Invited Speaker

Zichi Wang received the PhD degree in information and communication engineering from Shanghai University, China in 2020. He is currently with the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, as an Associate professor. His research interests include steganography, steganalysis, and artificial intelligence security. He has published over 100 papers in these areas. He has served as an invited speaker for several international conferences, including ACMLC 2026, served as a chair of special session for several international conferences, including AAIP 2025, AAIP 2026, and IEEE PRMVAI 2026, and served as a TPC member for several international conferences, including ICECI 2022, AAIP 2025, CCIE 2026, IEEE PRMVAI 2026, ACMLC 2026 and ICITAC 2027.

Gülşen Akman is a Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and has over twenty-five years of academic and industrial experience in production systems, quality engineering, technology management, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin technologies, Industry 4.0/5.0, smart manufacturing, digital transformation, sustainable supply chain management, healthcare analytics, technology and innovation management, machine learning, explainable AI, and multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). She has published extensively in internationally recognized SCI/SSCI journals and has successfully supervised numerous master's and doctoral theses. Prof. Akman has conducted international research at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the University of Artois, France. She leads and participates in several national and international research projects, including Erasmus+ initiatives, and collaborates closely with industry in developing AI-based decision-support solutions for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and maritime systems. She serves as a reviewer for leading international journals and funding agencies and has delivered keynote and invited speeches at international conferences. Her current research focuses on AI- enabled digital twins, intelligent optimization, smart ports, resilient and sustainable industrial systems, explainable artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics for strategic decision-making. Through her interdisciplinary research, she aims to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence technologies and practical industrial applications that support sustainable development and digital transformation.

Juana Canul-Reich is a Level 2 National Researcher (Conahcyt) and Full Professor-Researcher in the Academic Division of Information Science and Technology at the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT in Mexico). She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida, specializing in Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, and is a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Academic Group. She has a distinguished academic track record directing graduate theses, leading funded research projects, and serving as a reviewer for prestigious publishers such as IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer.

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Nazila Jamshidighadikolaei is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, specializing in structural engineering. Her research interests include structural health monitoring, digital twins, artificial intelligence, finite element modeling, and smart sensing technologies for civil infrastructure. Her current research focuses on integrating computational modeling and data-driven approaches for damage detection and condition assessment of bridge structures.

Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D currently sits on the major public boards of Agilent Technologies, SOBI and Rocket Pharma . He serves as chairman , board member or advisor of several private Biotechs and private AI TechBios. This includes the private companies ChAi Discovery, Orbis Medicine, Quarry Thera, Enveda Bio, Element Biosciences and Varda Space. Dr Dolsten serves as senior advisor to large business groups such as Blackstone, Google Ventures , Bains & Co, Canaan Partners, ARCH, and Samsung. Mikael recently retired from Pfizer Inc after a 16-year tenure as Chief Scientific Officer and President of Pfizer Research & Development. Dr. Dolsten oversaw at Pfizer the regulatory approval of over 36 medicines and vaccines, while advancing more than 150 drug candidates into clinical studies. He championed breakthrough innovations across small-molecule medicines, biotherapeutics, gene therapies, and vaccines and played a leading role in the global response to the COVID pandemic including led the development of Comirnaty Covid vaccine and Paxlovid oral Covid medicine. His leadership experience includes serving as President of Wyeth Pharma R&D, Executive Vice President and Head of Worldwide Research at Boehringer Ingelheim, and Global VP at AstraZeneca managing cardiovascular, metabolic, and gastrointestinal R&D. Earlier, he led R&D at Astra Draco (pulmonary & inflammation) and headed Immunology-Oncology research at Pharmacia, Sweden. During his 30+ years as a R&D leader he has been connected to some 50 drug & vaccine approvals and several 100s of novel candidate drugs transiting to clinical studies. Dr Dolsten has previous VC experience from work with Orbimed and Pfizer venture groups and has been involved in numerous small and large corporate business transactions exceeding 100B$ size. This includes several IPO & Spin outs up to 25B$ valuations. His supervisory affiliations include the Scripps Research Institute, the Foundation for the NIH, Research America and election into The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Dr Dolsten has advised Obama, Biden, Trump administrations in public health initiatives and the UK Government’s G7 leadership for pandemic responses. With over 160 scientific publications and numerous patents, Dr. Dolsten holds both a Ph.D. in Tumor Immunology and an M.D. from the University of Lund, Sweden, where he serves as a Visiting Adjunct Professor. Mikael is a physician scientist, dual USA & Swedish citizen and has worked during his 35 years of Pharma business half the time in each of USA & Europe.

Investigador por México researcher assigned by SECIHTI to the Department of Computer Science at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE). Academic background: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-IPN); M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cinvestav-IPN; B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the Tuxtla Gutiérrez Institute of Technology. Research interests: signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, data processing, analysis and diagnosis of automotive ecosystems for road safety, road safety, software and hardware-level cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and VLSI integrated circuit design

Edgar Ibarra-Flores is a physician, healthcare executive, and academic based in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. He currently serves as Deputy Medical Director at ISSSTE Ensenada and holds a parallel role at Hospital Ángeles Tijuana. He earned his MD with Honors from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) and holds a Master's in Clinical Nutrition (UVM), a Master's in Health Administration (IEU), and a specialization in Public Health Management. In 2020 he founded NUCLEO, a clinical nutrition and bariatric medicine practice. He teaches in graduate and undergraduate programs in nutrition and medicine, and his recent peer-reviewed work, published in Healthcare (2025), addresses AI-based cardiac risk assessment using machine learning.

