Joana Campos is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and an integrated researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa. She received her PhD, with distinction in September 2017, in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.Her work focused on the cognitive modeling of an agent decision-making decisions in conflict situations. It was also part of her PhD to understand how people behave in social interactions and how that impacts human-computer interaction. For that reason, she employed user-centered design approaches to inform system and model development. Joana worked as a Research Associate in two EU-funded projects: SIREN (Social games for conflict resolution based on natural interaction) and LAW-TRAIN (a virtual interrogation training system for law enforcement units involved in drug-trafficking). In 2017 she was a Lab Associate with Disney Research and started a Postdoc in the same lab. During that year she worked on a conversational AI character. After that she became a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Jessica Hodgins’ Lab at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, where she received training and conducted research on machine learning and computer vision to investigate fine-grained details of people’s actions and motions in a social environment to understand how people behave in social contexts. She used sequence models to understand how complex group activities unfold over time. Joana Campos has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers, including eight papers in the main track of CORE A*/A conferences in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and of Human-Computer Interaction. She has served as Program Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Virutal Agents (2022) and in program committee of relevant conferences in her research field, such as HRI, ECAI and AAMAS. Joana is the PI of a starting (in June 2025) FCT PTDC project on Socially-Aware AI for Teamwork Enhancement and Training. She is also a PI for INESC-ID in the EU-funded project EMPOWER (Design and evaluation of technological support tools to empower stakeholders in digital education). Her research is multidisciplinary and addresses fundamental issues in the frontier of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, grounded in the computational modelling of human cognition, emotion and social behaviour. Joana has successfully advised 8 MSc students (+3 co-advised) and is currently advising 5 MSc students (+2 co-advising). She advises 5 PhD students.