Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Juha Röning
University of Oulu
Finland

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 >>

Luís Paulo Reis
University of Porto
Portugal
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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 >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Hussein A. Abdullah, University of Guelph, Canada
Mohd Ashraf Ahmad, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia
Victor Alchanatis, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
Yannick Aoustin, LS2N, France
Juan Carlos Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Mahdi Bodaghi, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Sofiane Boucenna, ENSEA Graduate School, France
Ivan Buzurovic, Harvard University, United States
Partha Pratim Das, Independent Researcher, India
Michael Defoort, University Valenciennes Hainaut Cambresis, France
František Duchon, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Nils Einecke, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Germany
Ahmed El-Sayed, University of Bridgeport, United States
Udo Frese, University Bremen, Germany
Ismael García-Varea, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Yakup Genc, Gebze Technical University, Turkey
Allon Guez, Drexel University, United States
Prof. Mahmoud Hassaballah, South Valley University, Egypt
Jamshed Iqbal, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Michael Jenkin, York University, Canada
Wlodzimierz Kasprzak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Azfar Khalid, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Sukhan Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of
Claudio Loconsole, Universitas Mercatorum, Italy
Ezio Malis, Inria, France
Ellips Masehian, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, United States
Alexandre Meyer, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France
Enrique Moltó, IVIA, Spain
António B. Moniz, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal
Andrew L. Nelson, Technical Committee on Computational Finance and Economics of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, United States
Martin J.-D. Otis, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada
David Portugal, Institute of Sytems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Anthony Remazeilles, TECNALIA, Spain
Rui P. Rocha, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Raúl Sánchez-Yáñez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Pedro Santana, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Aiguo Song, Southeast University, China
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University Science Technology, Poland
Kerstin Thurow, University of Rostock, Germany
Miguel Garbriel Villarreal-Cervantes, Instituto Politécnico Nacional - Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo, Mexico
Mattias Wahde, Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
James Whidborne, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Shih-Hung Wu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Norwegian University Science Technology, Norway
Yuming Zhang, Univ. of Kentucky, United States
Cezary Zielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Ali Zolfagharian, Deakin University, Australia