Dr. Weiming Shen is a Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. Prior to joining HUST, he worked for 20 years at National Research Council Canada as Research Officer, Senior Research Officer, and Principal Research Officer. He is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). He is an internationally-recognized expert on Agent-Based Collaborative Technologies and Applications. During the past three decades, he has been leading a number of major projects on Agents, IoT, and Big Data with smart applications. He has published several books and over 500 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas. His work has been cited over 15,000 times with an h-index of 59. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of over ten international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; IEEE Transaction on SMC: Systems; IEEE SMC Magazine; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Computational Intelligence) and served as guest editor for several other international journals. He is the Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, has been Program Committee Co-Chair of the CSCWD conferences since 2001, and served as General Chair/Co-Chair or Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for over 30 international conferences.
Secretary General of International Coalition of Intelligent Manufacturing (ICIM) , Honorary Vice President of China Instrument and Control Society
Director of Instrumentation Technology and Economy Institute
Dimitris Mourtzis is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of the University of Patras. His main research interests are focused in the area of Manufacturing Systems, Automation, Virtual and Augmented Reality in Manufacturing, Robotic Systems, and Manufacturing Processes Modelling & Energy Efficiency.
Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
General Manager of Qingdao New Qianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd.