Speakers

Prof. Dr. Bernard Veldkamp is Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, the Netherlands. Dr. Veldkamp specializes in research methodology and data analytics. His interests focus on optimization, text mining, and computer-based assessment. His work spans a range of issues in educational, psychological, and health sciences, from the development of new methods/models for the design and construction of (adaptive) psychological and educational tests, to the development of data mining models for analyzing verbal data, intensive longitudinal data, or large datasets in, for example, dialy-life stress or fraud detection.

Anne-Marie Brouwer is senior scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Soesterberg) and part-time full professor 'Mental State Monitoring' at Radboud University/Donders Centre in Nijmegen. Anne-Marie studied experimental psychology in Nijmegen and obtained her PhD on eye-hand coordination research in 2002 at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. Following post-docs at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen and the University of Rochester (NY) she started working at TNO in 2007. Since 2007 her main topic of research is BCI and using brain and other physiological signals as potential sources of information about an individual’s cognitive and emotional state. Anne-Marie works on basic research projects for and in collaboration with different parties, such as basic science funds, defense, and food industry. She is dedicated to explore the added value of physiological measures, connecting lab and real life studies, discuss the challenges that still exist and finding ways to cope with these.

Dr. Sandra Fisher is a professor of International Management focusing on digital and intercultural competencies at the Münster University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Germany. She has a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University. Her research focuses in three main areas: the use of contingent work, the implementation and strategic use of digital technologies in human resource management, and effective design of technology-based training. Her publications appear in top international journals such as Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Review and Academy of Management Discoveries. She has presented her work at a variety of international conferences. Sandy serves as Special Issue editor for the International Journal of Human Resource Management and a guest editor at Journal of Business and Psychology.   

Enrico G. Caiani (MS in Electronic Eng. 1996, PhD in Biomedical Eng. 2000) is Associate professor at the Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Dpt., Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is author of 7 book chapters, >150 papers (H-index=36, total citations>12000) and >150 conference proceeding papers. Since 2022, he is officially affiliated with IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale San Luca, with whom he collaborates in the context of several projects.

Since 2020 he is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), where he served as Chair of the e-Cardiology Working Group (16-18), vice-Chair of the Digital Health Committee (18-20) and is now serving as Advisor for the Regulatory Affairs Committee on Medical Devices, and as ESC representative in the EU eHealth Stakeholders Group and in the EU Medical Device Coordination Group-New technologies.

In Oct 2020 he was nominated by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as National Expert in the Thematic Table on Integrated Physiology, and since 2023 he is member of the steering committee of the ESA_Lab@Polimi. In May 2023, he has been nominated as expert in the Technical Scientific Committee serving the Italian Inter-Parlamentary Group on “Digital Health and Digital Therapies”.

Since 2019, he is member of the Board of the PhD in Data Analytics and Decision Science at Politecnico di Milano, and actually he is acting as advisor of 8 PhD students. Also, he is the responsible of the D-Hygea Lab @ Politecnico (Digital solutions for prevention).

His main research interests include digital health solutions in the field of cardiology, health geomatics, cardiac signal and image processing, space physiology, and regulatory science.

Dr Simone Borsci is Associate Professor of Human Factors and Cognitive Ergonomics at the CODE Section of the Department of Learning, Data Analytics and Technology at the University of Twente. Simone is the research coordinator for the HF-CODE team, the local representative for the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities Sector Plan Theme Human Factor in New Technology, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in HF and Medical Device at Imperial College London.  Simone specialises in user experience research methods and his interdisciplinary approach bridges the gap between technological development and human-centred design. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, process, service design, user experience and human performance, with the aim of improving the usability and accessibility of (complex) interactive systems. Dr. Borsci is particularly known for his work on standardising UX evaluation methods, contributing significantly to guidelines that help designers and developers create more intuitive and usable products, and for his work on conversational agents.

Dr. Carolina Herrando is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Zaragoza. Previously she was researcher at the University of Twente. She has been visiting researcher in Hosei University (Japan), in the Marketing Center Münster (Germany), in the BMS LAB (The Netherlands) and in the Center for Empirical Research of the DHBW (Germany). Her research interests are in the fields of customer experience and artificial intelligence, with particular focus on neuroscience and emotions during the customer journey. Her work has been published in Journal of Business Research, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, International Journal of Information Management or Internet Research, among other journals.

