Chinenye Augustine Ajibo received his PhD in engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 2021. He was an intern at the Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory at the Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) Kyoto, Japan between 2018 to 2022. He worked as an AI, software, and robotic R&D researcher at Chizu Electric Osaka, Japan (2022 to 2024). He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at PRISCA Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (D.I.E.T.I.), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.  His research interest focuses on leveraging AI and robotics in developing assistive technologies that address contemporary challenges relating to social living, healthcare, agriculture, and industrial processes.

Carlos Toshinori Ishi received a PhD degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2001. He worked at the JST/CREST Expressive Speech Processing Project from 2002 to 2004 at ATR. He joined ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Labs in 2005 and has been the group leader of the Department of Sound Environment Intelligence at ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Labs since 2013. He joined the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project in 2021. His research interests include multimodal speech processing, speech-driven motion generation, and robot audition.

Hiroshi Ishiguro received a D.Eng.in systems engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently a professor at the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009–) and a Distinguished Professor of Osaka University (2017–). He is also visiting director (2014–) and group leader (2002–2013) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and an ATR fellow. His research interests include sensor networks, interactive robotics, and android science. In 2015, he received the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)