Organizers

Fares J. Abu-Dakka

Bio: Fares J. Abu-Dakka received a B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, in 2003 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in robotics motion planning from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Currently, he is a Lecturer and Researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea- Faculty of Engineering- Electronic and Informatic Department. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist with the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at Technische Universität München, Germany. From 2019 to 2022, he was researching with the Intelligent Robotics Group at Aalto University, and between 2017 and 2019, he was part of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). Between 2013 and 2016, he was holding a Visiting Professor position with the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain.

His research lies in the intersection of control theory, differential geometry, and machine learning in order to enhance robot manipulation performance and safety.

Gitta Kutyniok

Bio: Gitta Kutyniok received the Diploma degree in mathematics and computer science and the Ph.D. degree from Universität Paderborn, Germany, and the Habilitation degree in mathematics from the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, in 2006. From 2001 to 2008, she held visiting positions at several U.S. institutions, including Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington University in St. Louis, and was a Nachdiplomslecturer with ETH Zurich in 2014. In 2008, she became a Full Professor of mathematics with the Universität Osnabrück, and moved to Berlin three years later, where she held the Einstein Chair of the Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin and a courtesy appointment with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering until 2020. She is currently the Bavarian AI Chair of Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, and an Adjunct Professorship in machine learning with the University of Tromsø. Her main research interests include in the areas of applied harmonic analysis, artificial intelligence, compressed sensing, high-dimensional data analysis, imaging science, inverse problems, machine learning, partial differential equations, and applications to life sciences and telecommunication. Dr. Kutyniok became a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2017 and SIAM Fellow. She received various awards for her research, such as an Award from the Universität Paderborn in 2003, the Research Prize of Gießen and a Heisenberg-Fellowship in 2006, the von Kaven Prize by the DFG in 2007, and an Einstein Chair in 2008. She gave the Noether Lecture at the ÖMG-DMV Congress in 2013 and the Hans Schneider ILAS Lecture at IWOTA in 2016. She received the Francqui Chair of the Belgian Francqui Foundation in 2020, and has been holding the first Bavarian AI Chair at LMU since 2020. She was Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Sciences from 2018 to 2019 and the Co-Chair of the first SIAM conference on Mathematics of DataScience in 2020. She also serves as the Founding Vice-Chair of the new SIAM Activity Group on Data Science. She was the Scientific Director of the Graduate School BIMoS, TU Berlin, from 2014 to 2020. She is currently the Chair of the GAMM Activity Groups on Mathematical Signal- and Image Processing and Computational and Mathematical Methods in Data Science. She is also the main Coordinator of the Priority Programm of the German Research Foundation on theoretical foundations of deep learning

Majid Zamani

Bio: Majid Zamani is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Colorado Boulder and leading Hybrid Control Systems Lab. Between May 2014 and January 2019, he was an assistant professor (W2 grade) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Technical University of Munich. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and an MA degree in Mathematics both from University of California, Los Angeles in 2012, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2007, and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2005. He received the NSF Career award in 2022 and ERC starting grant award from the European Research Council in 2018.

His research interests include verification and control of cyber-physical systems, hybrid systems, embedded control software synthesis, networked control systems, and incremental properties of nonlinear control systems.