Prof. Jian Huang

Chair, Department of Intelligent Science and Technology
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

Biography: Jian Huang graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China in 1997 and received the Master of Engineering degree from HUST in 2000. He received his Ph.D from HUST in 2005. From 2006 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Micro-Nano System Engineering and Department of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan. In 2015, he is also awarded a JSPS Invitation Fellowship working in Nagoya University. He is currently a full professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, HUST. He is also a guest professor in Nagoya University of Japan and University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) of France. His main research interests include rehabilitation robot, robotic assembly, networked control systems and bioinformatics.
He is an IEEE Senior Member and has published more than 300 research papers (including more than 120 SCI-indexed journal papers) in some academic journals and conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Cyborg and Bionic Systems, an editor of ROBOMECH Journal – Springer.

Prof. Carlos M. Travieso-González

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Biography: Carlos M. Travieso-González received an M.Sc. degree in 1997 in Telecommunication Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; and a Ph.D. degree in 2002 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is a Full Professor and Head of the Signals and Communications Department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). He has been a faculty member at ULPGC since 2001, teaching signal processing, biomedicine, pattern recognition, and learning theory. His research interests encompass biometrics, biomedical signal and image processing, data mining, classification systems, machine learning, and environmental intelligence. He has researched in more than 50 International and Spanish Research Projects, some of them as head researcher. He is co-author of 4 books, co-editor of 25 Proceedings Books, and Guest Editor for eight JCR-ISI international journals and up to 24 book chapters. He has over 500 papers published in international journals and conferences (102 indexed on JCR – ISI - Web of Science). He has published 7 patents in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. He has been a supervisor on 13 PhD Thesis (8 more are under supervision) and 150 Master Thesis. He is the founder of The IEEE IWOBI conference series and President of its Steering Committee, The InnoEducaTIC conference series; and The APPIS conference series. He is an evaluator of project proposals for the European Union (H2020 and Horizon Europe), Medical Research Council (MRC – UK), Spanish Government (ANECA and AEI), Research National Agency (ANR – France), DAAD (Germany), The Ministry of Investments at Slovak Republic (MIRDI), Latvian Council of Science (LZP), Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), Slovenian Universities, Argentinian Government and Colombian Institutions. He has been a reviewer in different indexed international journals (<70) and conferences (<260) since 2001. He has been a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing since 2007 and a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems since 2011. He will be APPIS 2026 General Chair, CAIP 2025 and was General Chair in APPIS 2025, APPIS 2024, APPIS 2023, APPIS 2022, APPIS 2020, IEEE-IWOBI 2020, APPIS 2019, IEEE-IWOBI 2019, IEEE-IWOBI 2018, APPIS 2018, InnoEducaTIC 2017, IEEE-IWOBI 2017, IEEE-IWOBI 2015, InnoEducaTIC 2014, IEEE-IWOBI 2014, IEEE-INES 2013, NoLISP 2011, JRBP 2012 and IEEE-ICCST 2005.