Organizing Committee

Tiago H. Falk is a Full Professor at INRS-EMT, University of Québec, where he directs the Multisensory Signal Analysis and Enhancement (MuSAE) Lab. He is Co-Chair of the IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Telepresence and Co-Director of the INRS-UQO Joint Research Centre on Cybersecurity and Digital Trust. His research interests include human factors and neuroergonomics for telepresence, immersive realities, and the Internet of Senses. 

Wen Qi is an Associate Researcher at South China University of Technology (SCUT). Her research interests include human-robot interaction (HRI) and smart wearables for telepresence and teleoperations.

Yonas Teodros Tefera is Research Team Lead of the Vicarios Lab in the Advanced Robotics research line at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova. His research focuses on developing immersive teleoperation and telepresence techniques to improve remote presence and situational awareness, using haptics, 3D perception, gaze-driven rendering, and mixed-reality interfaces.