Kate Saenko is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Boston University (currently on leave) and AI Research Scientist at FAIR Labs, Meta. She leads the Computer Vision and Learning Group at BU, is the founder and co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) initiative, and member of the Image and Video Computing research group. Previously she was a consulting professor for the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Kate received a PhD from MIT and did her postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and Harvard. Her research interests are in the broad area of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on dataset bias, adaptive machine learning, learning for image and language understanding, and deep learning.

Cornelia Fermüller cofounded the Autonomy Cognition and Robotics (ARC)  Lab and co-lead the Perception and Robotics Group at the University of Maryland. She is the principal investigator for an NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center Network for Neuromorphic Engineering and co-organizes the Neuromorphic Engineering and Cognition Workshop. Her research spans Computer Vision, Robotics, and Human Vision, focusing on biologically-inspired solutions for active vision systems, including work on robot vision for collaborative robots and fast active robots using bio-inspired sensors. Fermüller's work integrates perception, action, and reasoning to advance robot capabilities, notably in interpreting human actions and enhancing motion processing for robots like drones.