Prof Hatice Gunes

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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. Hatice Gunes obtained her PhD in computer science from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia as an awardee of the Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) - a prestigious scholarship awarded on the basis of academic merit and research capacity. A