Maria Gini
Professor
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science
Member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1998-.
Winner of the Inaugural Distinguished Women Scholars Award, University of Minnesota, 2001.
Areas of interest: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents.

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research
Fellow of the Singapore - MIT Alliance

Professor
Algorithms & Applications Group
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
USA
Research Interests: algorithmic solutions for problems in areas such as computational biology (e.g., protein folding and drug design), motion planning (e.g., animation and robotics), computational geometry, parallel and distributed computing (e.g., parallel algorithms, performance modeling & prediction), and computational science (e.g., physics, geosciences, neuroscience)

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Human-Machine Teaming Laboratory
Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: My lab, the Human-Machine Teaming laboratory pursues projects related to 1) Human-robotic interaction and 2) multiple robot coordination and cooperation.

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Assistive Technology, Multi-agent communication

Naoko Ogawa
JSPS Research Fellow
Department of Information Physics and Computing,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

Professor, Computer Science and Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Humanoid Robotics, Human Animation, Passive Animation, Group Behaviors

WiSE Postdoctodral Fellow working with Maja Mataric' at the USC Interaction Lab
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction for socially assistive applications

Lecturer
Program in Science, Technology & Society
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Research interests: social robotics, human-robot interaction (HRI), impact of cultural factors on robot design, the application of social science research methods and theory to the study of HRI, fine-grained behavioral analysis, collection and coding of HRI video data.