Prof. Said Easa

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Dr. Easa is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in his field, with ScholarGPS ranking him #3 in transportation engineering and #7 in surveying. His research encompasses a wide range of transportation areas, including planning, design, operation, and management. To date, he has published over 470 refereed journal articles and served as the editor of a bestselling book on Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Transportation Engineering and the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. A Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), he has held significant positions such as President of the Online Network Enabled ITS Research Society and CSCE Vice-President. His leadership has extended nationally and internationally, having led a national delegation to China, judged the annual Canadian Consulting Engineering awards, and served on a national grant selection committee. He has organized and chaired many conferences, sponsored by ASCE, CSCE, and IAAM. His outstanding contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous lifetime achievement awards, including the Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from ASCE (2001), the Sandford Fleming Award from CSCE (2003), the Arthur M. Wellington Prize from ASCE (2005), the Award of Academic Merit from the Transportation Association of Canada (2010), and the IAAM Medal from the International Association for Advanced Materials (2018).

Prof. Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu

Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Caracal, Romania. He received the M.S. degree in applied electronics and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control systems from Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania, in 1977 and 1999, respectively.,Since 1984, he has been with the Automation and Applied Informatics Department, Politehnica University Timisoara, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 80 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests include advanced control of ac drives, sensorless control, observers, sliding-mode control, power electronics control, mechatronic systems, and real-time implementations.,Dr. Andreescu is a member of the Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronics Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and has been a member of the Engineering Sciences Commission of the National University Research Council.

Prof. Katarzyna Turoń 

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Katarzyna Turoń has a DSc PhD Eng. in the discipline of civil engineering and transport. She is professor at the Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering at Silesian University of Technology in Poland. She has authored over 150 scientific publications. Speaker at dozens of scientific conferences and expert panels. Actively cooperates with leading foreign universities and the business environment. Involved in the promotion of shared mobility services.

Prof. Yongsheng Ou

Dalian University of Technology, China

Yongsheng Ou, PhD supervisor, Professor, Dalian University of Technology. After returning from the United States in 2010, in 2011, he won the excellent support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' 100 Talents Program and was selected as the national "10,000 Thousand Plan" leading talents and the promotion plan of young and middle-aged leading talents of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Experts of the National Ministry of Science and Technology 13th Five-Year intelligent robot key special group, key project review experts of the Nature Foundation Committee, and National science and Technology Award Program review experts. He has undertaken a number of national projects such as key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, national major research projects, and 863 projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. With an interdisciplinary background in robotics and intelligent control, he has published more than 180 EI/SCI papers in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics in the past 5 years, cited 5047 times, published more than 50 articles in JCR1 area, and Google H-index 65. He led the team has developed a number of core key technologies and transformation, the development of low-cost navigation technology for Shenzhen Silver star intelligent company to develop a new product Silo sweeping robot, for Shenzhen City best choice Technology Co., LTD. Humanoid service robot. His research won the 2016 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first), the 2016 Shenzhen Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first), and the 2020 Guangdong Province Technology Invention Award (ranked first).