Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmurad/
Christine Murad is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Her research looks at the usability and design of conversational voice interfaces, the development 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’s 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 steering committee since it’s inception in 2019, and was the Shortcases chair at CUI ’20, Demos Chair at ’21, and Provocations Chair at CUI ’23.
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.