![ ](./assets/banner2.png width="480px" align=left)   [Home](index.html)  [Speakers](speakers.html)  [Program](program.html)  [Call for Papers](call.html)  [Accepted Papers](papers.html)  [Organizers](organizers.html) **Workshop Organizers** ![ ](./assets/murat.png width="210px" align=left) [Prof. Murat Kirtay](http://www.crossvalidate.me/) received a Ph.D. degree in BioRobotics from the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) in 2019. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in Germany, where he conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of robotics, neuroscience, and psychology. His current research activities include computationally modeling the core components (e.g., emotion, trust, co-representation) of intelligent social behavior and implementing them on humanoid robots. He is currently an assistant professor at the department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University. His research interests are in the areas of Humanoid Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Systems, and Machine Learning. ![ ](./assets/erhan.png width="210px" align=left) [Prof. Erhan Oztop](https://robotics.ozyegin.edu.tr/members/erhan-oztop) earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 2002. In the same year, he joined the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, (ATR) in Japan. There he worked as a researcher and later a senior research and group leader where he also served as vice department head for two research groups and held visiting associate professor position at Osaka University (2002-2011). Currently, he is a specially appointed professor at Osaka University in the Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISREC) of the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI). He is also affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. His research involves computational study of intelligent behavior, human-in-the loop systems, computational neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive and developmental robotics. ![ ](./assets/verena.png width="210px" align=left)
[Prof. Verena V. Hafner](https://adapt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/vvh/) is head of the Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin in Germany. Before moving to Berlin, she worked as an associate researcher in the Developmental Robotics Group at Sony Computer Science Labs in Paris, France. She is part of the Programme Committee of the DFG Priority Programme The Active Self (SPP 2134) and PI in the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. Her research interests include sensorimotor interaction and learning, joint attention, internal models, and exploration strategies. ![ ](./assets/asada.png width="210px" align=left) [Prof. Minoru Asada](http://www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/) is a Vice-President of International Professional University of Technology in Osaka since 2021. He received Ph.D. in control engineering from Osaka University in 1982. Since 1997, he has been a Professor of the department of Adaptive Machine Systems at theGraduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He was the president of the International RoboCup Federation (2002-2008) and was the Research Director of “JST ERATO ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project” (2005-2012). In 2012, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. Since 2018, he has been the administrative director of Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center at the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University.