ROBOTMEET2021

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, and University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands (2004-2010). From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA. He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award (2009), an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2020), the IBM Faculty Award (2012), an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016).

Edward A. Lee has been working on embedded software systems for 40 years. After studying and working at Yale, MIT, and Bell Labs, he landed at Berkeley, where he is now Professor of the Graduate School in EECS. His research is focused on cyber-physical systems. He is the lead author of the open-source software system Ptolemy II, author of textbooks on embedded systems and digital communications, and has recently been writing books on philosophical and social implications of technology. His current research is focused on a polyglot coordination language for distributed real-time systems called Lingua Franca that combines features of discrete-event modeling, synchronous languages, and actors.

Hatice Gunes is an Associate Professor (University Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Her research expertise is in the areas of affective computing and social signal processing that lie at the crossroad of multimodal interaction, computer vision, signal processing, and machine learning fields applied to computer/robot mediated human-human interactions and human-robot interactions. Her research work develops novel computational frameworks for analysing and understanding human behaviour, social signals and affect from facial expressions, vocal nuances, body posture/ gesture, and physiological signals, and for modelling these phenomena for creating socio-emotionally intelligent games, assistive technologies, virtual agents and robotic systems. She has published over 100 papers in these areas. Her current research vision is to embrace the challenges present in the area of health and empower the lives of people through technology by continuing her research with applications to social robotics and wellbeing. She has recently been awarded the prestigious EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (2019-2024) to investigate adaptive robotic emotional intelligence for wellbeing. Gunes is the President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), the General Co-Chair of ACII 2019, and the Program Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE HRI 2020 and IEEE FG 2017. She is the Chair of the Steering Board of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Image and Vision Computing Journal.

Lihua Xie received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is currently a professor and Director, Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems. He served as the Head of Division of Control and Instrumentation from July 2011 to June 2014. He held teaching appointments in the Department of Automatic Control, Nanjing University of Science and Technology from 1986 to 1989. Dr Xie’s research interests include robust control and estimation, networked control systems, multi-agent networks, localization and unmanned systems. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Unmanned Systems and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems. He has served as an editor of IET Book Series in Control and an Associate Editor of a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Jan 2012 – Dec 2014) and an elected member of Board of Governors, IEEE Control System Society (Jan 2016-Dec 2018). Dr Xie is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IFAC and Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Gang Feng received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been with City University of Hong Kong since 2000 after serving as lecturer/senior lecturer at School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1992-1999. He is now Chair Professor of Mechatronic Engineering. He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, Changjiang chair professorship from Education Ministry of China, and CityU Outstanding Research Award. He is listed as a SCI highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics. His current research interests include multi-agent systems and control, intelligent systems and control, and networked systems and control. Prof. Feng is an IEEE Fellow, an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems and Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, and was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C, Mechatronics, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He is on the Advisory Board of Unmanned Systems.

Zhong-Ping JIANG received the M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (now, called ParisTech-Mines), France, in 1993, under the direction of Prof. Laurent Praly. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. His main research interests include stability theory, robust/adaptive/distributed nonlinear control, robust adaptive dynamic programming, reinforcement learning and their applications to information, mechanical and biological systems. In these fields, he has written five books and is author/co-author of over 450 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr. Jiang has served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor and Associate Editor for numerous journals. Prof. Jiang is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IFAC, a Fellow of the CAA and is among the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers.

University of GenovaProfessor of Robotics President of SIRI (Italian Association of Robotics and Automation) from 2000 to 2016; then Vice President President of IIS (Italian Institute of Welding) from 2013 to 2016, then Past-President National Coordinator at IFR (International Federation of Robotics) Expert of: Advisory Group for Horizon 2020 LEIT-NMBP; European Commission (ICT, ERC, NMP, ESF); Italian Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Education, Universities and Research; Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education; SpanishNational Research Council Action Plan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University academic program; Foresight Agency (ANEP)…. She has carried out interdisciplinary research activities in the fields of complex mechatronic systems including machine mechanics, sensory-actuation, regulation and control, intuitive interfaces, expert systems, AI in particular with reference to the fields of Robotics and Flexible automation. Main research topics:smart instrumental robot design, kinematic and dynamic modelling and simulation; intelligent manipulation and soft grasping; surgical robots, climbing robots, extreme robotics;intelligent flexible manufacturing. Author or co-author of some 250 publications in the area of robotics and manufacturing systems. Referee of several international journals on robotics and industrial automation

Jen-Yuan (James) Chang is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering of National Tsing Hua University located in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. After completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in early 2001, Dr. Chang workedat various R&D posts on various servo-mechanical areas for high-end computer magnetic disk drives with IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies located in San Jose, California, USA. Dr. Chang was an Assistant Professor of Washington State University, USA, Senior Lecturer of Massey University New Zealand. In addition to faculty posts, Dr. Chang wasa Faculty Research Fellow/Visiting Professor awarded by ASEE and the National Research Council, USA, a Visiting Professor awarded byHiroshima University, Japan,Data Storage Institute of Agency for Science, Research and Technology, Singapore, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. In addition to executive positions in American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Dr. Chang also served as Associated Editor of IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Elsevier Mechatronics journal, Springer Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, and Springer Microsystem Technologies. Dr. Chang’s technical specializations are in the areas of mechanics, design, and mechanical vibrations, dynamics, control and robotics and mechatronics emphasizing on dynamics and control of continuous systems and precision machines. Dr. Chang holds concurrent appointment from Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan as a Chief Technology Officer, supervising various robotics and smart machine/manufacturing R&D projectsin Mechanical and Mechatronics Systems Research Labs. Dr. Chang is a Fellow of ASME, a Distinguished Engineering Professor of CSME and recipient of Outstanding Research Award by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Ian Walker received the B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Hull, England, in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and 1989. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. Professor Walker's research focuses on research in the construction, modeling, and application of continuum robots.

Kevin W. Bowyer received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is currently the Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor of Computer Science and Engineering with the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Professor Bowyer received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society, with the citation “for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics.” Professor Bowyer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with the citation “for distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, biometrics, object recognition and data science”, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), with the citation “for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images”, and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), with the citation “for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics”. Professor Bowyer is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and IdentityScience

Giovanni Berselli is Full Professor and Chair of Design Methods for Industrial Engineering at the University of Genova, Italy. He is also an affiliate member of the Medical Device and Simulation Lab. at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA and the current Chair of ASME Italy. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, Monash University, Australia, and with the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Navarra, Spain. Within his Department, Prof. Berselli coordinates the Erasmus Program, the Ph.D. Curriculum in Mechanics, Measurement and Materials and he is Delegate for International Relations. Prof. Berselli has authored more than 180 publications in peer-reviewed international journals or conference proceedings, and edited one international book. Recipient of several IFToMM, ASME and IEEE Best Paper Awards and finalist for an ERC starting grant. He is currently Associate Editor for the International Journals IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, International Journal of Interactive Design & Manufacturing, and Mechanical Science. Prof. Berselli's scientific activity is focused on the design, modelling and experimental evaluation of: i) robot hands and grippers; ii) compliant mechanisms and soft actuators for safe human-robot interaction; iii) energy-aware industrial robotics.

Hamid Reza Karimi is currently Professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. From 2009-2016, he has been Full Professor of Mechatronics-Control Systems at University of Agder, Norway. His current research interests include control systems and mechatronics with applications to automotive systems, robotics, vibration systems and wind energy. Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machines, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Designs,Section Editor-in-Chief of the IET Journal of Electronics Letters,SectionEditor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electronics, Section Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science Progress, Subject Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute and a Technical Editor, Moderator for IEEE TechRxiv or Associate Editor for some international journals, for instance, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Information Sciences, IFAC-Mechatronics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. He is a member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, the Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the Committee on Robust Control, and the Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi has been awarded as the 2016-2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering and also received the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation)joined HuddersfieldUniversity as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering,in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 12Springer books. He is Fellow of:British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR),Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Editorial Board member of the International Journal “Electronics”, the International Journal “Sensors”, the International Journal “Energies”, the International Journal “Insight”,the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management,the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research and the International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing. He was Chair,First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of ICNDT and EFNDT and Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring. Len made 42 plenary keynotes at major international conferences. He was Visiting Professor at ten Universities abroad. Len received two Rolls-Royce (UK) Awards for Innovation, COMADIT Prize (by British Institute of NDT) for significant contribution through research/development in condition monitoring, Oxford Academic Health Science Network Award, William Smith Prize by UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and USA Navy Award.

Prof. Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, China in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in biophysics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, USA in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1999. Prof. Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada. Prof. Yang has diversified research expertise. His research interests include robotics, intelligent systems, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, machine learning, fuzzy systems, and computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Robotics and Automation, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions of Artificial Intelligence, and several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many international conferences.

Fakhri Karray is the University Research Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Waterloo. He holds the Loblaw’s Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Karray’s research work spans the areas of intelligent systems and operational artificial intelligence as applied to autonomous machines/devices and man machine interaction systems through speech, gesture, and natural language. He has authored extensively in these areas and has disseminated his work in journals, conference proceedings, and textbooks. He is the co-author of two dozen US patents, has chaired/co-chaired several international conferences in his area of expertise and has served as keynote/plenary speaker on numerous occasions. He has also served as the associate editor/guest editor for a variety of leading journals in the field, including the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. His work has been featured on Discovery Channel, CBC, Globe and Mail, The Record, Reuters, the Daily Mail, Washington Post, Wired Magazine, and DigitalTrends portals. He has served as the University of Waterloo’s Academic Advisor for Amazon’s Alexa Fund Fellowship Program and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Balsillie School for Intergovernmental Affairs and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Prof. Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Juan Manuel Corchado. Full Professor with Chair at the University of Salamanca. He was Vice President for Research from 2013 to 2017 and the Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Chosen twice as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, he holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He is the director of a renowned research group called BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology), which has been created in the year 2000.

