Organizing Commitee

Leads the Computer-aided Engineering Labs, and the Digitalization Cluster with the Energy Research Institute @ NTU. He is also deputy director of NTU's Center of Augmented & Virtual Reality.  He was Deputy Director of NTU's Institute for Media Innovation, Bioinformatics Research Centre, and Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization. His research interests include VR, AI, Robotics and their applications in healthcare, building & constructions, and education with funding support from Singapore’s National Research Foundation, Temasek Trust Funded Singapore Millennium Foundation, Ministry of Education, etc. He has co-invented 10 international patents and published 9 books (Springer) and over 200 technical articles in leading journals and peer-reviewed international conferences. He has organized more than 20 international conferences including the prestigious AI medical conference MICCAI'2022, IEEE conference ISMAR'2022, and 40th Annual Conference of ISAGA'2008 in Singapore. He has given near 50 keynote or invited speeches all over the world. He is an active promotor and practitioner for interdisciplinary research, international collaboration, industrial partnership, and innovative technopreneurship working in the intersection of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, partnering with world class organizations including John Hopkins Medical School (USA), NVIDIA, University of Toronto (Canada), University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), University College London (UK), SAAB (Sweden), Singapore General Hospital, Surbana-Jurong Group (Singapore), etc. He was the former president of International Simulation and Gaming Association. 

Received his doctorate from the University of South Wales. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Lusiada University. He has around 75 publications published in specialist journals. He has earned five distinctions and awards. He is involved in Engineering Sciences and Technologies. In his professional endeavors, he has collaborated with over 75 others to co-author scholarly articles. Intervention areas include diagnostic procedures, process control, quality management, quality certification, industrial competitiveness, logistics, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, integrated management systems, tool wear monitoring, and machine learning (d1207@fam.ulusiada.pt).

Assistant Professor at Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA) at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (DEMI NOVA) in the group of Structural Mechanics. He is now researcher at the Research and Development Unit for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Tiago is member of the Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics and of the Portuguese Association of Industrial Maintenance. He is member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Structural Engineering Dynamics (ICEDyn). Tiago is co-author of several works published in international conferences and scientific journals, being referee of some relevant scientific journals in the field of structural dynamics, namely: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Journal of Vibration and Control or International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics.

Mechanical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a CNPq Technology Development Fellowship recipient. An Associate Professor at UFPR in the Department of Graphic Expression, he is also a Permanent Professor in the Design and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Programs (PPG Design and PPGEM). His research focuses on 3D technologies, particularly virtual reality and the metaverse. He teaches in various specialization programs (lato sensu), including Industry 4.0 Engineering, Renewable Energy, Maintenance Engineering 4.0, Three-Dimensional Experimentation, and an MBA in Management and Technology. Since 2019, he has coordinated UFPR’s 3D Technology Management specialization course. With over 10 years of experience in companies such as CNHi, Electrolux, Faurecia, Hettich, Bematech, and Denso, he has worked as a product engineer and engineering coordinator. Additionally, he is a partner and shareholder in a spin-off company in the virtual reality and metaverse field.