Dr. Guez's interests are in understanding and applying the principles of intelligent decision making, adaptation, optimization, and control demonstrated in biological, social and anthropomorphic systems in automation, robotics, business and other areas. His immediate research concerns the design and construction of real time, hierarchical control architecture for a multi-robotic system operating in a partially known environment, which is based upon competitive/cooperative behavior criteria. Some important subproblems of this project are control of high dimensional nonlinear systems, dynamic planning of productive robot paths among obstacles, heuristic based optimization, design of learning systems, and neuromorphic realization of variable structure adaptive controllers, multiple objectives, and optimization. Dr. Guez has over 200 technical publications, book chapters and patents. He is a frequent consultant to international industry and government, having been a consultant to more than 50 companies and government organizations in business system optimization, decision making, and automation. He is a frequent reviewer for IEEE Trans. on System, Man Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, Journal ofNeural Networks, IEEE Control System Magazine, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, IEEE Computer, NSF, and Advanced Technology Center-Benjamin Franklin Partnership. Additionally, he has over 30 years of experience in control systems, decision making & optimization in business systems, automation, biomedical systems and devices, neuroengineering, machine learning and adaptation.

Control systems; decision making and optimization in business systems; automation; biomedical systems and devices; neuro-engineering; machine learning and adaptation

Frédéric Stichelbaut has completed his PhD in High-Energy Physics at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium in 1993. After his PhD, he worked 2 years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva and 4 years at Fermi National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois for postdoctoral studies. He joined the Ion Beam Application (IBA) Company in 1999 and has been involved in R&D studies for the past 15 years. He has published more than 500 papers in peer-review journals and is a member of ASTM committee E61 on radiation processing. At IBA, he is in charge of all studies related to describe the interactions between particle beams and matter.

R&D studies, interactions between particle beams and matter

Kunal Mitra is currently a Professor in Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Mitra served first as the Program Chair and subsequently as the Department Head in Biomedical Engineering from August 2008 to May 2014. He has published more than 120 peer reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, 4 book chapters, and holds 2 patents. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.

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My name is Xiaoxin Ye (Ph.D) from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. My research fields involve the biomedical titanium alloy processing/characterization, surface modification, mechanical/corrosion/biocompatibility property. My research is currently about electropulsing-assisted processing and characterization of titanium alloy. Electropulsing ultrasonic striking and electropulsing-induced topographical oxidation have been also brought

My research interests include green materials processing, surface coating, nanomaterials, energy materials and biomaterials.