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Join us on 4 November in the Syndics Room at 6pm for a unique opportunity to engage with Alva Markelius, the world’s most advanced social robot. The event will feature a seminar, interactive discussion, and informal meet-and-greet, offering insights into the future of human–AI interaction and social robotics.

Speaker

Alva Markelius

Alva Markelius is a PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR) under the supervision of Professor Hatice Gunes. She is also recipient of Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ award 2024, committee chair of the Centre for Human Inspired AI Early Career Community and student steward for Better Images of AI. Her main research interests are the ethics of social AI and robotics, specifically in the intersection of embodied robotics and large language models. She is also interested in embodied cognition, affect and emotion, gender and intersectionality, global AI narratives and AI hype. She obtained her MSt degree in AI Ethics & Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge while working as a research engineer at the DICE – lab at the Institution for Applied IT, University of Gothenburg. She received her bachelor degree in cognitive science at the University of Gothenburg and Seoul National University where she specialised in AI and robotics.