Dileep George is an AI and neuroscience researcher. In 2005, George pioneered hierarchical temporal memory and cofounded the AI research startup Numenta , Inc. with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky. In 2010, George left Numenta to join D. Scott Phoenix in founding Vicarious, an AI research project funded by internet billionaires Peter Thiel and Dustin Moskovitz . George has authored 22 patents and many peer-reviewed papers on the mathematics of brain circuits. His research has been featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Scientific Computing, Wired, Wall Street Journal, and on Bloomberg Television. George received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and continues his neuroscience research collaboration as Visiting Fellow at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kenji Suzuki, Ph.D. (Nagoya University) worked at Hitachi Medical Corp, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, as a faculty member, in Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, as Assistant Professor, Medical Imaging Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, as Associate Professor (Tenured), and Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as Professor (Specially Appointed). He published more than 340 papers (including 115 peer-reviewed journal papers). He has been actively studying deep learning in medical imaging and AI-aided diagnosis in the past 25 years, especially his early deep-learning model was proposed in 1994. His papers were cited 13,000 times, and his h-index is 52. He is inventor on 36 patents (including ones of earliest deep-learning patents), which were licensed to several companies and commercialized. He published 14 books and edited 12 journal special issues. He was awarded a number of grants including NIH, NEDO, and JST, totaling $17M. He served as Editors of a number of leading international journals including Pattern Recognition. He chaired 98 international conferences. He received 20 awards, including 3 Best Paper Awards in leading journals.

Prof. Loredana Zollo (female), MS 2000, PhD 2004, is Full Professor of Bioengineering at UCBM and head of head of the CREO Lab -- Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies -- at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. She presently is the Director of the Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering in the same university. In 2000 she joined ARTS Lab (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where she got the PhD in Bioengineering in 2004. In 2003 she was visiting student in the Laboratory of Neuroscience INSERM483, at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, investigating issues of neuroscience related to biological motor control and applicable to robotic platforms. In 2008 she was appointed assistant professor at UCBM. Her research interests are mainly in the fields of rehabilitation and assistive robotics, bio-robotics and bionics, human-machine interfaces, collaborative robotics. She was program co-chair of ICNR 2018, editor and associate editor for several international conferences, e.g. IROS 2019, IROS 2018, Ro-Man 2019, Ro-Man 2017, EMBC 2019 and BioRob2012, IROS 2012, IROS 2013, BioRob2014, and member of the IPC of a number of International Conferences in her fields of expertise. In 2012-2015 she was member of the editorial board as Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and is presently Chief Editor for the Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, and Topic Editor for the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. She is member of the editorial board of the book series Springer BIOSYSTEMS & BIOROBOTICS (BioSysRob). She is IEEE senior member, was co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics and is member of the IEEE-EMBS TC on Biorobotics. She has been involved in 30+ EU-funded and national projects in her application fields. She is the coordinator of the EU project H2020/FET-Open/SOMA, partner of the EU H2020/AIDE project and Eurobench/Experience project, member of the management board of the COST Action CA16116 “WearableRobots”. She has authored/co-authored 130+ scientific publications and 6 patents.

Dr Jerzy Leszek is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice-Head of the Department of Psychiatry , Head of Alzheimer’s Disease Lab at the Medical University in Wroclaw , and Scientific Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa near Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated at Medical University of Wroclaw in 2005, was awarded a doctorate in Wroclaw in 2007 and in 2011- examination for the degree of associate professor of psychiatry and since 2013 he is working as full professor of psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University. He is author and co-author more than 340 papers (especially from old age psychiatry), some chapters to the books published in reputed Polish and international journals and serving as an editorial board member of several journals .He is Scientific Editor and co-author of first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease and ten another academic handbooks from old age psychiatry(Polish and internationals) , member a lot of scientific associations e .g founder and president of Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer’s Families, first of its kind in Poland ,President of the Scientific Council of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa, near Wroclaw , Former President and founder of Polish Psychogeriatric Association, Former Secretary(now member) of European Old Age Psychiatry and Former Member of Board of Directions of International Psychogeriatric Association

Dr. Haibin Zhu is a Full Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Founding Director of Collaborative Systems Laboratory, member of the University Budget Plan committee, Arts and Science Executive Committee, and the Research Committee, Nipissing University, Canada. He received B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, China (1983), and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in computer science from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China. He was a visiting professor and a special lecturer in the College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (1999-2002) and a lecturer, an associate professor and a full professor at NUDT (1988-2000). He has published (and been accepted) over 200 research works including over 27 IEEE Transactions articles, six books, five book chapters, three journal issues, and three conference proceedings. He is a senior member of IEEE and is serving as associate vice president (AVP)，Systems Science and Engineering, co-chair of the technical committee of Distributed Intelligent Systems member of the SSE Technical Activity Committee, the Conferences and Meetings Committee, and the Electronic Communications Subcommittee of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE SMC Magazine, and IEEE Canada Review. He has been an active organizer for the annual IEEE Int’l Conf. on SMC since 2003, as Poster Co-Chair (2020), Special Session Chair (2019), Tutorial Chair (2018), Area Co-Chair (2017), Social Media Co-Chair (2015), Web Co-Chair (2015), Session Chair (2003-2020), and Special Session Organizer (2003-2020). He was a Program Co-Chair for the 13th Int’l Conf. on Computer Science and Information Technology, Oct.14-16, 2020, Online (ICCSIT2020) and the 10th Int’l Conf. on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication, and Sensors, Nov. 3-5, 2020, Online (PECCS2020), the Publication Chair for the 1st IEEE Int’l Conf. of Human-Machine Systems, Sept 7-9, 2020 (online) was the Program Chair for 16th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Banff, AB, Canada, May 8-11, 2019. He is a PC Chair for 24th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Dalian, China, May 6-8, 2020 (postponed), and was a PC Chair for 17th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 27- 29, 2013. He also served as PC member for 90+ academic conferences. He is the founding researcher of Role-Based Collaboration and Adaptive Collaboration. He has offered over 70 invited talks on collaboration topics internationally, e.g., Canada, USA, China, UK, Germany, Turkey, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. His research has been being sponsored by NSERC, IBM, DRDC, and OPIC. He is the receipt of the meritorious service award from IEEE SMC Society (2018), the chancellor’s award for excellence in research (2011) and two research achievement awards from Nipissing University (2006, 2012), the IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Awards(2004, 2005), the Best Paper Award from the 11th ISPE Int’l Conf. on Concurrent Engineering (ISPE/CE2004), the Educator’s Fellowship of OOPSLA’03, a 2nd class National Award for Education Achievement (1997), and three 1st Class Ministerial Research Achievement Awards from China (1997, 1994, and 1991). His research interests include Collaboration Theory, Technologies, Systems, and Applications, Human-Machine Systems, CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work), Multi-Agent Systems, Software Engineering, and Distributed Intelligent Systems.

