Kerstin Dautenhahn

Kerstin Dautenhahn is a German computer scientist and biologist renowned for her pioneering work in social robotics and human-robot interaction. She serves as a Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics at the University of Waterloo, where she directs the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory. Her research focuses on assistive robotics, artificial intelligence, and the computational modeling of social intelligence in human-robot collaboration.