ROBOTMEET2022

Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is the Regents Professor and Hightower Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and NanosystemsDr. Wang pioneered the nanogenerators field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. He coined the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for third-generation semiconductors. Among 100,000 scientists across all fields worldwide, Wang is ranked #5 in career scientific impact, #1 in Nanoscience, and #2 in Materials Science. His google scholar citation is over290,000 with an h-index of over 262. Dr. Wang has received the Celsius Lecture Laureate, Uppsala University, Sweden (2020); The Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019); Diels-Planck lecture award (2019); ENI award in Energy Frontiers (2018); The James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014); and MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci. (2011). Dr. Wang was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, academician of Academia of Sinica 2018, an International fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering 2019; Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology 2019. Dr. Wang is the founding editor and chief editor of an international journal Nano Energy, which now has an impact factor of 16.6.

Dr. Chenguang Yang is the leader of Robot Teleoperation Group and Professor of Robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK. He received a Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2010, and postdoctoral training in human robotics from the Imperial College London, London, U.K. He was awarded UK EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship (2018) and individual EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (2011). He is the supervisor of an H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Standard European Fellow (2021-2022). As lead author, he won the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award (2012) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award (2022). He was titled Highly Cited Researcher 2019 by Web of Science. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a Co-Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Collaborative Automation for Flexible Manufacturing (CAFM) and a Co-Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Bio-mechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems (B2S). He serves as Associate Editors of a number of international top journals including Neurocomputing and seven IEEE Transactions.

Ian Walker is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, USA. Professor Walker's research focuses on research in the construction, modeling, and application of continuum robots. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

Zhong-Ping JIANG received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Wuhan, Wuhan, China, in 1988, 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 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. He is known for fundamental contributions to nonlinear control theory and applications. In particular, he is a key contributor to nonlinear small-gain theory. His main research interests include stability theory, robust/adaptive/distributed nonlinear control, adaptive dynamic programming and their applications to information, mechanical and biological systems. He is coauthor of five books Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems (with Dr. I. Karafyllis, Springer, 2011), Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Networks (with Drs. T. Liu and D.J. Hill, Taylor & Francis, 2014), Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming (with Y. Jiang, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017), Nonlinear Control Under Information Constraints (with T. Liu, Science Press, 2018) and Robust Event-Triggered Control of Nonlinear Systems (with T. Liu and P. Zhang, Springer Nature, 2020). Dr. Jiang is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Control and Decision and of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and has served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters and the Systems and Control Letters, an Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and an Associate Editor for several journals including Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, European Journal of Control, and Science China: Information Sciences. Dr. Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council (1998), the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (2001), JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2005), the Distinguished Overseas Chinese Scholar Award from the NSF of China (2007), and the Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China (2009). His recent awards include the Steve and Rosalind Hsia Best Biomedical Paper Award at the 2016 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation in Guilin, China, the Best Paper Award at the 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, and the Best Paper Award on Control at the 2018 IEEE Conf. on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, Maldives.

Unyong Jeong is a professor of Material Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea and a member of the Korea academy of science and technology. He received a B.S. degree (1998), an M.A. degree (2000), and a Ph.D. degree (2003) in chemical engineering in POSTECH. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washing in Seattle, he started his independent research career as an assistant professor at Yonsei University in Korea (2006). He moved to POSTECH (2015) as a Se-Ah distinguished professor. He received the Young Scientist Presidential Award (2011), Asian Lecture Award from Japanese chemical society (2013), Nano Korea Revolutionary Award (Korean Prime Minister award) (2020). He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an associate editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances. His research includes the synthesis of nanostructured materials, fabrication of flexible stretchable electronic devices, and electronic skins for robots.

David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 1985 in both Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), respectively. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government since 1998. Currently he is Presidential Chair Professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Over past 40 years, he has been working on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, where many research results have been awarded and some created directions, including medical biometrics and palmprint recognition, are famous in the world. So far, he has published over 20 monographs, 500+ international journal papers and 40+ patents from USA/Japan/HK/China. He has been continuously 8 years listed as a Global Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics during 2014-2021. He is also ranked about 85 with H-Index 122 at Top 1,000 Scientists for international Computer Science and Electronics. Professor Zhang is selected as a Fellow of both RSC(Royal Society of Canada) and CAE(Canadian Academy of Engineering). He also is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, and an IEEE Life Fellow and an IAPR/AAIA Fellow.

Wenjun Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Design from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1994. He is currently a full professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His current research area is resilient robotics, soft robotics, computational design, mechatronics, and engineering informatics. He has published over 400 refereed technical publications, among which over 329 papers appear in refereed journals and over 190 papers in refereed conference proceedings, in a broad scope of fields, including design and mechatronics, manufacturing, robotics, informatics, and human-machine systems. He holds dozens of patents, including three US patents. His paper received the best journal paper award for 2012 by the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. His papers received top 25 hottest articles by Mechatronics in 2006 &2005, by Expert Systems with Applications in 2011, by Microelectronics Journal. He has the google scholar H-index (57) and the web of science H-index (47). He was highly cited authors by Elsevier (China) from 2015 to 2018 (inclusive). He was included in the top 2% world scientists by Stanford in 2020. Dr. graduated over 35 Ph.D. students and over 100 MS (thesis) students. He received the 2012 Distinguished Graduate Supervisor Award from the University of Saskatchewan. He has served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Associate Editor for several reputed journals including IEEE SMC – System, IEEE System Journal. He is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Senior member of IEEE.

Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor at Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at the University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han is the winner 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020, and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is 1% a highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.

Dr. Mahmoud Shafiee (Ph.D., CEng, MIMechE, MIET, MIMA, FHEA, PGCHE) is the Deputy Head of School of Engineering and Head of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He has had several managerial and research positions, including Head of Research Group, Master’s Course Director, Research Scientist, Senior Research Fellow, Research Associate, Visiting Researcher, etc. at very prestigious universities in the world. He has led several government and industry-funded research projects within different industry sectors and worked with a number of academic and industry partners worldwide. He has also supervised over 100 postgraduate researchers through to the completion of their studies. Dr. Shafiee sits on the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) Committee and is a Committee Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). He sits also on the editorial board of several International Journals.

Professor Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the School of Engineering, the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Provost and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU), Michigan. He is a Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Bridgeport (UB), Connecticut. He was the University Executive Vice President, Research and Economic Development (2018-2020), Interim Provost (2020), Founding Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education (2018-2020), and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science (2010-2020), the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) laboratory, Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTechIncUBator); and the Founding Director of the Bauer Hall Innovation Center. He was the Senior Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research (2014-2018), Vice President (2008-2014), Vice-Provost (2006-2008), Dean of the School of Engineering (1999-2018), Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Technology Management. He was a Professor of Computer, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from 2000-2010, and an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport from 1995-1999, a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Utah from 1992-1995, and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania from 1989-1991. He was the Founding Chair of the Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1992-1999, and the Founding Chair of the Prototyping Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1999-2001. His background is in the fields of robotics, computer science and engineering, control theory, automation, manufacturing, AI, computer vision, and signal processing.

DONGSOO HAR received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA. He is currently a faculty member of KAIST. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award (Jack Neubauer Award) from the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2000. He is an associate editor of IEEE Sensors Journal. He served as the lead guest editor of several journals. He authored and published more than 140 articles in international journals and conferences. He was a member of an advisory board, program chair, vice-chair, and general chair of international conferences, including the 2019 IEEE international conference on robot intelligence technology and applications. He also presented invited talks and keynotes at international conferences. His main research interests include applications of deep learning techniques for robotics.

Timothy Sands earned his engineer’s degree at Columbia University and a master of science degree from Stanford University both in Mechanical Engineering. The U.S. Naval Postgraduate School awarded his doctorate in astronautical engineering, and he now serves on the faculty at Cornell University. During nearly three decades of active duty service in the U.S. Air Force, he performed space mission design and space experimentation for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP). He was also the propulsion engineer of the Atlas space launch vehicle and the reliability engineer of the Centaur upper stage. He was an executive and senior leader of both military postgraduate universities (the Air Force Institute of Technology and the Naval Postgraduate School respectively), having served sequentially as Chief Academic Officer, Associate Provost, Dean, Associate Dean, and research center Director. He was named a Fellow of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2010.

Alex completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University working with Prof Zhenan Bao on bio-inspired electronic skin. He was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University working on 3D printed soft actuators. He recently started a position as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Alex works on materials and fabrication processes for soft actuators and sensors. He has published in journals that include Science, Nature Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials.

Petr Stadler is the Head of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. He was certified as a console surgeon for the da Vinci surgical system in August 2005 at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the Czech Association of Cardiovascular Surgery, the ESVS, the ISMICS, the SRS, and a founding member of the International Endovascular and Laparoscopic Society. He has also received a few prestigious honors from the Czech Association of Cardiovascular Surgery for the best publications in 2004 and 2006, 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 and the best audiovisual presentation in 2009 in USA (ISMICS) and in 2013 in USA (SCVS). He performed also robot-assisted vascular operations in South Korea, Russia, Poland, and India.

