TCRoCS Roster

Messaoud Amairi

National Engineering School of Gabes

Tunisia

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Antoine Aspeel

University of Michigan

United States

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Richard Braatz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Corentin Briat

Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering

ETH-Zurich

Switzerland

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Sergej Čelikovský

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Czechia

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Sergej Čelikovský

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Sergej Čelikovský received his MSc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Optimal Control Department, Moscow State University in 1984 and his Ph.D. degree in Technical Cybernetics from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1988. He was visiting researcher at University of Twente, Enschede 1996, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, at Chinese University of Hong Kong 1998 and at CINVESTAV del I.P.N., Mexico 1998-2000. Currently he is Research Fellow and Head of the Department of Control Theory in Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences and Full Professor at the Department of Control Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He has been Associate Member of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks, City University of Hong Kong since 2003, Senior Member of IEEE since 2003 and he was Member of General Assembly of the European Union Control Association during 2011-2017. He received SICE 2011 Award for Outstanding Paper from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan and EEA (French association of professors and researchers in electrical and information sciences) Demonstrator Paper Prize at the IFAC World Congress 2017. Sergej Čelikovský served in editorial boards of recognized journals and conferences IPC’s, among them, TAC IEEE, IFAC WC 2014 and 2017 and as Subarea Chair of IFAC NOLCOS 2007 and 2010. Currently, he is Subject Editor of Journal of the Franklin Institute and AE of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

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The Czech Academy of Sciences

Czechia

Mohammadreza Chamambaz

University of Sydney

Australia

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Graziano Chesi

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

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Patrizio Colaneri

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Jorge Cortés

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Jamal Daafouz

University of Lorraine

France

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Fabrizio Dabbene

National Research Council of Italy – CNR IEIIT

Italy

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Fabrizio Dabbene

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Fabrizio Dabbene received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1999, both from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently holding a Senior Researcher position at the institute CNR IEIIT of the National Research Council of Italy, where he is the coordinator of the Systems Modeling & Control (SMC) Group. He has held visiting and research positions at The University of Iowa, at Penn State University and at the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) Institute of Control Science, Moscow.

His research interests include probabilistic and randomized methods for systems and control, robust control and identification of complex systems, convex optimization, dynamical social networks, space robotics, and precision agriculture. On these topics, he has published more than 150 research papers, which include more than forty articles published in international journals. He is co-author of the book Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, Springer-Verlag, published in two editions, and editor of the book Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty, also published by Springer. He has been co-organizer of several invited sessions and special courses, and of three Conference Workshops at CDC-00, MSC-08 and MSC-10. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from EurAgeng in 2010. He served as Associate Editor for Automatica and as Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control.

Dr. Dabbene is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and he has taken various responsibilities within the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2008-2012), Program Chair for the 2010 IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on CACSD (2010-2013), member of CEB (2002-2008), IPC member of various IEEE conferences, and member of several CDC Best Student Paper Award Committees. He is currently Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters. He served as elected member of the IEEE-CSS Board of Governors for the years 2014-2016, and as IEEE-CSS Vice-President for Publication Activities for the years 2015-2016.

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National Research Council of Italy – CNR IEIIT

Italy

Sara Dadras

Ford Motor Company

United States

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Mohamed Darouach

Université de Lorraine

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Geir Dullerud

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Geir Dullerud

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Geir E. Dullerud (F'08) received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering science and the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1994.

Since 1998, he has been a Faculty Member with the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA, where he is currently a Professor. He is the Director of the Decision and Control Laboratory of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He has held visiting positions in electrical engineering at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013, and in aeronautics and astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, during 2005.2006. From 1996 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. He was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Control and Dynamical Systems Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1994 and 1995. He has published two books: A Course in Robust Control Theory (Springer, 2000) and Control of Uncertain Sampled-Data Systems (Birkhauser, 1996). His current research interests include games and networked control, robotic vehicles, hybrid dynamical systems, and cyber-physical systems security.

