Roshni Lulla, PhD is the Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer of the Institute for Humane Robotics. With over a decade spanning neuroimaging research, consumer behavior, and entrepreneurship. She brings something unique to the field: empirical training in the emotion and moral systems that AI will be acting on.
She earned her doctorate in Antonio Damasio’s lab at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute, the global authority on the neuroscience of emotion, with earlier research training at Stanford in precision psychiatry and NYU in neuroeconomics. She has spoken at the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, Affectiva, the Human-Aligned AI Summer School in Prague, and Big Brain SF. Roshni works from New York, where she leads IHR’s research program on empathy, moral cognition, and misalignment.