Members

TC Leadership

Chair: Marco Macchi

e-mail: marco.macchi(at)polimi.it

Scientific Vice-chair "Advanced automation, digitalization and manufacturing" thematic chair: Paulo Leitao

e-mail: pleitao(at)ipb.pt; pleitao(at)ieee.org

Scientific Vice-chair "Plant Operations Management" thematic chair: Maurizio Faccio

e-mail: maurizio.faccio(at)unipd.it

Scientific Vice-Chair AMEST working group chair: Christos Emmanouilidis

e-mail: c.emmanouilidis(at)rug.nl; christosem(at)ieee.org

Scientific Vice-Chair IMS working group chair: Ahmad Barari

e-mail: ahmad.barari(at)ontariotechu.ca

Vice-Chair for Education: Hind Bril El-Haouzi

e-mail: hind.el-haouzi(at)univ-lorraine.fr

Vice-Chair for Industry: Aitor Arnaiz

e-mail: aitor.arnaiz(at)tekniker.es

Vice-Chair for Publication: Yuval Cohen

e-mail: yuvalc(at)afeka.ac.il

Vice-Chair for Social Media: Elisa Negri

e-mail: elisa.negri(at)polimi.it

Members

1. Austria

2. Belgium

3. Brazil

4. Bulgaria

5. Canada

6. Chile

7. China

8. Colombia

9. Ecuador

10. Finland

11. France

12. Germany

13. Greece

14. Hungary

15. Israel

16. Italy

17. Japan

18. Korea, Republic of

19. Kosovo

20. Mexico

21. Netherlands

22. Poland

23. Portugal

24. Romania

25. Russian Federation

26. Serbia, Republic of

27. Spain

28. Sweden

29. Switzerland

30. United Kingdom

31. USA

Member

Address:

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Fazel Ansari
Professor of Data-driven Maintenance Management
Head of Research Group Production and Maintenance Management
TU Wien

Head of Strategic Projects
Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH

Theresianumgasse 27

1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA

e-mail:

fazel.ansari(at)tuwien.ac.at

www:

https://www.tuwien.at/mwbw/im/ie/pim/team/ansari-fazel

Interests:

• Maintenance and Production Planning

• Knowledge-Based Maintenance

• Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

• Industrial AI – Application of Semantic Modeling, Text Mining and Predictive/Prescriptive Data Analytic

• Human-Centered Cyber Physical Production Systems

• Knowledge Management (Human- and Machine Factors) in Smart and Learning Factories

Vice Chair for Industry

Address:

IK4-TEKNIKER
C. Goenaga, 5
20600 Eibar, SPAIN

e-mail:

aitor.arnaiz(at)tekniker.es

www:

https://www.tekniker.es/es/tics

linkedin.com/in/aitor-arnaiz-00218022

Phone:

(+34) 680 630 072

Interests:

• Prognostics
• Prescriptive analytics
• Hybrid decision making
• Data trust

Member

Address:

Texas State University
601 University Drive
78666 Texas, USA

e-mail:

ba13(at)txstate.edu

www:

https://www.engineering.txstate.edu/Contact/faculty/asiabanpour.html

https://rpd.engineering.txstate.edu/

Phone:

(+1) 512 665 4617

Interests:

• Electromechanical systems
• Automation
• Simulation
• Additive manufacturing
• Smart systems in food, water, energy, and precision agriculture

Member

Address:

National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Lyon
Lyon, FRANCE

e-mail:

armand.baboli(at)insa-lyon.fr

www:

https://liris.cnrs.fr/page-membre/armand-baboli

Phone:

(+33) 698 134 164

Interests:

• Facility design
• Flexible manufacturing system
• Reconfigurable production system
• Industry 4.0
• Supply Chain management
• Production planning and scheduling
• Dynamic sequencing and Balancing
• Predictive maintenance

Member

Address:

Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science
Sniadeckich 2
75-453 Koszalin, POLAND

e-mail:

zbigniew.banaszak(at)tu.koszalin.pl

www:

https://weii.tu.koszalin.pl/

Phone:

+48 602 663 303

Fax:

+48 943 433 479

Interests:

• Discrete dynamic systems theory
• Decision support systems
• Constraints programming driven planning and scheduling with application to multimodal supply chain networks

Scientific Vice Chair IMS working group chair

Address:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Ontario Tech University), Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Director of Advanced Digital Design, Manufacturing, and Metrology Laboratories  (AD2M Labs), Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, CANADA

e-mail:

Ahmad.Barari(at)uoit.ca

ahmad.barari(at)ontariotechu.ca

www:

www.ahmadbarari.com

www.AD2MLabs.com

https://engineering.ontariotechu.ca/people/mme/ahmad.barari.php

Phone:

+1 (905) 721-8668 ext 5728

Interests:

• Advanced Manufacturing
• Digital Manufacturing
• Precision Manufacturing
• Structural design optimization
• Topology optimization
• FEA-Based design optimization
• Simulation-based condition monitoring
• Measurement Uncertainty
• 3D Coordinate Metrology
• Additive Manufacturing
• Rapid Prototyping of sculptured Surfaces
• Surface integrity
• Surface quality
• Surface tribology
• Reverse Engineering
• Surface Reconstruction

Member

Address:

Universidade Nova de Lisboa
DEEC Fac de Ciencias e Tecnol.
Quinta da Torre
2829 - 516 Caparica, PORTUGAL

e-mail:

jab(at)uninova.pt

www:

http://www.fct.unl.pt

http://rics.uninova.pt

Phone:

+351 96722 3414

Fax:

+351 2948532

Interests:

