Scientific Board
Biography
Experienced Scientist and Systems Engineer, particularly adept in the design, definition, development, testing, certification, and use of Complex Adaptive Agent-Based Systems and Modeling and Simulations (M&S). Margery has a demonstrated history of providing revolutionary shifts in the methods and approach needed to support both today’s, and tomorrow’s needs in the areas of defense, aviation, and aerospace. Skilled in M&S, Live Virtual Constructive, Distributed Mission Operations, Research on Training, Human and System Performance, SA, Intelligent Agent Designs and Behaviors, AI, Automation, Autonomy, SA, Workload, Performance, Physiology, Decision Aids, Decision Making, Experimental Protocols, Internal Review Boards, and Technical Writing. 2019 May-2020-June (Direct Hire) (CSAE)│ Principal Scientist − Sr. Research Engineer Southwest Research InstituteSan Antonio TX (SwRI). Defense & Intelligence Solutions Division−Avionics & Support Systems Department−Embedded Systems Individual Contributor.2018 Oct-2019 May (Direct Hire) (CSAE)│ Principal Systems Engineer, Individual Contributor and Technical Lead Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems - Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (SEIT) EW Electronic Protect Department Advanced Concepts & Technology (ACT) McKinney, TX. 2018 July- 2018- Oct (Direct Hire)(CSAE)│ Systems Engineer IV (Experienced): Human Factors Boeing Defense, Space & Security Airborne Surveillance Command & Control (ASC2) Oklahoma City, OK
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Dr. Operto, scholar of Philosophy of Science, and of Science Ethics. She has acquired a specific experience in science dissemination and popularization. She contributed to the birth of the scientific book series "I Dialoghi", Di Renzo Publishing House. She has co-operated with the Italian National Research Council in promoting the knowledge and understanding of robotics. In 2000 she co-funded the association School of Robotics, and she is contributing to the development of Roboethics. 2020: Invited Speaker, Robots&School, European Commission, Brussels, January 2020 2019: program committee of FabLearn IT 2019 2019: General Editor, Special Issue on Roboethics, Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 2018: General Editor, Special Issue on Roboethics, Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 2018: Humanoids Festival Europe 2017: Outreach Advisory Board, RockEU 2017 NAO Challenge Italy 2015 Society for Responsible Robotics, Executive Member 2016 eu Robotics Week National Coordinator NAO CHALLENGE 2015-16 Ambassador (as President of the School of Robotics) ECWT High-level Advisory Committee 2014-2017 ELSA member, Human Brain Project (HBP) (2014) FIRST® LEGO® League Italia 2015-2016, Regional Partner The Springer Handbook of Robotics, II Edition, Author, Chapter on Robotics' ELSA (Ethical Legal and Societal Aspects 0f Robotics) The Open Roboethics Initiative, consultant and member Program Commitee Member, TERECoP Workshop 2012.
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Giuseppe Carbone is Associate Professor at DIMEG, University of Calabria.He has got the Master and Ph.D. degree at University of Cassino (Italy) where he has been a KeyMember of LARM (Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics) for about 20 years. In 2015-2017 hehas been Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and member of the executive boardof Sheffield Robotics. In 2008-09 he has been delivering bilingual classes of Teoria de Machinas(Mechanics of Machinery) at University Carlos III Madrid, Spain. He has been Invited VisitingProfessor at Humanoid Robotics Institute (Waseda University, Japan) in 2008 and 2014; InvitedVisiting Professor at Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University,Beijing, China) in 2012; Invited Visiting Professor at Pprime (University of Poiters, France) in2019. His research interests cover aspects of Mechanics of Manipulation and Grasp, Mechanics ofRobots, Engineering Design, Mechanics of Machinery with over 300 research paper outputs and 16Phd completions. He has been invited to deliver invited Keynote speeches and seminars on hisresearch activity at more than 30 International events. He has been PI or co-PI of more than 20 projects including 7 th European Framework and H2020 funds. He edited/co-edited four books thathave been published by Springer International Publisher. Giuseppe Carbone has received severalA wards including three IFToMM “Young Delegate” Award s, two JSPS Short-Term InvitationAwards in Japan, about 20 Conference Best Paper Awards.Currently, he is Deputy Chair of IFToMM World Technical Committee on Robotics andMechatronics, Deputy Chair of the Youth Committee of the International Society of Bionics andBiomechanics, Treasurer of the IFToMM Italy Society; Chair of the MESROB (Medical andService Robotics) International Conference series; Member of the TC/PC of several InternationalConferences such as ROMANSY, IFIT, ICINCO
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Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Her research interests include discrete-event systems; Petri net; consensus protocols; fault detection; management and modeling of complex systems, such as production systems, logistic and healthcare systems. She has published +270 papers and two textbooks on these topics. Prof. Fanti was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering and of the IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems 2009. She is Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She is member at large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE SMC Society, Co-Chair of the Technical committee on Discrete Event Systems of the IEEE SMC Society, and of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
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Miquel Noguer i Alonso is a financial markets practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in asset
management, he is the Founder of Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute. Head of Development at
Global AI and co-Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning in Finance.
