Organization

General Chair

Hamed Taherdoost
Professor, University Canada West, Canada.

Research field: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Intelligent Computing, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, and Blockchain Technologies.

Dr. Hamed Taherdoost is a Full Professor and Chair of the Research and Strategy Advisory Committee (RSAC) at University Canada West, and the founder of Hamta Business Corporation. He has over 20 years of experience spanning academia and industry, with expertise in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, information systems, digital transformation, technology adoption, and research methodology. He has published over 500 scientific articles, 70 book chapters, and authored or edited more than 50 books. His research contributions have been recognized through various international rankings and awards, including inclusion in the Stanford–Elsevier list of the world's top 2% scientists. Dr. Taherdoost has served as an editor, associate editor, guest editor, and reviewer for numerous international journals and publishers, including Springer, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Emerald, MDPI, and IEEE. He is also a senior member of IEEE and an active contributor to international research communities in information technology, cybersecurity, and intelligent systems.

Huosheng Hu
Professor, University of Essex, UK.

Research field: AI and robotics, intelligent systems and autonomous mobile robots, IOT, smart sensors, genetic algorithms.

Huosheng Hu received his MSc degree in Industrial Automation from Central South University, China, and his PhD degree in Robotics from the University of Oxford, U.K. After conducting robotics research at Oxford for 9 years, he joined Essex University as a Senior Lecturer in 1998, and then Reader in 2001 and Professor in 2002. He is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom since May 2025. His research interests span artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, human–robot interaction, embedded systems, mechatronics, data fusion, learning algorithms, and industrial automation. He has published more than 600 papers in journals, books, and international conferences, earning several Best Paper Awards. His publications have been cited over 22,712 times, with an H-index of 71 (Google Scholar), and he has been recognized among the world's top 2% most cited scholars (2020–2025). Prof. Hu is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement & Control, a Life Senior Member of IEEE, and a founding member of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Committee on Networked Robots. He has served as Program Chair and as a member of Advisory and Organizing Committees for numerous international conferences, including IEEE IROS, ICRA, ICMA, and ROBIO. He is currently Executive Editor of the International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation and has previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Computing and the MDPI Robotics Journal.

Co Chair

Smain Femmam, UHA University, France

Technical Committee Chair

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, Politehnica University Timisora, Romania

Technical Committee Member

A.B Feroz khan, Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College, India

Abdolkarim Afroozeh, University of Larestan, Iran

Addisson Salazar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Ajay B. Gadicha, P. R. Pote Patil College of Engineering and Management, India

Ali H. Wheeb, University of Baghdad, Iraq

Dilbag Singh, New York University Medical Center, USA

Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Dmitry A. Zaitsev, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Francesco Mercaldo, University of Molise, Italy

Francesco Zirilli, Sapienza Universita Roma, Italy

Gajendra Sharma, Kathmandu University, Nepal

Gerald Penn, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece

Hao Ying, Wayne State University, USA

Jay Kumar Pandey, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, India

Jixin Ma, University of Greenwich, UK

João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

K. Thamizhmaran, Govt. College of Engineering, India

K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France

Loc Nguyen, Loc Nguyen's Academic Network, Vietnam

Lu Leng, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

Luis Martínez López, University of Jaén, Spain

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia

Mahmoud Reza Delavar, University of Tehran, Iran

Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Mehdi Gheisari, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Mellah Hacene, Bouira University, Algeria

Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Sindh Agriculture University, Pakistan

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

Pankaj Arora, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

Pavel Loskot, Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI), China

Prashan Premaratne, The University of Wollongong, Australia

Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA

Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and the Adour Region, France

Rui Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Seppo Sirkemaa, University of Turku, Finland

Shashikant Patil, ATLAS SkillTech University, India

Sos Agaian, City University of New York, USA

Wadii Boulila, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

Wali Khan Mashwani, Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan

Xiangjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Xie Ming, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sponsors

University of Haute Alsace

ZJU-UIUC Institute

Sindh Agriculture University

University of Wollongong

University of Almeria

Loc Nguyen's Academic Network