Ouri Wolfson's main research interests are in big data, distributed systems, mobile/pervasive computing, smart city, and connectomics. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup that was acquired by Fluensee Co.; and the founder and president of Pirouette Software Inc. which specializes in mobile data management. He served as a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, US Army Research Laboratories, DARPA, and NASA. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.

Demetri Terzopoulos is a Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor and directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of VoxelCloud, Inc., a multinational healthcare AI company. He graduated from McGill University, received his PhD degree ('84) in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and remained a Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory through 1985. He is or was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the ACM, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Fellow of the IETI, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Life Member of Sigma Xi. His many awards include an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his pioneering work on physics-based computer animation, as well as IEEE's Computer Pioneer Award, Helmholtz Prize, and inaugural Computer Vision Distinguished Researcher Award for his pioneering and sustained research on deformable models and their applications. Deformable models, a term he coined, is listed in the IEEE Taxonomy. With his more than 400 published research papers and several volumes, primarily in computer graphics, computer vision, medical imaging, computer-aided design, and artificial intelligence/life, the ISI and other indexes have listed him among the most highly-cited authors in engineering and computer science. He has given more than 500 invited talks worldwide about his research, including well over 100 distinguished lectures and keynote/plenary addresses. He joined UCLA in 2005 from New York University, where he held the Henry and Lucy Moses Endowed Professorship in Science and was Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prior to becoming an academic in 1989, he was a Program Leader at Schlumberger corporate research centers in California and Texas.

Professor Phoebe Chen is Professor and Chair at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia. She was Head of Department from Sep 2010 to April 2012. Professor Phoebe Chen hosts the ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics from 2008 - present and ARC Centre in Bioinformatics from 2003 to 2007. Phoebe finished her Bachelor of Information Technology degree in School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland (UQ), in Brisbane, Australia. After that she finished Honours (First Class) in Information Technology in UQ. Phoebe received her Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Science (Bioinformatics) in University of Queensland. Phoebe also finished Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Prof. Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, China in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in biophysics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, USA in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1999. Prof. Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada. Prof. Yang has diversified research expertise. His research interests include intelligent systems, robotics, control systems, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, intelligent communication, intelligent transportation, machine learning, and computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang he has been very active in professional activities. Prof. Yang serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Robotics and Automation, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many international conferences.

Nassir Navab is a full professor and director of the Laboratories for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP: http://campar.in.tum.de) at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University (http://camp.lcsr.jhu.edu/) with secondary faculty appointments at TUMs Medical School. He is also the director of the biannual Medical Augmented Reality (http://medicalaugmentedreality.org/) school series at Balgrist Hospital in Zurich. He received the prestigious MICCAI Enduring Impact Award in 2021 and IEEE ISMAR 10 Years Lasting Impact Award in 2015. In 2001, while acting as a distinguished member of technical staff at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in Princeton, he received the prestigious Siemens Inventor of the Year Award for the body of his work in interventional imaging. He also received the SMIT Technology Award in 2010. Before joining TUM in 2003, he had completed his Ph.D. at INRIA and University of Paris XI in France and had enjoyed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at MIT Media Laboratory before and nine years of industrial research experience at SCR. He is a Fellow of the MICCAI Society and acted on its board of directors from 2007 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2017. He is also an IEEE Fellow 2022 and one of the founders of IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and has been serving on its Steering Committee since 2001. He is the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers and 51 granted the US and over 80 international patents. He served as General Chair for MICCAI 2015, ISMAR 2001, 2005, and 2014. He is a funding board member of IPCAI 2010-2021 and Area Chair for ICCV 2022 and ECCV 2020. He is on the editorial board of many international journals including IEEE TMI and MedIA. He is proud of his Ph.D. students, who have received over 50 prestigious awards including MICCAI young investigator awards in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 and best paper awards at IEEE ISMAR 2005 and 2017, MICCAI MedIA 2016 MICCAI IJCARS 2016 and 2019, IBM best paper award at VOEC-ICCV 2009, IPMI Erbsmann award in 2007 and best poster in 2019, and IPCAI best paper awards in 2014 and 2020. As of January 28, 2022, his papers have received over 48200 citations and enjoy an h-index of 99. His fields of interest include Robotic Imaging, Augmented Reality, Computer-Assisted Interventions, Computer Vision and Machine Learning,