He worked for UBS AG (Switzerland) as Executive Director. He is member of European Investment
Committee for the last 10 years. He worked as a Chief Investment Office and CIO for Andbank from 2000
to 2006. He started his career at KPMG.
He is Visiting Professor at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the CQF institute. He has
been Adjunct Professor at Columbia University teaching Asset Allocation, Big Data in Finance and
Fintech. He is also Professor at ESADE teaching Hedge Fund, Big Data in Finance and Fintech. He taught
the first Fintech and Big Data course at the London Business School in 2017.
He received an MBA and a Degree in business administration and economics in ESADE in 1993. In 2010
he earned a PhD in quantitative finance with a Summa Cum Laude distinction (UNED – Madrid Spain). He
completed a Postdoc in Columbia Business School in 2012. He collaborated with the Mathematics
department of Fribourg during his PhD. He also holds the Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA)
2000. He also holds the ARPM certificate.
His research interests range from asset allocation, big data, machine learning to algorithmic trading and
Fintech. His academic collaborations include a visiting scholarship in Columbia University in 2013 in the
Finance and Economics Department, in Fribourg University in 2010 in the mathematics department, and
giving presentations in Indiana University, ESADE and CAIA and several industry seminars like the Quant
Summit USA 2019 and 2010.
Biography
Michael Radice is Managing Director ChartaCloud Robotics LLC and for ROBOTTECA.com Mike has served in Executive and Board level leadership positions in technology services organizations for more than 45 years. Mike currently leads technology adoption and development for the ChartaCloud Group a New Hampshire, USA based company. ChartaCloud is a provider of robots and robot behavior software under the ROBOTTECA.com and ChartaCloudrobotics.com brands. ChartaCloud holds multiple technology distribution relationships with companies from around the world. Mike has been on the executive leadership teams of two successful stock IPOs one listed on NASDAQ (1983 – Computer Language Research Inc (CLR Inc.)) and the other on the NYSE (1999- INFONET). Mike’s major business projects include: • The sale and implementation of the electronic filing system for personal U.S. Income Tax Returns for the IRS; • development of the leading utility billing system for the U.S. apartment rental industry (1 million bills per month); • the deployment of a global telecommunications network reaching over 180 countries; • building the leading robot software solution source for SoftBank’s NAO Humanoid Robot. • 2017- Founder -Managing Director, ChartaCloud Robotics • 2014- Founder - Chairman, Technology Advisory Board, ChartaCloud Technologies LLC, Kensington, New Hampshire • 2005 – 2014 Chief Executive Officer, NWP Services Corporation, Costa Mesa, California • 2002 – 2005 Vice President, Marketing, NWP Services Corporation, Costa Mesa, California • 2000 – 2002 Founder-Principal of MKTG: Marketing Technologies, Wimberley, Texas • 1989 – 1999 Vice President, Global Marketing, Computer Sciences Corporation/INFONET, El Segundo, California • 1980 – 1989 Group Vice President, Board Member, Computer Language Research Inc., Carrollton, Texas • 1970 – 1979 Vice President Product Marketing, Comshare Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan
Canada
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Dr. Frauke Zeller received her PhD (Dr. phil.) from Kassel University, Germany, in 2005 in English Linguistics and Computational Philology. Her thesis (published book) focused on Human-Robot-Interaction from a linguistic perspective. From 2005 to 2011, she was a research associate at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, working in the Institute of Media and Communication Studies. Frauke finished her Habilitation (highest academic degree in Germany) in 2011, working on methods to analyze online communities. Before Frauke came to Ryerson, she was at the renowned Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London (Great Britain). She is also involved in several international research projects, and was awarded with a range of major research grants, among them a Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-2013), which is one of Europe’s most distinguished individual research grants, or a Tri-Council grant (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, SSHRC) to develop new tools for participatory campus planning.
