Bipin Indurkhya is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. His main research interests are social robotics, usability engineering, affective computing and creativity. He received his Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) in 1981, and PhD in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1985. He has taught at various universities in the US, Japan, India, Germany and Poland; and has led national and international research projects with collaborations from companies like Xerox and Samsung.

Georgi Stojanov is a professor of computer science at the American University of Paris (AUP). He received his MSc (in bio-signals processing: EEG, EMG, EOG) in 1993 and his PhD degree in Computer Science and AI from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sts Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia in 1997. In 2000, he founded the Cognitive Robotics Group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje. In 2001, he was appointed as associate professor at the same faculty. Between 2001 and 2004, Stojanov has been a postdoc/visiting scholar at the University of Trieste, Italy, Les Archives Jean Piaget in Geneva, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Paris, and at the Institute for Non-linear Science, University of California in San Diego. He has been teaching at The American University of Paris since fall 2005.

Stojanov is co-founder of the Institute for Interactivist Studies and member of organizing committee of the bi-annual Interactivist Summer Institute (ISI). Throughout his career he has been a member of EUCog (European network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics), AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), ISAB (International Society for Adaptive Behavior), and JPS (Jean Piaget Society). He has been a member of the program committees of numerous conferences, symposia, and workshops in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Developmental Robotics.

Christiana Tsiourti is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Vision4Robotics group at the ACIN Institute of Automation and Control at TU Wien (Austria). Christiana received her PhD from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and holds a Masters and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (Cyprus). Between 2011 and 2013, she was a researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Christiana´s research is focused on the design and development of affective socially intelligent agents (robots and virtual agents) that autonomously integrate into our daily life environments and possess social skills, such as the automatic understanding of the user’s actions and emotional states, and the production of coherent emotional feedback.​

Xela is a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Gentiane Venture.