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Juha Röning
University of Oulu
Finland
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Brief Bio
Juha Röning is the head of the Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group (BISG) research unit and a professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu, Finland. He obtained a PhD and a licentiate, with honors, in technology, and an MS, with honors, in engineering, all from the University of Oulu. He holds two patents and has published more than 300 papers in the areas of computer vision, robotics, intelligent signal analysis, and software security. He has more than 30 years of experience in mobile robotics. He was a founding member to FP7 NoE European Robotics Research Network EURON, FP7 euRathlon, the SPARC robotics PPP, and is a member of the board of directors of euRobotics aisbl. He is a Fellow of SPIE, a member of IEEE and the International Society for Computers and Their Applications. His research interests include data mining, intelligent systems, mobile robots, and software security. ... More >>
Brief Bio
Luis Paulo Reis is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Porto in Portugal and Director of LIACC – Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory. He is an IEEE Senior Member and he was president of the Portuguese Society for Robotics and of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is Co-Director of LIACD - First Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. During the last 25 years, he has lectured courses at the university on Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems, Simulation and Modelling, Games and Interaction, Educational/Serious Games and Computer Programming. He was the principal investigator of more than 20 research projects in those areas. He won more than 60 scientific awards including winning more than 15 RoboCup international competitions (including the last 3 editions of the Simulation 3D League - Humanoid Robots) and best papers at conferences such as ICEIS, Robotica, IEEE ICARSC and ICAART. He supervised 24 PhD and 160 MSc theses to completion and is supervising 12 PhD theses. He evaluated more than 50 projects and proposals for FP6, FP7, Horizon2020/Europe, FCT, and ANI. He was a plenary speaker at several international conferences, such as ICAART, ICINCO, LARS/SBR, WAF, IcSports, SYROCO, CLAWAR, WCQR, ECIAIR, DATA/DELTA, IC3K and ICMarkTech. He organized more than 70 international scientific events and belonged to the program committee of more than 300 scientific events. He is the author of more than 500 publications in international conferences and journals. ... More >>