Mentors

Dr. Alexis E. Block

SaPHaRI Lab @ Human Fusions Institute 

Case Western Reserve University

Social-physical HRI, haptics, social robotics, studies involving physiological data.

Dr. Cindy Bethel

Computer Science & Engineering 

Mississippi State University

Applications associated with robot therapeutic support, information gathering from children, and the use of robots for law enforcement, search and rescue, and military operations.

Dr. Hee Rin Lee 

Media & Information

Michigan State University

Robots for social good, participatory design, collaborative design, critical design, health and social informatics.

Dr. Maartje de Graaf

Information & Computer Science

University of Utrecht 

Robots for society, communication science, experimental studies, qualitative studies, complex data analysis, long-term field studies.

Dr. Takanori Komatsu

Cognitive Science

Meiji University, Japan

Affective interaction, group interaction, human-robot

collaboration, robotic teammates, human-robot trust.

Dr. Tony Belpaeme

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

Ghent University

Artificial intelligence, social robotics, cognitive

systems.

Dr. Anara Sandygulova

Engineering & Digital Sciences,

Nazarbayev University,

Kazakhstan

Human-robot interaction,Social Robotics, Artificial Intelligence.