Vicky Charisi

Vicky Charisi

Vicky Charisi is a Research Fellow at Harvard University, Berkman Klein Centre, working at the intersection of Child development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Children’s Rights and AI in Education. With extensive research experience in child-AI interaction and child-robot interaction, she contributes to the field from a research, policy, and design perspective through collaborations with major international organizations and governments, academia and industry. She prioritizes child participation and through cross-cultural studies she has developed an expertise on AI and Children at a local, regional and global level. With her project at the Berkman Klein Centre, she explores the opportunities and challenges in designing and evaluating AI systems to support children’s Global Citizenship Education. Previously, she worked at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre as a Research Scientist leading projects on AI and children. She has co-authored more than 60 scientific publications and 15 Science for Policy reports and she serves as a vice chair of the IEEE Society on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive and Developmental Systems, TF Human-Robot Interaction.

 

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    Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
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