Prof. Samson Lasaulce
Khalifa University, UAE
Samson Lasaulce is currently a Chief Research Scientist in
AI with Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi. He is the holder
of the TII 6G Chair on Native AI. He is also a CNRS Director
of Research with CRAN at Nancy (joint lab between CNRS and
University of Lorraine). He has been the holder of the RTE
Chair on the Digital Transformation of Electricity Networks.
He has also been a Professor with the Department of Physics
at Ecole Polytechnique. Before joining CNRS he has been
working for five years in private R&D companies (Motorola
Labs and Orange Labs). Dr. Lasaulce is the recipient of
several awards. Dr. Lasaulce has been serving as an
Associate Editor for several journals such as the IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing. His current research
interests lie in distributed networks with a focus on game
theory, information theory, learning, distributed
optimization, network control for communication networks,
energy networks, and social networks. He is a co-author of
the book "Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks:
Fundamentals and Applications".
Prof. Stefano Secci
CNAM Paris, France
S. Secci is professor at Cnam, Paris, since 2018,
responsbile of research and teaching activities in
networking. He previously held positions at Sorbonne
University as associate professor, at George Mason and NTNU
Universities as postdoc researcher, at Telecom ParisTech and
Politecnico di Milano as Ph.D candidate, and at CNIT and
Fastweb as engineer. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano
in telecommunications engineering in 2005. His current
research interests are about network automation and
distributed learning.
Prof Samia Nefti-Meziani
University of Birmingham, UK
Professor Nefti-Meziani is an international leading expert
with 25 years of experience in AI and robotics. She has
recently been awarded an Order of the British Empire for her
services to Robotics and featured as the 2020’s top 30
world’s women in robotics you need to know about by Silicon
Valley Robohub, the largest scientific community in
robotics.
She is the former Vice Chairman of IEEE Robotics and
Automation UK & RI, Co-director of the EPSRC National Hub in
Robotics and Future AI for Space Technology (FAIR-SPACE) and
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and
she is serving as an Advisory board member for the RGP, the
Asian council and the EPSRC centre for innovative
manufacturing and intelligent Automation. She is also a
member of the Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Peer Review College and reviewer for UKRI, Finland research
funding agency and EC.
Chaired by DSIT, she is currently the lead on the UK
Cross-Industry RAS Development Task Force initiative, funded
by EPSRC, which aims at shaping the policies and initiatives
for the UK's effort to develop a world-leading market and
innovation environment for exploiting advancements in RAS.
This task force involves Industry influencers, many national
infrastructure organizations, including DFT, DEFRA, NHS, UK
Space Agency, Lower Thames Crossing, Sellafield Ltd, Network
Rail, National Highways and many others from the UK- Cross
Industry RAS Development Task Force Network.