IC-DATA 2021

Bob Howlett is the Academic Chair of KES International a non-profit organisation which facilitates knowledge transfer and the dissemination of research results in areas including Intelligent Systems, Sustainability, and Knowledge Transfer. - Bob's technical expertise is in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the solution of industrial problems. He has been successful in applying neural networks, expert and fuzzy methods, and related technology to sustainability and renewable energy systems; condition monitoring, diagnostic tools and systems; automotive electronics and engine management systems. He has made a national contribution in the fields of knowledge and technology transfer, the commercialisation of research, and the third-mission agenda. - His current interests centre on the application of intelligent systems to sustainability, particularly renewable energy, smart / micro grids and applications in housing and glasshouse horticulture. - Bob is Visiting Professor at 'Aurel Vlaicu' University of Arad, Romania, and Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University, UK. He works with a number of universities on the supervision teams of PhD students, and providing technical input to projects.

Dr Vipul Jain is Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Wellington School of Business and Government, joining the school from a role as Assistant Professor at University of Sharjah, UAE and IIT Delhi, India. Dr Jain has also worked as a French Government researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in the European project I*PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from UK. Dr Jain has more than 100 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, andis also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise and an Editorial Board member for seven international journals. Vipul has also guest edited special issues of prestigious international journals in the areas of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of Logistics and Supply Chain management in an exhaustive study entitled "Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11" conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, TechnischeUniversität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as a scientific and advisory committee member for various prestigious international conferences and has chaired many sessions in INFORMS, IEEE IEEM conferences in USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Asia etc. He was the Programme Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Programme at IIT Delhi, and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programmes/Training Programmes for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organisations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Professor Alias Abdul-Rahman is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Alias Abdul Rahman holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, he has headed up the 3D GIS Research Lab since 2000. His research interests include 3D GIS, 3D city modelling and 3D spatial databases. TALK : "Smart Cities and Geo-Spatial Technologies "

Amir HAJJAM EL HASSANI is Deputy Director of Nanomedecine, Imagerie, Therapeutique of Université de Franche Comté (UFC) and Research Team Leader of Health Systems Organization. His research areas include data mining and machine learning for decision support in the field of e-Health. He is Editorial Board Member of four international journals and the author/co-author of 3 books and has about 200 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals and international conferences. He was Co-Chair of the first international conference eTelemed'09 and is its advisory Chair since 2010. He is member of the Science Steering Committee of the annual conferences IADIS e-Health, eHealth, e-Medisys, etc. He has organised many conferences and chaired several technical sessions. He also acts as an expert to the ANR France, ARI France and CNRST Morocco. Amir is the head of IT Engineer Training under Apprentice status at Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard

Bernadetta Kwintiana Ane is a researcher at Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is also a professor in Computer Application as granted by BSAR Crescent Institute of Science and Technology and Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences. She is working in various domains with main interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) using supervised and unsupervised learning, and deep learning with keen interest in neuroevolution for application in engineering and virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), as well as bioinformatics for cancer research. Her prior experiences include the IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) expert in Cyber-Physical Systems, Top International Researcher of Baden-Wuerttemberg Foundation in Germany, postdoctoral researcher of The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as researcher of Monbukagakusho in Japan. She is member of The IEEE Computer Society, The IEEE Consultant Network USA, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as Monbukagakusho Alumni and The Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association (HIDA/AOTS) in Japan. Currently, she serves as a mentor in 'Gerakan PANDAI' – National Program on Computational Thinking organized by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. She also serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Magazine, Journal of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Science and International Journal of Information Science and Technology (Open Access; l'Institut Marocain de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). She has over 100 publications in the forms of books, chapters, research papers in international journals and conferences, and monographs with 1212 citations (Google Scholar), h-index: 11, and i10-index: 12.