Bruno Siciliano is professor of robotics and control at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Óbuda where he holds the Kálmán Chair. His research interests in robotics include manipulation and control, human–robot cooperation, and service robotics.

Fellow of the scientific societies IEEE, ASME, IFAC, he has received numerous international prizes and awards, including the recent 2024 IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation. He was President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2008 to 2009.

He has delivered more than 150 keynotes and has published more than 300 papers and 7 books. His book "Robotics" is among the most adopted academic texts worldwide, while his edited volume "Springer Handbook of Robotics" has received the highest recognition for scientific publishing: the 2008 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics.

His team has received more than 25 million Euro funding in the last 18 years from competitive European research projects, including two ERC grants. More details are available at http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/

Doris Sáez (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Panguipulli, Chile. She received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

She is currently an Associate Researcher with Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, Santiago. She is also a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Head of the Indigenous People Program, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago.

She has coauthored the books Hybrid Predictive Control for Dynamic Transport Problems (Springer, 2013) and Optimization of Industrial Processes at Supervisory Level: Application to Control of Thermal Power Plants (Springer, 2002). Her research interests include predictive control, fuzzy control design, fuzzy identification, and control of microgrids.

José Álvarez Ramírez holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from UASLP (1984) and postgraduate studies in Control and Dynamic Systems from UAM-Iztapalapa (1991). He is currently a Professor-Researcher at the Department of Process Engineering and Hydraulics at UAM-Iztapalapa.

His research focuses on process dynamics and control, as well as food science and technology. With an extensive academic career, he has contributed significantly to the understanding of complex systems and their control mechanisms.

Prof. Álvarez Ramírez has been particularly interested in the philosophical and epistemological aspects of engineering practice, promoting critical thinking about the role of technology in contemporary society and its impact on human development.

Na Li is a Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University and a visiting research in Mitsubishi Electric Research laboratories (MERL). She received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Control and Dynamical systems from California Institute of Technology in 2013. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-2014.

She has held a variety of short-term visiting appointments including the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, MIT, and Google Brain. Her research lies in the control, learning, and optimization of networked systems, including theory development, algorithm design, and applications to real-world cyber-physical societal system.

She has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and served on the organizing committee for a few conferences. She received the NSF career award, AFSOR Young Investigator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Donald P. Eckman Award, McDonald Mentoring Award, IFAC Distinguished Lecture, IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal, Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, along with other awards.

Víctor Cárdenas received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), Mexico, in 1992, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering, specializing in Power Electronics, from the National Center for Research and Technological Development, Mexico, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Since 2000, he has been with the Engineering Department at UASLP as a Professor and Researcher.

His main research interests include power electronics and power quality for alternative energy sources, DC/AC converters, PV systems, active power filters, and digital control applied to power converters. He is author or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, has supervised 59 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, and has led 44 projects funded by industry and government.

Dr. Cárdenas serves as a regular reviewer for several international journals and governmental agencies, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Electric Power Systems Research, FONDECYT (Chile), and COLCIENCIA (Colombia).