Keynote Speaker

Prof. Marcelo Ang

National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Biography: Marcelo H. Ang Jr. received the B.Sc. degrees (Cum Laude) in mechanical engineering and industrial management engineering from the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, in 1981, the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, in 1985, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, in 1986 and 1988, respectively.,His work experience includes engineering work in Intel, research positions at the East West Center, Honolulu, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, and an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Rochester. In 1989, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests span the areas of robotics, mechatronics, autonomous vehicles, and applications of intelligent systems methodologies. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate level courses in robotics. He is also active in consulting work in robotics and intelligent systems.,Dr. Ang is actively involved in Singapore Robotic Games as the Founding Chairman and the World Robot Olympiad as a member of its Advisory Council.

Prof. Mingbo Zhao

Donghua University, China

Biography: Mingbo Zhao received the Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in February 2013. He joined the School of Information Science and Technology at Donghua University in 2026, where he was appointed as a Full Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the Automation program. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for several SCI-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is also an Associate Editor of the SCI journal International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and a Domain Editorial Board Member of the Chinese core journal Computer Engineering. He has served as a Senior Program Committee Member of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022–2025) and as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia (2021–2023), and has also served on the program committees of multiple international conferences and as a reviewer for numerous leading journals. His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on multimodal information retrieval, fault diagnosis, and medical diagnosis. Over the past five years, he has published more than 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences in artificial intelligence, authored two book chapters, obtained one U.S. invention patent and five Chinese invention patents, and led three research projects, including a General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, while also participating as a key member in a National Major Science and Technology Project of China. His publications have received more than 4,000 citations on Google Scholar, indicating significant academic impact both nationally and internationally.

Prof. Genci Capi

Hosei University, Japan

Biography: Genci Capi received the Ph.D. degree from Yamagata University, in 2002. He was a Researcher at the Department of Computational Neurobiology, ATR Institute from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he joined the Department of System Management, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, as an Assistant Professor, and in 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor. He was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, at the University of Toyama up to March 2016. Now he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hosei University. His research interests include intelligent robots, BMI, multi-robot systems, humanoid robots, learning and evolution.