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Peerbots Research Fellowship: Applications Now Open
Applications for the second Peerbots Research Fellowship are open — a paid, 3-month, full-time program for an early-career researcher working on people-centered social robotics, in partnership with Semio Community. Deadline: May 22nd.
Applications for the second Peerbots Research Fellowship are now open.
The fellowship is a paid, 3-month, full-time program designed to support an early-career researcher — or researcher in training — advancing Human-Robot Interaction research. It supports a researcher working on people-centered research of social robots.
This year’s fellowship runs in partnership with Semio Community, a nonprofit advancing the field of Human-Robot Interaction through reproducible software, hardware, and science. The inaugural fellowship was completed by Dr. Dylan Thomas Doyle.
The application deadline is May 22nd. We encourage you to apply even if you’re unsure you precisely match the description.
Learn more about the program and apply at the Peerbots Research Fellowship page.
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Saad Elbeleidy
Saad is the Executive Director of Peerbots, a U.S. based nonprofit organization providing a research-informed social robot platform for roboticists and non-roboticists. He received his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines where he studied how therapists and educators use social robots in the wild. Now, at Peerbots, his research has expanded to broadly focus on the design and deployment of Social Robot End-User tools.
Ross Mead
Ross Mead is the Founder and CEO of Semio AI, and Executive Director of Semio Community. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC, he has dedicated his career to advancing human-robot interaction and making social robotics accessible to researchers, educators, and developers worldwide.
Dylan Thomas Doyle
Dylan Thomas Doyle is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder and the 2025 Peerbots Research Fellow. As an HRI researcher, Dylan's work focuses on values-based design for robots and the impacts of socio-technical contexts on the perception of robot identity.