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Hatice Gunes
Google Scholar ID: 2WkE1wYAAAAJ
Full Professor of Affective Intelligence & Robotics, University of Cambridge
Artificial Intelligence
Affective AI
Health AI
AI Fairness
Socially Assistive Robotics
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HiBRIDGE: A Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Network Framework for Interpretable Dialogue Management in Group-Robot Interaction
2026
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Benevolent Bias in Multi-Turn Human-Agent Dialogue
2026
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Mind the Context: Continual Learning of Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via Environmental-Social Disentanglement
2026
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How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
2026
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Designing Social Robots for Inclusive Child Wellbeing Assessment: Insights from Communities Supporting Developmental Language Disorder and Forced Migration
2026
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StARS: Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via a Recommender System-Driven Approach
2026
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ERR@HRI 3.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Anticipation in Human-Robot Interactions
2026
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Toward Personalized Social Robots for Child Well-being: Data Requirement Principles from a Recommender-System Perspective
2026
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Academic Achievements
SEMAINE project won Best Demo Award at IEEE ACII’09 and Best Paper Award at IEEE FG’11
AFAR team was a finalist for the RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award at IEEE RO-MAN’21
Research on affective intelligence for service robotics was a Best Paper Award Finalist at IEEE RO-MAN’20
Work on graph representation learning for multimodal behavior in automatic depression assessment was a Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IEEE FG’24
EPSRC Fellow (2019–present)
Turing Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2019–2021)
Staff Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (2019–present)
Background
Full Professor of Affective Intelligence & Robotics, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Head of the Affective Intelligence & Robotics Lab (AFAR Lab)
Research interests: Multimodal, social, and affective intelligence for AI systems; Social Robotics; Embodied Agents; Wellbeing Technologies & Fairness
Internationally recognized scholar in affective computing and social robotics
Former President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC)
Shortlisted for the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature 2025, celebrating inspirational women poised to redefine the future of technology
Co-authors
17 total
Maja Pantic
Natwest Group / Imperial College London
Micol Spitale
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering
Siyang Song
Lecturer (AP), University of Exeter
Oya Celiktutan
Reader in AI & Robotics (Associate Professor) | Director of SAIR Lab @Centre for Robotics Research
Björn Schuller
Professor, Technische Universität München (TUM) / Imperial College London & CSO, audEERING
Evangelos Sariyanidi
Principal Data Scientist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Michel Valstar
Professor in Automatic Human Behaviour Understanding, University of Nottingham
Nikhil Churamani
Medtronic - Digital Surgery, University of Cambridge