Plenary and Invited Speakers

Prof. Erwin Rauch
Free University in Bolzano, Italy

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Biodata: Dr. Erwin Rauch is a Professor for Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing at Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bolzano in Italy. He is the Head of the Smart Mini Factory laboratory for Industry 4.0 in Bolzano and founder of the Sustainable Manufacturing Lab at NOI Techpark Bruneck. He received his B.Sc. in Logistics and Production Engineering from the Free University in Bolzano. He also holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University Munich (TUM) and a M.Sc. in Business Administration from the TUM Business School. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart with summa cum laude. In parallel to his academic career he worked for 10 years as Associate Partner in management consultancy. He is also the author of over 250 scientific contributions and an expert/member of various associations and organisations (Associate Member EuroScience, Executive Group member of the International Associsation for Axiomatic Desgin, Euorpean Professors in Industrial Engineering and Management EPIEM Steering Board, International Association of Learning Factories).He is member of various editorial boards of renown journals and Editor-in-Chief of Production & Manufacturing Research (Taylor & Francis).Further he was Visting Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in United States as well as Chiang Mai University in Asia. His research interest is in Smart Manufacturing and Digital Twins, Decarbonization and Circular Economy, Sustainable Manufacturing, Design of Complex Systems and Engineering Education.

Prof. Luiz Moutinho
University of Suffolk, UK

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Biodata: Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is a Visiting Professor of Marketing at Suffolk Business School, Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, England, UK, and at The Marketing School, Portugal and Adjunct Professor of Marketing, GSB, FBE, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
In 2020 he was elected as the member of The Academia Europaea. In 2017 he received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia.
During 2015 - 2017 he was professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. This was the first Chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research. Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Professor Moutinho completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a Full Professor for 32 years and has held Visiting Professorship positions at numerous universities worldwide. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management (JM2) and Co-editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal.
His main areas of research interest encompass marketing, management and tourism futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modelling processes of consumer behaviour, futures research.
Prof. Moutinho has given keynote speeches, lectures, seminars, talks, etc. in 46 countries worldwide.
Prof. Moutinho has 36 books published, over 157 articles published in refereed academic journals. He has 14,731 academic citations, the h-index of 58 and the i10-index of 151 (Google Scholar, Sept. 5th, 2022).

Prof. Cristian Mahulea
University of Zaragoza, Spain

 

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Biodata: Cristian Mahulea received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in control engineering from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2007. Currently, he is a Full Professor at the University of Zaragoza, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering from 2020 to 2024. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy. His research interests include discrete event systems, hybrid systems, mobile robotics, and healthcare systems. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (UK), Boston University (USA), University of Cagliari (Italy), and ENS Paris-Saclay (France). Cristian has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE) and IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications (JDES), and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Additionally, he was the General Chair of ETFA 2019.

Assoc. Prof. Maurizio Faccio
University of Padua, Italy

 

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Biodata: Maurizio Faccio is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Systems and Logistics at the School of Engineering at the University of Padua (Italy). He graduated in Engineering Management from the University of Padua with a score of 110/110 cum laude and earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Systems from the University with a thesis titled 'Assembly in the Modern Industrial Production’. He teaches and conducts research in industrial plant design and management, the development of advanced manufacturing technologies, assembly system design, plant logistics, industrial logistics, warehouses design and management, and operations management. He has published approximately 180 papers, with over 140 indexed in Scopus, in international journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Springer) with an Impact Factor of 8.33 in 2022, ranked 15th in the SJR (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering). He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of various international journals, including Assembly Automation (Emerald), Applied Science (MDPI), Universal Journal of Mechanical Engineering (Horizon Research Publishing), among others. He has received several awards for his research results, such as the Best Paper Award in 2008 at the International Conference on Global Business Innovation and Development for the paper 'A Single Vendor Multiple Buyer Inventory Model for Evaluating Consignment Stock Policy.' He also received the Highly Commended Paper Award in 2013 from the international journal 'Assembly Automation' (Emerald) for the paper 'Fully Flexible Assembly System (F-FAS): a New Concept in Flexible Automation.' Furthermore, he received the Best Commended Paper Award at the international conference IFAC MIMS 2022 Conference for the paper 'Influence of Task Time Variations in Adopting Walking Worker Assembly Systems: a Design Approach.' Top cited 2023 paper, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, with the paper, Human factors in cobot era: a review of modern production systems features. He was also awarded the Best Funded Research Project for the project 'COLOG' (Collaborative Logistics) - 'Methods and Tools for the Integration of Human Resources and Collaborative Robotic Systems in Manufacturing Production Management' by the Veneto Region. He is member of the International Technical Committee TC 5.1. Manufacturing Plant Control (IFAC) and Scientific Vice-chair "Plant Operations Management" thematic chair. He has conducted research activities in national and international research programs and is involved in the European Project MAIA, under the call: H2020-MSCA-RISE, Models and Methods for an Active Ageing Workforce: an International Academy (https://maiaproject.eu/). Additionally, he leads and is involved in many research collaborations with Italian and European companies in the field of industrial systems and logistics.