Frank H.P.Fitzek is a Professor and head of the "Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks" at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence Ceti. He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Associate Professor and later became Professor. He co-founded several start-up companies starting with acti com GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA Champion Award several times in a row from 2007 to 2011. In 2008 he was awarded the Nokia Achievement Award for his work on cooperative networks. In 2011 he received the SAPERE AUDE research grant from the Danish government and in 2012 he received the Vodafone Innovation prize. In 2015 he was awarded the honorary degree "Doctor Honoris Causa" from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE).

Carlo Cattani is Professor (Habil. Full Professor, since 2017) of Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Enterprise (DEIM) of Tuscia University (VT)-Italy, since 2015. He has been previously appointed as professor/research fellow at the Dept. of Mathematics University of Rome La Sapienza (1980-2004) and Dept. of Mathematics, University of Salerno (2004-2015). Research fellow at the Italian Council of Research, CNR in 1978-1980 and Visiting Research fellow at the Physics Institute of the Stockholm University (1987-1988).His main scientific research interests is focussing onnumerical and computational methods, mathematical models and methods, time series and data analysis, computer methods and simulations. Author of more than 270 scientific paperson international journals and co-author of several books he has given significant contributions to fundamental topics such asnumerical methods, dynamical systems, fractional calculus, fractals, wavelets, nonlinear waves, data analysis. Editor in Chief of the journals Fractal and Fractional and Information Sciences Letters, he is serving also as Editor in Several International Scientific Journals. He has been awarded Honorary professor at the Azerbaijan University (2019), at the BSP University, Ufa-Russia (2009) for his contribution in research and international cooperation, and (in 2018) as adjunct Professor at the Ton Duc Thang University HCMC Vietnam. For the many achievements in research (H-index: Scopus (41), WoS (36), Google Scholar (47))he has beenlisted in the 2020 World Ranking of Scientists (Top 2%), ranking 85th (3d in Italy) for numerical and computational mathematics, and 16th over 335 Italian Mathematicians of this list.

Xinde Li earned his Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering, from the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2007. Afterwards, he joined School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he is currently a professor. He was an Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences elected in 2020 and a cover person of Scientific Chinese in the same year. He was a vice director of Intelligent Robot Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence from 2017, a vice director of Intelligent Products and Industry Working Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence from 2019. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robot, Machine Perception and Understanding, and human-robot interaction, etc. He has undertaken many national key projects, i.e. National 863 key project, JKW key project, etc. and has published more than 80 high-quality papers and 2 books, and owns 17 national invention patents. He also won many prizes, i.e. international contribution prize, Scientific and Technological Progress Award in CAA, etc.

Hoshang Kolivand is an Associate Professor in Human Computer Interaction at Liverpool John Moores University, UK and a Visiting professor at Barath University, India. He received his MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and his PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2013. His background is in 3D maths & Computer Graphics in particular Augmented and Virtual Reality. Over 150 international publications in the area of 3D visualisation, immersive technology & human Computer Interaction. A global leader in this field invited to address the current & future advances of immersive technology in several high-ranked international events.

Lloyd F. Colegrove retired after a 29-year career at Dow, as the Director of Data Services and the Director of Fundamental Problem Solving within Manufacturing and Engineering. He was also the Analytics Platform Director for Dow's Manufacturing and Engineering's Industry 4.0 program. Lloyd's background is in Chemical Physics where he obtained a B.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He spent 7 years in Polymer Research in Dow (R&D and TS&D) before moving into Manufacturing in an analytical measurement improvement role for plant quality assurance activities and then as a global quality leader for five Dow businesses. He then moved on to establish a new capability called Fundamental Problem Solving, where top chemists and engineers work on complex, often multi-effect, plant problems. With this established, he refocused his efforts working to establish the Data Services group that has developed and deployed novel analytics applications to improve data-based decision making in chemical operations. These efforts have been recognized with many industry awards. Lloyd consults on real-time analytics, artificial intelligence in the chemical industry, and process improvement strategies He is married with two daughters and is an avid cyclist, wilderness backpacker, and landscaper.

