Publications
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PhD Thesis
Ashkenazi, S. (2026). Deploying Social Robots for Multilingual Accessibility: Supporting Newcomers and Staff in Public Service Spaces. PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow.
Supervisors: Dr. Mary-Ellen Foster, Prof. Jane Stuart-Smith, and Prof. Gabriel Skantze (KTH).
Conference Proceedings
Ashkenazi, S., Srour-Zreik, R., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M.E. (2026). Participatory Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers. In: 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR+AI) (pp. 92-105). DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_7
Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M.E. (2025). The Multilingual Student Support Robot. In: 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 953-958). DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217768
Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M. E. (2024). Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User’s Native Language. In: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 214-218). DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640633
Conference and Workshop Items
Ashkenazi, S. (2026). Reclaiming HRI for the Margins. In: Workshop on “Cruel optimism, Lucid Despair, Precarious Hope in HRI” @ HRI’26. Paper Link
Ashkenazi, S., Srour-Zreik, R., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M.E. (2026). Multilingual Robots Assisting Newcomers in Public Spaces. In: Workshop on “Robots for Communities” @ HRI’26. Paper Link
Ashkenazi, S., Srour-Zreik, R., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M.E. (2025). Crossing Borders Together: Co-Designing Robots with Refugees and Asylum Seekers. In: Workshop on “Robots and Autonomous Systems for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants (RAS4RASM)” @ RO-MAN’25.
Ashkenazi, S., Webber, B., and Wolters, M. (2025). Effective Recovery Strategies in Conversations with Older Adults. Late-Breaking Report @ RO-MAN’25. Paper Link
Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., and Foster, M.E. (2025). Into the Wild: When Robots Are Not Welcome. In: Workshop on “Real-World HRI in Public and Private Spaces: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned (PubRob-Fails)” @ RO-MAN’25. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.12075
Foster, M. E., Ashkenazi, S., Blair, A., Ramirez-Duque, A., Ali, S., Candelaria, P., … & Zeller, F. (2024). Including Front-Line Workers as Primary Stakeholders in Public-Space HRI. In: “First International Workshop on Worker Robot Relationships” @ HRI’24. Paper Link
Journals
Sela-Culang, I., Ashkenazi, S., Peters, B., & Ofran, Y. (2015). PEASE: predicting B-cell epitopes utilizing antibody sequence. Bioinformatics, 31(8), 1313-1315. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu790
Feiglin, A., Ashkenazi, S., Schlessinger, A., Rost, B., & Ofran, Y. (2014). Co-expression and co-localization of hub proteins and their partners are encoded in protein sequence. Molecular BioSystems, 10(4), 787-794. DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70411d
Ashkenazi, S., Snir, R., & Ofran, Y. (2012). Assessing the relationship between conservation of function and conservation of sequence using photosynthetic proteins. Bioinformatics, 28(24), 3203-3210. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts608
Kunik, V., Ashkenazi, S., & Ofran, Y. (2012). Paratome: an online tool for systematic identification of antigen-binding regions in antibodies based on sequence or structure. Nucleic acids research, 40(W1), W521-W524. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks480