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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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- ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 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.

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).

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.

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.

Jonnel D. Alejandrino at the present time is on track of his Master of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for cognitive wireless communications and network systems. He finished his Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Laguna State Polytechnic University last 2018. His learning experience in research development and technology was a rich one. He has a disparate contribution to Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy of Harmonized National R&D Agenda. His former period researches bagged several awards in national investigatory project competitions in the principality of computational chemistry, particularly in water impurities. He had been involved in research works about wireless communication potentiality during disaster scenarios. He was adequate to publish several technical and scientific papers aligned with his research specialties which are wireless communications, network system, sustainable agriculture, and structural health monitoring, biochemical engineering, computational intelligence, and intelligent systems. He had experiences as Session Chair in various conferences. He is also a constituent of various research programs like Information and Communication System for Disaster Resilience and Hydroponics and Aquaponics system of smart farming. He is licensed electronics engineer and technician, an amateur radio operator class B. He is also member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Republic of Philippines Section

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.

Bibhya Sharma (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of The South Pacific (USP). He has also been the Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at USP since 2010. He is a member of a number of professional mathematics societies and unions and has published more than 70 articles and book chapters in the fields of mathematics education, robotics, biologically inspired processes and the TLPs of higher education. He champions adaptive works and innovations in the areas of eLearning and mLearning for higher education.

Yassine Kali was born in Fez, Morocco. He received his Ph.D. degree in the field of robotic control from Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs (EMI), University of Mohammed V (UMV), Rabat, Morocco in January 2018. From January 2014 to January 2018, he joined the Laboratory of Automation and Industrial Informatics, Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco, where he serves as a Full Researcher and Part time Lecturer. In May 2018, he joined the Power Electronics and Industrial Control Research Group(GRÉPCI) of École de Technologie Supérieure (Montreal, Canada) as a Research collaborating in several projects with Prof. Maarouf Saad. He is also teaching several electrical engineering courses. His research interests include robotics, multiphase drives, Nonlinear control, sliding mode controland renewable energy conversion systems.