Claudio Cañizares

Professor
Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy
University of Waterloo, Canada

Claudio Cañizares is a University Professor and Hydro One Endowed Chair in the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the University of Waterloo, where he has held various academic and administrative positions since 1993. In 2021, he was appointed the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE). He is the current Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (IEEE), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE).

Sethu Vijayakumar

Professor of Robotics & Microsoft Research-RAEng Chair
Programme Director, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK

Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE holds a Personal Chair in Robotics within the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and is the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Programme Director for Robotics and AI at The Alan Turing Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the winner of the 2015 Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science. He was a judge on the latest edition of BBC Robot Wars, a hugely popular technology show as well as involved with the launch of the BBC micro:bit coding initiative.

Yizhou Yu

Chair Professor
The University of Hong Kong, China

Yizhou Yu is a chair professor and the director of AI Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He was first a tenure-track and then a tenured professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for twelve years. He has also collaborated with Google Brain and Microsoft Research in the past. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the computer vision group at University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an MS degree in applied mathematics and a BE degree in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.

Dipti Srinivasan

Professor
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dipti Srinivasan is a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, where she also heads the Centre for Green Energy Management & Smart Grid (GEMS). She is a Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer award in 2010. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and IEEE Computational Intelligence magazine.