In her talk Prof. Hatice KOSE will be presenting some of her recent robotic and AI based projects for children with disabilities and the emotion recognition models her team developed on different data modalities such as vision, audio, and physiological data and multimodal fusion of these. She will also share her experience on designing robotic experiments for children, and ethical use of AI and data in studies involving vulnerable groups. BIO: Hatice Kose holds a PhD in computer engineering and she is a full-time professor in AI and Robotics at the Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. She is the founder and coordinator of the Cognitive Social Robotics Lab, and Game and Interaction Technologies Lab. She is involved with the administration of AI and Data Engineering Department, Computer Engineering, and Game and Interaction Technologies Graduate programs. She is an IEEE Senior Member and has been working in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for more than 20 years. Her research focuses on developing affective and social robotic systems for children with disabilities over a decade. Her expertise includes the Ethical use of AI in human centric applications, especially applications involving vulnerable groups and AI for Good. She pioneered in robotics for sign language tutoring, robotics and AI based research for children with hearing impairments. Her research team is developing robotic applications for humanoid robots and affective models including ML/DL models for emotion/stress/interaction recognition especially for children, in both application and theoretical levels. Their main motivation is to develop affective social robots for education, therapy and health applications using these models. She is part of several national and international research projects funded by European Union in collaboration with the leading European research facilities and universities, involving robotic and AI assisted health applications for children with disabilities such as hearing impairment, autism and cerebral palsy. Recently, her work is recognized by the EELISA European consortium, and she received 1st EELISA Diversity Award in October, 2023 with her research activities. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/451115