El Mustapha Mouaddib received the Ph.D. degree in robotics and the Habilitation degree from the University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France, in 1991 and 1999, respectively.,Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Picardy Jules Verne. Since 1995, he has been the Head of the Perception on robotics group, where he is involved in research projects on omnidirectional vision and structured light. Since 2010, he has been the Manager of a big research program about building and using a virtual three-dimensional model of Cathedral of Amiens. His main research interests include computer vision and artificial perception for mobile robotics.,Prof. Mouaddib has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation and IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal (2015–2018).

Talk Title: Autonomous exploration and topological mapping in unknown environments

Dr. Lee Chei Sian is currently an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she is also the Associate Chair (Faculty). She is actively involved in research on issues related to everyday user-information interaction at work, school or play. Specifically, her research focuses on how digital and emerging technologies can be designed to facilitate everyday user-information exchanges and be used to change social behaviors, benefit communities, and create social good. She has been involved in several funded projects in varying capacities as principal investigator, co-investigator and collaborator. More recently, she has been investigating the deepfakes phenomena from an information-oriented perspective. Her work has been widely published in international journals including Journal of Educational Computing Research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Computers and Education, Computers in Human Behavior and New Media and Society. Dr Lee is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board for Computers and Education, Online Information Review, The Electronic Library and Journal for STEM Education Research. Dr Lee received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Information Sciences from the National University of Singapore and her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Liautaud Graduate School of Business.

Lee Pui Mun is a Professor in the School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences [SUSS]. He teaches management, strategy and operations. He also served as the Vice Dean and then the Dean of the School of Business, SUSS between 2010 to 2018. He has authored more than 60 articles and has done consulting work for many organisations in the areas of performance management, quality management, and operations management. He serves as an Assessor for the Singapore Quality Award and conducted research on business excellence. He was a member for the Singapore Quality and Safety Standards Committee and serves as a member of Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a senior member of American Society for Quality and is a member for the Academy of Management. He has been a reviewer for many different journals and also an examiner for many different universities’ postgraduate theses.

Pedro Teixeira Isaias, a is an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he served at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the master degree program in Management / MBA. Pedro was director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years.