WAILabs

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.

Lead Science Communicator

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Seren is a researcher and consultant in the AI Psychology field, focusing on the integration of psychological principles into human-AI systems. She has a background in psycholinguistics and NLP for emotion recognition, personality modeling, and user profiling. Her focus areas include empathetic AI, conversational systems, and mental health applications.​​​​

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Lead in Psychology

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Auxane is a cyberpsychologist and AI-ethics researcher examining psychological impacts of AI as social agent, social robots, video games, and immersive XR. At TUM's Institute for Ethics in AI, she coordinates the EU-funded MSCA doctoral network alignAI. A Friedrich Schiedel Fellow, she co-leads TUM Think Tank's Immersive Realities working group and serves as Women in Games and WAI Germany ambassador.​

Lead in Healthcare, UAE

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Jinane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at RIT Dubai, UAE. She has been in the research field for over more than 15 years in machine learning and computer vision, during which she worked with multidisciplinary teams on a long track of research papers.

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Lead in Model Testing, USA

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Suparna an experienced software engineer with expertise in aiding small businesses in their digital transformation efforts in transformative, emerging technologies like AI. As Chief of Staff for WAI USA, she has been instrumental is growing the team and their initiatives.

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Research Lead, USA

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Aditi is an Assistant College Lecturer in Computer Science at Cleveland State University. Her research studies large language model–based AI agents, focusing on architectures, interoperability protocols, and evaluation frameworks. Her work examines how autonomous agents retrieve knowledge, coordinate tools, and interact with external systems to build reliable generative AI systems.​

Science Communicator

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Claudia is a researcher specializing in Human Centered AI and Human Computer Interaction; her work examines how AI systems interact with human behavior, culture, and how these technologies perform in real world environments. Currently she is focusing on studying large language model behavior through empirical evaluation, behavioral testing, and constraint design.

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Affiliated Researcher​

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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. ​

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Affiliated Researcher

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​Annu is a PMRF-funded PhD researcher at IIT Hyderabad specializing in 5G-enabled vehicular communications, exploring V2X technologies, resource allocation in 5G-VCN, MAC-layer signaling, and NOMA-based schemes. Expert in Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch), MATLAB, HFSS and CST, Annu is a BTech gold medalist who has presented at international conferences including ANTS and ITU Kaleidoscope and participated in Google Research Week.​

Affiliated Researcher
 

Kathleen is a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive science specializing in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toulouse, conducted jointly at LAAS-CNRS and CLLE (France). Her research focuses on the socio-cognitive mechanisms underlying human–robot collaboration, with particular interest in action prediction, motor communication, and cognitive transparency in interactive robotic systems.

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.

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