He currently is an Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor in Information Technology, CSE Dept., Professor (j.a.) of Geriatrics School of Medicine and the Director of the Center of Assistive Research Technologies (CART) at Wright State University (WSU), Dayton, OH. Previous Administrative Positions: a) Associate Director Center Intelligent Systems (SUNY); b) Director of the ITRI Institute and c) Associate Dean for Research, Engineering College (WSU). He has conducted research in Artificial Intelligence (Projects: SE-Expert System, Hermes-Vision Architecture, Kydon-Image Recognition Architecture, BOUMER Learning, DIAS Architecture, Handwritten OCRWords, Glossa-NL Text Understanding, Technical Document Understanding, SKD Body Activity Recognition); Cyber Security (Projects: SCAN, AMYNA); and Bioengineering & Assistive Robotic Technologies (Projects: TyflosWearable Device for Assisting Blind for Navigation, Reading and Recognition, SPN-Brain Analysis for Recognition, Wireless Capsule Endoscopy, Ultrasound Imaging-Liver-Heart, Nosokoma & Prognosis for Assistive Living). His research was funded ($17M) by government agencies (NSF, AFRL, ONR, ARL, DARPA, etc.) and industry. He has published 450 articles in refereed IEEE/ International Journals, book-chapters and Conference Proceedings, 11 books and 60 technical reports related to research projects. He has advised and graduated 31 PhDs and 41 Master students. He is the Founder and the EIC of three International Journals Artificial Intelligence Tools (WS Pub. 1991-2021); Monitoring & Surveillance Tech Research (IGI-Global Pub. 2013 -2019); and EAI-Transactions on Bioengineering & Bioinformatics (EAI Publishers, 2019 - present). He was/is the Editor in Charge of a Research Series of Books in Artificial Intelligence (WS Publisher, 1993-2001); the Founder and General Chair of three International IEEE Computer Society Conferences (i) Tools with Artificial Intelligence, (ii) Bioinformatics & Bioengineering, (iii) Information-Intelligence-Systems & Applications, numerous Symposia and Workshops; the Associate Editor (12) in numerous IEEE and International Journals; and a Guest Editor in 25 special issues in IEEE and International Journals. He is/was a Distinguished IEEE Computer Society Speaker; an NSF University Research Programs Evaluator; an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member; the Founder & President of the Biological & Artificial Intelligence Society-Foundation (BAIF); an External Evaluator in University Promotion Committees; an Official Nominator of the National Academy of Achievements for Computer Science Programs; and a Keynote Speaker in numerous International/IEEE Conferences. His research work has been internationally recognized and has won several prestigious awards. Some of them are: IBM Author recognition Award 1991; IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award 1992; Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1993 -); IEEE Outstanding Paper Award AUTESTCON 1994; IEEE Computer Society Technical Research Achievement Award 1998; IEEE I&S Outstanding Leadership Award 1998; IEEE ICTAI 10 years Research Contribution Award 1999; Pattern Recognition Society Journal best papers selection for 1999; IEEE Symposium on BIBE Outstanding Leadership Award, 2003; ASC Outstanding Scientists & Engineers Research Award-2005; SETN Research Recognition- 2006; Degree of Honor and Recognition, University of Patras, Greece 2007; IEEE Appreciation Award for organizing ICTAI-08, Dayton OH, 2008; IEEE Computer Society Appreciation Award as the BIBE Steering Chair 2009; Dr. F. Russ IEEE Biomedical Engineering award, Dayton OH, 2010; Pattern Recognition Society Journal “Most Cited Article for 2006-2010”, and “Honorary mentioned for several years”; IJAIT best papers selection for the years 2006-2010; IEEE BIBE- Keynote Speaker Recognition Award Mobile-health, Taichung, Taiwan, 2011; WSU Outstanding Service Award, 2001-2012; IEEE Int. Conference ICTAI-2012 CV Ramammoorthy Best paper Award, Piraeus, Greece; “In honor and recognition for his outstanding scholarly achievements and contributions in the field of Computer Science”, Dept. of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece, July 2013; IEEE EMBS-GR Award of Achievements for his contribution on Assistive Devices for the Blind, IEEE IC-BIBE, Nov 2013, Chania , Greece; IEEE Conference BIBE-2014, Biomedical Engineering Best paper Award FL, USA, Nov. 2014; UNESCO-GR Recognition Leadership Award, IEEE Conference IISA, Corfu, Greece, July 2015; IEEE Conference on Tools with AI, CV Ramamoorthy Best paper Award, Vietri sul Mare, Italy Nov. 2015; IEEE Computer Society 28 years ICTAI Outstanding Service & Leadership Recognition, IEEE ICTAI, S. Jose, CA, 2016; IEEE Computer Society Keynote Speaker Recognition Award 2017, Boston MA; IEEE ICTAI-2018, 30 years Leadership Recognition, Volos, Nov 2018, Greece. IEEE ICTAI has honored Dr. Bourbakis for his outstanding contribution for 31 years as the Founder and Steering Committee Chair of the ICTAI series by giving on his name the Best Paper Award (starting Nov. 2019, Portland OR, USA); Honorary Doctoral Degree on Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Piraeus, Greece, 2020. IJAIT journal Nikolaos Bourbakis best paper Award (starting 2021). Also, Springer Publisher will publish a book on Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technologies in Honor of Professor Nikolaos G. Bourbakis (2021)

Dr. Lo’ai Tawalbeh (IEEE Senior Member): Got his MSc and PhD degrees in computer engineering from Oregon State University (OSU) , Oregon, USA in 2002 and 2004 respectively with GPA 4.0/4.0. Dr Tawalbeh currently is an associate professor at the Department of Computing and Cyber security, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, TX, USA. He is the founder and Director of the Cryptographic Hardware and Information Security (CHiS) lab at (JUST). From 2005 till 2012, he worked as adjunct professor to teach in the Master programs at: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), DePaul’s University and princes Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). Dr. Tawalbeh won many research grants and awards. He has over 110 research publications in many refereed international Journals, Books, and conferences. His research interests include AI and information security, cryptographic applications and crypto systems hardware implementations, mobile Cloud security. Dr. Tawalbeh is chairing many international conferences and workshops in Mobile Cloud Security, Blockchain, and related Cyber security areas. He is a reviewer and associate editor of many international referred Journals.

Prof. Loianno is an assistant professor at the New York University and director of the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab (https://wp.nyu.edu/arpl/) working on autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. Prior to NYU he was a lecturer, research scientist, and team leader at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in automation engineering, both with honors, from the University of Naples "Federico II" in December 2007 and February 2010, respectively. He received his PhD in computer and control engineering focusing in robotics in May 2014. Dr. Loianno has published more than 70 conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters. His research interests include visual odometry, sensor fusion, and visual servoing for micro aerial vehicles. He received the Conference Editorial Board Best Reviewer Award at ICRA 2016, National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Young Investigator Award 2018. He was the program chair for IEEE SSRR 2018. He has organized multiple workshops on Micro Aerial Vehicles during IROS conferences and created the new International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR). His work has been featured in a large number of renowned international news and magazines.

ZHAOJIE JU is a Reader in Machine Learning and Robotics, in the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth. He previously held research appointments at University College London, London, U.K.. He has authored or coauthored over 200 publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings and received five Best Paper Awards and one Best AE Award in ICRA2018. His research interests include machine intelligence, pattern recognition and their applications on human motion analysis, multi-fingered robotic hand control, human–robot interaction and collaboration, and robot skill learning. Dr. Ju is an Associate Editor of several journals, such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS and Neurocomputing. He is the chair of IEEE SMC Portsmouth Chapter. IEEEE Senior member.

Jobst Landgrebe M.D., born in 1970 in Cologne, studied medicine and biochemistry in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Basel and Nîmes. Already in his adolescence, he programmed IT systems. In 1998, he finished his doctorate’s thesis and until 2002 he worked as a neural geneticist at Max Planck Institute for psychiatry in Munich. He studied mathematics part-time in Munich and Göttingen. From 2002 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant with biomathemathics as the core research area at the centre for cell biology of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Göttingen university. Besides his research activity in mathematics, he dealt with theoretical computer sciences and turned away from medicine. From 2006 onward he worked as a business consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and as a software architect for artificial intelligence at a provider for medical informatics Clinerion. In 2011, he founded a first AI-enterprise for a medical software system as a entrepreneurial company. In 2003, he founded Cognotekt GmbH. In 2019, he published the paper “Making AI Meaningful Again” as a joint work with the British philosopher Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, NY). The paper was peer reviewed and accepted by the journal for philosophy “Synthese”. The paper critically scrutinises the suitability of today’s AI systems (DNN, machine learning) for semantic language comprehension and offers an alternative model which is based on formal logic.

Dr. Dong Hwa Kim received Ph.D from Ajou University in Korea and also got Ph.D from Dept. of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, TIT (Tokyo Institute of Technology, K. Hirota Lab.), Tokyo, Japan. He has experience in many areas such as Visiting Professor, Mechanical, Optic, Engineering Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economic (March 20, 2012-2013), President, Korea Institute HuCARE (President of Hu-CARE (Human-Centered Advanced Technology Research/Education, 2009 – ), EU-FP NCP (ICT) in Korea (Nov. 2009-), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Nov., 1977-March, 1993), President, Daedeok Korea-India Forum (March 1, 2010 – ), Vice-president of the recognition board of the world congress of arts, sciences and communications, IBC (Sept. 1, 2007, UK), Co-editor, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, executive committees (June 2, 2007 -2009), Co-editor, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII, Fujii press, Japan (2006-), Director of National Science Foundation (2006-2008). He wrote many columns about science & technology strategy and policy in major newspaper in Korea. He also had ever have lecture and keynote speaker in over 100 University and conference or forum over the world. He was Book Author in Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms (Computational Intelligence 75), Springer, Germany, 2007, and published 200 papers in international Journal and awards 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, Top 100 Engineers 2008 (UK), International Einstein Award for Scientific achievement. He got also best innovation award from Hankook Illbo (Korea major daily newspaper) on 2009. He is now working at Hanbat National University (2009 – ).

Hossein Bonakdari, Ph.D, P.Eng., earned his Ph.D in Civil Engineering at the University of Caen-France. He has worked for several organizations like most recently as faculty member of department of Soil and Agri-Food Engineering at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He has supervised several PhD and MSc students with teaching experience of more than 12 years in field of soft computing application in practical engineering applications. His research has primarily focused on the development of novel artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies as well as the use of real dataset to perform various inter and multidisciplinary research, computational simulations of engineering problems. Results obtained from his researches have been published in more than 240 published papers in international journals (h-index=34). He has also more than 150 presentations in national and international conference. He published two books. He is Editorial Board member ofseveral leading journals in the area of artificial intelligence and sustainable development. He is currently leading several research projects in collaboration with industrials partners. Dr Bonakdari ranked in the list of 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines in various domains published by Stanford University.

Dr. Mohamed Elhoseny is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, American University in the Emirates, Dubai, UAE. Dr. Elhoseny is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Senior Member. He received his PhD in Computers and Information from Mansoura University/University of North Texas through a joint scientific program. Collectively, Dr. Elhoseny authored/co-authored over 150 published articles in prestigious journals, book chapters, and conference papers. Besides, Dr. Elhoseny authored/edited 17 international books published by recognized publishers such as Springer and Elsevier. His research interests include Smart Cities, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Intelligent Systems. Dr. Elhoseny is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of IJSSTA journal published by IGI Global. Also, he is an Associate Editor at IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, IEEE Future Directions, Remote Sensing, and International Journal of E-services and Mobile Applications. Moreover, he served as the co-chair, the publication chair, the program chair, and a track chair for several international conferences published by recognized publishers such as IEEE and Springer. Dr. Elhoseny is the Editor-in-Chief of the Studies in Distributed Intelligence Springer Book Series, the Editor-in-Chief of The Sensors Communication for Urban Intelligence CRC Press-Taylor& Francis Book Series, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems CRC Press-Taylor& Francis Book Series. He was granted several awards by diverse funding bodies such as the Egypt State Encouragement Award in 2018, the Young Researcher Award in Artificial Intelligence from the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils in 2019, Obada International Prize for young distinguished scientists 2020, Mansoura University Young Researcher Award 2019, the SRGE best young researcher award in 2017, and the best Ph.D. thesis in Mansoura University in 2015. Dr. Elhoseny has 14 years of teaching experience and supervised two PhD students, two master students, and six graduation projects. Besides, he is a TPC Member or Reviewer in 100+ International Conferences and Workshops. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for 100+ International Journals including IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things, Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Communication Letters, Elsevier Computer Communications, Computer Networks, Sustainable Cities and Society, Wireless Personal Communications, and Expert Systems with Applications. Dr. Elhoseny has been invited as a guest in many media programs to comment on technologies and related issues.

