Scientific Committee

Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, Beijing, China, in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1999. Dr. Yang is currently a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

Prof. Yang’s research interests include robotics, intelligent systems, control systems, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, bio-inspired intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, intelligent communications, intelligent transportation, and computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang has been very active in professional activities. He has been served as the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of several journals, and has involved in the organization of many international conferences. He was on the grant review panel of NSERC, CIHR and several other grant agencies.

Raul Duarte Salgueiral Gomes Campilho. Completed the Título de Agregado in Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2020/09/11 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Doutoramento in Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009/06/25 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Mestrado in M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Profile of Mechanical Constructions in 2006 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia and Licenciatura in Graduation in Mechanical Engineering - Transport Branch in 2003 by Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Is Adjunct Teacher in Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Researcher in Associated Laboratory for Energy Transports and Aeronautics and Deputy Director of the Master in Mechanical Engineering in Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Published 280 articles in journals. Has 27 section(s) of books and 9 book(s). Participated in 90 event(s). Supervised 5 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 1. Supervised 142 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 73. Has received 16 awards and/or honours. Participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 6 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Mechanical Engineering, Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Mechanical Engineering, Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Mechanical Engineering. In his curriculum Ciancia Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Madeira; Estruturas; Reparação; Compósitos artificiais; Adhesive joint; Structural adhesive; Design of bonded joints; Experimental testing; Finite Element Method; Extended Finite Element Method; Meshless methods; Cohesive Zone Models; Composite materials; Numerical modelling of composite materials; Micromechanics; Micromechanics; Design of mechanical structures; Flexible production; Automation; Robotics; Actuator systems;

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.