Prof. Eduardo Nebot is a Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. He has been appointed as the Patrick Chair of Automation and Logistics in 2004 and he is the Director of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. Prof. Eduardo Nebot received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, (Argentina) and MS and PhD degrees from Colorado State University, USA. Fellow of IEEE and FTSE.

Prof. Eduardo Nebot has a substantial track record in robotics and automation. He has published more than 300 refereed conference and journal papers and given a large number of keynotes and industrial presentations. The major impact of his fundamental research is in autonomous system, navigation, mining safety and Intelligent Transport Systems.

Over the past 15 years, he has managed a large number industrial collaboration research projects in the area of Field Robotics. His fundamental research contributions have a significant impact and are already part of new key autonomous technologies deployed in various industrial environments such as mining, stevedoring, cargo handling and urban road vehicles. He is currently leading various collaborative research projects in autonomous urban vehicles with University of Michigan, Ford Motor Company USA, Renault France and Transport for New South Wales (TNSW) among others. His research group has an active role in the development and demonstration of new innovative technology in the intelligent transport area involving smart vehicles.

Prof. C. V. Jawahar is the Dean of Research & Development and Head of Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT), Machine Learning (ML) Lab and Executive Education Group (EEG) at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH), India. He leads the research group focusing on computer vision, machine learning and multimedia systems. He is also the CEO of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE-IIITH) at IIIT Hyderabad

An Amazon Chair Professor, Prof. Jawahar is also an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). His prolific research is globally recognized in the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision research community with more than 50 publications in top tier conferences and journals in computer vision, robotics and document image processing to his credit with over 9000 citations.

Extremely conscious of the social and practical relevance and application of research, Prof. Jawahar is actively engaged with several government agencies, ministries and leading companies around innovating at scale through research.

Prof. Mohan M. Trivedi is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory, as well as the Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) at the University of California San Diego. Mohan Trivedi received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University in 1979, after completing undergraduate work in India. He has published extensively and has edited over a dozen volumes including books, special issues, video presentations, and conference proceedings.

He and his team are pursuing research in intelligent vehicles, autonomous/self-driving, machine perception, machine learning, human-robot interactivity, advanced driver assistance, active safety and intelligent transportation systems.

He has published over 500 archival papers, has won over 20 “Best/Finalist” Paper award, has received the IEEE ITS Society’s Outstanding Research Award and LEAD Institution Award as well as the Meritorious Service and Pioneer Award (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Computer Society. He has given over 100 keynote/plenary talks and he regularly serves on panels dealing with technological, strategic, privacy, and ethical issues surrounding research areas he is involved in. Trivedi is a recipient of the Pioneer Award and the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Computer Society; and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from BITS Pilani and Utah State University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). He is a founding member of the Executive Committee of the UC System-wide Digital Media Innovation Program (DiMI).

He has served as the Robotics TC Chair for the IEEE Computer Society, on the Governing Boards of the IEEE SMC and ITSC Society, Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Vision Applications journal and charter member of the University of California System wide Digital Media Innovation (UC Discovery) program. He serves regularly as a consultant to industry and government agencies in the USA and abroad.

Prof. M. Balakrishnan is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and the founder of the ASSITECH Lab. He has been a recipient of three National awards, ACM Eugene L Lawler award and very recently IIT Delhi's Life Time award for his work in the disability space. He is a pioneer in the development of assistive devices for the visually impaired, having established a research group on Embedded Assistive Technologies for the Disabled (ASSISTech). His vision is to see India become a hub for innovative technological product development; with a view to making a difference to those who are differently abled.

He obtained his B.E.(Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Engg. from BITS Pilani in 1977 and Ph.D. from EE Dept. IIT Delhi in 1985. He worked as a Scientist in CARE, IIT Delhi from 1977 to 1985 where he was involved in designing and implementing real-time DSP systems. For the last 32 years, he is involved in teaching and research in the areas of digital systems design, electronic design automation and embedded systems. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. students, 3 MSR students, 173 M.Tech/B.Tech projects and published nearly 110 conference and journal papers. Further, he has held visiting positions in University of Guelph (Canada), University of Syracuse (USA), University of Kiel (Germany) and University of Dortmund (Germany).

At IIT Delhi, he has been the Philips Chair Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (2002-2005), Dean of Post Graduate Studies & Research (2006-2009), Deputy Director (Faculty) (2009-2012) and Deputy Director (Strategy & Planning). Further, at IIT Delhi, he has initiated a number of programmes/activities to promote research, start-ups as well as outreach to the community. ASSISTECH, a laboratory and research group founded by him along with Prof. P.V.M. Rao (Mech Engg), is involved in developing a number of assistive devices targeted towards mobility and education of the visually impaired. SmartCaneTM is a mobility aid for visually impaired developed by his group which is currently used by thousands of users in India and other low-income countries.