Prof. Mariacarla Staffa is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Cognitive Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University Federico II with honors, in 2008. She got a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering from the University Federico II in 2011. She was visiting researcher at the ?Institute de Système Intelligentes et de Robotique'' of the University of Paris ?Pierre et Marie Curie?. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the EUCognition - European Society for Cognitive Systems (ID: 2037). She is also part of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics. She serves as Expert Reviewer for European Commission Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Area: AI and Robotics). She is member of the PRISCA (Projects of intelligent robotics and advanced cognitive systems) Laboratory, making research in the fields of Cognitive Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Social and Assistive Robotics, and of the QUASAR (Quantum Computing and Smart System) Laboratory, where she collaborates with experts of machine learning, quantum computing and smart systems. Additionally, she is affiliated to the ICAROS center (Interdepartmental Center for Advances in Robotic Surgery) of the University of Naples Federico II, aiming at creating synergies between clinical and surgical practice and research on new technologies for computer/robot assisted surgery. She is mainly interested in exploring computational neuroscience and cognitive robotics to generate innovative strategies and solutions for scientific problems and technological limitations. She authored several works on Social Assistive Robots, Adaptive Human Robot Interaction, Human Behavior and Emotion interpretation, etc.

Norman M. Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU’s Mobile Commerce Laboratory and its e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, co-Founder of the School’s PhD Program in Societal Computing (formerly “Computation, Organizations and Society”) and co-Director of the MSIT Program in Privacy Engineering. He also co-founded and directs the MBA track in Technology Leadership launched jointly by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science in 2005. Over the past dozen years, Norman’s primary research focus has been in the area of mobile and pervasive computing, cybersecurity, online privacy, user-oriented machine learning, and semantic web technologies with a particular focus on mobile and social networking.

Francesco Pierri is Assistant Professor of Robotics and Automatic Control at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata since 2008. He received the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from University of Basilicata on 2007 on the field of control and fault diagnosis of chemical batch reactors. In 2017 he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification to the Associate Professor position. He has been involved in research projects on robotics funded by the European Community (under the Seventh Framework Program and Horizon 2020), the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, the Italian Space Agency and other public and private institutions. He is member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society since 2006. From 2013 to 2018 he was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation and from 2013 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). His research interests include cooperative robotics, interaction control for robotic manipulators, multi-robot control and fault diagnosis, aerial manipulators control. He is co-author of about 60 papers on international journals and conferences and of the monograph "Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors" (Springer-Verlag).

Dr. Brian J. Miles, a board-certified urologist.He is a Professor of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, Vice Chair of the Department of Urology and Medical Director of Robotic Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is specialized in urologic oncology, especially cancer of the prostate. He is the physician in charge of Surgical Robot Training at Houston Methodist Hospital. Having served as the Director of the Urology Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, he continues to educate and provide professional direction to medical students, urology residents, and fellow urologists. His primary focus and interest in clinical practice and research is in the detection and surgical treatment of prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer. As one of the leading authorities in Texas and the country in the use of the daVinci robot surgical system, He have performed over 3,200 robotic prostatectomies (removal of the prostate), and many robotic cystectomies (removal of the bladder), and partial nephrectomies (removal of part of the kidney) procedures.He also travel widely as a lecturer, surgeon, and consultant on urological cancers to many foreign countries.

Dr. YILDIRIM has received the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 from Erciyes University, Turkey. He has received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 from System Engineering Department, Cardiff University, UK. He has established Mechatronic Engineering Department in 2005, Kayseri, Turkey. He is head of the Mechatronic Engineering Department and head of the Foreign Relations Office of Erciyes University. He is lecturing the control theory, robotics, principles of mechatronic systems, neural network applications in engineering at Erciyes University, Turkey. He has been supervised some national and international projects such as mobile nurse robot design and control, active vehicle system design and control, 2 legged walking robot control. He has been reviewed more than 200 papers. He is also the author of more than 150 journals, conference papers, and book chapters. He is currently supervising more than 30 Ph.D. and MSc students who edited 4 journals. His research area consists of Neural Network, Mechatronic Systems, Control Theory and Applications, Mobile and Industrial Robots, Vehicle Dynamics and Control.

Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, PhD is Associate Professor of Control and Systems Engineering at Miguel Hernandez University (Spain). He holds a M.Sc. in Control Engineering by the University of Murcia (1996, Spain), Master in Design, Robotics and Industrial Automation from University of Murcia (Spain) 1996-1997 and a PhD in Control Engineering by the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (Spain). He has been appointed as Visiting Scientist at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE), in 2003 and at Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany, in 2006. His current research interests are medical and surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, medical image, computer vision, human-robot Interaction and design and control of new robotic devices. Dr. Nicolas Garcia was a 2004 recipient of the Best Thesis in Roboticsˇ, National Research Prize, from the Spanish Federation of Automatic control. He is author or co-author of a broad range of research publications. He served as Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE RAS\\EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB, Roma, Italy) and the General Chair of EURON Winter School on Rehabilitation Robotics (Elche, Spain).

Dr. Vivian K. Mushahwar received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1996. She received postdoctoral training at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta. Her research interests include identification of spinal cord systems involved in locomotion, development of spinal-cord-based neuroprostheses, incorporation of motor control concepts in functional electrical stimulation applications, and development of systems for alleviating secondary side effects of immobility such as pressure ulcers. Dr. Mushahwar is the Leader of the Project SMART (Sensory Motor Adaptive Rehabilitation Technology) interdisciplinary team and the Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation Centre for Neural Interfaces and Rehabilitation Neuroscience. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Women in Neural Engineering Award, the Alberta Medical Association Medal of Honor, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar and Senior Scholar Awards and the Department of Medicine Translational Research Award. She was named Woman of Vision by the Canada Global TV Network.

Yongjing is an academic engineer and lecturer at the School of Engineering, the University of Birmingham, UK. Yongjing’s work focuses on the development of the next generation robotics and automation technologies and their applications to complex industrial processes. In particular, he has been promoting the use of robots in remanufacturing and recycling. His work has contributed to EPSRC, EC, Royal society, Innovate UK and industry funded projects.

Dr. Laura Stanley is a passionate educator and researcher and has a zest for pushing academic boundaries with her technology inspired pursuits. A professor at Montana State University where she studies human-computer interaction, e.g. projects include immersive technologies for pain and anxiety management for children with cancer and mixed reality (e.g., imagine a hologram therapist) coupled with artificial intelligence to aid those with addictions. She is also using a similar mechanism for human-robot interaction. Dr. Stanley holds three degrees in engineering, a B.S. from Virginia Tech, M.S. and Ph.D. from Montana State University and has authored 72 peer-reviewed publications and acquired $13M in research funding. She served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation where she helped to shape the nation’s research agenda. Inspiring Dr. Stanley is the advancement of minorities in engineering and computer science; believing in the power of STEM to help others. Her research ideas often happen while fly fishing and wandering around Montana’s open spac

Giora Weisz, M.D., is an Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, Director of Operations and Director of Clinical Cardiovascular Research of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Weisz graduated from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his residency in internal medicine and cardiology fellowship at the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and completed full training in interventional cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. As a practicing interventional cardiologist, Dr. Weisz has particular interest in current and innovative technologies. He has pioneering experience with novel robotic-enhanced coronary interventions, including navigation and positioning technologies. Additional interests include management of incomplete revascularization, novel intravascular imaging, and strategies for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy.

Ricardo Sanz was born in Tomellosa, Spain in 1963. He got a degree in electrical/control/electronics engineering in 1987 and a Ph.D. in robotics and artificial intelligence in 1990. Since 1991, he has been a member of the Department of Automatic Control at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, teaching Computer Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. His main research interests focus around the topic of architectures for intelligent systems. He has been involved in research projects on autonomous control, software technologies for complex, distributed controllers, real-time artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, bio-inspired controllers and philosophical aspects of intelligence. He has been associated editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, the International Journal of Machine Consciousness and the Journal on Biologically Inspired Cogntieve Systems. He has been chairman of the OMG Control Systems Working Group and the IFAC Technical Committee on Computers and Control. Since 2004 he is the coordinator of the UPM Autonomous Systems Laboratory.

Izzat Alsmadi is an Assistant Professor in the department of computing and cybersecurity at Texas A&M, San Antonio. He has his master's and Ph.D. in Software Engineering from North Dakota State University in 2006 and 2008. He has more than 100 conference and journal publications. His research interests include Cyber intelligence, Cybersecurity, Software security, software engineering, software testing, social networks, and software-defined networking. He is the lead author, editor in several books including Springer The NICE Cyber Security Framework Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics, 2019, Practical Information Security: A Competency-Based Education Course, 2018, Information Fusion for Cyber-Security Analytics (Studies in Computational Intelligence), 2016. The author is also a member of The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) group, which meets frequently to discuss enhancements on cybersecurity education at the national level.

