LAUREL RIEK, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Laurel Riek is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and Fellow at Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Her research interests include robotics, social signal processing, and health informatics. She focuses on designing autonomous robots able to sense, respond, and adapt to human behavior. Her work also tackles real-world problems in healthcare, by creating novel sensing and robotics technology to improve patient safety. Riek has received the NSF CAREER Award, a Qualcomm Research Scholar Award, several best paper awards, and five recognition awards during her eight-year tenure as a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer / Roboticist at MITRE. She was recently named as one of ASEE’s 20 Faculty under 40. Riek serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems, as well as numerous conference program committees. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, and her B.S. in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University.
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WOODROW HARTZOG, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Woodrow Hartzog is an Assistant Professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. His research focuses on privacy, human-computer interaction, online communication, and electronic agreements. He holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an LL.M. in intellectual property from the George Washington University Law School, and a J.D. from Samford University. He previously worked as an attorney in private practice and as a trademark attorney for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also served as a clerk for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Law School at the University of Notre Dame. He is also an Affiliate Scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
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DON HOWARD, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Don Howard is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and former director of the Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Chair of APS’s Forum on the History of Physics, Howard is an internationally recognized expert on the history and philosophy of modern physics, especially the work of Einstein and Bohr. He served as Assistant Editor and Contributing Editor for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press), and is Co-Editor of the Einstein Studies series (Springer). Howard is also the co-founder (1990) of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science and co-editor of its journal, HOPOS (University of Chicago Press) He also serves as the Secretary of the International Society for Military Ethics. Among his current research interests are ethical and legal issues in cyberconflict and cybersecurity as well as the ethics of autonomous systems. With a first degree in physics (B.Sc., Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, 1971), Howard went on to obtain both an M.A. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1979) in philosophy from Boston University, where he specialized in philosophy of physics under the direction of Abner Shimony.
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AJUNG MOON, Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia
AJung Moon is a Vanier Scholar and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Under the supervision of Drs. Elizabeth Croft and Mike Van der Loos, her research is focused on human-robot interaction and roboethics. She received her M.A.Sc. from UBC specializing in the design and implementation of robot nonverbal gestures. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. She is also a Founder of the Open Roboethics initiative, a think tank that explores ways in which various stakeholders of robotic technologies can work together to influence interactive robot designs.
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RYAN CALO, School of Law, University of Washington
Ryan Calo is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington. Calo researches the intersection of law and emerging technology, with an emphasis on robotics and the Internet. His work on drones, driverless cars, privacy, and other topics has appeared in law reviews and major news outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Calo has also testified before the full Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate. Prof. Calo serves on numerous advisory boards, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Future of Privacy Forum, and National Robotics Week. Calo co-chairs the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence committee of the American Bar Association and is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Internet and Computer Law. Calo previously served as a director at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) where he remains an Affiliate Scholar. He also worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP and clerked for the Honorable R. Guy Cole on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to law school at the University of Michigan, Calo investigated allegations of police misconduct in New York City.