Tawei (David) Wang is currently an Associate Professor and Driehaus Fellow at DePaul University. He received his Ph.D. from Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University in 2009. His research interests are information security management and IT management. His papers have appeared in leading business journals, including Accounting Horizons, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information, and Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Information Systems, among others. He has actively engaged with the professional community. He was a speaker for the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Accountants, ISACA, and a panelist for the Federal Reserve Bank Charlotte. In 2018, he was selected to be the KPMG James Marwick Professor in Residence

Francesco Scotto Di Luzio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy. He is an Engineer with a focus on robotics, automation, and machine learning. During the Ph.D. period, he gained experience in the field of robot controls, human-robot interaction, and the design and development of control schemes in mechatronic devices for rehabilitation robotics.

Giuseppe Palestra is a senior researcher at HERO srl an AI company based in Italy. He was a research associate at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (CNRS UMR 7222), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2017 from the University of Bari and his research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Social Robotics, and Computer Vision. He worked on various e-health projects in Europe. They were concerned with technologies to improve people’s lives, including the SARACEN project (Socially Assistive Robots for Autistic Children Education), of which he was the principal investigator. Since then, he has been working on social robotics, robots that are useful to people, and AI.

Hassane Abouaïssa is an engineer in automatic control. He received a Master Research and a Ph.D. from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Belfort France and the HDR in Automation Control and Computer Sciences degree from University of Artois. His a head of the team group of “Oprimization and control” of the LGI2A. His has supervised several postgraduate students in the field of automation. His main research interests include automatic control, identification of nonlinear systems, and their applications to robotic, intelligent transportation systems and supply chains.

Dr. Sumona Mukhopadhyay is an NSERC CREATE post-doctoral fellow with the Adaptive Software Research Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Prior to her current role, she was a Postdoctoral Associate with the System Identification Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Calgary, from 2018 to 2019. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary, AB, Canada in 2018, where she was an Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) doctoral scholar. Her research interests include estimation, signal processing, computational intelligence, predictive analytics, and data mining. Dr Mukhopadhyay has collaborated with industry partners such as HiFi Engineering (Calgary) and IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (Toronto). Her research has resulted in publications in ACM and IEEE conferences and IEEE, American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Elsevier journals.

Jean-Marc Salotti is Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique, Bordeaux INP, France. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer vision in 1994 and worked several years in pattern recognition before his professor position at Bordeaux University in 2002 and now at Bordeaux INP. He is currently a lecturer in artificial intelligence and in collaborative robotics. In 2019, he was a co-founder of the Auctus research team, which is affiliated to Inria, IMS laboratory, Bordeaux University, CNRS, and Bordeaux INP and is specialized in collaborative robotics with industrial applications. His research deals more precisely with cognitive human-robot interactions, decision making and human errors. Jean-Marc Salotti is also involved in human spaceflight, especially human missions to Mars, and is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Mario Hirz has been awarded an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and economics, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and a venia docendi in the area of virtual product development. He is an Associate Professor at the Graz University of Technology and a frequent guest lecturer at universities and in the automotive industry throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Prof. Hirz is Vice-Head of the Institute of Automotive Engineering at Graz University of Technology and Head of the research area for Automotive Mechatronics. In his position, he is responsible for different international R&D projects in the fields of vehicle layout and conception, alternative powertrains, sustainable transportation, mechatronics systems and computational development. Prof. Hirz is member of scientific associations, reviewer of journal and conference publications and co-organizer of conferences. He has published more than 100 works and has received several national and international awards.

Renjie Ma was born in Harbin, China, in 1994. He received the B. Eng Degree in Automation from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2017. Since then, he is working towards the PhD Degree in Control Science and Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests include CPS security/reliability/repairability, optimal/robust control and filtering, machine learning-based control, and safety-critical autonomous systems. He was the awardee of National Scholarship for Postgradudate endowed by the Ministry of Education of China in 2020.

Zhijian Hu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2015, and the M.E. degree in control engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2017. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. From October 2019 to November 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include model predictive control, resilient control, reinforcement learning, and their applications in smart grids.

