Keynote Speakers

Dr. Khaled Benkrid, Arm Ltd

“Powering Industry 5.0: Harnessing AI, Edge Computing, and IoT with Arm-based Technologies”

The confluence of AI, robotics, IoT and human creativity and imagination is transforming industry, and the way humans live, work, and collaborate with machines. This keynote will present the foundational technologies at the heart of this transformation, demonstrate
several exciting use cases of Industry 5.0, and outline further opportunities lying ahead. The keynote will also present challenges Industry 5.0 faces, including compute and power/energy scalability, security, privacy, and sustainability, and ways in which
Arm and its ecosystem partners are addressing these.

Dr. Khaled Benkrid has 25+ years’ experience in higher education teaching, research, and policy development. Prior to joining Arm Ltd in 2013, he was a UK-based academic for 13 years, teaching, researching, and leading in various areas of computer science and electronics engineering, particularly in high-performance embedded computing and electronic design automation.  Khaled supervised 15+ successful PhD research projects during his academic career and co/authored 100+ publications in major international conferences and journals. He is now Visiting Professor at the School of Computing and Information Science, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
During his tenure at Arm, Dr. Benkrid set up the global Arm University Program, the Arm School Program, Arm Education Media, and the Semiconductor Education Alliance. Together, these programs are educating and training hundreds of thousands of students globally every year, bridging the education, research, and skills gaps in computer engineering and STEM, and equipping the next generation of engineers for the challenges and opportunities of the modern economy, especially with the rise of generative AI.

Prof. Lei Guo, Beihang University, Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

“Refined anti-disturbance estimation and control and its applications to unmanned systems”

Complex systems including many unmanned systems inevitably suffer from composite disturbances that are physically multi-source, mathematically heterogeneous, and topologically isomeric. In the conventional methodologies, these composite disturbances are simplified as a single lumped or “equivalent” variable to be either rejected or attenuated. In this talk, the composite disturbance filter (CDF), the refined anti-disturbance estimation (RADE) and control (RADC) theoretical framework for multiple disturbance systems will be introduced. The refined estimation and control scheme includes disturbance modeling and estimation/learning/prediction, multiple disturbance separation, observability and controllability analysis of disturbances, disturbance absorption and utilization. And, the reconstruction optimization will be presented based on disturbance adaptative variability rather than the disturbance invariance principle (DIP). Especially, for multiple disturbance systems with stochastic disturbances, this research framework focus on stochastic distribution control (SDC) and estimation, aims to overcome the limitation of Gaussian and independent identically distributed variables in Kalman filtering and Bayesian estimation theory. Finally, several practical applications will be presented to the autonomous navigation and control of unmanned systems.

Professor Lei Guo was born in Qufu, China, in 1966. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Qufu Normal University, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1997. From 1999 to 2003, He once worked with IRCCyN, Nantes, Loughborough University, UMIST and Manchester University as Research Associate/Fellow and Visiting Professor, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he is a professor at Southeast University. Currently, he is a Distinguish Professor and Director of the Space Intelligent Control Research Center at Beihang University, Beijing, China.

He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a Fellow of IEEE and IET, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and China Association of Inventions (CAI). He is the Director of the Navigation, Guidance and Control Committee of the CAA. His research interests include anti-disturbance control theory and applications to unmanned systems. He has published more than 480 papers, 7 monographs, and has more than 180 authorized invention patents. He was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2009), the National Nature Science Awards (2013), National Technology Invention Awards (2018), National Pioneer Innovation Award (2023) of China. He also obtained the Gold Medal of International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Nuremberg and Turkey for the studies on bio-inspired navigation sensor, compound-eye-inspired navigation systems and biomimetic flying robots, respectively.

 

Dr. Teresa Riesgo, Secretary General of Innovation, Spain

“Research and innovation policies for the green transition in Europe: a huge challenge and a big opportunity”

During the last years, Europe has declared its will of facing the twin transition (green and digital) based on its own principles and considering that both transitions reinforce each other. In order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by all the UN countries in 2015, new knowledge, innovative actions are required. New knowledge requires deep research, systemic collaboration and new ways of doing. With this scope and the goal in mind, new R&I actions are required to achieve the de-carbonization of the economy that we foresee: this is a huge challenge. But there is also a big opportunity in it, the opportunity of creating new business based on the deep knowledge and the opportunity to make batter territories where this decarbonization occurs . During this talk, the research and innovation policies put in place in the EU program “Horizon Europe 2021-2027” as well as those at Spanish level will be described and analyzed to understand how this huge challenge becomes a big opportunity.

 

Dr. Teresa Riesgo holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, where she has been Full Professor of Electronics from 2003 to 2018. From 2018 to 2020 she was Director General of R&D&I of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and since 2020 she is the Secretary General of Innovation of the Spanish Government. While being at the University, she was an active researcher in industrial electronics, mainly in embedded systems design.