Speakers

Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRII)
Barcelona, Spain

Guillem Alenyà is Researcher and Director at the Institut de Robotica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), a joint centre of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) and Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He received a PhD degree (Doctor Europeus) from UPC in 2007 with a work on mobile robot navigation using active contours, which he partly developed at the Robosoft company in France, where he was supported by a EU-FP6 Marie-Curie scholarship. He has been visitor at KIT-Karlsruhe (2007), INRIA-Grenoble (2008) and BRL-Bristol(2016). He has participated in numerous scientific and technological transfer projects involving image understanding, next-best-view, rule learning from human examples and planing execution tasks. His current research is devoted to facilitate the introduction of robots in human environments, principally in the fields of assistive robotics and garment manipulation. He is coordinator of various projects on developing enabling technologies for assistive robotics: ROB-IN about personalization and explainability, CLOE-GRAPH about high-level representation of tasks and explainability (coIP J. Borras), and principal investigator in the SeCuRoPS project, about privacy and safety in HRI, and BURG, about benchmarking and repeteability. He has been coordinator of the SIMBIOTS project on cooperative robots and HuMoUR (on human-to-robot skills transfer, co-IP F. Moreno), and principal investigator of the SOCRATES project (on quality of interaction for social robots).

Ben Gurion University
Beersheba, Israel

Shelly Levy-Tzedek received the BSc degree in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002, and the MSc and PhD degrees in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2004 and 2008, respectively. She heads the Cognition, Aging, and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the Department of Physical Therapy at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she is also a member of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience and the ABC robotics initiative. In 2018–2019 she was awarded a Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie visiting professorship at the FRIAS Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has been awarded the Pedagogica Award for Outstanding New Researchers, in 2016 and the Toronto Prize for excellence in research in 2018. Her work is funded by national and international foundations - both public and private

 Sorbonne Universite
Paris, France

Prof. Mohamed Chetouani is currently a Full Professor in signal processing and machine learning for human-machine interaction. He is affiliated to the PIRoS (Perception, Interaction et Robotique Sociales) research team at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (CNRS UMR 7222), Sorbonne University (formerly Pierre and Marie Curie University). His activities cover social signal processing, social robotics and interactive machine learning with applications in psychiatry, psychology, social neuroscience and education. He was the coordinator of the ANIMATAS H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network (2018-2022). Since 2019, he is the President of the Sorbonne University Ethics Committee. He was involved in several educational activities including organization of summer schools. He is member of the EU Network of Human-Centered AI. He is General Chair of ACM ICMI 2023. He is in charge of the inclusion of Students with Disabilities for the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Sorbonne University.

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Pisa, Italy

Prof. Andrea Bertolini is Assistant professor of private law at the Dirpolis Institute, and adjunct professor in private law at the University of Pisa, his research ranges from private law (contracts, torts and the law of obligations) to technology regulation (robotics and AI), and bioethics, with a comparative and law and economics approach. Since 2015, he is the coordinator of a SIR national project ‘RELIABLE’, of a Jean Monnet Module ‘Europe Regulates Robotics’, and since 2017 scientific coordinator for the WP on ‘Liability and Risk Management’ in robotic applications (Horizon 2020 project INBOTS). On such matters, he is often heard by policy makers and international organizations, including the European Parliament and Commission, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and the World Economic Forum. Dr Bertolini holds undergraduate degrees in law from SSSA and the University of Pisa, a Ph.D in private law from SSSA, as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Yale Law School. He is an attorney licensed to practice in Italy and New York.