He has been on the board of several companies and active in ACM and VLSI Society of India. More recently the focus of his work has been in development of affordable assistive devices for visually impaired. He is involved in a number of projects that can enhance safe mobility as well as assist in education. In the year 2010, Balakrishnan was awarded the Golden Jubilee Mentor Award by IIT Delhi Golden Jubilee Committee after being nominated by his ex-students from across the globe. His achievements also include Vasvik Award in 2005 for industrially relevant research.

Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo is a Full Professor at the Computer Engineering Department and currently, also the General Manager (CEO) of the University of Alcalá. He received the Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from the Technical University of Madrid, the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Alcalá (UAH), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, and the Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the European Business School in 2008.

His research interests include Driverless Vehicles, Cooperative ITS Systems, and Traffic Technologies. He was the Head of the INVETT Research Group (2012-2019) of the University of Alcalá, Director General of Guadalab Science & Technology Park (2011-2012) and Head of the RobeSafe Research Group (2006-2010). In May-June 2010 he was Dean of the Technical School of UAH and Vice-dean of the same School in the period 2004-2010. He was Vice-President for International Relations at UAH (2014-2019). Currently, he is the General Manager (CEO) of the University of Alcalá.

He is the author of more than 220 refereed papers in journals and international conferences, and corresponding author of 15 national patents and 1 PCT patent. He has been recipient of the Prize for the Best Team with Full Automation of GCDC 2016, the 2013 ITSS Outstanding Application Award, the 2010 Outstanding Service Award of the IEEE ITS Society, Best Research Award in the domain of Automotive and Vehicle Applications in Spain, 2002 and 2008, the 3M Innovation Awards in the category of eSafety in 2003, 2004 and 2009, and the Best Young Researcher Award of the University of Alcalá in 2004. He is Member of the IEEE ITS Society Executive Committee, and Member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. He has been a member of the IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors (2012-2014), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, (2014-2017) Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2008-2015), member of the Editorial Board of The Open Transportation Journal (2006-2015), President of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE ITS Society (2015-2016), and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Newsletter (Jan 2013 – Jan 2014). He served as General Chair of the 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, as well as Program Chair and member of Program/Organizing Committees in more than 30 international conferences. He has been the President of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2018-2019).

In 1997 he was Research Visitor at the RSISE department of the Australian National University. From 2004–2010 he served as Auditor and Expert at FITSA Foundation for RTD Projects in the domain of automotive applications. He has served as Project Evaluator, Rapporteur, and Project Reviewer for the European Commission in the field of ICT for Intelligent Vehicles and Cooperative Systems in the VI and VII Framework Programmes. In the period 2009-2015, he was CEO of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company established to commercialize computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. K. Madhava Krishna is a Professor and Head of the Robotics Research Centre and the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. He has nearly 20 years of experience in Robotics and Automation and has numerous publications in top international conferences and journals.

Prof. Krishna did hid B. E. and M. E. from the prestigious BITS Pilani and then went on to do a Ph. D. from IIT Kanpur. He also did two post-doctorates, first from Robotics and AI Labs LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, FRANCE in 2001-2002 and another from University of Arkansas, USA.

At IIITH, his work focuses on research problems and innovative projects that extend the state of the art in robotics especially, in the areas of Mobile and Aerial Robotics, Robotic Vision, Mechanism Design and Multi Robotic Systems.

Dr. Suchitra Sathyanarayana is currently ML Manager, Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab (AWS) , USA. Prior to joining Amazon ML Labs, she was the Director R&D at NAUTO.

Dr. Suchitra has vast experience in leading and growing R&D teams focusing on AI, Data Science. Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with atleast 10 US patents and more than 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Dr. Suchitra did her B. Engg (Hon) in Computer Engineering, M. Eng (by Research), in Embedded Systems and Image Processing and Ph. D. in Computer Vision and Embedded Systems from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She went on to do her Post Doctorate from UC San Diego before joining NAUTO as Computer Vision and Data Scientist. She is also the Founder and CEO of Satva, Inc.

Dr. Anbumani Subramnian is currently Principle Engineer, at Intel Bengaluru, India. Prior to joining Intel as a Lead Architect, he was with Hewlwtt-Paackard Labs as a Senior Research Scientist.

Dr. Anbumani has expertise in research and path-finding with over 15 years of professional experience (post Ph. D.) in computer vision, machine learning, image analysis, pattern recognition, human-computer interaction. His technical interests are in autmated navigation, depth cameras, omni-drectional vision, beyond-visible (hyper/muti-spectral) imaginf, multimodal interactions, multi-sensor fusion. He has made notable contributions in the Indian Driving Dataset (IDD), gesture recognition with depth cameras and onmidirectional vision ayatem for autonomous surface vehicle. He has 10 patents and several peer reviewed publications in top-tier conferences.

Dr. Anbumani did his B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bharathiar University and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechic Institute and State Univeristy and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. after which he also did his Post Doctoral from Virginia Tech.