Dr Catherine Menon is a principal lecturer within the adaptive systems group. Her research focuses on the intersection between safety and ethics in autonomous systems. She was PI on the AAIP funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility and is a member of the BSI AMT/10 and AMT/10/1 Committees, providing UK input into ISO/TC 299 (standardisation in robotics) and BS 8611 (ethical design and application of robotic devices).

As the manager of Robot House, Patrick coordinates all research activities inside the house, supports internal and external collaborators in using the facilities, and advises them while conducting research. At the same time, he maintains the robots and all the other interactive technology in the house. Patrick has extensive expertise in social human-robot interaction and experimentation and is highly skilled with a large array of robotic and sensing technologies.

He is also a supervisor of several PhD students and a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, teaching advanced research topics in computer science and other modules.

Patrick is currently a CoI of the UKRI TAS hub's pump priming project Kaspar explains and an advisory board member of the Norwegian project Human Interactive Robotics in Healthcare (HIRo). He was also a CoI of the AAIP funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility. Previously, he been a postdoctoral researcher in the Robot House 2.0 project, an EPSRC strategic equipment grant, and in the Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment, a large-scale project within the DFG-funded excellence cluster CITEC where he was a member of the Cognitive Systems Engineering group.

Dr Abolfazl Zaraki is Senior Lecturer in Robotics at the Computer Science department of the University of Hertfordshire. Before joining UH, he was a lecturer at the School of Engineering and a member of the Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) at Cardiff University, Cardiff. He was the Co-chair of the Human-Like Artificial Intelligence (AI) working group and a member of the IROHMS leadership team.

He received a master's degree in mechatronics and automatic control engineering from University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2010, and a PhD degree in automatic robotic and bioengineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2014. Between 2014 and 2019, he worked as Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow at different research institutions in Italy and the UK.

In the past, Abolfazl worked on European projects EASEL (Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning), BabyRobot - NextGen Social Robotics, JAMES (Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems) and an Innovate UK funded project Piglet - Snake Robot Solution for Inspection in collaboration with industry.

Abolfazl's research interests include developing autonomous systems for social and industrial robotic platforms, trusted autonomy, closed-loop Human-Robot Interaction studies, and brain-computer interface (BCI) for research and assistive applications.

Faizan Rasheed received his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Isra University, Pakistan, in 2018, and his master’s degree in computer science (by research) under a joint degree programme of Sunway University, Malaysia, and Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Faizan’s research interests include domain of intelligent transportation systems, robotics, information theory and machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning and deep learning.

Giulia Galizia got her degree in Scienze della Formazione Primaria (Teaching and Education for children between the age of 3 and 10 years old) in 2020 at the department of Education and Human Sciences of Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE). She is currently attending a PhD in Human Sciences at the department of Linguistics and Cultural studies in UNIMORE. Giulia is studying the use of digital storytelling and Social robotic in Education also for therapy purposes for children with special needs.