Prof. Jan Peters
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
IEEE Fellow
Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt since 2011, and, at the same time, he is the dept head of the research department on Systems AI for Robot Learning (SAIROL) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) since 2022. He is also is a founding research faculty member of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence. Jan Peters has received the Dick Volz Best 2007 US PhD Thesis Runner-Up Award, the Robotics: Science & Systems - Early Career Spotlight, the INNS Young Investigator Award, and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society's Early Career Award as well as numerous best paper awards. In 2015, he received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2019, he was appointed IEEE Fellow, in 2020 ELLIS Fellow and in 2021 AAIA Fellow.
Prof. Peter Stone
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Prof. Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and Director of Texas Robotics. His main research interest in AI is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents.
Prof. Khaled BEN LETAIEF
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
IEEE Fellow
Professor Ben Letaief received the BS degree with distinction, MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University, USA. From 1990 to 1993, he was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since 1993, he has been working at HKUST where he is currently the New Bright Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He is a Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also recognized by Thomson Reuters as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and was listed among the 2020 world’s top 30 of AI 2000 Internet of Things Most Influential Scholars. His research interests include but not limited to artificial intelligence, big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), wireless communications and networks, 5G and beyond systems.