Kamel Barkaoui is a Full Professor (Exceptional Class) at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam), Paris, and has held emeritus status since 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1988 and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in 1998 from Sorbonne University (Paris 6). His research focuses on formal methods for the specification, verification, control, and performance evaluation of concurrent discrete-event systems, including Petri net theory, discrete mathematics, stochastic modeling, operations research, and artificial intelligence, particularly deep reinforcement learning. He has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. theses and authored over 60 journal articles and 170 peer-reviewed conference papers. He has also led or participated in more than ten international research projects. His achievements include the IEEE SMC 1995 Outstanding Paper Award, the Prime d’Excellence Scientifique (1998–2024), and the 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar Award, placing him among the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide. He founded the VECoS conference series, chaired several major international conferences, including FM, Petri Nets, ACSD, ICTAC, MSR, and CARI, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals. He is also a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beït al-Hikma) and Vice-President of the African Society of Digital Sciences (ASDS).

Quanbo Ge is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Zhejiang University and a former Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota, USA. His research focuses on information fusion, autonomous intelligent unmanned systems, and low-altitude intelligent transportation. He has led more than 30 research projects, including key and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 200 papers in leading academic journals and international conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and so on.

Tianhua Qi is currently with the Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science (Ministry of Education), School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include affective computing, deep learning, and speech processing. He was nominated for the Best Student Paper Shortlist at Interspeech 2025. He has published more than 20 papers in top-tier speech and multimedia journals and international conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, ACM Multimedia, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, and ICIP. He serves as the General Co-Chair of the 12th ISCA-SAC Doctoral Consortium (Interspeech 2026), an Organizer of the AVI Grand Challenge (ACM MM 2025–2026), and the Data Chair of the AdoDAS Grand Challenge (ACM MM 2026).

Gul Muhammad received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronic engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in December 2024. He is currently a researcher affiliated with Zhejiang University and NingboTech University, Ningbo, China. His research interests include thermal energy harvesting, phase change materials, metal-foam-enhanced heat transfer, thermal energy storage, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for thermal performance prediction and energy system optimization. His recent research focuses on the experimental investigation and optimization of phase change materials-metal foam composites for enhanced thermal energy harvesting, the development and experimental validation of an ocean thermal energy conversion prototype, and the application of artificial neural networks for rapid prediction of thermal energy performance. He has published research articles on thermal energy systems, advanced heat transfer, and data-driven modeling for energy harvesting applications.

Jianxin Li is a Professor of Data-Centric AI and Information Systems and the Deputy Director of the Business Intelligence Lab at Edith Cowan University. His research specialises in data science, artificial intelligence, and information systems, with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading international conferences and journals, including IEEE ICDE and IEEE TKDE. He was named among Australia’s Top 250 Researchers in 2026 by The Australian Research Magazine, listed in the Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022–), and received the Most Influential Paper of the Last Decade Award in 2025 from the Information Systems Journal. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Array and currently contributes as an Associate Editor for Information Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, and the World Wide Web Journal.

Mario Pavone is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy. His research interests span several areas, ranging from metaheuristics and Automated Deep Learning to collective intelligence and computational biology, with a particular emphasis on integrating optimization and artificial intelligence methodologies to address complex real-world problems. Since January 2023, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence. He is also an Associate Editorfor several leading international journals, including Applied Soft Computing, Decision Analytics Journal, Soft Computing, and Discover Computing, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous international journals. He is actively involved in the scientific community as a member of the Program Committees of several renowned international conferences. He is the founder and Chief of the Scientific Directors of the Metaheuristics Summer School (MESS), an international initiative dedicated to advanced education and research in metaheuristics and computational intelligence. Over the years, he has organized numerous international conferences, workshops, and summer schools, fostering an extensive network of global scientific collaborations. In 2024, he was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 12th International Conference on New Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Smart Data (INTIS 2024). He has also delivered invited tutorials and keynote presentations at several international scientific events and has guest-edited numerous special issues for leading international journals. He has served as an evaluator and reviewer for national and international research projects, as well as an external reviewer for several international doctoral dissertations. He recently obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship in both Computer Science and Information Processing Systems. He currently coordinates the Complex Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Catania, where he leads research activities in intelligent optimization, machine learning, and complex adaptive systems.

Lisa-Dionne Morris is Professor of Public & Industry Understanding of Capability Driven Design in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. She is an accomplished design engineer, academic leader and industry strategist with more than 30 years of industry consultancy experience and over 20 years of academic and international engagement. Her work focuses on capability-driven design, human-centred innovation, frugal innovation and the development of solutions that respond to real-world societal needs. She has worked extensively with industry, government, universities and communities across Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Professor Morris founded the AKTO Virtual Centre of Excellence for Frugal Innovation and Design and the Black Female Academics’ Network (BFAN), supporting inclusive academic development and leadership. She also contributes to international strategic partnerships and serves in advisory and governance roles spanning education, engineering and innovation. Her research and leadership emphasise cocreation, equity, capability and translating interdisciplinary knowledge into practical societal impact.