Dr Mamoun Alazab is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering, IT and Environment at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Federation University of Australia, School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering. He is a cyber security researcher and practitioner with industry and academic experience. Alazab’s research is multidisciplinary that focuses on cyber security and digital forensics of computer systems with a focus on cybercrime detection and prevention. He has more than 150 research papers in many international journals and conferences, such as IEEE transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computers & Security, and Future Generation Computing Systems. He delivered many invited and keynote speeches, 24 events in 2019 alone. He convened and chaired more than 50 conferences and workshops. He works closely with government and industry on many projects, including Northern Territory (NT) Department of Information and Corporate Services, IBM, Trend Micro, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Westpac, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the Attorney General’s Department. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is the Founding chair of the IEEE Northern Territory (NT) Subsection.

Micael Santos Couceiro obtained the B.Sc., Teaching Licensure, and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Engineering Institute of Coimbra, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics and an Invited Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. He is also co-founder and CEO of Ingeniarius; a company devoted to the development of robotic solutions and wearable technologies

Andreja is professor at University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering & University of Primorska Faculty of Education, Slovenia. Andreja was visiting professor at University of North Texas, US (2018), Visiting fellow (2012-2103) and Honorary Fellow (2014-2019) at Macquarie University Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She served as editor of BJET - British Journal of educational Technology (2015-2017), member of editorial boards BJET (2010- ), ETR&D - Educational Technology research and Development (2018- ).

Mini-biography. Petr Stadler, Prof., M.D., Ph.D., Head of Department of Vascular Surgery and Chief, Division of Robotic Vascular Surgery, Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. Member of the Scientific Board of Na Homolce Hospital. He graduated from the Charles University Prague Medical School in Pilsen, Czech Republic in 1989. He performed his Internship and Residency in General and Vascular Surgery at the District Hospital in Jicin, Czech Republic. Dr. Stadler obtained his certification of general surgery in 1992 and vascular surgery in 1996. Upon completion of his certifications, Dr. Stadler relocated to Na Homolce Hospital in Prague. He was certified as a console surgeon for the da Vinci surgical system in an off-site training program conducted in August, 2005 at the University of California, Irvine. His surgical interests include: laparoscopic vascular and robot-assisted vascular surgery, thoracoabdominal aortic surgery and use of vascular allografts in the treatment of arterial graft infection. He has developed a modified technique of transperitoneo-retroperitoneal approach for laparoscopic and robotic aortoiliac surgery. He was one in the world to use the da Vinci Robotic System to treatment of common iliac artery aneurysm, abdominal aortic and aortoiliac aneurysm. Dr. Stadler is a member of the Czech Association of Cardiovascular Surgery, the European Society for Vascular Surgery, a founding member of the International Endovascular and Laparoscopic Society and honorary member the Polish Robotic Society. He has also received a few prestigious honors from the Czech Association of Cardiovascular Surgery for the best publications in 2004, 2006 and 2014, the Letter of Appreciation from Korean Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons in May 2008, the price of the Czech Society of Angiology for the publication in the year 2007, the best audiovisual presentation during the 12th Annual Meeting on Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2009 in USA, the International Award of SCVS during the meeting in 2013, Miami, USA, the Paul Alan Wetter Award of SLS Annual Meeting and Endo Expo, 2014, Las Vegas, USA and in 2020 (Virtual SLS MIS). He performed also the robot-assisted vascular operation in South Korea, Russia, Poland and India.

Prof. Baochang Zhang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999, 2001, and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, Prof. Zhang was a research fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, PolyU in Hong Kong, and Griffith University, Brisban, Australia. From 2014 to 2015, he was a senior Postdoc at the Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. In 2008 Prof. Zhang joined the faculty of Beihang University, Beijing, China as a lecturer. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2011, to a Tenured Associate Professor (only 4 from 78 applicants in the school) in 2018, and Full Professor in 2020. He was selected as a distinguished researcher of Beihang Hangzhou Institute in Zhejiang Province in 2018 and chosen as Academic Advisor of Institute of Deep Learning, Baidu Research in 2019. He was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China 2013, and Shenzhen Peacock Plan 2017. He is a chief scientist of Shenzhen Academy of Aerospace Technology, Shenzhen, China. He was in charge of the joint project development between industry and academia. Prof. Zhang’s algorithms are widely used in the industry. The Shenzhen HAISI Company has used his deep model compression algorithm. He independently designed a near-infrared device, which was used to collect the PolyU near-infrared face database. The Boyan-digital Company has adopted his H.264 video decoder and video surveillance algorithms. HGPP and LDP were the state-of-the-art feature descriptors, published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 2007 and 2010. As reflected in Google Scholar, HGPP (980 citations) and LDP (680 citations) are “Test-of-Time” works. His group developed the 1-bit PCNNs, which achieved the best performance on ImageNet. He is an Associate Editor of SCI journals IJARS and Sensors. He was a member of the program committees of the CVPR and ICCV conferences. He has four papers selected as best papers in the CCBR, HFR, ICNS conferences. He was a Guest editor of Signal, Image and Video Processing, IET computer vision, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering. His current research interests include deep model compression, machine learning, computer vision, SLAM, signal processing, UAV based object detection and tracking, and video analysis. His publications have been cited over 5600 times. Baidu Inc gave him an academic advisor position, and while collaborating, his group achieved first place on the ECCV 1st Tiny Object Detection Challenge.

Hongwei Mo, born in 1973. He is a professor of Automation College of Harbin Engineering University. He got Ph.D degree in the same university in 2005. He was a visiting Scholar of UCDavis,CA, USA from 10,2003-10, 2004. He worked as a lecturer, associate professor and professor in Automation College,Harbin Engineering University from 1996 till now. His main research interesting includes Natural Computing, Intelligent System, Artificial Intelligence,Intelligence Robot and UAV. He had published 80 papers on nature inspired computing in international journals and conferences.He was the guest editor of Special issue on Nature inspired computing and applications of Journal of Information Technology Research. He was the author of 5 monograhs and he is the editor of ‘Handbook of Artificial Immune Systems and Nature inspired computing:Applying Complex Adaptive Technologies’. And he is a member of IEEE Computing Intelligence Society, IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society. He was also the program committee member over 30 international conferences. And he is the organization committees chair of 2013 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. He is the program committees chair of 2017 International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing Theories and Appplications. He serves as the associate editor of International Journal of Computing Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, member of editorial boards of the Journal of Information Technology Research and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, International Journal of Robotics and Automation Technology.

XinquanChen is a professor and master supervisorof the School of Computer & Information, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, Anhui, PR China. He received the Ph.D degree from South China University of Technology in 2007 and the post-doctorate career from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2016. He is a member of System Simulation & Simulation Technology Application Committee, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Anhui Polytechnic University, CCF Member. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, clustering algorithms, and optimization method. At present, he has presided over the completion of 3 provincial-level scientific research projects and 3 university-level scientific research projects. As the first author, he has published more than 40 academic papers in SCI/EI source journals, CSCD journals and EI conferences. Among them, there are 6 journal articles from CCF recommends international SCI, 12 papers indexed by EI and 8 papers indexed by CSCD. He is a reviewer of multiple international SCI journals.

Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson has been researching artificial intelligence for over 30 years, in academia and industry. His research on general intelligence addresses constructivist methodologies, cumulative learning, and comprehensive cognitive architectures. At MIT he pioneered new ideas in the area of real-time virtual robots with unified multi-modal perception and action control. In New York he was Vice President of Engineering at Soliloquy and co-founder of semantic-Web company Radar Networks Inc. He was a lead architect for Honda ASIMO's Cognitive Map. For the past decade his team at Reykjavik U. has been doing research on a new kind of AI that can learn complex tasks by observation through self-programming. Dr. Thórisson has taught advanced AI courses at Columbia University, KTH, and Reykjavik University, and consulted for NASA and British Telecom, among others. He has authored numerous scientific papers and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence and the LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence. Dr. Thórisson received his Ph.D. from the MIT Media lab in 1996. He is Full Research Professor at the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, the founder and Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines in Reykjavik, and co-founder of RU’s AI lab CADIA, which he co-directed 2005-2010. Dr. Thórisson is a two-time recipient of the Kurzweil Award.

Fidel Cacheda is a Full Professor at the Computer Science and Information Technologies Department at the University of A Coruña (Spain) and a senior researcher at the CITIC Research Center. His teaching is focused on Computer Networks and Information Retrieval. From a research perspective, his research lines are Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence applied to CyberSecurity. He has published four books, nine book chapters, more than 25 relevant journal articles and more than 100 conference articles. Throughout his career he has been Transfer Deputy of the Vice-Rector's Office for Scientific Policy, Research and Transfer at the University of A Coruña, President of Internet Society (ISOC) Galician chapter, Secretary of Information and Communication Technologies Department at the University of A Coruña, Secretary of the Spanish Information Retrieval Society and Secretary of the Information and Communication Technologies Doctoral Commission.

Mohamed Daoudi is a professor of Computer Science at IMT Lille Douai and a leader of Image group at CRIStAL (UMR CNRS 9189). His research interests include pattern recognition and computer vision and he is the author of over 150 scientific publications that have appeared in in the most distinguished international journals and conference proceedings and he is the editor of several books including “3D Face Modeling, Analysis and Recognition” Wiley 2013 and “3D Object Processing: Compression, Indexing and Watermarking” Wiley 2008. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IAPR. He is Associate editor of Image, Vision and Computing Journal (since 2016), IEEE Transactions On Multimedia (since 2018) and Journal Of Imaging (since 2018). He has been Guest Editor of several Special Issues on 3D Humans Analysis and Recognition, face and gesture recognition, and manifolds for computer vision on some of the most prestigious scientific journals. He has also been a member of the Scientific Program Committee of many international conferences in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. He has been General Chair of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, IEEE FG 2019, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision 2017, ISCV 2017 and of several other international workshops.

