Committee Members

Dr. Farhad Rezazadeh received the Ph.D. degree (Excellent Cum Laude) in Signal Theory and Communications from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He is an Applied AI and Generative AI professional with 10+ years of experience building and deploying real-world AI solutions across TelecomTech, TravelTech, BioTech, PharmaTech, and SecTech industries. His work spans end-to-end product development, from problem framing and model development to deployment and measurable business impact. He focuses on translating advanced AI into reliable, scalable systems. He is currently a Senior Data Science and Machine Learning Engineer at Omega CRM and Boehringer Ingelheim. Prior to his current role, he was a Machine Learning Scientist in the Product and Growth department at Hostelworld Group, a Visiting Associate Professor at UPC and Researcher (Senior Applied AI Engineer) in the Services as NetworkS (SaS) Research Unit at the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. He has technical and leading experience in ten European and national R&D, industrial, and Business projects focusing on applied AI—work that earned recognition from the European Commission’s Innovation Radar and resulted in two EU project patents. His international experience includes roles at NEC Lab Europe, TUM and TUHH Universities in Germany, along with the UdG university in Spain. He was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Ph.D. fellow and won five different grants from IEEE/IEEE ComSoc, two from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and a Catalan Government Ph.D. grant. Furthermore, as an active member of ACM and IEEE, he has contributed over 33 publications and three books and completed more than 300 peer reviews. He is founder and coordinator at the ACM Emerging Interest Group on Trustworthy and Responsible Systems (EIGTRUST) and IEEE TRUST-IoT working group and actively serves as Speaker, Organizing, Chair, Reviewer, and TPC member in IEEE and Guest Editor in Elsevier. He is an expert on Applied XAI and Generative AI. He is working on pre-training, fine-tuning, aligning, and deploying large language models (LLMs) and Foundation Models for applications such as code generation, drug discovery, telecom, content processing, simulation automation, Time Series, Business Recommendation Systems, and decision-making tasks. He recently introduced Digital Co-Founders as a conceptual paradigm that positions Agentic AI systems as autonomous partners enabling individuals to ideate, build, and scale viable solo businesses.

Ibrahim Aliskan received his MSc and PhD in automatic control, from Yildiz
Technical University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 2005 and
2011, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Control
and Automation Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye. His
research interests include control of electrical machines, modeling and control of
power electronic circuits, and advanced control algorithms, especially Model
Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms, system identification, artificial neural
networks, fuzzy logic control and heuristics.

Dr. Raul Duarte Salgueiral Gomes Campilho is a Permanent Associate Professor with Habilitation at ISEP – School of Engineering, Porto, Portugal, specializing in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He holds a Degree, Master’s, Ph.D., and Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering from ISEP and FEUP, with distinctions throughout his academic career.

Since 2003, he has been actively involved in higher education, teaching subjects including Finite Element Method, Mechanics of Materials, Machine Design, CAD/CAM, and Industrial Automation. Dr. Campilho has supervised numerous Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. theses and has made remarkable contributions to research in fracture mechanics, adhesive joints, composites, and structural design.

He is the author/editor of 58 books, 196 book chapters, and more than 420 papers published in leading international journals. In addition, he has delivered 70 keynote lectures and presented over 800 conference papers worldwide. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Academia Materials Science Journal and has participated in several funded European and Portuguese research projects.

Recognized among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2017, Dr. Campilho is widely acknowledged for his outstanding academic, research, and editorial contributions to Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu is a professor and PhD supervisor in Automatic Control Systems
with the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics of the Politehnica University Timisoara (UPT), Timisoara, Romania. He was the director of the UPT Doctoral School of Engineering Studies. His main research interests include: advanced control of AC drives, sensorless control, renewable energy control, mechatronic systems control, greenhouse climate control, drum-boiler-turbine control, AI-based system for pipeline crack detection analysis, hearing perception through cochlear implants. He is the author or co-author of over 100 papers in indexed international publications, with over 2000 citations in the Web of Science, citations including authors from over 190 universities (38%) in the Top 500 World Universities/2025. He has been a member/chair of the program committee of numerous indexed international conferences held in over 25 countries. Prof. Andreescu is a senior IEEE member, member of the Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronic Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

Prof. Univ. Dr. Eur Ing Ionel STARETU:graduated the Faculty of TCM (Technology of Mechanical Constructions) of Transilvania University of Brasov (1983). He won the title of Doctor in Engineering, with specialization in Industrial Robots - Robotics, in 1995. Specializations: in Tribology (Transilvania University -1990),in Robotics and Productics (the INSTN Saclay, France-1992/1993), Organization Management (Transilvania University and IAI-1999 / 2000), Quality Management (2003), Quality Audit (2004) at Transilvania University. Since 2003, he is an Extrajudicial Technical Expert and Consultant certified by CERTEXPERT Bucharest and AEXEA Paris and Expert CNCSIS and ARACIS. He has been working since 1985 to the Department of Product Design and Robotics atTransilvania Universityof Brasov. He published 5 books(one in USA: GrippingSystems, Derc Publishing House, 2011), 5 didactic papers, and more than 255 scientific articles in the country and abroad (SUA, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Japan, India, China, etc.). He is the author or co-author of 11 patents of invention. He helped to resolve more than 26 scientific research grants, both national and international (for 4 of them as project director). He is the president of the Brasov branch of theRobotic Society of Romania, vice president of the branch AGIR-The General Association of the Engineers in Romania Brasovand member in NationalCommittee AGIR , ARoTMM member, and expert in Robotics at the Academic Society in Romania, and CRIFST (Romanian Committee for History and Philosophy of the Science and Technique - Romanian Academy) member . He is certified EUR ING by FEANI – European Federation of National Engineering Associations, in 2008. He is member in Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanics Engineering and Automation-USA, Military Technical Courier-Serbia, Annals of Dunarea de Jos Universityof Galati - Fascicle XIV-Mechanical Engineering, TEHNOMUS Journal(Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava) and AGIR Bulletin-Romania. He was co-chairman of 4TH International Conference Robotics’08, 2008, Brasov, Romania and member in more international scientific committees: International Conference: IMETI (Orlando, SUA, 2008, 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013), International Conference on Robotics, Romania (2002, 2006,2008,2010,2012,2014);InternationalConferenceTEHNOMUS(2005,2007,
2009,2011,2013-2020-2024); International conference Inter Eng ( 2007, 2009, 2011,2013, 2014-2019, 2020-2025) etc. He was lecturer at International School on Robotics and Intelligent Systems –ISRIS 2009 and Summer School on Human-Machine Systems, Cyborgs, andEnhancingDevices–HUMASCEND2012,Iasi,Romania.Heisdoctorate coordinator in the area of Industrial Engineering. TechnicalSciencesAcademyofRomania-TSAR: corresponding member - June 2017.