Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Kurosh Madani
University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC)
France

Brief Bio
Kurosh Madani is graduated in fundamental physics in June 1985 from PARIS 7 – Jussieu University. He received his MSc. in Microelectronics and chip architecture from University PARIS 11 (PARIS-SUD), Orsay, France, in September 1986. Received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University PARIS 11 (PARIS-SUD), Orsay, France, in February 1990. In 1995, he received the DHDR Doctor Hab. degree (senior research doctorate degree) from University PARIS 12 – Val de Marne. He works as Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering of Senart-FB Institute of Technology of University PARIS-EST Creteil (UPEC), France. Co-creator of Images, Signals and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (LISSI / EA 3956) of UPEC in 2005, head of Intelligent Machines & Systems” research team of LISSI, he is also Vice-director of this laboratory. He has worked on both digital and analog implementation of massively parallel processors arrays for image processing, electro-optical random number generation, and both analog and digital Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) implementation. His current research interests include: - Complex structures and behaviors modeling, - self-organizing, modular and hybrid neural based information processing systems and their real-world and industrial applications, - humanoid and collective robotics - intelligent fault detection and diagnosis systems. ... More >>

Niki van Stein
Leiden University
Netherlands

Brief Bio
Niki van Stein is a researcher in the Natural Computing Group of LIACS and manager of the applied data science lab. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University in 2018. Niki's research interests are in explainable AI for optimization and machine learning, global (Bayesian) optimization and neural architecture search.Niki van Stein is a researcher in the Natural Computing Group of LIACS and manager of the applied data science lab. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University in 2018. Niki's research interests are in explainable AI for optimization and machine learning, global (Bayesian) optimization and neural architecture search.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Wudhichai Assawinchaichote, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Rosangela Ballini, Unicamp, Brazil
Fevzi Belli, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany, Germany
Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
Francesco Calimeri, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Italy
Amitava Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, India
Mario G. C. A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy
Kendra Cooper, Independent Researcher, Canada
Flavio S. Correa da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
António Cunha, UTAD - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy
Márcia Aparecida Fernandes, Federal University of Uberlandia - UFU, Brazil
Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Jörg Hähner, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Gareth Howells, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Peter Kieseberg, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christophe Labreuche, Thales Research and Technology, France
Wookey Lee, Inha University, South Korea
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia
José Manuel Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Colm O Riordan, University of Galway, Ireland
Dawid Polap, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Olympia Roeva, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Luciano Sanchez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Daniel Sánchez, University of Granada, Spain
Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy
Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, CISUC, Portugal
Philippe Thomas, Université de Lorraine, France
Leonilde Rocha Varela, University of Minho, Portugal
Gregg Vesonder, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Weiwei Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, United States

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