Full Professor belonging to the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" - DIEF of the University of Studies of Modena and Reggio Emilia - UNIMORE, for the Scientific Disciplinary Sector ING-IND / 15 "Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering ".Expert in Mechanical Computer Aided Design for Automotive: integrated development of products and processes industrial, design by simulation of mechanical systems. Model Base Design: GPS, GD&T, computer-assisted tolerance and dimensional control, virtual prototyping. Automation and industrial robotics: design by simulation of robotic lines and cells for manufacturing and assembly operations. He teaches for the Master's degree courses in Vehicle Engineering and Advanced Automotive Engineering, and for the three-year degree courses in Vehicle Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is the author of international scientific publications in scientific journals and international conferences, for the

Dr. Qing Han received the M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation fromSouthwest Forestry University, Kunming, China in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 2018.Dr. Qing Han joined the Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing, China in 2018. Currently he is the Head of the Intelligent Robot Laboratory at the Yangtze Normal University in Chongqing. His research interests include robotics, intelligent robots, multi-robot coordination control, electromechanical integration and electromechanical control technique. Dr. Qing Han several journals

Shahid Mumtaz is an IET Fellow, IEEE ComSoc and ACM Distinguished speaker, recipient of IEEE ComSoC Young Researcher Award (2020), IEEE Senior member, founder and EiC of IET “Journal of Quantum communication”, Vice-Chair: Europe/Africa Region- IEEE ComSoc: Green Communications & Computing society and Vice-chair for IEEE standard on P1932.1: Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Networks. He has more than 15 years of wireless industry/academic experience. He has received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and 2011, respectively. From 2002 to 2003, he worked for Pak Telecom as System Engineer and from 2005 to 2006 for Ericsson and Huawei at Research Labs in Sweden. He has been with Instituto de Telecomunicações since 2011 where he currently holds the position of Auxiliary Researcher and adjunct positions with several universities across the Europe-Asian Region. He is the author of 4 technical books, 12 book chapters, 250+ technical papers (170+ Journal/transaction, 80+ conference, 2 IEEE best paper award- in the area of mobile communications. He had/has supervised/co-supervising several Ph.D. and Master Students. He uses mathematical and system-level tools to model and analyze emerging wireless communication architectures, leading to innovative Master's theoretically optimal new communication techniques. He is working closely with leading R&D groups in the industry to transition these ideas to practice. He secures the funding of around 2M Euro.

Dr. Melanie Schranz is a senior researcher and project leader at Lakeside Labs GmbH, Klagenfurt, Austria, for national and European projects. Her research focus is on modeling and engineering existing swarm intelligence algorithms to cyber-physical systems and the evaluation of the swarm systems via simulations and real-world deployments. Therein, additional requirements come from real-world applications including swarms of drones for search and rescue, rovers for logistic, autonomous cars for smart traffic, and machines that need to be scheduled for a production plant. Prior to her position as senior researcher, she received a PhD fromthe University of Klagenfurt in 2015, entitled “Design Space Exploration for Coordination and ControlStrategies in Visual Sensor Networks”. From 2011 to 2015 she worked as research and teaching staffmember at the research group Pervasive Computing at the institute for Networked and Embedded Systems,University of Klagenfurt. From 2015 to 2017 she worked as innovation manager at the UPPERCUT group,Klagenfurt. She returned to academic life in January 2017 as senior researcher to the non-profit research organization Lakeside Labs. Melanie’s major research interests cover swarm intelligence algorithms, coordination andcontrol algorithms for sensor networks, and their (graphical) simulations. She successfully supervised severalbachelor and master students, and was strongly involved in the foundation of a spin-off company(Sensolligent, 2018). In the IEEE she actively works as IEEE public relation officer in the Austria section.She is a reviewer for multiple conferences/journals including the IEEE International Conference on Roboticsand Automation, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Conference on Adaptiveand Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications,Workshop on Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles, and American Control Conference, successfully worked as a committee member and co-editor for multiple conferences and journals. Further details can be found on https://melanieschranz.com

For 40 years, Professor Agnès Jacquerye, PhD, was lecturer at the School of Public Health of the Free University of Brussels specialising in Quality and Patient Safety Evaluation (structure, process and outcome indicators, performance and accreditation). At the same time, she also worked in a teaching hospital in Brussels, at the Erasmus Hospital and at the Belgian Ministry of Health, teaching in the same areas. In addition, from 2011, she developed her new profession of clinical sexologist and sex coach. She also practices as a clinical sexologist in Brussels. Interested in a new, innovative and exciting teaching technique used in Medicinal School, “the simulation technique”, she thinks it would be most beneficial to apply this to the field of sex education, using advanced robots, offering in this way a creative, efficient and ethical teaching method. The objective is that, with the help of a new generation of robots, a more fulfilling love life will be accessible to every woman and every man.

Dr Yan XU is a Full Professor at School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and a fellowship at National Laboratory of Economic Engineering (in Beijing) which is the think tank of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. She is the Fulbright Scholar awarded by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Board in 2018. As the visiting scholars, she has been working at University of Washington, Western Ontario and Frank G. Zarb School of business at Hofstra University as the Adjunct assistant professor. Her research areas are mainly in Statistics, Econometrics, Computational mathematics and data Science. Publications are in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications and other International journals. She is the Director of three National Natural Science Foundations of China(NSFC) . She is also the director of two national courses and awarded as the prominent educator of Liaoning Province. As the Chairman, She organized the first international conference of ‘Statistical Learning and Econometrics’at DUFE.

Graduated with a BSc (Mechanical Engineering), MSc (Engineering) and PhD (Engineering) degree at the Ex-University of Natal in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Professor of Mechatronics, Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Systems since 2002. Held the following leadership positions since 2002: Major Leader and Head of the Mechatronics degree program at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Head of School for Mechanical Engineering, Dean of Research for the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science and now Dean of Engineering since 2018. Holder of the James Fulton Chair based in Mechanical Engineering since 2008. Graduated with an MBA degree at UKZN, Durban, in 2011. Lecture courses in topics associated with Mechatronics, Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Teaching and learning objectives are to provide quality education to students at undergraduate and post graduate level. Leader and supervisor of the Mechatronics and Robotics research Group, (MR2G) since 1995 at UKZN. Research objectives are to provide industry with ‘state of the art’ solutions for Advanced Manufacturing System problems based on topics related to “Industry 4.0” for Factories of the Future. These objectives are achieved through local and overseas research collaboration. Research outputs and results are regularly presented and published in international conference proceedings, chapters in books and ISI accredited journals.

Dr. Colin Shunryu Garvey was a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science & Technology Studies (STS), his research examines technological risk governance through the lens of political decision theory, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a case study to understand how societies can more safely, fairly, and wisely steer controversial sociotechnical systems. A scholar of the history of technology and fluent in Japanese, his study of the first global “AI arms race” between the US and Japan in the 1980s was recently published as part of a special issue of Pacific Historical Review. His work has been supported by the NSF, and in 2017 his study of American AI history was awarded Best Early Career Paper by the Society for the History of Technology. In addition to working on his book manuscript, Terminated? How Societies Can Avert the Coming AI Catastrophe, Garvey is currently translating his STS-inflected approach to AI risk governance into a policy report for a Washington DC-based thinktank and extrapolating his historical research on Japanese AI to contextualize the current “AI arms race” between the US and China.

Mu-Yen Chen is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his PhD in Information Management from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, soft computing, bio-inspired computing, data mining, deep learning, context-awareness, and machine learning, with more than 100 publications in these areas. He has served as Editor in Chief and Associate Editor of international journals (e.g. International Journal of Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, IEEE Access, Applied Soft Computing, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Journal of Information Processing Systems, International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing) and currently serves an editorial board member on several SCI journals

Prof.dr. Edmond Hajrizi is the founder and rector of the private institution of higher education, UBT, which is a reflection of his experience and expertise gathered during the studies and work in many universities and international institutions. He graduated in engineering in University of Prishtina, and after two years became a master of Advanced Automotive Technology in the same university. During the same year, he enrolled for his doctoral studies in the University of Vienna in Systems Mangament parallelly with his studies in Information Technology. He finished his postdoctoral studies in England, City University of London. He is a certified manager of quality from TUEV Austria, the first accredited expert for the certification project in 4 levels from the International Authority for Project Management. Hajrizi is an accredited examiner and trainer for Quality Management under the umbrella of European Organization for Quality Austria, the main expert for EFQM model accredited from ILEP foundation. Rector Hajrizi came back from Vienna to make his dream come true. His dream was to establish an institution that brings in Kosova the most technological innovations and developments, which are up to date with the most developed countries, becoming the first address for higher education studies in Kosova and region. In 2001, Hajrizi founded the insitution IEME bringing a different approach in researches, university studies, professional trainings and international conferences. 2003 was the year when UBT got licensed, fiercely entering the field of univerisity studies.

