Kim Baraka is a tenured assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, and member of the Social AI group. Before joining the VU, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab at UT Austin. He holds a dual Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal and a M.S. in Robotics from CMU. His research focuses on enabling robots and humans to teach and learn from each other through situated social interactions. As a professionally trained contemporary dancer, he is also interested in new frontiers in robotics that draw inspiration from the performing arts.