AJung Moon

Also known as Ajung Moon

AJung Moon studies human-robot interaction and AI ethics, with research in responsible robotics. At UBC, she studied hesitation gestures and shared attention in robot handovers, then founded the Open Roboethics Institute to study public concerns about robot ethics. She carried AI ethics into consulting and policy through Generation R, the UN digital-cooperation panel, and Canada's Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. Her later papers mapped responsible-AI roles, compared AI ethics frameworks, and examined what openness means across disciplines. As of October 2026, she is an associate professor at McGill, a core member of Mila, and director of McGill's RAISE Lab.

Now at: McGill University and Mila
Works: 69
Citations: 1,042
h-index: 16
Badges: Founder

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

2011–2014

Robot hesitation and gaze cues

In 2011, she and coauthors design hesitation trajectories from recorded human arm motions to signal conflict resolution during collaborative reaching. Her 2014 HRI paper “Meet Me where I’m Gazing” examines how shared-attention gaze affects robot handover timing.
2012–2022

Robotics research and ethics

Her UBC M.A.Sc. thesis in 2012 is titled “What Should a Robot Do?” and addresses human-like hesitation gestures in resource conflicts; her 2017 Ph.D. thesis is titled “Negotiating with robots: meshing plans and resolving conflicts in human-robot collaboration.” In 2012, she founds the Open Roboethics Institute (ORI) to study public concerns about robot ethics; ORI incorporates as a nonprofit in 2016, makes its Foresight into AI Ethics toolkit available in 2019, and transfers its directorship in 2022.
By 2019

Generation R and AI policy

Generation R, the AI ethics consultancy she co-founds, works with Technical Safety BC on an ethics roadmap for AI-based decision support, highlighted at a UN experts' meeting in 2017. Before joining McGill, she serves as a Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; by 2019, she is a member of the Government of Canada Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence.
2022

Mapping responsible AI roles

In 2022, she and Shalaleh Rismani propose an ontology of responsible AI roles and skills using job postings from 2020–2022 and interviews with 14 practitioners.
2023

Comparing AI ethics frameworks

In 2023, she coauthors a comparative case study of AI ethics frameworks in AI & Society.
May 2025

Opening the scope of openness

In May 2025, she, Tamara Paris, and Jin Guo argue that comparing disciplines' ideas of openness can broaden debate about what openness in AI means.
As of October 2026

Leading McGill's RAISE Lab

As of October 2026, she is an associate professor in McGill's Faculty of Engineering, a core member of Mila, and director of the RAISE Lab. She explores the intersection of responsible robotics, human-robot interaction, and AI ethics.