Dr. Dullerud is currently Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and served in a similar role for Automatica. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1999, and the Xerox Faculty Research Award at UIUC in 2005. He became an ASME Fellow in 2011. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Yoshio Ebihara

Kyushu University

Japan

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James Richard Forbes

McGill University

Canada

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Yasumasa Fujisaki

Osaka University

Japan

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Katsuki Fujisawa

Chuo University

Japan

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Elikplim Gah

Northeastern University

United States

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Huijun Gao

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

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Simone Garatti

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Emanuele Garone

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Belgium

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Andrea Garulli

Università di Siena

Italy

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José Geromel

FEEC-UNICAMP

Brazil

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Giulia Giordano

Università di Trento

Italy

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Serkan Gugercin

Virginia Tech

United States

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Sigurdur Hafstein

University of Iceland

Iceland

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Anders Hansson

Linkoping University

Sweden

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Martin Hromick

Institute of Information Theory & Automation

Czechia

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Hideaki Ishii

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

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Faryar Jabbari

University of California, Irvine

United States

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Nikos Karampetakis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Greece

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Masako Kishida

National Institute of Informatics

Japan

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Ülle Kotta

Tallinn University of Technology

Estonia

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Arthur Krener

University of California-Davis

United States

Daniel Kressner

ETH Zürich

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Mrinal Kumar

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Constantino Lagoa

Pennsylvania State University

United States

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Zongli Lin

University of Virginia

United States

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Jun Liu

University of Waterloo

Canada

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Johan Löfberg

Linköping University

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Marco Lovera

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Sato Masayuki

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Japan

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Yiming Meng

University of Illinois

United States

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Guillaume Mercère

Université de Poitiers

France

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Jared Miller

Northeastern University

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Gilles Millerioux

Université Henri Poincaré, France

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Sayan Mitra

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Samer Mohammed

University of Paris-Est Creteil

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Angelia Nedich

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Yoshito Ohta

Kyoto University

Japan

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Yasuaki Oishi

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Ricardo Oliveira

University of Campinas

Brazil

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Necmiye Ozay

University of Michigan

United States

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Necmiye Ozay

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I received my B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2004, my M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA in 2006 and my Ph.D. degree again in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2010. Between 2010 and 2013, I was a Control and Dynamical Systems postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. I joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in Fall 2013, where I am currently an associate professor. I am part of the Michigan Controls Group, a core member of Michigan Robotics, and also affiliated with the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE).

My research interests include dynamical systems, control, optimization and formal methods with applications in cyber-physical systems, system identification, verification and validation, and autonomy. My papers received several awards including an IEEE Control Systems Society Conference on Decision and Control Best Student Paper Award in 2008 and a best paper award from the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems for the years 2014-2016. I received a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2014, an NSF CAREER Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award and a DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2016, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and the 1938E Award from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in 2018, and a 2019 Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School. I was selected as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2011. I was one of the co-chairs of the 22nd ACM Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control in 2019. I am currently an associate editor for the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and Automatica. I am a member of the IEEE and ACM. I am also a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committees on Hybrid Systems and on Robust and Complex Systems (formerly known as, Computational Aspects of Control System Design).

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University of Michigan

United States

Reinaldo Palhares

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Brazil

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Dimitri Peaucelle

National Center for Scientific Research

France

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Matthew Peet

Arizona State University

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Pedro Peres

University of Campinas

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Li Qiu

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Hong Kong SAR China

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Nacim Ramdani

Université d’Orléans

France

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Diego Regruto

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Clément Roos

ONERA

France

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Carlos Sagüés Blüzquiz

Universidad de Zaragoza

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Luca Schenato

Università di Padova

Italy

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Carsten Scherer

Universität Stuttgart

Germany

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Peter J. Seiler

University of Michigan

United States

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Mario Sznaier

Northeastern University

United States

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Melda Ulusoy

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Antonis Vardulakis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Greece

