Hanan SALAM holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. She is the co-founder and the head of education and Research of Women in AI. Previosly she was the head of research and development at A.I.Mergence, a startup in robotics and Artificial Intelligence working on creating an intelligent autonomous robot, revolutionizing home security. She is also a lecturer in AI and conducts research in specific areas of applied Artificial Intelligence. She received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering in 2010 from the Lebanese university in parallel with the M.S. degree in image and signal processing from Centrale, Nantes. She received her PhD in human-machine interaction from Supélec, Rennes. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, human-computer interaction, social robotics, computer vision, machine learning and affective computing.