Anna Esposito received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Salerno with a thesis published on Complex System, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Naples Federico II, with a Ph.D. thesis published on Phonetica, in 2002, and developed at MIT, RLE Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA. She has been a Postdoctoral Researcher with the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS), and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, University of Salerno, where she taught cybernetics, neural networks, and speech processing, from 1996 to 2000. She held a Research Professor position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA, from 2000 to 2002. She has been a Full Professor in computer science with Università della Campania L. Vanvitelli (UVA), since 2003, teaching cognitive and algorithmic issues of multimodal communication, social networks dynamics, cognitive economy, and decision making. She is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and editor/coeditor of more than 30 international books. She is also the Head of the Behaving Cognitive Systems Laboratory (BeCogSys), UVA. The lab is participating in the H2020 funded projects: a) Empathic, b) Menhir, c) SIROBOTICS, and d) ANDROIDS.