Toshie Takahashi is Professor in the School of Culture, Media and Society as well as the Institute for AI and Robotics, Waseda University, Tokyo. She has been appointed as an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, the University of Cambridge.

She has held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as well as Columbia University.

She conducts cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary research on the social impact of robots as well as the potential of AI for Good. She is currently involved in “Moonshot R&D projects” by leading the “Project GenZAI”, engaging youths now for a global AI future. In this project, she will conduct cross-cultural research with 10000 young people in terms of AI in collaboration with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, CFI (Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence) at the University of Cambridge, and the Stanford Social Media Lab.

A media ethnographer, her writings have been included in both Japanese and International Media Studies anthologies. Her book, entitled “Towards the age of Digital Wisdom” (2016, Shinnyosha, in Japanese), which is based on the collaborative project on “Young People and Digital Media” with the University of Oxford and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, won the first prize for the Telecommunication social science award.

Professor Takahashi graduated with a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in Sociology from the University of Tokyo and a BSc in Mathematics from Ochanomizu University.

Finally, Takahashi sits on the technology advisory committee of the Information and Communication Council, Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan.

Dr. Aymerich-Franch is currently a Ramón y Cajal senior research fellow at Pompeu Fabra University. She was recently a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018/19). Previously, she was a Marie Curie IOF postdoctoral fellow (funded by the European Commission) at the Experimental Virtual Environments for Neuroscience and Technology (Event Lab), Barcelona University (2016/17), and at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan (2014/16). Before that, she was a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University (2012/14). She earned a PhD cum laude in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2010). She has also been a visiting scholar at the iCinema, Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales (2009). Dr. Aymerich-Franch has a background in Communication, Media Psychology, and Behavioral Psychology. Her research promotes the use of emerging technologies for well-being and behavioral transformation. She principally works with social robots, virtual reality, and conversational agents.

Lionel Brossi is Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Society Hub and professor at the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile [ICEI] and director of the Artificial intelligence and Society Hub [IA+SIC]. He is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a researcher from the Chilean Research Hub for improving the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youth, IMHAY. As a member of the Youth and Media team, he supports ongoing efforts of research and application in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion, and the study of youth digital skills and information dynamics in Latin America. Lionel is also a member of the external Tiktok’s Safety Advisory Council for Latin America and a member of Colombia’s Presidency Mission of AI Experts. He actively participates in working committees, expert groups and consultancies for international organizations (UNICEF, UNESCO, 5Rights Foundation, ITU, among others) and leads cross cutting regional and international research projects on the intersection of youth, technologies, education, wellbeing and human rights.

He holds a Phd in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, a Master in Communication, a Master in Comparative: Cultural and Literary studies and a degree in Journalism and Social Communication.

Ana María Castillo is assistant professor at the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile [ICEI] and director of the Artificial intelligence and Society Hub [IA+SIC]. She works on the intersection of emergent technologies and social justice and researching in the field of youth digital skills and the impact of algorithmic technologies on traditionally marginalized communities in Latin America, with special focus on human rights. She holds a Phd in Communication and Journalism, a Master in Communication, and a degree in Journalism and Social Communication.

Stephen earned a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge, then joined the British Foreign Office, where he served as a policy advisor and diplomat. He has subsequently written and spoken on a wide range of philosophical and scientific subjects, including in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and on television and radio around the world. His research interests currently focus on the nature, portrayal and governance of AI.

Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Science and Technology, Melissa is currently finalizing her thesis within a Master’s degree in Multimedia Communication and Information Technologies.

Senior professor of Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Udine, Leopoldina Fortunati is a member of the Academia Europaea and an ICA fellow. She founded the laboratory of research on new media, NuMe, and has a significant record of research on social robotics and educational robotics. Her works have been published in 11 languages. 

Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, intimacy and relationships, and social support. Recently Professor Hancock has begun work on understanding the mental models people have about algorithms in social media, as well as working on the ethical issues associated with computational social science.

Professor Hancock is well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews. His TED Talk on deception has been seen over 1 million times and he’s been featured as a guest on “CBS This Morning” for his expertise on social media. His research has been published in over 80 journal articles and conference proceedings and has been supported by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense. His work on lying and technology has been frequently featured in the popular press, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, CBS and the BBC.

Professor Hancock was a Customs Officer in Canada before earning his PhD in Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada. He was a Professor of Information Science and Communication at Cornell prior to joining Stanford in 2015. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and daughter, and he regularly does his best to stop pucks as a hockey goalie.

