Duygun Erol Barkana is a professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, and she is the director of the Robotics Research Laboratory at Yeditepe University. Her research interests include robot-assisted rehabilitation systems, social robotics, medical robotics, human-robot interaction, dynamical systems and control, emotion recognition, signal processing of sensory information. Her research, supported by the European Union, and TUBITAK.