Keynote Speakers

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  Carmen Duse

  Professor, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.

  Prof. Carmen Duse is a distinguished professor at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, with extensive academic and research experience in management, public administration, higher-education development, and organizational sustainability. Over the years, she has led numerous national and international research projects and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Her work focuses on innovative governance models, institutional capacity building, and strategic leadership in education and public institutions. Prof. Duse is also an active member of various European academic networks, frequently delivering invited lectures and keynote talks at international conferences. Her long-standing commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research and academic collaboration has earned her significant recognition across the region and beyond.

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  Michelle Lansdowne

  Professor, Senior Leadership, Marketing Communications & Events l ISEE Board Trustee, UK.

  Michelle Lansdowne is Chair and Trustee of ISEE, a Scottish charity dedicated to raising awareness of visual stress. She holds an MBA in Sustainability, Innovation & Change Management from the University of Stirling, where her research explored the lived experiences of over 500 people with visual stress and compared the effectiveness of different interventions. With more than 25 years' experience in global marketing leadership across SaaS, AI, fintech, and consumer sectors, Michelle brings strong strategic, communications, and advocacy skills. She is passionate about equipping professionals with the knowledge to identify, understand, and support individuals affected by this under-recognised condition. 

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  Carlos M. Travieso-Gonzalez

  Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

  Carlos M. Travieso-González received an M.Sc. degree in 1997 in telecommunication engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain, and a Ph.D. degree in 2002 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is a full professor of signal processing and pattern recognition and is the head of the Signals and Communications Department at ULPGC, teaching from 2001 on subjects on signal processing and learning theory. His research lines are biometrics, biomedical signals and images, data mining, classification systems, signal and image processing, machine learning, and environmental intelligence. He has researched 54 international and Spanish research projects, some of them as head researcher. He is co-author of four books, co-editor of 25 proceedings books, and guest editor for eight JCR-ISI international journals and up to 24 book chapters. He has over 500 papers published in international journals and conferences (100 of them indexed on JCR–ISI–Web of Science). He has published 7 patents in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. He has been a supervisor on 12 Ph.D. theses (with seven more under supervision) and 150 masters theses. He is the founder of the IEEE IWOBI conference series and president of its Steering Committee, the InnoEducaTIC conference series, and the APPIS conference series. He is an evaluator of project proposals for the European Union (Horizon Europe and H2020—EU), Medical Research Council (MRC—UK), Spanish government (ANECA—Spain), Spanish Research Agency (AEI—Spain), Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ—Croatia), Research National Agency (ANR—France), DAAD in Spain (Germany), the Argentinian government, and Colombian institutions. He has been a reviewer in different indexed international journals (<75) and conferences (<250) since 2001. He has been a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing from 2007 and a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems from 2011. He has been APPIS 2018, 2019, and 2022–2024 general chair; IEEE-IWOBI 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 general chair, ACM-APPIS 2020 general chair, InnoEducaTIC 2014 and 2017 general chair; IEEE-INES 2013 general chair, NoLISP 2011 general chair, JRBP 2012 general chair, and IEEE-ICCST 2005 co-chair. He is an associate editor of the Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal (Hindawi—Q2 JCR-ISI) in entropy (MDPI—Q2 JCR-ISI) and sensors (MDPI—Q1 JCR-ISI). He was vice-dean from 2004 to 2010 in the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers at ULPGC, and vice-dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies from March 2013 to November 2017. He won the "Catedra Telefonica" Awards in the modality of Knowledge Transfer in 2017, 2018, and 2019; in 2020, in the modality of COVID Research; and in 2021, 2022, and 2023 in the modality of Research Project. He received the Spanish national award in the second edition of E-nnova Health 2022 of Diario Médico and Correo Farmacéutico in the category of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, for the proposal entitled "Implementation of the digital twin in SARS-COV-2 patient as a prognostic prediction," in October 2022. He was a finalist in the ABB Award in 2023 with a proposal entitled "Energy Predictor" in the modality of public administration. In 2022, he was one of the researchers included as a member of the 2% most influential group in the world, according to the 2022 edition of the Stanford ranking compiled by John P. A. Ioannidis (Stanford University), Kevin W. Boyack (SciTech Strategies), and Jero en Baas (Research Intelligence, Elsevier B.V.), which analyses his scientific output and the citations he has received, among other criteria.