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Antonis Vardulakis

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Antonis – Ioannis Vardulakis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1946. He studied at the University of Athens, where he obtained the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1969. In 1969 -1970 he joined the High Energy Nuclear Physics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England, as a research student. At Imperial he carried out research on the design of an automatic trajectory tracing control system used in a bubble chamber film and photograph analysis experiment. This project was instrumental for his conversion to “systems and controls” and in September 1970 he moved to Manchester, England where he obtained the M.Sc. degree in “Theory and Practice of Automatic Control” from the Control Systems Centre of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, England in 1971 and the Ph.D. in Automatic Control from UMIST in 1974. After serving his country in the Greek Air Force in 1975 he was employed as a Research Assistant at the Department of Computing and Control, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England where he was involved in a research project on “Adaptive Control of Industrial Processes”. While working at Imperial and in parallel to the above project, Antonis carried out research on the “geometric and polynomial matrix approaches to Linear Multivariable Control”. In 1978 he moved to Cambridge where he was employed by the Control and Management System Division of the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, as a research scientist. While in Cambridge, Antonis performed research in Linear Multivariable Control analysis and synthesis methods and taught various topics on Mathematical Systems Theory and Control to the M.Sc. class of the Control and Management System Division of the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. In 1984 he was appointed Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Antonis – Ioannis Vardulakis held visiting positions at the Engineering Department, Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A. in 1983; University of Southern California, U.S.A. in 1986, and the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, City University in London, England in 1986-87 and 1991 and 2003-4. He has also visited many European and American Universities and Research Centres where he gave seminars on his research interests and results. These include: The Automation and Robotics Research Institute, University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A, University of Southern California, University of California at Davis, University of Loughborough, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Universite de Nandes, City University, University of Groningen,University of California, San Diego, Arizona State University.

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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Greece

Takayuki Wada

Osaka University

Japan

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Zhenhua Wang

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

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Rafael Wisniewski

Aalborg University

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Wang Yi

Uppsala University

Sweden

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Sze Zheng Yong

Northeastern University

United States

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Tansel Yucelen

University of South Florida

United States

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Tansel Yucelen

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Dr. Tansel Yucelen is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the LACIS, and the Director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering (FoRCE) at the University of South Florida. He received the Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2012. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he held Research Engineer positions in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from December 2011 to August 2013. He also held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from August 2013 to August 2016, where he created and directed the Advanced Systems Research Laboratory and the Control Systems Forum. He participated in summer programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace System Directorate in Dayton, Ohio, from May 2014 to July 2014 and at the Munitions Directorate in Eglin, Florida from May 2015 to July 2015.

Dr. Yucelen is a member of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of advanced technological development and innovation and a senior member of the AIAA and the IEEE. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2018 University of South Florida Research and Innovation Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2017 University of South Florida College of Engineering Junior Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2016 ACGSC Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award (for the outstanding contributions to the field of adaptive control), 2016 AIAA Technical Contribution Award (for the creation of novel flight control synthesis and analysis algorithms), 2015 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award (for public recognition of the quality and promise of research), and 2014 Class of 1942 Excellence in Teaching Award. His research places a strong emphasis on both theoretic research and experimentation for addressing fundamental and open real-world technological problems. Specifically, his research falls into dynamical systems and controls with specializations in 1) adaptive and robust control of safety-critical systems; 2) distributed estimation and control of networked multiagent systems; 3) resilient and secure robotics, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems; and 4) biologically-inspired complex, large-scale, and modular systems. He has co-authored more than 200 archival journal and conference publications in these areas and his contributions were implemented on various platforms including AirSTAR of the NASA Langley Research Center.

Dr. Yucelen is an active member of the AIAA, ASME, and IEEE societies as well as AIAA Technical Committee (TC) on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (invited by Dave Doman and Susan Frost), AIAA TC on Intelligent Systems (invited by Nhan Nguyen), IEEE TC on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (invited by Silvia Ferrari), IEEE TC on Aerospace Control (invited by Kingsley Fregene), IEEE TC on Control Education, IEEE TC on Intelligent Control (invited by Jagannathan Sarangapani), IEEE TC on System Identification and Adaptive Control, and IFAC TC on Adaptive and Learning Systems (invited by Fouad Giri). He is also the creator of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Listserv - a communication tool for researchers and educators in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control field. Dr. Yucelen's additional professional experiences include the organization of 2 local workshops at the University of South Florida; 5 workshops and 4 invited sessions at the top scientific and engineering conferences on dynamical systems and controls; and various associate editor, conference program committee, conference technical area chair, conference session chair, and reviewer roles.

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University of South Florida

United States

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Qing-Chang Zhong

Illinois Institute of Technology

United States

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Ruikun Zhou

University of Waterloo

Canada

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Argyrios Zolotas

Cranfield University

United Kingdom

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