WAILabs

Affiliated Researcher​

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Karolina La Fors is a Senior Researcher in Responsible AI at the DesignLab of the University of Twente.  Her main research interest lies in how to design AI that accounts for ethics, children rights and children’s healthy development and how to promote meaningful child participation in a transdisciplinary manner among AI developers, NGOs, parents, societal partners in order to cultivate children’s creativity and critical thinking and child-centric AI development.

Chief Research Officer

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Vinutha is a computer scientist, working on innovation and use of AI technology in systems across Space, Healthcare and Transport sectors at lower TRLs. Her work, and interests lie in mediation between the artificial and the real, building and understanding AI models, and making them useful in the real world through relevant methodologies.
Her mandate as CRO in WAI is to increase opportunities for women researchers.

Co-Founder Women in AI

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Hanan works as Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research activities and interests span the areas of Human-Robot Interaction, automatic understanding of human behavior, social signal processing and affective computing.

Head of Initiatives

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Jauwairia Nasir is a postdoctoral fellow at Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at University of Augsburg. Her research interests broadly include human-machine interaction, social robotics, multimodal behavioral analysis, and machine learning applied in the fields of education and health care.