Department of Computer Science, Carleton University / Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo http://www.christinemurad.ca
is a Post-Doctoral fellow in the School of Computer Science at the Caleton University, and a Research Associate at the University of Waterloo. Her research looks at the usability and design of conversational voice interfaces, the devel- opment of different tools and resources to aid designers in CUI & VUI design and education, and bridging the industry-academia gap in CUI & VUI design. She has published research and organized CUI workshops across several international SIGCHI venues such as CHI, IUI, MobileHCI, CSCW, CUI, etc. She has been part of the CUI conference steering committee since it’s inception in 2019, and has served on the organizing committee for the CUI conference in different track chair roles from 2020 to the present.
Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, and Technologies for Ageing Gracefully Lab (TAGlab), University of Waterloo http://cosmin.taglab.ca
Cosmin Munteanu is an Associate Professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, and Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully lab. Cosmin takes a primarily ethnomethodological approach to study how voice- and language- enabled interfaces should be designed in a safe, effective, inclusive, and ethical manner, in order to empower digitally underrepresented groups such as older adults. Cosmin is the co-founder of the new ACM Conversational User Interfaces conference series and one of the early researchers to bring speech processing and interface design research together. He is also serving as a member of the ACM SIGCHI Ethics Committee where he contributes perspectives on ethical research with underrepresented user groups.
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gpenn/
Gerald Penn is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is in the study of human languages, both from a mathematical and computational perspective. Gerald is one of the leading scholars in Computational Linguistics, with significant contributions to the formal study of natural languages. His publications cover many areas, from Theoretical Linguistics, to Mathematics, and to Automatic Speech Recognition, as well as Human-Computer Interaction.