Eva Henrietta Dulf (Senior Member, IEEE) is the head of the ADAPTED research group (https://control.utcluj.ro) and a professor in the Department of Automation at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She earned her PhD in 2006 and completed her habilitation in 2015. Her research interests include modern control strategies, fractional-order controller design, and the modeling, simulation and control of biochemical and medical processes. She has authored over 150 scientific publications, holds an h-index of 26 with more than 2,500 citations, and has a cumulative impact factor exceeding 200. She is listed in the Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists database. She has received 46 awards at international invention exhibitions. She has led or contributed to 38 research projects and has organized special sessions at major international conferences, as well as guest-edited special issues in leading journals.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suthep Butdee received PhD. in Manufacturing Engineering at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia in 1998. His experiences focuses on the domains of production Engineering and Robotic Engineering for 35 years both academic and industrialization. He did Ph.D thesis on the AI Expert system for machined parts combined the rule-based and case-based reasoning. His previous works were collaborative with several oversea Universities for research and postgraduate fellowship with France, Japan, Germany, Australia, India, and so on. He had experiences in high position in managerial Academic University such as Vice president for research and development for 4 years, Director of Franco-Thai Institute for Automation for 10 years, University council member including vice chair for 20 years, Chairperson for a University academic council for 20 years. He taught undergraduate and postgraduate with principle supervisors in Production and Robotic Engineering around 50 projects. He had received grant for both National and International levels in academic research and industrial consultant for 15 years. He established and founded the key University research center named Integrated Manufacturing System (IMS) center to transfer knowledge and academic to more than 500 SMEs industries in Thailand under the major project named “Manufacturing Development to Improve Competitiveness Program (MDICP)” authorized by Ministry of Industry which was linked by five major organizations to strengthen various industrial sectors including productivity improvement, ISO standardization, Technology roadmaping and transferring, Financial and Accounting management, and Marketing management. He was the key person who took part of the project manager of the MDICP for 20 years. He published papers in the Scopus indexed 65 papers as well as few book chapters. He has a board member of GCMM congress established 35 years. He established the Asian Journal of production and Manufacturing Engineering which is recently ASEP journal. He has joined as the editorial members for Springer books in Mechanical Engineering, Production engineering, Mechatronic Engineering. He was few times invited for keynote speaker in Engineering, Manufacturing and Management international conferences. He has contributed as the well-known international Journal.

Jiehan Zhou is a Ph.D. supervisor and a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology (SDUST), the Director of the International Education and Research Collaboration Office in the School, the Chair of IEEE-Qingdao CH10879, an affiliate research fellow, University of Toronto since 2010, the Docent (Adjunct Professor) at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical and Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. CAS academician Shuzi Yang (Former President of HUST) and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Oulu in 2011. Professor Zhou has worked at top universities and research institutions worldwide, including Tsinghua University, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, INRIA in France, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), University of Oulu, and the University of Toronto. With over 20 years of international research and industrial experience, he has held positions such as Senior Scientist, Team Leader, Laboratory Director, General Manager, and Principal Engineer at Huawei Canada. He has also served as visiting professors at several universities in China.

Professor Zhou is dedicated to research in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, system modeling and simulation, industrial internet, industrial big data, industrial large models, and digital twins. He has led or participated in numerous research projects funded by China, EU, and Canada, including the ERCIM Fellowship Program, the EU FP6-Amigo Project, and the EU ITEA4-CAM4Home Project. To date, he has published over 200 research papers in these areas.

Dr. Ahmet Köse is the CEO and co-founder of R8tech, founded in 2017, a company dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in commercial and public buildings. Its flagship innovation, the AI-powered R8 Digital Operator, delivers optimal indoor climate at minimum energy cost and is already deployed across hundreds of buildings in 24 countries as of today throughout Europe and Asia.
Dr. Köse’s expertise and passion lie in energy efficiency, particularly in HVAC systems, thermal comfort, and the use of computational and artificial intelligence techniques to drive sustainable practices. He is motivated by the vision of creating innovative solutions that both improve energy performance and contribute to a more sustainable, greener future.