ICRES2021 | Keynote Speakers

Amit Kumar Pandey

Biography
Amit Kumar Pandey (PhD, Robotics and AI) is robotics and AI scientist, and a believer in collaborative ecosystem building. He is the co-founder of Being AI and serving as the Chief AI Officer. He has also served as the President, Chief Science Officer (CSO) and CTO of Hanson Robotics, the creator of expressive humanoid robot, Sophia. He was the Chief Scientist at SoftBank Robotics Europe, Paris, France, the creator of the mass produced sociable humanoid robots Pepper and Nao. He worked as researcher in Robotics and AI at LAAS-CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Toulouse, France. His Research interest includes Robotics, AI and Society, addressing societal needs to achieve innovation through new technologies and ecosystem creation. He was appointed as the General Chair of 28th IEEE International Ro-Man 2019 conference. He is also the Founding coordinator of Socially Intelligent Robots and Societal Applications (SIRo-SA) Topic Group (TG) of euRobotics (the European Union Robotics Community), and contributing in Multi-Annual Roadmap for robotics in Europe. He has served as PI of various European Union Horizon 2020 collaborative projects in Robotics and AI for Healthcare, Education, Services, published 60+ research papers and delivered talks in 100+ international venues. He has been also serving as Robot Design Competition Chair of International Conference on Social Robotics. Some of his other recognitions include Best three PhD theses in Robotics the Europe for the prestigious Georges Giralt Award, by euRobotics, Innovation Leadership Award; Global Excellence Award; Achievers Award; Pravashi Bihari Samman Puruskar 2014.

More information:
Website: http://www.amitkpandey.com
LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/amitkrpandey

Title:
Robots and AI in the real world: Applications and Challenges

Never before in history, Robots, AI and IoT, all together have been so close to us, in our society. It is a revolution towards a new ecosystem of living, where AI is now the part of our lives and robots are catching up already. The intention is to facilitate a smarter, healthier, safer and happier life. Such artificial intelligent beings getting used in education, healthcare, retail, entertainment, art, science, and even to improve our understanding about ourselves, the human being. The talk will focus on some of such potential use cases, provide industrial and end users perspective, and discuss the scientific, technological and, social and ethical challenges we need to address as a community. The talk will open the floor by highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the domain, and the need of a bigger collaborative ecosystem.

Arlindo Oliveira

Biography
Arlindo Oliveira was born in Angola and has lived in Mozambique, Portugal, Switzerland and California. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and his PhD degree, also in EECS, from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He was a researcher at CERN, the Electronics Research Laboratory of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Cadence Laboratories. He is a distinguished professor of IST, president of INESC, member of the board of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and a researcher at INESC-ID. He authored three books, translated in different languages, and more than 150 articles in international conferences and journals, in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, bioinformatics and computer architecture. He has been on the boards of a number of companies and institutions and is a past president of INESC-ID and of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering and was president of Instituto Superior Técnico between 2012 and 2019. He received a number of prizes and distinctions, including the Technical University of Lisbon / Santander prize for excellence in research, in 2009.

Title:
Attention mechanisms and self-awareness in intelligent systems

Abstract:
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Sule Yildirim Yayilgan

Biography:
Associate Professor Sule Yildirim Yayilgan works at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 2009. She received a MSc. degree in Computer Engineering in 1995, and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science in 2002. She has worked more than 25 years in academia and served as Head of the Department between 2005-2009. She has participated in projects funded by EU Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Erasmus+ programs, the Research Council of Norway, the Regional Research Council of Norway and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway. She belongs to the Center for Cyber Information Security (ccis.no) and she is leading the research group MR PET: Multidisciplinary Research group on Privacy and data protEcTion. She has been supervising students at different academic levels and has been publishing more than 100 journal and conference papers.
Title:
Robotics and AIot: technical and ethical challenges

Abstract:
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Ansgar Koene

Biography:
Dr. Ansgar Koene is Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY (Ernst & Young) where he contributes to the work on AI governance, trusted AI frameworks and AI related public policy engagement. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Horizon Digital Economy Research institute (University of Nottingham) where he contributes to the policy impact and public engagement activities of the institute and the ReEnTrust and UnBias projects. Ansgar chairs the IEEE P7003 Standard for Algorithmic Bias Considerations working group, and participates in the IEEE standards, certification (ECPAIS) and the European Public Policy Committee for ICT. Other standards development work includes participation in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 AI and the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group for AI. He is a trustee for the 5Rgiths foundation for the Rights of Young People Online and is part of the 5Rights Digital Futures Committee. Ansgar has a multi-disciplinary research background, having worked and published on topics ranging from Policy and Governance of Algorithmic Systems (AI), data-privacy, AI Ethics, AI Standards, bio-inspired Robotics, AI and Computational Neuroscience to experimental Human Behaviour/Perception studies. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.
Title:
AI Ethics Standards and Regulation for a Trustworthy AI ecosystem
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Sarah Fletcher

Biography:

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Title:
Are we ready to expect people to work with industrial robots?

Abstract:
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