Dr. TU NGUYEN is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Fort Wayne. He earned the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (formerly, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences) in 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2017. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he joined the Missouri University of Science and Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Intelligent Systems Center in 2016. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, network science, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access (2019- ) and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2017- ). He is also on the Editorial Board of the Cybersecurity journal, Internet Technology Letters (2017- ), International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (2017- ), International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing (2017- ), and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (2017- ), and has served as a TPC Chair for the NICS 2019, SoftCOM (25th), and ICCASA 2017, a Publicity Chair for iCAST 2017 and BigDataSecurity 2017, and a Track Chair for ACT 2017. He has also served as a technical program committee member for over 100 premium conferences in the areas of network and communication such as INFOCOM, Globecom, ICC, and RFID. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Hassan Hariri is currently an assistant professor at Rafik Hariri University (RHU) in Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to joining RHU, he was a Research Fellow at Temasek Laboratories and Robotics Innovations Laboratory at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He joined SUTD since 2014 and he worked on the research project STARS (Systems Technology for Autonomous Reconnaissance and Surveillance). He obtained his PhD in 2012 from University Paris-Sud, France, where he designed and realized piezoelectric mobiles for cooperative use (piezoelectric mini-robots). Before joining SUTD, he awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship in 2012 from Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) to work on the validation of a tire sensor used for the minimization of the vibration transmission through a car suspension.

Vinícius Wasques was born in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil (1989). He has bachelor degree in Mathematics from the São Paulo State University - Brazil (2012), Masters degree in Mathematics from the same university (2015) and PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Campinas - Brazil (2019). His research fields are Fuzzy Differential Equations, Biomathematics, Decision Making and P-fuzzy Systems. He is currently working at the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials - CNPEM as Specialist in Technological Development and he is a Collaborating Researcher/Professor at the Department of Mathematics in the São Paulo State University - Brazil.

Pascal Bornet is a recognized global expert and pioneer in the field of intelligent automation. He is passionate about the capacity of artificial intelligence and automation to make our society more human. Bornet is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience leading digital business transformations and creations. Over the last ten years, he has founded and led the “Intelligent Automation” practices, first for EY (Ernst & Young) and then for McKinsey & Company. These lines of business delivered high-impact results to corporate clients across industries through innovation, research, strategic investments, and cutting-edge technology developments. In these contexts, he successfully led hundreds of intelligent automation transformations at scale across industries and functions. He has also created and managed a proven track record of distinctive, innovative solutions, technologies, and IP portfolios.

Piotr Gierlak (DSc PhD Eng.) is an Associate Professor of Machanics at the Rzeszow University of Technology. He is a Chairman of Rzeszow Division of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. In 2011 he has completed his PhD thesis: Neural control of manipulator motion. In 2019 he has completed his habilitation thesis: Synthesis of robotic manipulator movement including environmental interaction. He has published over 50 publications and participated in over a dozen research projects. He is involved in research on: robot modeling, identification, control of robotic systems, nonlinear control, force control, AI in robotics, underactuated systems, mechanical vibration, VR in robotics, voice control.

Dr. Muhammad Zubair Rehmanis currently working on hyper-heuristics and optimization algorithms at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He received his PhD in Information Technology from UTHM in 2016. He obtained his MS in IT from UTHM in 2012, and BS in Computer Science from PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Pakistan in 2008. He has over 10 years of Teaching and Research experience in Software Development Industry. He has published over 70 research articles that include both ISI and Scopus Indexed journals/conferences.His research interests are in the field of search-based software engineering, optimization, hybrid neural networks, and noise and vibration hazards etc.

ALI KASHIF BASHIR is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor and Course Leader of BSc (H) Computer Forensics and Security at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. He is also with School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad (NUST) as an Adjunct Professor and School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC) as an Affiliated Professor and Chief Advisor of Visual Intelligence Research Center, UESTC. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, member of ACM, and Distinguished Speaker of ACM. His past assignments include Associate Professor of ICT, University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark; Osaka University, Japan; Nara National College of Technology, Japan; the National Fusion Research Institute, South Korea; Southern Power Company Ltd., South Korea, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea. He has worked on several research and industrial projects of South Korean, Japanese and European agencies and Government Ministries. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Korea University South Korea. He has authored over 180 research articles; received funding as PI and Co-PI from research bodies of South Korea, Japan, EU, UK and Middle East; supervising/co-supervising several graduate (MS and PhD) students. His research interests include internet of things, wireless networks, distributed systems, network/cyber security, network function virtualization, machine learning, etc. He is serving as the Editor-in-chief of the IEEE FUTURE DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER. He is also serving as area editor of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems; associate editor of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, IEEE Access, IET Quantum Computing, Journal of Plant Disease and Protection. He is leading many conferences as a chair (program, publicity, and track) and had organized workshops in flagship conferences like IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, IEEE Mobicom, etc.

Francesco Scotto di Luzio was born in Naples, Italy, in June 1991. He received the BSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy, in September 2014, the MSc in Biomedical Engineering and PhD in Bioengineering from the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies (CREO Lab) of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. His research interests are, but not limited to, robot control, human-in-the-loop approach, design and development of control schemes for human-robot interaction, multi-sensory integration and sensory-motor coordination of anthropomorphic robotic systems. Main application areas are rehabilitation robotics, assistive robotics, and neuro-robotics. He has been/is currently involved in national and international EU-funded projects.

YONGDE ZHANG was born in Jilin, China, in 1965. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the M.S. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, in 1988 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as an Associate Researcher at the Automation Research Center, City University of Hong Kong. In 2004, he worked as a Researcher with the Computer-Assisted Interventional Medicine Laboratory, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Since 2007, he has been a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor with the School of Mechanical Power Engineering and Robotics and its Engineering Research Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology. His current research interests include medical robots, education robots, and biomimetic robots

Filippo Cavallo, MScEE, Phd in Bioengineering, is Assistant Professor at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, (Pisa, Italy), focusing on cloud and social robotics, ambient assisted living, wireless and wearable sensor systems, biomedical processing, acceptability and ICT and AAL roadmapping. He participated in various National and European projects and currently is project manager of Robot-Era, AALIANCE2 and Parkinson Project. He was visiting researcher at the the EndoCAS Center of Excellence, Pisa, Italy working in Computer Assisted Surgery (2005- 2007); at the Takanishi Lab, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan working on wireless sensor network (2007); at Tecnalia Recerch Center, Basque Country, Spain working on wearable sensor system for AAL. He was granted from the International Symposium of Robotics Research Committee as Fellowship Winner for best PhD thesis in Robotics (2007); from the Regional POR FSE 2007-2013 for a 3-years Research position at The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy (2010-2013); from the ACCESS-IT 2009 for the Good Practise Label in Alzheimer Project (2009); from the Well-Tech Award for Quality of Life with the Robot-Era Project (2014); from the SMAU Award for Quality of Life with the Robot-Era Project (2014). He is author of various papers on conferences and ISI journals.

Mr Arezki Benfdila got his DSc. In Microelectronics Engineering at the University M. Mammeri, Algeria in collaboration with other International Institutions such as IMEC France and ICTP. The M.Phil and Engineer Degree in INELEC, an American founded school in Algeria. He has been university lecturer since 1990 and involved in research since 1991. He was promoted as full professor since 2005 and had many scientific positions since then. He was a Member of the Directorate of the National Network for Microelectronics and Microsystems. He was President of the Faculty and Department Scientific Councils. At international level, he was elected associate at ICTP UNESCO IAEA in June 2000 and reelected again as a senior associate in 2009, position he holds up to December 2015. He remained friend of ICTP till January 2020. He has been Member of the African Physical Society Executive Bureau, and Member of the African Network for Nanotechnology NANOAFNET. He participated in important events such as the G8- UNESCO Forum organized at ICTP in 2007, the 5Oth anniversary of ICTP, Einstein 100th anniversary at Durban, and NATO ASIs. He Directed many National and international research projects namely with CNRS France. He was invited professor in France and Canada. Locally, he was Director of government research projects from 1995 up to date. He was the initiator of the first Algerian network on Micro and nanotechnology, which has been followed by the international conference on Micro and Nanotechnology organized with a strong international collaboration in 2006. He started the first master in microelectronic Engineering and has been elected as a member of the Pilot committee of the Algerian National Microelectronic Network. He has been expert in different national meetings related to Micro and Nanotechnology. He has also directed many PhD and MPhil theses as well as Master and Engineer projects. Besides to several advanced courses taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In terms of publications, He is a Reviewer at different journals and Associate editor at the ARP ICTP. He published around 40 papers in high standard journals participated in more than 125 National and International conferences. He was invited speaker in some of them and guest lecturer in others. He has been elected member of the First board in charge of Launching the Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technology since April 2013. In 2017, he was involved in the development of National Institutes of technology. In March 2020, he was elected as expert in the higher government commission for international Diploma Equivalences and expert in Micro and Nanotechnology Applications in basic fields such food and water purification.

Idelfonso Nogueira has integrated master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP, 2012). After working for one year in the plastics industry, in 2013, he joined the project “Modelling and control of polymerization reactors” in the Post-graduation program in industrial Engineering at Federal University of Bahia (PEI-UFBA) in collaboration with the petrochemical company Braskem. In 2016, he obtained his master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from PEI-UFBA with the thesis “Parameter Estimation, Inference and Quality Control of an Ethylene Copolymerization Process”. In 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from FEUP with the thesis entitled “Modelling, optimization and control of TMB, SMB and SMBR. Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering”.

