Prof. Thomas Schlechter
University of Applied Sciences Upper
Austria, Austria
Dr. Thomas Schlechter is Professor for Automotive Mechatronics at
the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria since 2018. He
published around 30 conference papers and journal articles and is
author of more than 50 patents, delivering an H-index of 6.
His research interest covers multiple fields, including
mechatronics, algorithms, and especially communication theory and
technology. As a special field of interest, cyber security topics
may be mentioned as well.
Thomas as well admires the beautiful landscape (not only) in Austria
and loves to share ideas in this exceptional working environment –
especially if one of his self-brewed beer specialties accompany this
idea sharing process.
Prof. Teresa Zielinska
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Vice Director of IAAM for Scientific and Educational Affairs
Full professor in technical sciences, deputy-director of the
Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics of Warsaw University
of Technology (WUT). She graduated from the Faculty of Electronics
and Information Technology of WUT (M.Sc.), received Ph.D. from the
Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of WUT and
habilitation from the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical
Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is employed by
WUT and is a member of the Committee of Automatic Control and
Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, vice-chair of the Polish
IEEE Robotics and Automation Section (2016-2019) and Secretary
General of International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism
and Machine Science (IFToMM) (2011-2019) http://iftomm.net/.
She is the local coordinator of international program European
Master of Advanced Robotics (EMARO), member of the Team of Experts
of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017-2018). She has
conducted research in several universities: Politechnic University
of Turin (within a grant awarded by the Italian Ministry of
Education), Loughborough University of Technology (Great Britain,
grant awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Council),
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) – employed as a senior
fellow. Visiting professor at: National University of Singapore,
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Griffith University
(Brisbane, Australia), Keio University (Hiyoshi, Japan), Shanghaji
Jiaotong University (Shanghai, China). She cooperated with Ohio
State University (USA) within the Poland-USA Marie Curie-Skłodowska
Fund. She is a co-recipient of 2 national patents and author or
co-author of 300 publications. Teresa Zielinska received the award
of the Minister of Higher Education (Poland) for her research
monograph, Gold Cross of Merit and Medal of the Commission of
National Education as well as many university awards for her
research.
Her research interest concern robotics, in that development of
real-time control systems, motion synthesis and design of novel
robotic systems. Teresa Zielinska also works on walking machines,
humanoids and mobile robots. She also developed a sensor prototype
for measuring shear forces and the control system for the team of
autonomous walking machines. Currently she focuses on bio-robotics.
She is a member of the editorial boards of several national and
international journals. She managed or participated in national,
European and international research grants.
Prof. Jinsong Bao
Donghua University, China
Bao Jinsong is professor and doctoral supervisor in School of
Mechanical Engineering, Donghua University, and Director of
Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing.
He received his PhD in Engineering in School of Mechanical and Power
Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2002, and has been
Lecturer and Associate Professor, Institute of Computer Integrated
Manufacturing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University during 2002-2015, he is
a visiting Scholar of USC University, from 2015, he is the professor
of Donghua University, China. His Research Areas includes
CPS/CPPS、Digital Thread/Digital Twin; Industrial CV/ NLP、Industrial
Knowledge Graph、Big Data; Human Factor、Co-Robot、Cognitive Computing;
VR/AR/MR.
Assoc. Prof. Wei Meng
Wuhan University of Technology, China
Wei Meng received the Ph.D. degree in information and mechatronics
engineering jointly trained by the Wuhan University of Technology,
Wuhan, China, and the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,
in 2016. He was a Research Fellow in Robotics with the School of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds,
U.K. from 2018 to 2020. Dr. Meng is currently an Associate Professor
with the School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of
Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests include
robot-assisted rehabilitation, human-robot interaction, and learning
control. He has authored 4 monographs and over 60 peer-reviewed
papers and 10 patents in rehabilitation robotics and human-robot
interaction control.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Gaber
University of Technology of
Belfort-MontbeliardUTBM (France), France