Plenary Sessions
Prof. Henrik I. Christensen, IEEE Fellow
Professor @ UC San Diego
United States
Henrik I. Christensen is a distinguished professor of computer science at UC San Diego and the director of robotics. The main research covers vision, robotics and AI. He has published in excess of 400 contributions and co-founded six companies including robust.ai and Robo-Global. The research has been recognized by a large number of best paper awards, and he was awarded the Joseph Engelberger. Henrik is also the main editor of the US National Robotics Roadmap (2090, 2013, 2016, 2020 and 2024).
Keywordsroboticsartificial intelligencecomputer vision
Prof. Mariagrazia Dotoli, IEEE Fellow
Professor @ Politecnico di Bari
Italy
Mariagrazia Dotoli is a Full Professor in Automation at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, where she is also the Founder and Coordinator of the Italian National PhD Program on Autonomous Systems. She is the founder and director (2012) of the Decision & Control Laboratory of Politecnico di Bari and the founder (2012) of Politecnico di Bari spin-off company Innolab S.r.l. She has authored 300+ international publications in automation. Her h-index in Google Scholar equals 48, with 8000+ citations. Prof. Dotoli is an IEEE Fellow and serves as VP for Membership & Student Activities of IEEE SMCS and AdCom member of IEEE RAS.
Keywordsautomationcontrolindustrial systems
Prof. Tadahiro Taniguchi
Professor @ Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.Affiliate Professor @ Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University
Japan
Tadahiro Taniguchi received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. From April 2005 to March 2006, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He continued as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD) in the same department from April 2006 to March 2007 and then at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, from April 2007 to March 2008. From April 2008 to March 2010, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human and Computer Intelligence at Ritsumeikan University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in the same department, serving from April 2010 to March 2017. During this period, he also spent a year as a Visiting Associate Professor at Imperial College London, from September 2015 to September 2016. From April 2017 to March 2024, he was a Professor in the Department of Information and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University. Concurrently, he served as a Visiting General Chief Scientist at Panasonic Holdings Corporation. Since April 2024, he has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, while also serving as an Affiliate Professor at the Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University. Additionally, he is a Senior Technical Advisor at Panasonic Holdings Corporation and Chair of the IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems Technical Committee. Throughout his career, Taniguchi has been deeply engaged in research on machine learning, emergent systems, cognitive robotics, and symbol emergence, making significant contributions to these fields.
Keywordssymbol emergenceartificial intelligencecognitive robotics