Tim O’Connor, MD attended the University of Florida for his undergraduate education, where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Neurobiological Sciences. He received his medical degree from the University of Florida in 2014, where he graduated with Honors in Research and Honors in Academic Excellence. During medical school he was invited to join the University of Florida Medical School admissions committee and elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. During his free time, he volunteered with the local fire rescue team and joined the Jacksonville Beach Police SWAT team to provide medical assistance during high risk missions. He returned to Camp Blanding to help train officers in tactical combat casualty care, and was an instructor for programs in the private sector that provided medical training to law enforcement, military personnel, and the US Department of Homeland Security. At his medical school graduation, he was presented with the C. Craig Tisher Faculty Award for his academic and research achievements, and received the Excellence in Neurosurgery Award at the UF College of Medicine Awards banquet. Dr. O’Connorcompleted his CAST accredited complex spine fellowship in 2019. During his spine fellowship, he was awarded the AO Discovery and Innovation Young Investigator grant by the AO Spine Foundation for his biomechanical research in junctional tethers. He was invited to join the AO Knowledge Forum, and presented his work at multiple national and international conferences. He is currently a reviewer for World Neurosurgery and the Global Spine Congress Annual Meeting, as well as a member of the Global Spine Congress Program Committee. Dr. O’Connor received the highest Neurosurgery board score award at the University of Buffalo in 2018, and received the resident of the year award in 2018. In his free time, he enjoys snowboarding, general aviation, and hiking with his golden retriever.

Dr. Elngarworks in many research areas include Internet of Things (IoT), Network Security, Intrusion Detection, MachineLearning, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence. Big Data, Authentication, Cryptology, Healthcare Systems, Automation Systems. Dr. Elngar is an Editor and Reviewer of many international journal around the world.Dr. Elngarhave great many activities in community and the environment service include organizing 250 International Conference and workshops hosted by a large number of universities in almost all governorates of Egypt an all around the world.

Dr. Valdivia y Alvarado is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Product Development Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and a Research Affiliate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT and the Center of Environmental Sensing and Modeling at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Education Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Awards TR35 young innovator award for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand 2012 Feature: “A Journey Through Creativity”, ARTSCIENCE Museum, Singapore.

Maki Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (DES) in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics from the University of Tsukuba in 1990, Japan. He was a selected research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB), Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA for engineering projects and industrial consultation, Malaysia. He was a leading senior research scientist with GMD-Japan, Japan leading Telecooperation research group. Associate Professor with Monash University (Australia/Malaysia), he developed and led the Mechatronics Engineering program. He was appointed as a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University (Australia/Malaysia). Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, South Korea, Residing Professor at Saga University, Japan, and since Sept. 2007 he is a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. Habib was a visiting professor (short term) at many Universities around the world, such as, Nagasaki University-Japan, Hokkoido University-Japan, Orebro University – Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Norway, etc. Habib served as a consultant and Technical advisor to well-known international companies including Toyota group and ABB. Habib is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Regional Editor and Associate Editor of 10 International Journals, and Editorial Board member of another 10 International Journals beside his leadership as a member of international organizing/program committee of more than 20 International Conference every year. Habib edited more than 14 books, published more than 26 book chapters and also more than 275 papers at international journals and international conferences.

Amir Parnianifard received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at University Putra Malaysia in January 2019. He is a PMP® certified and is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.Heis currently working as a post-doctoral fellow researcher in an engineering faculty, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He has published numerous publications in high-ranked international journals. He is a regular reviewer ofleading journals in the area ofindustrial and control engineering (ResearcherID: F-7887-2017, and Orcid id: 0000-0002-0760-2149). He hasmore than 10 years professional experiences in some well-known manufacturing industries as a director of project management offices.He has alsomore than two yearsacademic experiences by teaching several courses in high-ranked universities. He is involved in research on: computational intelligence, design under uncertainty, optimal control, simulationexperiments, surrogates, and robust designoptimization.

Dr. Xie received his B.S. degree from the school of electrical and electronic engineering and Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He was an Academic Visitor with the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., from 2017 to 2018. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with HUST from Nov. 2018. He has published more than 60 academic journal and conference papers, 1 book, and hold 15 patents. His research interests include mobile robot, robot control, servo control, filed-bus technology and networked control systems.

Anna-Maria Velentza received her BSc degree in Psychology from Univer Crete, GR in 2015 and her MSc degree from University of Birmingham, 2018 in Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics. She is currently a PhD Student in the Laboratory of Informatics and Robot Education and Society (LIRES), University of Macedonia, Greece, an research mainly focus in the role of cognitive functions such as memor attention in Human Robot Interaction. She has worked in several research institutes in multidisciplinary proje cognitive psychology and robotics (e.g. Model Comparison on perce decision making as part of the center for neuroscience and robotics o University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, study of existing system models for human-robot interaction as part of the Telecommunication S Institute, Technical University of Crete). From 2014 to 2017 she was a me of the Transformable Intelligent Environment Laboratory, Technical Univ of Crete, Chania, Greece designing and carrying out cognitive experimen the effects of environmental conditions on perception, attention and m while for 2 years she was the Coordinator of the Psychospatial Departm multidisciplinary student group of architects, mechanical engineers electrical engineers. Her current research interests are on the field of hu robot interaction and human-robot collaboration mainly focusing in methods to enhance robots’ cognitive functions.

Ahmet Vatan is AssociateProfessor at theFaculty of Tourism at theIstanbul Medeniyet University in Turkey since 2016. He worked as Lecturer at Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitybetween 2010 and 2016. He earned his PhD in Tourism Management from Sakarya University in Turkey. His main areas of researchInnovation, Destination Marketing andSustainableTourism. He authoredandco-authored 13researchpapers, 11 conferencepapersand 14bookchapters. He edited 3 booksthat he designedhimself. He alsoserves as scriptadvisor in seriesproductions.

Ex-lawyer of the Inspection Department of the Internal Revenue Service, Regional Directorate of Valparaíso and training monitor of the same entity. Currently, he is Associate Research Professor at the School of Commerce of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Academic Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Taxation Management. He is also Professor of the Master's Program in Taxation at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile. He is a Doctor of Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, a Master in Management with a Mention in International Taxation from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, a Bachelor of Legal Sciences from the Universidad Arturo Prat del Estado de Chile. He is the author of the works “Business reorganization, tax law and internal taxation” (2013): Editorial LegalPublishing; “Tax effects on conversion, transformation, division and merger” (2011): Thomson Reuters Editorial; “Agencies and other permanent establishments” (2011): Thomson Reuters Editorial; "Permanent establishments: tax aspects" (2009): Editorial Librotecnia; and more than twenty articles published in specialized tax magazines.

Dr Gulnar Perveen received Ph.D. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Delhi Technological University (Formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi, India in 2019, M.Tech in VLSI Design from Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Noida, India in 2008, B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (MAIT), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in 2005. She has published more than 25 research papers in domain of Science & Technology in Journals & Conference proceedings of International repute. Her area of interest includes renewable energy systems, characterization and performance mapping of solar PV and thermal technologies, optimization approaches, artificial intelligence, and intelligent modelling for solar power forecasting. In a career spanning over 15 years now, she has been involved with National Institute of Solar Energy (Formerly known as Solar Energy Centre), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), GoI and closely worked towards the Research, Design and Development (RD&D) in New and Renewable Energy Sector in association with United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Germany Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). She is presently working in Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, GoI and involved in Research & Development (R&D) activities of the Defence sector. A recipient of I2OR National Eminent Young Researcher Award 2020 (International Institute of Organized Research), Green ThinkerZ Award 2020 (Green ThinkerZ), DRDO Lab Award 2020 (Defence Research & Development Organization), Commendable Research Award 2019 (Delhi Technological University). She has been awarded with Preeminent Young Scientist Award 2020 at International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development in association with Centre for Smart Modern Construction, Western Sydney University (Australia) and Wakelet, Manchester (UK). She has Professional Life Membership of I2OR (Membership ID: I2OR/2020/A-0138) and reviewer of many International Journals like, IET Energy System Integration, Journal of Photovoltaic, Cogent Engineering, SN Applied Sciences etc. Author is committed to continue sharing her knowledge and experience with the incumbents in future also.

Putra Wanda, S.Kom.,M. Eng.,Ph.D is a researcher who published various scientific papers in several reputable journals such as IEEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature. His research interests are Intelligence Network & Pattern Recognition. He is an invited reviewer for several scopus indexed international journals such as the IGI-Global Journal, Wiley Journal, IEEE, IBRR, IJNS, JERR, CJAST and various scopus indexed international conferences.He is the holder of some IT certifications such as MTCNA, MTCRE, JNTA, CSCU and is a professional member of the IEEE & ACM.

Invited researcher by the Research Center in Law, Artificial Intelligence and Technology of the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. This collaboration seeks to apply technologies to teaching, professional practice, and financially relevant business initiatives for legal professionals. The research areas are multidisciplinary and are related to the teaching of law, taxes, artificial intelligence, big data, among others. Lecturer in areas related to Information Systems and Information Technologies as a permanent member of the School of Commerce (Information Systems 1, Information Systems 2, Information Systems 3); Associate Academician School of Industrial Engineering (Introduction to Information Technologies, Educational Software Development), Associate Academician School of Computer Engineering (Data Structure, Software Systems Modeling, Object-Oriented Programming).

Ronnie S. Concepcion II is currently a candidate of Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the De La Salle University, Manila in the area of artificial intelligence. His research interests are biosystems engineering, plant science, computational intelligence, computer vision, aquaphotomics, intelligent systems, and sustainable agriculture. He is currently the lead researcher of the Smart Farm project of the DLSU. He is a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Electronics Engineer in Singapore, and an Associate Member of the National Research Council of the Philippines. He combines artificial intelligence and laboratory phytophysiological approaches (aquaphotomics, SEM-EDX, microscopy, FTIR, UV-Vis spectrophotometry) in investigating leaf and root architecture from abiotic stressors. He developed two novel vegetation indices for computational plant imaging and crop phenotyping.