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New York City College of Technology, USA
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Dr. Aparicio Carranza earned his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY; BSEE (summa cum laude) & MSEE from The City College of New York – CUNY and his AAS (summa cum laude) in Electronics Circuits and Systems from Technical Career Institutes of NY. He joined the Computer Engineering Technology Department of the The New York City College of Technology as full time faculty on fall 2000. Before becoming a full time, he was an adjunct faculty for four years at the same department. For several years he worked as an Engineer – Scientist at the Development Division of IBM Corp. (RS6000 parallel computers; and S/390 mainframe computers) in Poughkeepsie, NY. He teaches Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics, Programming Languages (MATLAB, C, C++, Java, etc.), Engineering Analysis, Data Communications, Engineering Design and other related courses.
Concordia University, Canada
Conference Chair
Youmin Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering; and Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He has authored ten books and more than 600 journals and conference papers with high citations. His current research interests include fault/attack diagnosis, fault-tolerant and attack-resilient control, cooperative guidance, navigation, control, remote sensing, and imaging processing. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in ON, Canada, and a fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME). He is an Editorial Board Member, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and an Editor/an Associate Editor of more than 20 international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.(Based on document published on 3 April 2025).
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Conference Chair
Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, SMIEEE, is a Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering and the Director of Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Laboratory (RMAL) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1995. He was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Center for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University between 1995 and 1997. Later, he joined TMU’s Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering in 1997 where he is currently the founding director of the Mechatronics Engineering Program. His research interests span image-guided control and learning of robots, continuum robotic systems, medical robots, and autonomous aerial systems. He has published significantly in the above areas with more than 290 peer reviewed journal and conference articles, a few books, and several patents in his track record. He has been a visiting professor in KAIST (Daeijeon, Korea); IRISA-INRIA (Rennes, France); and Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany). He has also been organizer and co-organizer of several international conferences on control. Dr. Janabi-Sharif has been specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Industrial Robotics and Automation), and a technical editor of several journals including IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and International Journal of Optomechatronics. Dr. Janabi-Sharifi is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), founding member of International Society for Optomechatronics (ISOM), and Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
Loughborough University, UK
Conference Chair
Dr Diego Resende Faria is a Reader in Computer Science in the School of Science at Loughborough University, having joined the institution in 05/2025. Prior to this (2022-2025), he was a Reader in Robotics and Intelligent Adaptive Systems at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK. From 2016 to 2022, he held academic positions as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Dr Resende Faria is known for his interdisciplinary research at the intersection of multisensory artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, neuro-affective intelligence, and human-machine interaction. His work integrates neuro-affective AI, assistive technologies, and intelligent systems to improve interaction between humans and machines (healthcare and education).
With extensive academic and research experience across the UK, Portugal, and Brazil, he has led or contributed to major international projects funded by EU Horizon, CHIST-ERA, EPSRC-UK, Innovate UK, and The Royal Society (UK), FCT-Portugal and CONFAP-Brazil.
Dr Resende Faria holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2014), where he also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics between 2014 and 2016.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Conference Chair
Professor Dan Zhang is a Chair Professor of Intelligent Robotics and Automation, and Director of PolyU-Nanjing Technology and Innovation Research Institute, Director of Consortium for Intelligent Robotics Research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada in 2000. He joined Ontario Tech University (OTU), Canada, as Assistant Professor in 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2006 and 2011 respectively. During the appointment period in OTU, he also served as Founding Chair in the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2012–2014) and was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Automation (2009–2015). Since 2016, he transferred to York University, Canada as a Kaneff Professor and also took up the role of Department Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2016 to 2018. Thereafter, he was awarded the Tier 1 York Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics in 2017.
Professor Zhang's research interests include synthesis and optimization of parallel and hybrid mechanisms; generalized parallel mechanisms research; reconfigurable robots; innovation design of parallel robots; parallelization of serial robots; micro/nano manipulation and MEMS devices (e.g., sensors); rescue robots; smart biomedical instruments (e.g., exoskeleton robots and rehabilitation robotics); AI/robotics/autonomous systems; aerial and underwater robotics; artificial intelligence for robotics; intelligent reconfigurable adaptive landing gear and manipulator (manipulander).
Professor Zhang is a well-accomplished educator and an internationally renowned expert in the areas of parallel robotic machines and their applications in manufacturing systems. His influential scientific contributions have led to novel robotic system designs and development of new comprehensive models for better understanding of globe stiffness and robotic calibrations. His research applications have tackled some of the world's most challenging problems in high dynamic performance manufacturing robotic systems. His leadership has resulted in significant contributions to the areas of robotics, mechatronics, reconfigurable/sustainable manufacturing systems and MEMS devices. His accomplishments have been recognized by many honors and awards including Canada Research Chair, Research Excellence Awards, Tier 1 York Research Chair, Lassonde Innovation Awards — Established Researcher, Early Researcher Award by Ministry of Research and Innovation, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME).
Professor Zhang has published 296 journal papers and 193 conference papers, 12 books, 9 book chapters and numerous other technical publications. Professor Zhang has served as a General Chair for 82 international conferences and delivered 136 keynote speeches. Professor Zhang is listed as one of the world’s top two percent researchers by Stanford’s standardized citation indicators in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.