Wolter Pieters is professor of Work, Organizations and Digital Technology at the faculty of Social Sciences at Radboud University. Previously he was associate professor of Cyber Risk at Delft University of Technology, faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. He has an interdisciplinary background in computer science and philosophy of technology, and published widely on cyber risk management, information ethics, and human factors in cybersecurity. In recent years he has specialized in practices around digitalization, with a focus on responsible behaviour, including safety, (cyber)security and privacy in work environments as well as responsible use of artificial intelligence. At Radboud University, he is the contact person between the faculty and the university-wide iHub initiative on digitalization and society. On a national level, he is coordinator of the theme "The human factor in new technologies" in the sector plans of the social sciences.

Manon Tolhuisen is an AI scientist working at Thales Netherlands. She has been part of the human behaviour analytics (HBA) lab since 2021. The HBA-lab is focused on the development of human machine teaming applications in Command and Control settings. Manon works on the development of machine learning models for real-time human state classification and the design and execution of several empirical studies for data collection. Her main interest is understanding the human brain and human cognition. Her background is in Technical Medicine and she received her doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 2021. During het PhD she used AI for image segmentation and image biomarker assessment to predict the treatment effect and clinical outcome of patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Jan Treur has been a full professsor of AI since 1990 and is a well-recognized expert on the area of human-centered AI and multidisciplinary human-like AI-modeling. He has published over 800 well-cited papers about cognitive, affective, and social modeling and AI systems making use of such models. He has also supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students in these areas and from 2016 on written and edited five books on (adaptive) network-oriented AI-modeling and its application in various other disciplines. Current research addresses modeling of higher-order adaptive processes by self-modeling network models with a specific focus on human processes related to cybersecurity and the role of epigenetics in mental disorders. 

Peter Roelofsma is head of the Risk Management & Cyber Security group of The Hague University of Applied Sciences since 2023, coming from the Safety and Security Science section of Delft University of Technology, where he worked at the Center for Safety in Healthcare. His experience in safety and security involves the domains of SME’s, health care, smart cities, military command & control, aeronautical control and risk and management in traffic tunnels. His recent work involves issues regarding: organizational learning, shared mental models, safe and secure by design and the use of AI-coaching and sensors for safety and security. The focus of his research is on the naturalistic decision processes in security operations echelons like operation centers, crises teams, organizations, and governance.

Prof. Jong-Ha Lee received a B.S. degree in electronics engineering in 2000 from Inha University, Incheon, Korea, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2005 from New York University, Brooklyn, New York, USA, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He was with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a Research Staff Member. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea. His current research interests include tactile sensation imaging for tissue characterization, computer-aided diagnosis, medical image analysis, pattern recognition, and machine learning.

Dr Bong Jun Choi is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering and jointly at the School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York Korea, Korea, and concurrently a research assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Yonsei University, Korea, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research focuses on distributed artificial intelligence, distributed intelligent energy networks, and security. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Dr Hanumant Singh Shekhawat is working at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He did his postdoc from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, and The Netherlands. His research was on multi-linear data (tensor) reduction techniques, which has applications in video/speech processing, MRI, and (higher dimensional) data analysis. He completed his PhD in Nov 2012, from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research was related to optimization problems in sampling and interpolation. He has completed his masters (in 2004) from the Department of Electrical Engineering and his bachelor in Electronics and communication engineering (in 2002) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Rajasthan University in India, respectively. After the master's degree, he worked in the Texas Instruments India and Sasken Communications India for around four years in the area of electronics, software and algorithm development. He had visiting faculty position in University of Pardubice, Czech Republic during May-June 2019. Currently, his work is related to problems in radar, tensor, speech, signals and systems.

Dr. Guoray Cai is an Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Penn State University.  He directs the Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory within the College of Information Sciences and Technology and conducts research in the areas of visual analytics, conversational speech/gesture interfaces, geographical information sciences, and 3D smart sensing.  His work on geocollaborative crisis management technologies and online public deliberations are direct response to the challenge of risk society and declining democracy.  Dr. Cai received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science from University of Pittsburgh in 1999, a Master of Art degree in geography from West Virginia University in 1993, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 1986 and 1983, respectively.  He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and Association of American Geographers (AAG).

