Invited Speakers

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Prof. Hisato KOBAYASHI, Emeritus Professor in Hosei University, Japan

Hisato Kobayashi got B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees from Waseda University in 1974,1976 and 1979, respectively. He joined Hosei University in 1984. He is now a Professor Emeritus Hosei University. From 2001 to 2002, he was the founding president of Hosei University Research Institute, California. He was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design from 2007 to 2008. He was a board member of the Robotics Society Japan (RSJ)　from 1994 to 1996.
He was a board member of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) from 2002 to 2004 and the vice president from 2018 to 2020. He was editor-in-chief of Advanced Robotics, Journal of RSJ, from 1997 to 2002.
From 2003 to 2005, he was the chairman of the automatic control committee, Science Council Japan, and a member of Science Council Japan from 2006 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Program Officer at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Since 2008, he has been the chairman of the Standing Steering Committee IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow

Prof. F. John Dian, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, Canada

Prof. F. John Dian is a faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004. Dr. Dian has more than 20 years of experience in design and implementation of telecommunication circuits and systems. He holds a certificate in business analytics from Harvard Business school, USA and co-chairs the center of excellence in analytics at BCIT. He has been recognized with several excellence in teaching and research awards. Dr. Dian is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an active member of Association of Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC). He is the author of the following books: “IoT use cases and technologies”, “Cellular IoT for practitioners”, and “physical system modeling using MATLAB”.

 Assistant Professor Krzysztof Ejsmont, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Krzysztof Ejsmont is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). He obtained his PhD in Management Science from the WUT. His primary expertise is in operations management, industrial engineering, and sustainable manufacturing. His current research focuses on the dependencies of sustainability and Industry 4.0 and the assessment of intelligent technologies (e.g., IoT) and AI applications in manufacturing and energy. His teaching responsibilities include tutorials on knowledge-based representations of manufacturing systems. He has participated in several international R&D projects, including ones funded by the EU (E-SCOP, KITT4SME), and in the H2020 project “platform enabled KITs of arTificial intelligence FOR an easy uptake by SMEs – KITT4SME” (project number 952119). He coordinated a global research project on “Industry 4.0 in Production and Aeronautical Engineering” (WUT + 10 partners from Europe, USA, Japan, Australia, and South Korea). He has many publications in journals with IFs and CiteScores (Journal of Cleaner Production, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Egyptian Informatics Journal, IEEE Access, Energy Reports, Packaging Technology and Science, Science Progress, Energies, Sustainability, Resources). He is an active participant in international conferences, a Guest Editor of Special Issues for EPPM-Journal and Energies, and a reviewer for many prestigious journals.