Plenary Speakers

Empowering AI with Human Insight: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Responsible, Trustworthy, and Participatory AI Development

Keeley Crockett

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 8:30 - 9:30

Physical Intelligence of Small-scale Robots

Metin Sitti

Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey

Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 8:30 - 9:30

Sanaz Mostaghim

Human-Centric Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making for Sustainable Mobility

Sanaz Mostaghim

University of Magdeburg, and Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, Dresden, Germany

Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 9:30 - 10:30

When Evolutionary Computation Meets Large Language Models

Kay Chen Tan

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 8:00 - 9:00

Keynote Speakers

A practical example of an industrial campus energy management system - real world challenges and success stories

Tobias Rodemann

Honda Research Institute Europe

Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00

Computer Audition: The Age of Emergence

Björn W. Schuller

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00

Luca Manzoni

The Origin of (Artificial) Life

Luca Manzoni

University of Trieste, Italy

Date & Time: 18th March 2025, 11:00 - 12:00

Enhancing Defense Through Intelligent Optimization

Alice E. Smith

Auburn University, USA

Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

Paulo Lisboa

Glass-box models for clinical data

Paulo Lisboa

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00

Maria Koskinopoulou

From Vision-Guided Manipulation to Precision: Advancing Robotic Surgery with Smart Needle Insertion

Maria Koskinopoulou

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00

Albert Y.S. Lam

Language AI for RegTech, SupTech and Beyond

Albert Y.S. Lam

Fano, Hong Kong

Date & Time: 19th March 2025, 16:00 - 17:00

Maria F. Cabrera-Umpierrez

Breaking Barriers: Challenges in Scaling Computational Intelligence for Healthcare Systems

Maria F. Cabrera-Umpierrez

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Date & Time: 20th March 2025, 12:00 - 13:00