Dr. Chien-Ho Ko is a Research Professor and Director of Craig and Diane Martin National Center for Construction Safety in the Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas, USA. He has been conferred numerous academic awards, including best paper, outstanding professor, researchawards, and teaching awards. Dr. Ko has published over 40 refereed journal papers and 70 conference papers. In addition, he has participated as Principal Investigator in over 40 research projects funded, e.g., by the National Science Council. Additionally, he is an inventor with more than 30 patents. Dr. Ko is a reviewer for more than 30 different journals, serves on the editorial boards of 20 more, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management (Scopus and EiCompendex indexed).

Carolyn J. Swinney received a B.Eng.(hons.) degree (first class) in 2007 and a M.Sc.(dist.) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK in 2013. She graduated as a Communications and Electronics Engineering Officer in the Royal Air Force in 2014. She currently works within the Air and Space Warfare Centre and is working towards a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. Her main research interests are signal processing, autonomous vehicles, machine learning and deep learning.

Dr Shaomin Wu is a professor of Business/Applied Statistics at the University of Kent, UK. He obtained both his MSc degree and PhD degree in applied statistics. His research interests include machine learning, reliability mathematics, and recurrent event data analysis, in which he has published in more than 90 journal papers. Shaomin serves as an associate editor or a member on the editorial boards of six journals. He has co-chaired four international conferences.

Dr. Hongbin Ma has been a full professor of School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology since 2009. He was born in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, in 1978. He received B.Sc. from Zhengzhou University, China in 2001. Then he studied mathematics and control theory in the Key Laboratory of Systems and Control at Institute of Systems Science from 2001 to 2006. Obtained Ph.D from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Joined Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore in August 2006 and later joined School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology as a faculty member since August 2009. His research interests mainly include adaptive estimation, filtering and control; adaptive game; multi-agent systems and complex systems; navigation and guidance; mobile autonomous robots; machine vision and computer vision. He won several awards such as Beijing Natural Science Award, Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Award, China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award, Huo Yingdong Prize for Young Teachers in University, New Century Excellent Talents in University, and so on. He is one senior member of IEEE and Chinese Association of Automation.

Member of the LAMIA laboratory at the University of the French West Indies since 2002, I successively worked on combinatorial optimization problems based on metaheuristics (Genetic Algorithms, taboo search, etc.), then on classification (Decision tree , SVM, etc.) and finally on Artificial Intelligence based on classic neural networks (DNN, CNN, etc.) and spiking neural network (SNN, etc.). Our Working Group is particularly interested in SNN because of their smaller size and also lower energy consumption. My current research topics concern the explainability of neural networks as well as the integration of ethics in the development of Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Ahmed Ragab is an AI research scientist working for Natural Resources Canada. Also, he is an adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal. He received a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. His research interests include AI, Data & Decision Fusion, Image Processing, Causality Analysis, Discrete Event Systems, and Process Mining. His main activities focus on the practical challenges of Big Data and AI in a number of applications including Fault Diagnosis & Prognosis, Supervisory Control, and Systems Design, aiming at reducing energy consumption, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in industrial processes.

Alexei G. Shishkin received an M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical modeling from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 1990. He received his D.Sc. degree in computational mathematics and mathematical modeling from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 2011. He was a Senior Research Worker and then Chief Research Worker with the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, starting from 1990. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University. His current research interests include mathematical modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining and digital signal processing. Prof. Shishkin is an author of more than 150 publications including 6 books. He was the awardee of MSU Young Researchers program and MSU Outstanding Scientific Achievements Contest. He is a member of Editorial Board of Journal of Modeling and Optimization, American Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He serves as a reviewer of several including IEEE journals. Prof. Shishkin has been a chairman and a member of the program committees of a number of international conferences. He has been the invited speaker and the session chair in several conferences and symposiums.