Daisuke Harashima is research associate of Future Robotics Organization at Waseda University. 
He is teaching at Seigakuin University (media studies and informatics), Tokyo Metropolitan University (philosophy of technology and media culture theory), and Rikkyo University (systems theory).
He studied philosophy at Kyoto University and culture theory at the University of Tokyo.
He was researcher at the University of Tokyo Program for Leading Graduate Schools, Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity (IHS).
He is (co-)author of books on humanities and technics, including Critical Words: Media Theory (Filmart, 2021; in Japanese), Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [AI jidai no jiritsusei] (Keiso Shobo, 2019; in Japanese), Frontiers of Fundamental Informatics [kiso johogaku no frontiers] (University of Tokyo Press, 2018; in Japanese).
He is co-translator of Tim Ingold’s Being Alive [ikite iru koto] (Sayusha, 2021; in Japanese).

Since 2011 he has played a central role in international research on long-term trajectories and impacts associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, project managing the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology from 2011-2014, co-developing the Strategic AI Research Centre (Cambridge-Oxford collaboration) in 2015, and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge-Oxford-Imperial-Berkeley collaboration) in 2015/16.

Seán’s research spans technology policy, catastrophic risk, horizon-scanning and foresight, genomics, bioengineering and artificial intelligence. Prior to Cambridge, he established the FHI-Amlin Collaboration on Systemic Risk, an academic-reinsurance industry partnership on catastrophic risk modelling, as well as several other research programmes at Oxford. He has a PhD in genomics.

Yusuke Horikawa is an Assistant Professor in the Future Robotics Organization, Waseda University since June 2021. He is also appointed as a part-time lecturer in Seigakuin University, Otsuma University and Nagaoka Institute of Design for years. Graduated with an MA in Study of Social Informatics and Study of Public Policy each from the University of Tokyo and a BSc in Law and Politics from the University of Tokyo.

Currently, he is majored in people’s media usage and acceptability of new technologies on the basis of Social Psychology and Statistical Analysis.

Nanjing University, School of Journalism and Communication, Journalism 2021
Academic adviser：Dr. Shen Qi

The practical effects of Human-Machine Communication, including its influence on interpersonal communication and its potential of expanding the future communication scope
Media literacy of teenagers and teenagers’ perception of new technology
The actualistic potential of conversational artificial intelligence to social innovation

Shigeo Kawashima is a full Associate Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo and is appointed as an Affiliate Associate Professor of the Future Robotics Organization, Waseda University. He is also an Affiliate Researcher of the Center of Advanced Intelligence Project in the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research（RIKEN）. He researches about co-relation of media technologies & society, and the ethics in the future.

Angela Lee is a third-year PhD student in the Social Media Lab, where she works with Dr. Jeff Hancock. She studies the intersection of beliefs and technologies, including how our mindsets about social technologies can affect our well-being and how harmful beliefs can spread online as misinformation.

Dr.Liu’s research focuses on the social and psychological effects of social media and AI, social media and well-being, and how the design of social robots impact psychological perceptions.

Satoshi NARIHARA is an associate professor of information law at Kyushu University. After completing the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, he served as an assistant professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo and a senior researcher at the Institute for Information and Communications Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. He has been studying information law, comparing US law, EU law, and Japanese law. His research focuses on freedom of expression, privacy and data protection, and legal issues of Artificial Intelligence.

Doctor of communication, Professor, School of Journalism and communication, Nanjing University. Shanghai Pujiang talents. High-level talents introduced from Nanjing University.
Visiting scholar of Stanford University, visiting scholar of China Research Center of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, visiting scholar of mainland outstanding young scholars of City University of Hong Kong.

The influence of New media technology on Interpersonal Communication and human-machine Communication.
Focus on the digital inequality and information privacy security faced by the rural elderly, urban and rural teenagers and children in the new media environment such as the Internet and artificial intelligence.

Loreto Sanchez is an engineer passionate about artificial intelligence and education. She works as an independent consultant in the areas of data science, machine learning, computer vision and sound, and teaches workshops for children and young people in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. She is a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering in the area of robotics, holds a Master in Music Technology and a Bachelor Degree in Acoustics Engineering.

She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media and Principal Researcher at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, both at the National University of Singapore.
Maite holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a project on Hype on Science Communication (funded by the Ministry of Education of Singapore), of a project on Deepfake reception (funded by the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore), and of a project on LGBTQ+ media representation and effects (funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain). Her main research interests are media effects, interactive communication, science communication, emotions and journalism and art reception. Maite has directed TV documentaries on Science Communication and produced-directed theater plays and a festival. Recently, she directed ¨Eliza¨ (playwright José Ignacio Latorre) for the NUS Center for Arts (Singapore) which is about the relationship between robots and humans.

M.A. of School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, 2022
Academic Advisor: Dr. Shen Qi

Follow Professor Shen to participate in a number of scientific research projects such as the United Nations “Future of Artificial Intelligence” and “Research on the Use of Social Robots in China and the Path of Smart Senior Care”.
Interested in human-machine communication, network and new media, new media and social change.

M.A. of School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, 2022
Academic Advisor: Dr. Shen Qi

Work on understanding the impact of robots and Artificial Intelligence in society, and social issues in Internet platform governance and antitrust.
Also have interest in the process of human-machine communication and social media.