Jincy Jerry is the Assistant Director of Nursing in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. She is involved in the strategic management of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in the hospital and community services. She has expertise in clinical disinfection, environmental decontamination, surgical site Infection surveillance, outbreak management, and ventilation assessment and has several publications in these areas. Jincy was awarded the “Hospital Manager of the Year 2020” by Irish Healthcare Awards due to her outstanding leadership and inspirational vision for innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jincy is a pioneer in the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in clinical settings within Irish Healthcare. This innovation has improved the efficiency of Infection Prevention & Control Nurses, through the automation of their repetitive administrative workload. The project received Innovation Academy Award at the 6th International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC), 2021 organised under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Wen qi currently works at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. Wen researches artificial intelligence algorithms and multimodal wearables. Her interest research field includes deep learning, multiple data fusion, e-Health, multiple sensors, wearables, signal processing, and robot.

Ionel STARETU: graduated from the Faculty of TCM (Technology of Mechanical Constructions) of Transilvania University of Brasov (1983). He won the title of Doctor in Engineering, with specialization in Industrial Robots - Robotics, in 1995. Specializations: in Tribology (Transilvania University -1990), in Robotics and Products (the INSTN Saclay, France-1992/1993), Organization Management (Transilvania University and IAI-1999 / 2000), Quality Management (2003), Quality Audit (2004) at Transilvania University. Since 2003, he is an Extrajudicial Technical Expert and Consultant certified by CERTEXPERT Bucharest and AEXEA Paris and Expert CNCSIS and ARACIS. He has been working since 1985 in the Department of Product Design and Robotics at Transilvania University of Brasov. He published 5 books(one in the USA: Gripping Systems, Dec Publishing House, 2011), 5 didactic papers, and more than 225 scientific articles in the country and abroad (SUA, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Japan, India, China, etc.). He is the author or co-author of 11 patents of invention. He helped to resolve more than 26 scientific research grants, both national and international (for 4 of them as project director). He is the president of the Brasov branch of the Robotic Society of Romania, vice president of the branch AGIR-The General Association of the Engineers in Romania Brasov and member in National Committee AGIR, ARoTMM member, and expert in Robotics at the Academic Society in Romania, and CRIFST (Romanian Committee for History and Philosophy of the Science and Technique - Romanian Academy) member. He is certified EUR ING by FEANI – European Federation of National Engineering Associations, in 2008. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanics Engineering and Automation-USA, Military Technical Courier-Serbia, Annals of the Dunarea de Jos University of Galati - Fascicle XIV-Mechanical Engineering, TEHNOMUS Journal(Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava) and AGIR Bulletin-Romania. He was co-chairman of 4TH International Conference Robotics’08, 2008, Brasov, Romania, and member of more international scientific committees: International Conference: IMETI (Orlando, SUA, 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013), International Conference on Robotics, Romania (2002,2006,2008,2010,2012,2014); International Conference TEHNOMUS (2005,2007,2009,2011,2013-2020); International conference Inter Eng ( 2007, 2009, 2011,2013, 2014-2019, 2020) etc. He was a lecturer at International School on Robotics and Intelligent Systems–ISRIS 2009 and Summer School on Human-Machine Systems, Cyborgs, and Enhancing Devices – HUMASCEND 2012, Iasi, Romania. He is a doctorate coordinator in the area of Industrial Engineering. Technical Sciences Academy of Romania-TSAR: corresponding member - June 2017.

Vinícius M. Oliveira is a lecturer at the Center for Computational Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande — FURG (Brazil), since 2002 and a Researcher at EMBRAPII Robotic and Computer Science Center (EMBRAPII iTec/FURG). He was the Research Director (2010-2012) and Technological Innovation Director (2013-2016) at FURG. Member of the Brazilian Automatica Society (IFAC affiliated) and IEEE. Vinícius is interested in modeling and control of robotics, automation, and also in the social impact of technological innovation. In particular, he has been working on underactuated robots (brachiation robots) and rehabilitation robotics. Vinícius received his Ph.D. degree in “Electrical Engineering — Robotics and Automation" from UFRGS (2008/Brazil). He received his M.Sc. degree in “Electrical Engineering — Robotics and Control Systems” from UFSC (2001/Brazil). He is a bachelor in Computer Engineering from FURG (1998/Brazil)

Irdayanti Binti Mat Nashir specializes in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and also in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. She is active in sharing knowledge and skills on Delphi Techniques, Electronics and Technology in education in schools and higher institutions. She is also active in robotic learning research for future education in the Malaysian system.