Momotaz Begum , University of New Hampshire

Momotaz Begum is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She directs the Humanitarian Robotics Lab at the UNH. Momotaz's research interest is in robot perception and learning within the context of humanitarian applications and human-robot interaction. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Waterloo, Canada where she worked on visual attention for embodied robots at the Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Momotaz worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Socially Intelligent Machines lab, Georgia Tech (2010-2011) and the Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab, University of Toronto (2012-2013). Prior to joining the University of New Hampshire, she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Momotaz's research is sponsored by NSF, AFRL, and IEEE. .

Selma Sabanovic , Indiana University

Selma Sabanovic is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing and the Cognitive Science Program. She is Director of the R-House Human-Robot Interaction Lab at IUB. Her work combines the social studies of computing, focusing particularly on the design, use, and consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots in different social and cultural contexts, with research on human-robot interaction (HRI) and social robot design. Her work in assistive robotics focuses on social robots in eldercare contexts, and includes field studies of robots in nursing homes and user homes, as well as collaborative design of assistive robots with older adults. She has published in conferences such as HRI, RO-MAN, and ICSR and journals such as International Journal of Social Robotics, Autonomous Robots, and the Journal of HRI. Selma has also participated in the organizing and program committees of HRI, RO-MAN, and ICSR. During Summer 2014, Selma was a Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University's Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence (CITEC). In 2008/2009, she was a lecturer in Stanford University's Program in Science, Technology and Society. She was a visiting scholar at the Intelligent Systems Institute in AIST, Tsukuba, Japan and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Selma received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2007. .