ELLIS Distinguished Lecture: Hatice Gunes

Fairness for Affective and Wellbeing Computing Systems and Agents on February 17, 2026, at the University of Oulu and online.

On February 17, 2026, Hatice Gunes will give a lecture on Fairness for Affective and Wellbeing Computing Systems and Agents. The lecture is hosted by Guoying Zhao (ELLIS Institute Finland and University of Oulu).

Date and time 

February 17, 2026, 10:00-11:00

Location

Online: LINK TBC

Tellus, University of Oulu
Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 3, 90570 Oulu

Abstract

TBA

Bio

Hatice Gunes is Full Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR), Director of the AFAR Lab and an Associate Director of the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge. Prof. Gunes is an internationally recognized scholar in affective computing and robotics. She is a former President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) and was a Faculty Fellow (2019-2021) of the Alan Turing Institute – UK’s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence. She was an Honoree for the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature 2025 which celebrates inspirational women in technology who are poised to redefine the future of their fields.

Further bio and homepage

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