Prof. Dhananjay Singh is a Teaching Professor in the College of IST at Penn State University. He previously served as a Professor at Saint Louis University, USA and has over 15 years of experience in both industry and academia in South Korea. Prof. Singh received his B.Tech. in CSE from VBS Purvanchal University, M.Tech. in IT from IIIT Allahabad, India, and Ph.D. in Ubiquitous IT from Dongseo University, South Korea. He directs the ReSENSE Lab, focusing on human-computer interaction, AI, data sciences, and intelligent IoT. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and IHCI.

Dr. Graziela Fusaro has extensive work experience in various leadership roles. From 2022 onwards, they serve as the Dean at Long Island University. Prior to that, they worked as the Founder and Managing Partner at International Consulting Network - ICON since 2015. Graziela also held positions at Adelphi University, where they were the Assistant Provost for Innovation from 2021 to 2022 and the Director of the Innovation Center from 2020 to 2021. Additionally, they served as the Assistant Dean - College of Management at LIU Post from 2015 to 2020. Earlier in their career, Graziela was a Partner at Araujo Fontes from 2005 to 2015. Graziela Fusaro obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1998 to 2000. Currently, they have certifications in Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI, IBM Artificial Intelligence Practitioner - Instructor Certificate, and Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, all obtained from IBM.

Dr. Madhusudan Singh is an Associate Professor at Long Island University, Brokland NY, USA. Previsioly he was Assistant Professor at Oregon Institute of Technology (OregonTech), USA. He is IEEE Senior Member and ACM Distinguished Speaker; Dr. Singh has delivered over 30 invited talks and serves as an IEEE Subject Matter Expert. His research spans AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, and quantum computing. He has published over 80 works and is the Series Editor for Blockchain Technologies at Springer Nature. 

Shreya Nandhivargam is a 2021 graduate of JNAFA University, Hyderabad, with a Bachelor's degree in Digital Techniques for Design and Planning. She gained experience as a Content Writer Intern and Web Developer, working on projects such as a transactions dashboard for Al Rajhi Saudi’s banking and website development at Iveond. Shreya then joined Tech Mahindra as a Web Developer, honing her skills further. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Information Systems at Saint Louis University, expected to graduate in 2025, and is involved in developing the IHCI conference webpage. 

Maria Weber, is a distinguished cybersecurity expert with a solid industrial background, holding an M.S. in Applied Analytics from Saint Louis University and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Universidad Fermin Toro, Venezuela. Maria's career spans expertise in Networking, Wireless, Security, Software-Defined Networking, Applied Analytics, and Automation. She is known for revolutionizing wide area network management through Software-Defined Networking. Maria's research interests encompass Information Systems, Cloud Computing, and Virtualization. Actively involved in professional organizations, she is a member of the ACM's Council on Women in Computing and the IEEE Computer Society Women in Engineering. Her commitment to innovation and inclusivity defines her contributions to the cybersecurity landscape.  

Dr. Annamaria Szakonyi is a professor, technology leader & consultant, anti-trafficking researcher, published author and speaker, working at the intersection of technology, policy and society. Her passion is in the application of technology, data and policy to combat human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children.   

She's received various distinguished awards and scholarships, such as Saint Louis University's inaugural Geospatial Research and Innovation Award for her research using geospatial methods and machine learning to study human trafficking, the Presidential Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, Erasmus Scholarship from the European Union, and scholarships from the French Republic and the Hungary-Missouri Educational Partnership.   

She's published multiple peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter with prestigious publishers such as IEEE and Springer related to human trafficking, data science, cybersecurity, online identity theft, and diversity and inclusion in technology. She's an educator and lecturer, technology mentor, and women in tech advocate on a mission to increase the presence of women and underrepresented groups in technology. She has over 15 years' experience in the IT and innovation sector, spanning from Fortune 500 corporations to non-profits and higher education institutions in various technical and leadership positions.   

Dr. Tatiana Cardona currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University. With prior roles as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Ball State University and a Visiting Professor at Tech. Institute of Monterrey, she's experienced in instructing undergraduates and graduates in Information Systems, Project Management, and Optimization Models. Her academic journey includes a PhD in Systems Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, complemented by a Master's in Engineering Management and Lean Six Sigma certification.