Professor Michael Madden is the Established Professor of Computer Science in the University of Galway. He leads the Machine Learning Research Group that he set up in 2001 in Galway. His research focuses on new theoretical advances in machine learning, motivated by addressing important data-driven applications in medicine, engineering, and the physical sciences. He has organized and chaired several national as well as international conferences sessions, including organising the 1st and 2nd International Workshop on AI in Security at IJCAI 2017 and EMCL 2018. 

Professor Ismail Ben Ayed received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, QC, Canada. He is currently Full Professor at the ETS Montreal, where he holds a research Chair on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging. He is also affiliated with the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM). His interests are in computer vision, machine learning, optimization and medical image analysis algorithms.