Subgroup 05 | Appendix Standardization

Subgroup 05 | Appendix Standardization

Shelly Bagchi (Chair)

| Electrical Engineer, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), Website:  https://www.nist.gov/people/shelly-bagchi 

Shelly Bagchi is an Electrical Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Shelly is the Project Lead for the Digital Twins and Emerging Technology for SMEs Project within the Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics Program at NIST.  Her research interests are in human-robot interaction, replicability & reproducibility, and augmented reality.  Shelly chairs the IEEE Standards Group P3108,  Recommended Practice for Human-Robot Interaction Design of Human Subject Studies, and is the secretary for IEEE P3107, Standard Terminology for Human-Robot Interaction.  She serves as a volunteer organizer for several events, including the International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (tahri.org) and the annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (humanrobotinteraction.org). 

Connor Esterwood

| University of Michigan (USA)

Paul Pridham

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Zhao Han

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Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman

| Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

Snehesh Shrestha

| UMD PhD Candidate/ NIST PREP Researcher (USA) Website: https://www.Snehesh.com

Snehesh Shrestha is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland College Park. He works in the Perception and Robotics Group (PRG) lab in the Department of Computer Science under the guidance of Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos (CS), Dr. Cornelia Fermüller (UMAICS), Dr. Ge Gao (INFO), and Dr. Irina Muresanu (School of Music). His research is at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, human factors, arts, and culture. He is interested in multidisciplinary research aimed at building rich and intuitive experiences that ‘amplify human abilities, empowering people and ensuring human control.’ His recent work includes natural repair mechanisms in HRI and AI-empowered music education.

Gloria Beraldo

| National Research Council of Italy Website: https://www.istc.cnr.it/en/people/gloria-beraldo

Gloria Beraldo received the M.Sc. degree cum laude in computer science engineering and the Ph.D. in information engineering with Doctor Europaeus mention from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. She was a visiting researcher at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in 2019 and at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the TERRINet (European Robotics Research Infrastructures) initiative. She is currently a postdoc at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council. She is involved in the SI-ROBOTICS (Social robotics for active and healthy ageing) project. She is also a contract professor at the University of Padova. Her research is focused on designing novel semi-autonomous human-robot interactions with particular attention to the case of brain–machine interface-driven robotics devices. She is investigating how to decode high-level user intention, for instance from his/her brain activity, through supervised machine learning techniques and fuse it with the perception of the robot to achieve advanced forms of human-robot interaction. Her research interests include human–robot interaction shared control and shared autonomy, telepresence robots, neurorobotics, socially assistive robotics, and intelligent systems.

Daniel Hernandez Garcia

| Heriot-Watt University (UK) Website: https://dhgarcia.github.io/

Daniel Hernández García is a Research Fellow at the Interaction Lab, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. His research lies at the intersection of HRI and AI, with a focus on developing socially aware intelligent autonomous systems that can work with and for humans, particularly in assistive, collaborative or education scenarios. He works on the application of data-driven and deep learning approaches for deploying autonomous systems applications in real scenarios with human users.

Patrick Holthaus

| University of Hertfordshire (UK), Website: https://patrick.holthaus.info/

Patrick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Robotics Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). His research revolves around social robotics and focuses on nonverbal interactive signals, social credibility and trust in assistive and companion robots. He is further interested in interaction architectures and behaviour coordination as well as systems integration in heterogeneous environments. Patrick has extensive expertise in social human-robot interaction and experimentation and is highly skilled with a large array of robotic and sensing technologies. As manager of the Robot House, a unique facility for human-robot interaction, he brings together real-world applications and fundamental robotics research. Patrick coordinates all research activities inside Robot House, supports internal and external collaborators in using the facilities, and advises them while conducting research. He is also a supervisor of several PhD students and a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, teaching advanced research topics in computer science and other modules. Patrick is involved in the organisation of various international conferences and workshops as well as public scientific dissemination events. He has been general chair of UKRAS’21 and publication chair of HAI’17, the organiser of workshops at ICMI’16, HAI’17, and RO-MAN’18-22 and special sessions at RO-MAN’21-23. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics, Paladyn – Journal of Behavioral Robotics, and Interaction Studies, as well as associate topic editor for human-robot/machine interaction at the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.

Alessandra Rossi

| University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Website: https://alessandrarossi.net

Alessandra is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, working as part of Italian PON R&I 2014-2020 – REACT-EU. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the BRILLO project (PON I&C 2014-2020 MISE) at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her PhD thesis was part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research ETN SECURE project (https://secure-robots.eu/) at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). She is also a Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire. She is very active in the scientific community both in the fields of robotics and human-robot interaction. Alessandra is also involved in the organization of the RoboCup Humanoid League, as Executive and Organising committee member, and RoboCup team “Bold Hearts” at the University of Hertfordshire since 2019. She is also co-organiser of the RoboCup Symposium 2023, Special Session chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2024, Publicity chair at ICSR 2023 conference, Publicity chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2023, Publicity chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2022, Virtual Organizing Chair of IEEE RO-MAN 2021, Registration Chair and Social Media Responsible of IEEE RO-MAN 2020. Her research interests include human–(multi) robot interaction, social robotics, trust, XAI, multi-agent systems, cognitive architecture and user profiling. In particular, her focus is to investigate and evaluate the factors affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots, including people’s mental models, personalities and disposition to trust others, and mechanisms for recovering from a loss of trust, including the ability of robots to adapt their behaviours to dynamic changes of people’s behaviours, environment and tasks.