Dr. Ross Mead is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of AI LA. He is also the Founder and CEO of Semio AI, and the Executive Director of Semio Community.

Semio AI is a Los Angeles-based software startup developing an operating system, app ecosystem, and developer tools for personal robots, defining the way people live, work, and play with robots in their everyday lives. Semio Community is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization facilitating community-driven robotics hardware, software, and studies to foster reproducible, replicable, and generalizable science within human-robot interaction.

Ross received his PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2015.  His research focuses on the principled design and computational modeling of multimodal social behaviors (e.g., speech and body language) that serve as AI building blocks for face-to-face human-robot interactions. His research provides the foundations upon which Semio software is being built.

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