Biography Xiaohui.Zou, Director of Sino-US Searle Research Center. 1997-2000 Postgraduate Diplomain International Law, Jilin University, 2007-2008 DomesticVisiting Scholar of Peking University, 2009-2015 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Institute of Higher Education,Graduate Supervisorand，Part-time Researcher, 2010-2012Visit at the University of California,Berkeley (invited to Harvard University for exchange), 2011-2018 Doctoral supervisor and chief researcher of Sino-US Searle Research Center, 2017-2019 Peking University Interdisciplinary Forum Host, 2020-2022 Tsinghua University Rain Classroom Smart System Studied Series Courses Teaching.

Prof. Dr. Yousef FARHAOUI, is Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of sciences and Techniques, Morocco. Chair of IDMS Team, Director of STI laboratory. Local Publishing and Research Coordinator, Cambridge International Academics in United Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Security from Ibn Zohr University of Science. His research interests include learning, e-learning, computer security, big data analytics, and business intelligence. Farhaoui has three books in computer science. He is a coordinator and member of the organizing committee and also a member of the scientific committee of several international congresses, and is a member of various international associations. He has authored 6 Book and many Book Chapters with Reputed Publishers such as Springer and IGI. He is served as a Reviewer for IEEE, IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier Journals. He is also the Guest Editor of many Journals with Wiley, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, and Panelist in Several Conferences. He is Senior Member of IEEE, IET, ACM and EAI Research Group.

Luy Nguyen Tan currently is an associate professor in automation and control engineering at the Faculty of ElectronicsTechnology, Industrial University of Ho Chi MinhCity, Vietnam. He received the B.S. and M.Sc.degrees in computer science andautomation and control engineering and Ph.D. degree in automation from the Ho Chi Minh City University ofTechnology, Vietnam, in 1996,2006, and 2015, respectively.His current research interests include adaptivedynamic programming, distributed control, large-scale systems, and robotic applications. He has published papers on reputational journals and served as a Reviewer for many journals, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORK AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEM MAN AND CYBERNETICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS.

Guanglei Wu, Associate Professor Dr. Guanglei Wu received his PhD in robotics from Aalborg University, Denmark, 2013, and worked as an industrial Postdoc fellow in Aalborg University from 2014 to 2016. He was a visiting scholar in the Research Institute in Communications and Cybernetics of Nantes (currently reorganized as Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes-LS2N) in June-July 2012, in McGill University in Aug. 2015, and in Aarhus University in 2020. Currently, he is an associate professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (DUT). His research interests include robotic technology, conceptual design and performance evaluation of robots, robot dynamics and control, industrial robots and their applications. He has published one monography by Springer, 9 patents, and over 80 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and conferences. He was the awardee of DUT Xinhai 1000 Youth Talent program, IFToMM Asian MMS & CCMMS 2016, Dept. Sci. Tech. Liaoning province, Longcheng Talent program by Changzhou Municipality. He is the referee for over 50 international journals and conferences in the fields of mechanisms and robots.

Dr. K. P. Sanal Kumar received the M.C.A., degree fromM.S.University,Tirunelveli, India in 2000. He received the M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharath University, Chennai, India in the year 2005. He received the M.Phil degree in Computer Science from M.S University, Tirunelveli, India in the year 2008. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India in 2019. He has been with Annamalai University, Since 2008. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in the P.G. Department of Computer science at R.V. Government College, Chengalpattu, Tamilnadu, India (on Deputation). He has published 40 papers in international journals and conferences. He has authored 5 Text books including IOT Security, Block Chain Technology, Artificial Intelligence inspired with ML and Data Science, Fundamentals and advanced Guide to ML and Complex Network and Role or Impact of Artificial Intelligence in sustainable smart cities and Urban mobilities. He is a life member of CSI, ISTE, IAENG, IISTEM and Professional Member of IFERP. He is serving as a member of Editorial and Reviewer Boards in many National and International Journals including Elsevier, Springer etc. His research interest includes Image Processing, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Wearable Computing etc.

