plymouth and SoftBank Robotics Europe as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow, where she worked on multi-modal personalization in socially assistive and service robots.

Panelist: Dr Stefan Larsson

Stefan Larsson is a senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University, Sweden, Department of Technology and Society. He leads a multidisciplinary research group that focuses on issues of trust and transparency and the socio-legal impact of autonomous and AI-driven technologies in various domains, such as on consumer markets, in the public sector, for health and social robotics.

Panelist: Kim Malfacini

Kim Malfacini is on the Product Policy team at OpenAI. In this role, Kim is focused on developing policies that govern the use of AI models and products and promoting responsible AI use by developers. Prior to joining OpenAI, Kim worked at Meta - formerly Facebook - on the team that develops the Community Standards for what users can share on Meta’s platforms. Kim focused on ensuring these standards were informed and strengthened by the views of outside experts and users across the globe. Previously, Kim served as Director of Public Policy for Sunrun Inc., the largest residential solar energy provider in the US, and spent two years in the West African nation of Benin with the US Peace Corps. Kim is a graduate of UCLA and is pursuing a Masters degree in AI Ethics & Society at the University of Cambridge.

Panelist: Dr YoonKyung Lee

Yoon Kyung Lee

Yoon Kyung Lee received PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Seoul National University. She specialises in affective science, social cognition, language models, and empathic AI.

She is incoming Postdoc at SNU and recently was a Social Science/Humanities Research Professional at the University of Texas at Austin. She was also a lecturer at the Samsung Design and Art Institute. Yoon Kyung received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Iowa and her M.A. in Cognitive Psychology from Seoul National University. Her current projects focus on enhancing AI empathy in social robots and healthcare systems.

yoonlee78 [at] snu [dot] ac [dot] kr & yklee [at] utexas [dot] edu

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