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  Dimitrios A. Karras

  Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece.

  Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. From 1990 and up to 2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, after his election, he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, Digital Systems, Signal Processing, till 12/2018, as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (the latter since 2002 and up to 2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, Digital Systems and Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General as well as Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the EPOKA university, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana. He has published more than 70 research refereed journal papers in various areas of intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, Decision Making, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent and distributed systems, Decision Making Systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing and systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security. He has served as program committee member as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, signal, image, communication and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as associate editor in various scientific journals, including CAAI, IET. He has been cited in more than 2227 research papers (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IxQurTMAAAAJ&hl=en), (Google Scholar) and 1626 (ResearchGate Index, after recent recounting based only on ResearchGate database, with more than 9108 ResearchGate Index Reads metric ) citations, as well as in more than 1099 citations in Scopus peer reviewed research database, with H/G indexes 20/48 (Google Scholar), Scopus-H index 15, RG-index 30.96 and RG-Research Interest index 886.1 ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Karras2/). His Erdos number is 5. The theme of this lecture is "Advances and Challenges in Artificial Intelligence within the Fields of Behavioral Science and Applied Psychology."
  
  

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  Aida Mehrad

  Associate Professor /Researcher/ Educational Supervisor, C3S Business School, Spain.

  She hold double doctorates (PhDs) in Organizational and Industrial Psychology, as well as Social Psychology, along with a Master's degree in General Psychology. She have national and international teaching experience in various subjects, including Leadership, Human Resource Management, Business Management, Strategic Marketing, Strategic Management, Team Psychology, Work Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Behavior, Research Methodology, and Statistical Analysis. She have published 73 research papers on organizational behavior, leadership, and management in scientific journals and at international conferences. Additionally, she have eight years of experience leading an academic department in higher education institutions. She is also the author of five motivational and personal empowerment books and the author and editor of one book titled "Organizational Behavior."

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  Dana Rad

  Associate Professor, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania.

  Dana Rad, PhD. is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a double specialization in Psychology (PhD in Cognitive Applied Psychology) and Automation (MD in Automation and Intelligent Systems). She was a Visiting Professor at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga in Coimbra and Instituto Politecnico Portalegre, Portugal and at University of Oviedo, Spain and research scientist in more than 20 European Union funded projects. As a direct output of the implementation of such initiative, there have been developed career counseling procedures for any type of beneficiary, with a special focus on NEETs, training courses, curricula and Workshops in the field of career counseling and lately in fighting against online hate speech and analyzing the negative psychological effects of online narratives on youth mental health. There have been also organized International Conferences focused on disseminating project's results and initiate discussions with other relevant experts in the field. Common resources were published in Career counseling strategies - a practical Handbook and Keeping Youth Safe form Cyberbullying – a practical Handbook. She is member in the editorial review board of 13 International Journals. Her research interests include: Cognitive Applied Sciences, Organizational Psychology, Fuzzy logic, Nonlinear Dynamics, Hate Speech etc. She is coauthor of 16 books and 70 international conferences and journal papers. She is a member of IANLP, IACAT, IAENG and APA. Publications. 

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  Jorge Revez

  Assistant Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

  Research field: Social Cognition, Information, ScienceLISKnowledge, OrganizationOpen, ScienceAcademic Libraries.

  Jorge Revez is an Assistant Professor in the Information Science Program at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) since 2020, having previously taught as an Invited Professor since 2007. Since 2024, he has been Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon). He holds a PhD in Information Science (University of Coimbra) with a thesis on the relationship of libraries and researchers, a BA in History, a Master in Contemporary History, and a Library and Documentation Special Post-Graduation Course (University of Lisbon). He worked as a librarian for several years in special and academic libraries and as a criminal information analyst at the Portuguese Criminal Police. He works as a researcher on the Information Science Team at the Centre for Classical Studies (University of Lisbon) and on the Archival Workgroup at the Centre of Religious History Studies (Portuguese Catholic University).