Ibrahim Cil is a Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Sakarya University, Turkey. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Cilreceived his MSc degree in Industrial Engineering fromYildiz Technical University, and his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.His research interests include artificial intelligence, data analytics, business intelligence,data mining, process mining, decision support systems, multi criteria decision making,lean manufacturing and facility planning and layout.He is a member of the organizing committee and also a member of the scientific committee of several international congresses, and is a member of various international associations.He has been the invited speaker, the session chair, and panelist in several conferences.He has published numerous articles in Artificial Intelligence Review, Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Int J of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Int J Adv Manufacturing Technology, The Engineering Economist, and others. He managed many projects on Lean Transformation and Industry 4.0 transition in different sectors. He is married, has two sons, is a tennis player, and enjoys hiking in the wild.

Prof. Md. Sadique Shaikh presently designated as Professor and Director in Technology and Management at KYDSC Trust Institute of Management & Sciences (IMS), Bhusawal, M.S, India. He is working for M.Tech and M.B.A courses for various subjects but few sound research domains are Robotics Vision, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Humanoid Intelligence, Bionics, Mobots, Advanced AI, International Business, Data Analytics, Bigdata Management, IoT, VO, MIS, HRIS Digital & Optical Electronics, Nanotechnology & Quantum Computing, Spintronics etc. He is qualified in M.S (ES), M.Tech (IT), M.B.A (HRM), M.B.A (MM), PGDM, and D.B.Mfollowed by M.Phil. Doctorate in Management Studies DMS (International Business), and Doctor in Philosophy Ph.D. (Human Resource). He received two honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work and in Humanities.He has delivered Invited Talk, Short Communication, Keynote Speeches and presented research work in several reputed places like IITs, IIMs, BARC, NMU, PU, MU, NU are few of them. He has 15 years of experience in industries and Academics presented work more than 167 conferences/symposiums/webinars and authored 63 international books and more than 130 research papers, short communication, opinions and research reports worldwide some of them Germany, U.K, U.S.A, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Singapore, U.A.E, Italy, France, Japan, China, Romania, Spain and Australia in the fields of Robotics, Bionic Brain, AAI, UAI, Quantum Computing, Information Technology, Medical & Surgical Robotics, Space Science, Management, Cosmology & Space Science and Electronics Sciences. His 09 books republished in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, German, French, Russian and English 09 different international languages worldwide by Omniscriptum Berlin, Germany and others Publishing houses worldwide and the book Next Level Vision in Artificial Intelligence and Business of Different Thinking most popular in them. He is guiding to many students for advanced research project in Technology and Management. He is editorial board member in several esteemed International journals of U.K, U.S.A, Japan, and India. Worked in several International Conferences/Symposiums as OCM & Advisory Committee Member of U.S.A, U.K, Australia, Japan, Spain, India and Turkey.

