Organizers

Lead author of CAR-bench. Accepted at ACL 2026 Main. 1st place at UC Berkeley’s AgentX-AgentBeats Competition (Google DeepMind-sponsored). Hugging Face Paper of the Day.

Working on LLM-based voice assistants. PhD in human-centric multimodal learning. Founded the MuSe Challenge series (2020–2026) at ACM MM (A*). Data chair at Interspeech ComParE. PC member at IJCAI/ECAI. >1,600 citations, h-index 19.

Chair of Human-Centered AI. Leibniz Prize recipient. Fellow of EurAI, member of Leopoldina and CHI Academy. Former EiC of IEEE TAC. Co-organizer of the MultiMediate Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia (2021–2026). >27,000 citations, h-index 77.

Founding member of Anthropic’s Go-To-Market team for DACH. Ex-Google, ex-AWS, ex-Amazon. Anthropic is the AI company behind Claude, the top-performing model on CAR-bench.

PhD in CS. decades of R&D experience in NLP, CV, ML and IR. Previously Sr. Research Manager at HP Labs. Cerebras builds the world’s fastest AI inference infrastructure, holding independently verified speed records on frontier-scale models.

Multimodal conversational AI pioneer. Co-author of W3C standards on multimodal, speech, and automotive web. Co-chaired several IEEE/ACM conferences on multimodal interaction. OpenStream.ai builds enterprise agentic AI systems focused on trustworthy, hallucination-free outcomes grounded in domain knowledge.

IEEE Fellow and Clarivate Top 1% Scientist. Founder of SenticNet. Co-organizer of MuSe Challenge and ACM MM 2025 Grand Challenge. Featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. >84,000 citations, h-index 132.

Head of UKP Lab. Past ACL President (2023). First Recipient of the ATHENE Distinguished Professorship. Royal Society Milner Award (2025), member of Academia Europaea and Leopoldina, Co-Director of the ELLIS NLP program. >66,000 citations, h-index 98.

Co-author of “Hallucination Stations,” a theoretical complexity framework for LLM hallucination limitations.