Keynote Speakers

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  Ankit R. Patel

  Researcher, University of Minho, Portugal.

  Research field: Users and Society; Customer Experiencel User-Centered Designl Sustainable Transportation; Human Factors and Interaction; Socially Inclusive Transportation.

  Ankit R. Patel is Chief Innovation Officer at BitGreen Technolabz Pvt. Ltd., Gandhinagar, India. He has been involved as a keynote speaker in more than 30 international venues, including India, Italy, Germany, the USA, Morocco, the Czech Republic, South Africa, China, the UAE, Nigeria, and Qatar. He has associated with various prestigious international conferences like ACM (CHI, CHIWORK, NordiCHI, OzCHI, AutomotiveUI, Mindtrek, COMPASS, GROUP, IMX, MuC), IEEE (ITEC, AFRICON, e-Science, MELECON, LOGISTIQUA, WF-PST, ECCE, GTSNZ, SeFeT), Design Research Society (LXD), Participatory Design Conference (PDC), and IFAC (CTS). At the ASME/IEEE 2026 INNOVARail Conference (erstwhile JRC), he will serve as the paper chair. He also serves as a lead editor for the special issue in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (User-Centered Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and in Future Transportation (Sustainable Transportation and Quality of Life) and as an editorial board member in the International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies; Journal of Social Economic Research; Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility; Transportation Development Research; Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology, and Design+.
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  Md Abdus Samad Kamal

  Associate Professor, Gunma University, Japan.

  Research field: Model Predictive Control; Reinforcement Learning; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Cyber-Physical Systems; IoT; Multi-Agent Systems; Swarm Robotics.

  Md Abdus Samad Kamal received the B.Sc. Engineering degree from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, in 1997 and the Master and Ph.D. degrees from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a Lecturer with KUET from 1997 to 2000, a Researcher with Kyushu University in 2006, and 2008 to 2011, an Assistant Professor with International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia from 2006 to 2008, a Researcher with The University of Tokyo, Japan from 2011 to 2014. He worked as a Visiting Researcher with Toyota Central R \& D Labs., Inc., Japan, from 2014 to 2016. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia from 2016 to 2019. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, Japan. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, connected and automated vehicles, and the applications of machine learning and model predictive control. Dr. Kamal is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Chartered Engineer of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
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  Maki Habib

  Professor, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.

  Research field: Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles; Machine Learning; Nonlinear and Intelligent Control; Human Adaptive and Friendly Mechatronics; Distributed Teleoperation and Collaborative Control; Wireless Sensor Networks; Industrial Robots and Automation.

  Maki Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (DES) in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics from the University of Tsukuba in 1990, Japan. He was a selected research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB), Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA for engineering projects and industrial consultation, Malaysia. He was a leading senior research scientist with GMD-Japan, Japan leading Telecooperation research group. Associate Professor with Monash University (Australia/Malaysia), he developed and led the Mechatronics Engineering program. He was appointed as a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University (Australia/Malaysia). Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, South Korea, Residing Professor at Saga University, Japan, and since Sept. 2007 he is a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. Habib was a visiting professor (short term) at many Universities around the world, such as, Nagasaki University-Japan, Hokkoido University-Japan, Orebro University – Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Norway, etc. Habib served as a consultant and Technical advisor to well-known international companies including Toyota group and ABB. Habib is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Regional Editor and Associate Editor of 10 International Journals, and Editorial Board member of another 10 International Journals beside his leadership as a member of international organizing/program committee of more than 20 International Conference every year. Habib edited more than 14 books, published more than 26 book chapters and also more than 275 papers at international journals and international conferences.