Marwa Mahmoud

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Socially Intelligent Technologies in the School of Computing Science at University of Glasgow

Session: The human side of conversational AI

Marwa Mahmoud is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Socially Intelligent Technologies in the School of Computing Science at University of Glasgow, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to joining University of Glasgow, she spent 10 years at University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD in 2015, held a postdoctoral researcher post from 2015-2016, then got awarded the prestigious King’s College Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from 2016-2021. Her research interests focus on computer vision for social signal processing, multimodal perception and behavioural modelling, especially within the context of affective computing, behaviour analytics, human behaviour understanding and animal behaviour understanding. She applied her research in the areas of automotive applications, mental healthcare, and animal welfare. As the director of “Behavioural AI Lab – for human and animal behaviour modelling”, her current research vision is to build technologies for ‘AI for Social Good’, combining computer vision research and multimodal machine learning for human well-being and animal welfare applications. She is the President-elect of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), Network Member of Cambridge Trust & Technology Initiative and a member of Cambridge Neuroscience. She has previously served as topic editor for "Multimodal Behavioural AI for Wellbeing" issue in Frontiers in Computer Science and the special issue “AI and Interaction Technologies for Social Sustainability” in the Journal of Sustainability.