Organizers
(in alphabetical order )
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hillmann
TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin, Germany
stefan.hillmann@tu-berlin.de
Stefan Hillmann is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Berlin and guest researcher at DFKI Berlin. His research focuses on AI-driven conversational systems with an emphasis on user experience and usability. His recent work explores the use of large language models in therapeutic chat systems and multimodal dialogue systems for collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller
TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin, Germany
sebastian.moeller@tu-berlin.de
Sebastian Möller is Professor for Quality and Usability at TU Berlin and Scientific Director of the Speech and Language Technology department at DFKI. His research addresses spoken dialogue systems, speech technologies, and human-centered AI evaluation. He served as President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2021–2023.
Prof. Dr. Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne University, France
catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr
Catherine Pelachaud is Director of Research at CNRS (ISIR, Sorbonne University). She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on socially interactive agents and non-verbal communication, including facial expression, gaze, gesture, and touch. She leads the development of the interactive virtual agent platform Greta and is co-editor of the Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents (ACM).
Dr. Lisa Raithel
TU Berlin / BIFOLD & DFKI, Germany
raithel@tu-berlin.de
Lisa Raithel is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Berlin and guest researcher at DFKI. She completed her PhD jointly at TU Berlin and Université Paris-Saclay. Her research focuses on biomedical and clinical natural language processing from the patient perspective, including cross-lingual information extraction, analysis of user-generated health data, and privacy-preserving methods such as anonymization and synthetic data generation.
Dr. Roland Roller
DFKI Berlin & TU Berlin, Germany
roland.roller@dfki.de
Roland Roller is a senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin. His work focuses on natural language processing and machine learning for medical applications. His research interests include multimodal machine learning, clinical decision support systems, LLM-based agents, and privacy-preserving methods.
Program Committee
- Khushan Adatiya — Google, USA
- Jan Alexandersson — DFKI, Germany
- Anurag Bihani — SLB, USA
- Matthias Busch — Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
- Francisco Maria Calisto — IST, Lisbon University, Portugal
- Edward Choi — KAIST, Republic of Korea
- Shasvat Desai — Walmart Global Tech, USA
- Margi Engineer — Clemson University, USA
- Johann Frei — University of Augsburg, Germany
- Patrick Gebhard — DFKI, Germany
- Santhosh Guntupalli — Independent Researcher, USA
- Heinz Handels — DFKI, Germany
- Marie Hoffmann — Charité – University Medicine Berlin and German Heart Center Charité, Germany
- Xin Hu — University of Michigan, USA
- Saurabh Kansara — Amazon, USA
- Fardin Khan — Louisiana State University, USA
- Yeonjae Kim — University of Utah, USA
- Preeti Kosaraju — Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Matthias Kraus — Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Augsburg University, Germany
- Priyanka Kuvalekar — Microsoft, USA
- Christina Lohr
- Nireesha Mandala — ServiceNow, USA
- Aoi Minamoto — Indiana University, USA
- Wolfgang Minker — Ulm University, Germany
- Anusha Mukka — Meta Platforms Inc, USA
- Aurélie Névéol — CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
- Tomohiro Nishiyama
- Florian Pecune — CNRS SANPSY, France
- Nattawud Phacharintanakul — ExxonMobil, USA
- Lisa Raithel — Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- Stefan Schaffer — DFKI, Germany
- Tanja Schneeberger — DFKI, Germany
- Jyoti Sondagar — Parsons School of Design, USA
- Nambi Srivatsav — Arizona State University, USA
- Naveen Suresh — Teragonia, USA
- Shoko Wakamiya — Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Yuqing Wang — Microsoft, USA
- Svea Wilkending — Charité – IKIM, Germany
- Peifeng Xiao — Autel Robotics, China
- Jan Zöllick
- Pierre Zweigenbaum — CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France