Dr. Debanik Roy received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Production Engg. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1990, securing the topmost position in order of merit. He obtained M.Tech. degree in 1993 from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India with specialization in Manufacturing Engg. & Robotics, topping the merit list. During 1993-1995, he was engaged with doctoral research in the field of robotics (tele-manipulation & remote control) and was awarded Doctorate degree from Jadavpur University in 1997. Dr. Roy joined Automation Division, Tata Steel, India after completion of Ph.D. work and was actively involved in robotics projects there. Dr. Roy was the principal technologist in realizing the maiden application of robotics in Indian steel industry (1995-1997). Thenafter, Dr. Roy joined Robotics Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1998 as Research Faculty and did research-based work in the field of underwater robotics (partially funded by British Gas Company, U.K.). Since 1999, Dr. Roy has been associated with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India. He was with the Robotics division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai from 1999 to 2008. Between Jan., 2009 to April, 2018, Dr. Roy headed the Engineering Science Advisory Committee of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), DAE. After successful completion of the tenure at BRNS, Dr. Roy took up new R&D responsibility at the Division of Remote Handling & Robotics, BARC since May, 2018. Dr. Roy is also serving as an adjunct Professor faculty of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) since 2009. Dr. Roy was a senate member of PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing- Jabalpur, India for 5 years (2016-2020). Besides, he is a visiting professor of SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and Research Advisor & Mentor of several institutes of repute, like Indian Institute of Technology-Indore, National Institute of Technology-Jaipur, National Institute of Technology-Rourkela, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Nagpur, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research-Bhopal, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham- Coimbatore, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida & GLA University, Mathura, India. Dr. Roy has attained many professional benchmarks, including best technical paper prizes at IEEE-sponsored international conferences, official appreciation for the outstanding doctoral thesis, membership of IEEE, honorary membership of technical committee on robotics of IASTED, Canada, membership of editorial board of international journals, overseas visiting professorship, professional excellance award from DAE, guest speakers at various international conferences and institutes of repute etc. He has been distinguished as a biographee in Marquis Who’s Who in the World in three successive editions, namely, 2007, 2008 & 2010 and also honoured by the International Biographical Centre, U.K. He is actively associated as editorial board member of several peer-reviewed international journals in robotics & automation and computational mathematics. He is actively involved in various international conferences in robotics, serving as a member of the international programme as well as organizing committee(s). His research interest goes in the domain of robot grippers, gripper sensors, flexible manipulator, underwater robotics, tele-manipulation, bio-inspired robotics and web-mediated robotics. Dr. Roy has bagged three patents on innovative design of mechatronic systems, besides several approved applications. Since early research career, Dr. Roy has developed novel indigenous designs of robotic / mechatronic systems and also carried out complete indigenous prototypes of those. Dr. Roy served his duties successfully as the lead technocrat for the ambitious project of maiden application of robotics in Indian steel industry during 1995-1996. He has authored over 200 technical papers till date, published in referred journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. About two-third of the journal publications of Dr. Roy are single-authored, which clearly indicates the level of originality and subtle involvement of his scholastic brain. Dr. Roy has also authored two books on applications of robotics (published by Lambert, Germany) and 16 book-chapters, published by Springer Nature, InTech, Springer, Elsevier, IOP, Taylor & Francis & others, in the domains of flexible robot, mechatronic design, robotic gripper and sensor fusion. He has also first-authored 12 technical reports on the accomplishments of various robotic instrumentation & hardware in India and abroad. Dr. Roy is equally active in writing science / technology articles in popular science magazines as well as delivering talk in audio sessions on his achievements on technology front till date, aired periodically by All India Radio. Dr. Roy has guided several Ph.D. scholars and well as mentored many in the capacity of doctoral committee member. In October 2014, Dr. Roy received the DAE Award for Excellence in Science & Technology (as part of the Group Achievement Award) for his contribution made in DAE programmes till that date. Dr. Roy has been nominated as member of the Programme Advisory Committee (Civil & Mechanical Engineering) of the Science & Engineering Research Board of Department of Science & Technology (DST-SERB), Govt. of India in Nov., 2018. Subsequently, Dr. Roy has been nominated as Member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Gujarat State Council on Science & Technology (GUJCOST), Gujarat, India in March, 2019, followed by membership of the Task Force Committee on EMEQ, DST-SERB, Govt. of India in Dec., 2019. Dr. Roy has been nominated as member of the Project Review & Steering Group, Autonomous Last Mile Vehicle (ALIVE) Project under Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), Govt. of India in May, 2020. Dr. Roy has been re-nominated as member of the Programme Advisory Committee of Mechanical, Manufacturing, Aerosapce Engineering & Robotics of DST-SERB, Govt. of India in June, 2020. Dr. Roy has also been nominated as member of the selection committee of SERB-POWER scheme of project approval for women scientists & technologists of India in July, 2020 and SERB-SUPRA scheme in November, 2021. Dr. Roy and his research team at PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing-Jabalpur have secured the first prize for innovating a novel process of Incremental Sheet Metal Forming at the International Forming Technology Exhibition, IMTEX Forming-2016 held at Bengaluru, India. Marquis Whos Who in the World, USA has conferred Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Roy in Nov., 2018 for his outstanding scholastic excellence in the field of robotics, automation & manufacturing.