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Yiannis Aloimonos
University of Maryland

Yiannis Aloimonos is Professor of Computational Vision and Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He is also affiliated with the Institute for Systems Research and the Neural and Cognitive Science Program. He was born in Sparta, Greece and studied Mathematics in Athens and Computer Science at the University of Rochester, NY (PhD 1990). He is interested in Active Perception and the modeling of vision as an active, dynamic process for real time robotic systems. For the past five years he has been working on bridging signals and symbols, specifically on the relationship of vision to reasoning, action and language.

Gordon Cheng
Technical University of Munich

Gordon Cheng has made pioneering contributions in Humanoid Robotics, Neuroengineering, and Artificial Intelligence for over 20 years. Since 2010, he has held the Chair Professor for Cognitive Systems and the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Prof. Cheng is the Program Director of the Elite Master of Science in Neuroengineering of the Elite Network of Bavaria, a highly selective and unique study program in Germany. He is also the coordinator of the Center of Competence Neuro-Engineering. Gordon Cheng is the co-inventor of 20 patents and has co-authored over 450 technical publications, proceedings, editorials, books, and book chapters. The IEEE acknowledged this interdisciplinarity when he was named IEEE Fellow in 2017 for his “contributions in humanoid robotic systems and neurorobotics.” His research interests include NeuroRobotics, Humanoid Robotics, Imitation Learning, Cognitive Systems, Artificial Intelligence and NeuroEngineering.

Silvia Rossi
University of Naples Federico II

Silvia Rossi is a full professor of Computer Science at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples Federico II. She serves as the scientific director of the PRISCA Lab (Projects of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Cognitive Systems – https://www.prisca.unina.it). Prof. Rossi holds an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II (2001) and a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Trento (2006). She has played a key role in numerous EU and international research projects and is currently the principal investigator and coordinator of several major initiatives, including the MSCA-ITN-2020 PERSEO (European Training Network on Personalized Robotics as Service Oriented applications), HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN SWEET (Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs), and HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN TRAIL (TRAnsparent, InterpretabLe Robots). She also coordinates the national PRIN project ADVISOR (ADaptiVe legIble robotS for trustwORthy health coaching). Prof. Rossi chaired the RO-MAN conferences in 2020 and 2022 and is an active member of program committees for leading conferences in human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence. Her research focuses on Socially Assistive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive Architectures, and User Profiling and Recommender Systems. Her work explores computational methods for designing autonomous agents that can adapt their behavior to effectively interact with and support users. Prof. Rossi has authored over 190 publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings, advancing the fields of robotics and AI.