• Lille

    France

  • February 24-26

    2025

 

 

Prof. Shane Xie, IEEE Fellow
University of Leeds, UK
Prof Shane (Sheng Q) Xie, Ph.D., FRSNZ, FEngNZ, FIEEE, FASME, FIMechE and FAAIA, is the Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Leeds, and he was the Director of the Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics Centre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ, 2002-2016). He has >30 years of research experience in healthcare robotics and exoskeletons. He has published > 500 refereed papers and 8 books in rehabilitation exoskeleton design and control, neuromuscular modelling, and advanced human-robot interaction. He has supervised >15 postdocs, 100 PhDs and 80 MEs in his team with funding of >£30M from five countries since 2003. His team has invented three award-winning rehabilitation exoskeletons. He is an expert in control of exoskeletons, i.e. impedance control, adaptive control, sliding mode control, and iterative learning control strategies. He has received many distinguished awards including the New Zealand Science Challenge Award, the David Bensted Fellowship Award, and the AMP Invention Award. He is an elected Fellow of Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, Fellow of IEEE, ASME, IMechE and AAIA. He was the Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Associate Editor for Mechatronics Elservier and Editorial member of many top journals in Mechatronics and Robotics.

 

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE FELLOW
Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Maria Pia Fanti is full professor of System and Control Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy). She received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy), in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983 she has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy), where she was Assistant Professor from 1990 till 1998 and Associate Professor from 1990 till April 2012. Maria Pia Fanti is IEEE fellow for contributions to modeling and control of discrete event systems. Her research interests include Discrete event systems, Petri net, consensus algorithms, networked and control systems, management and modeling of logistic systems, automated manufacturing systems, automatic guided vehicle systems, traffic networks, and healthcare systems. Maria Pia Fanti is author of 2 books and 280+ papers including 85 journal papers including, 11 book chapters and many conference proceeding papers.

 

Prof. Rochdi Merzouki
University of Lille, France

Rochdi Merzouki is a professor specializing in Robotics and Mechatronics at CRIStAL UMR-CNRS 9189, University of Lille, within the Polytech Lille department. He earned his Ph.D. in Autonomous Robotics from the University of Versailles, France, in 2002. Currently, he leads the International Master's program in Robotics and Transport and serves as the regional contact point for the S-MART network of Robotics in Northern France. He has managed several European projects, including the Intelligent Transportation for Dynamic Environment (InTraDE, 2009–2015) and Cooperative Brachytherapy (CoBra, 2018–2022) projects, with details available at www.cobra-2ses.eu. He is currently the project manager for the EU-funded SAFARI project (2024–2027), detailed at www.safariports.eu. His primary research interests include systems-of-systems engineering, modeling, and supervision of mechatronic systems, with applications in autonomous and soft robotics. He has authored over 100 publications in journals, conferences, patents, and books. Additionally, he is a Senior Member of IEEE.
 

Prof. Belkacem OULD BOUAMAMA
Polytech Lille, France, CRIStAL Laboratory (UMR CNRS 9189)

Belkacem OULD BOUAMAMA is full Professor and head of the research at « Ecole Polytechnique de Lille, France ». His main research areas developed at CRIStAL laboratory CNRS9189 where he leads “PERSI” group, concern Integrated Design for Supervision of System Engineering. Their application domains are mainly energy, and mechatronic systems. He is the author of more than one hundred international publications in this domain. He is co-author of five books in bond graph modeling and Fault Detection and Isolation area. Research and teaching activities can be consulted at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hxUxTA9ZKY5Ol44WoTUS2eXZOTTABlgW/view?usp=sharing