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Roboticist. Experience leading different groups across projects in robotics, AI and cybersecurity. Spent the last 10 years building robots across different robotics firms. Selected in 2017 as one of the ten most innovative individuals under 35 in Spain by the MIT Technology Review for his work in robot modularity. He has two engineering degrees and worked in some of the most prestigious robotics centers such as the Micro BioRobotics center of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) or the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) developing the second generation of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). He has led numerous publications in robotics and pioneered modern approaches to robot modularity and real-time. Currently, Víctor leads technology at Alias Robotics while coordinating efforts that are increasingly creating the first immune system for robots that protects them against cyber-threats: the Robot Immune System (RIS).
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Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the industrial automation industry. Skilled in Control Systems Design, Consumer Electronics, Motor Control, Research and Development (R&D), and Robotics. Strong business development professional with a BS Electronic Engineering Technology focused in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Community College of the Air Force.
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It all began when I was 14. I received a book that talked about where we’d be by the year 2000. Its pages were filled with amazing photographs of flying cars, life beneath the sea, robots in every home and telepathic communication. The year 2000 has come and gone and these prophecies didn’t come true, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think about that book and the possibilities every day. That book has impacted my life in so many ways as did a SVI 318 computer that my parents gave in the Summer of 1984. When I got my computer, I became extremely interested in computers. It opened a whole new world for me. Back then no one knew that a modem was. They didn’t know how powerful the internet would be today. I am fortunate to be able to say that I have seen the internet be born. I have connected to BBS and my articles have been published in both magazines and newspapers. I have had the opportunity to give lectures, create games and applications. My career path and my life became so much more than I could have hoped for because of the internet and the opportunities that technology present. It’s like a whole new world appeared in front of me. I never imagined being a businessman but I became one when I created a few companies which do work for the digital world and computer security. And then I got to sell one of the companies and begin a project that was a dream of mine as a child – building a robot. The book I got as a child said it was coming and maybe it is up to me to help make it happen for our world. Whether I succeed or not is yet to be seen but I’m optimistic, and no matter what, I can always say I tried. Robotics could be the way of the future. A book planted a seed in my brain all those years ago and now I mean to make that seed grow and become something amazing, something technologically astounding. My hope is that when I am old, I can look back on my work and see that I’ve made a monumental difference on the environment that I am so fortunate to live in.
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"Dr. Moutaz Alazab is a computer security expert with industry, academic, teaching and research experience. He completed his PhD degree in cybersecurity from Deakin university, Australia in 2014. During his PhD, he was an active scholar in the Securing Cyberspace Laboratory and Network and System Security Laboratory (NSCLab). He received B.Eng. Degree in Computer Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan in 2009. Dr. Alazab has proved the ability in delivering a high-quality content for several courses for both level (undergraduate students and postgraduate students). He has lectured, coordinated, tutored and moderated in several well-known universities including in CCQ, Deakin, RMIT, CQU and MIT. In each semester, his evaluation was one of the highest and regarded “one of the most favourite lecturer”. Dr. Alazab has worked closely in collaboration with industry on several research projects, including BAE Systems, Microsoft and Ericsson, which provided him a valuable insight into the applicability of knowledge of real-world law enforcement, business and industry, and end‐user impediments in cybercrime and network incidence. He is recipient of number of research grants including research Incentive Fund (RIF), Zayed University. His research interests include Cybersecurity, and Cyber Terrorism, Mobile Security, Network Security, Machine Learning, Digital Forensics, Internet of Things (IOT) and BIG data analytics. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in well-known, high-quality international journals and conferences. These articles which include most recent publication, ‘Crime in Cyberspace’—have been widely cited. He is regularly invited to give keynote and talks at different well-known international conferences, research institutes and universities around the world. "