Prof. Dr. Jordi Vallverdú, Ph.D., M.Sci., B.Mus, B.Phil, is Tenure Professor (Accredited Full Professor) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), where he teaches philosophy and history of science and computing. His research focuses on the cognitive and epistemic aspects of the philosophy of computing, philosophy of science, and AI, with a special interest in emotional modeling. He was recently awarded an ICREA grant for Causality in Deep Learning. In 2011, he won a Japanese JSPS fellowship to pursue research on computational HRI interfaces at Nishidalab, Kyoto University. He has written and edited more than 15 books, including: (2009) Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and AI; (2010) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles; (2012) Creating Synthetic Emotions Through Technological and Robotic Advancements; (2015) Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics; (2016) Bayesians Versus Frequentists. A Philosophical Debate on Statistical Reasoning; and (2019) Blended Cognition. The Robotic Challenge; and (2023) Gender in AI and Robotics. The Gender Challenges from an Interdisciplinary Perspective.