• Agent Based Manufacturing
• SOA Based Manufacturing
• Cyber Physical Systems
• Data Mining
• Evolvable/Adaptable Production Systems
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Self-Learning Production Systems
• Self-Organized Manufacturing Systems
• Collaborative Manufacturing Systems
• Flexible Manufacturing
• System of Systems

Member

Address:

University of Twente

Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB

Enschede, NETHERLANDS

e-mail:

g.barbieri(at)utente.nl

www:

https://people.utwente.nl/g.barbieri

Phone:

+39 3513851764

Interests:

• Asset Management

• Smart Maintenance

• Industry 5.0

• Culture Change

Member

Address:

Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Department of Electrotechnical Engineering
Campus de Santa Apolónia
5300-253 Bragança, PORTUGAL

e-mail:

jbarbosa(at)ipb.pt

www:

www.ipb.pt/~jbarbosa

Phone:

+351 918 985 512

Interests:

• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Internet of Things
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Holonic Manufacturing Systems
• Self-organization

Member

Address:

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy
Dept. of Industrial Automation
Kl. Ohridski Blv.8
1756 Sofia, BULGARIA

e-mail:

idilia(at)uctm.edu

www:

www.uctm.edu

Phone:

+ 359 888 755 232

Interests:

• Industrial Automation and Control
• Industrial Informatics
• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
• System Engineering
• Cyber-physical systems

Member

Address:

Université Européenne de Bretagne - UBS
Lab-STICC
BP 92116
56321 Lorient Cedex, FRANCE

e-mail:

pascal.berruet(at)univ-ubs.fr

www:

http://www.lab-sticc.fr/

Phone:

(+33) 2 978 74 026

Fax:

(+33) 2 978 74 527

Interests:

• Reconfigurable Discrete Event Systems
• Human-machine cooperation in complex, highly automated systems
• Control & command generation
• Supervision
• Simulation
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Smart Home Automation

Member

Address:

Koszalin University of Technology
Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science
Sniadeckich 2
75-453 Koszalin, POLAND

e-mail:

grzegorz.bocewicz(at)tu.koszalin.pl

www:

https://weii.tu.koszalin.pl/

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5181-2872

Scopus Profile

Phone:

(+48) 94 347 8717

Fax:

(+48) 94 343 3479

Interests:

• Modeling and design of decision support systems
• Methods of advanced planning and scheduling
• Constraints programming techniques
• Modeling and analyzing of systems of concurrent cyclic processes
• Operational research techniques
• Artificial methods
• Dynamic discrete event system in manufacturings
• Projects portfolio prototyping under uncertain constraints

Member

Address:

Politehnica University of Bucharest
Faculty of Automatic Control & Computers
Splaiul Independentei 313, Sector 6
060042 Bucharest, ROMANIA

e-mail:

theodor.borangiu(at)upb.ro

www:

http://doctorat.acs.pub.ro/en/membership-organization/sd_ac-members/

http://cimr.pub.ro/index.php?lang=EN&order=6

Phone:

+40 21 4029314

Fax:

+40 21 3170912

Interests:

• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
• Cloud Manufacturing
• AI in Manufacturing
• Robot Vision

Member

Address:

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Dpt. of Control Systems and Mechatronics Wyb.
Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw, POLAND

e-mail:

wojciech.bozejko(at)pwr.edu.pl

www:

Google Scholar Profile

Phone:

(+48) 603 672 142

Interests:

• Optimization, real-time operations in transportation
• Flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems
• Intelligent manufacturing systems 
• Job and activity scheduling
• Modeling of manufacturing operations 
• Procedures for process planning 
• Production & logistics over manufacturing networking
• Production planning and control

Member

Address:

Nantes University

LS2N UMR CNRS 6004
Nantes, FRANCE

e-mail:

olivier.cardin(at)ls2n.fr

www:

Google Scholar Profile

https://www.ls2n.fr/annuaire/Olivier%20CARDIN/

Phone:

 (+33) 0 228 092 020

Interests:

• Holonic Manufacturing Systems
• Cyber-Physical Production Systems
• Digital Twin

Member

Address:

Università degli studi di Bergamo
Viale Marconi, 5
24044 Dalmine, ITALY

e-mail:

sergio.cavalieri(at)unibg.it

www:

http://cels.unibg.it/

https://www.unibg.it/

Phone:

+39 035 205 2384

Fax:

+39 035 562779

Interests:

• Maintenance
• Production scheduling and Control
• Logistics

Member

Address:

"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati
Faculty of Control Systems, Computing, Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Str. Domneasca 47
810000 Galati, ROMANIA

e-mail:

daniela.cernega(at)ugal.ro

www:

http://www.aie.ugal.ro/membrii-departamentului

http://www.aie.ugal.ro/dcernega

Phone:

(+40) 336 130 186

Fax:

(+40) 336 130 299

Interests:

• Flexible manufacturing systems
• Discrete event systems
• Hybrid systems
• Robotics

Member

Address:

Universidad Politécnica Salesiana,

Calle Vieja 12-30 y Elia Liut, campus El Vecino

Cuenca 010105, Azuay, ECUADOR

e-mail:

mcerrada(at)ups.edu.ec

www:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariela-cerrada-lozada-37bb4a84/

https://gidtec.blog.ups.edu.ec/integrantes

Phone:

(+593) 98 862 9740 

Interests:

• Data-driven condition monitoring

• Observer based condition monitoring

• Prognostics and Health Management

• Fault-tolerant control

• Industry 4.0

Member

Address:

The Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Engineering

Bar-Ilan University

5290002 Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL

e-mail:

hila.bengal(at)gmail.com

www:

https://engineering.biu.ac.il/en

Phone:

972-3-5317733

Interests:

• Human Factors,

• Technology and Organizations,

• Artificial Intelligence,

• HR Analytics,

• Industry 5.0,

• Skills