Keynote Speakers
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Welcome Address from the Host University: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 10:00 – 10:20 am
Opening Keynote I: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 10:20 – 11:00 am
Prof. George Q. Huang
Chair Professor of Smart Manufacturing
Director of Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Keynote II: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 11:00 – 11:40 am
Dr. Maged M. Dessouky
Dean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences Institute
Department Chair, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angles, California, USA
Keynote III: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm
Fazleena Badurdeen, Ph.D.
Earl Parker Robinson Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies for Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Keynote IV: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 12:20 – 1:00 pm
Industry Keynote
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Keynote V: Thursday, July 3, 2025, 10:20 – 11:00 am
Dr. Guoqing Zhang
Professor
Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Windsor
Windsor, Canada
Keynote VI: Thursday, July 3, 2025, 11:00 – 11:40 am
Dr. Petri Helo
Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems
Head of Networked Value Systems Research Group
School of Technology and Innovations
University of Vaasa
Finland
Petri Helo is Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems and the head of Networked Value Systems research group, at School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, Finland. His research addresses the management of supply demand networks and use of information technology in operations. Prof. Helo is also partner and board member at Wapice Ltd, a software solution provider of CPQ and IoT solutions.
Keynote VII: Thursday, July 3, 2025, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm
Dr. Farouk Yalaoui
Senior Director (Vice President) for Research
Full Professor
University of Technology of Troyes (UTT)
Troyes, France
Professor Farouk YALAOUI is currently a full Professor at Troyes University of Technology (UTT), France, where he is the Senior Director for Research of UTT. He is also scientific director of Industrial Chair “Connected Innovation” of UTT since 2016. He is the former director of LOSI Lab. (Logistiques et Optimisation des systèmes Industriels) of UTT and and former director of Services and Industries of The future of Troyes Institute (ISIFT).
He obtained his Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnics School of Algiers (Algeria) in 1995, his master’s degree in Industrial System Engineering from Polytechnics Institute of Lorraine (Nancy, France) in 1997, his Ph.D. degree in Production Management from the Troyes University of Technology (UTT) in 2000 and followed by a Habilitation à diriger les recherches (Dr. Hab) from Compiegne University of Technology (UTC) in 2006. His research topic focuses on the scheduling problems, system design, operations research, modeling, analysis and optimization of logistic and production systems, reliability and maintenance optimization and on optimization problems in general. He supervised or co-supervised 29 Ph.D thesis and more than 82 projects since 2001. He is founder and partner of OPTA LP SAS company since 2013.
He is author or co-author of a pattern and more than 520 contributions, publications or communications with 1 patent; 3 books (Ellipses, Hermes-Lavoisier, Willey and Sons), 6 edited books (Springer), 16 book chapters and 102 papers in journals such as IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational research, International Journal of Production Economics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Computer & Operations research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He also published more than 320 papers in conference proceedings. He had presented 60 invited speeches (seminaries or conferences plenary sessions). He was invited by different universities (11) more than 20 times.
He is member of editor board of the book series “Automation and Control – Industrial Engineering”, ISTE Wiley, London, since 2014. He served or serves as editor to 20 International journal Boards: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI, Elsevier, IF. 6,212, 2022), The Scientific World Journal as part of the journal’s Operations Research subject area (TSWJ), International journal of Supply and Operations Management (IJSOM), British Journal of Mathematics &computer Science (BJMCS), Journal of Risk Analysis and Crises Response (JRACR), Journal., American Journal of Operations Research (AJOR), Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE), Modeling and Simulation in Engineering (MSE), Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AAI), International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL). He served as guest editor for Journal special issue (Journal of Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing). He is reviewer for more than 36 international journals.
He is founder and member of steering committee of IWOLIA (since 2010) SHEIC (since 2019) and member IESM-MOSIM Steering Committee, since 2019, Membre IFAC/MIM Steering Committee, since 2021. He is advisory Committees/Organizing Committees members of 36 conferences. He is also member of several international conference committees (about 154 conferences) as (INCOM2021, IFAC WC 2020, IEEE ICALT’2019, INCOM 2018, ICINCO 2017, ACIIDS 2017, IEEE SSCI 2016, MIM 2016, INCOM2015, IESM 2015, MIC’2015, SSEMO-WCCI 2014, IEEE-CIPLS 2014, FLINS’14, IEEE-CIPLS 2013, CIIA’2013, EMO13, MIM 2013, CoDIT 2013, ICSENT’2012, IEEM 2012,), member more than 25 organization committees of conferences and general Chair of IFAC MIM 2016. He organized and or Chair more than 115 tracks or sessions in conference.
He is Vice Chair of IFAC (International federation of Automation and Control) TC group 5.2. He is Chair of a Working Group on multiobjective optimization. He is member of IFAC TC group 5.1. He is member of French Universities National Council (CNU) field Automation, Control, Industrial Engineering (section 61). He is member and expert for French ANR agency, and for different agency such French AERES Agency, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Algerian PNR program.
He is member of Algerian Academy of Science and Technology (AAST) since 2015. He obtained of Annual Award 20117 of the IFAC French National Member Organization (NMO).
Keynote VIII: Thursday, July 3, 2025, 12:20 – 1:00 pm
Industry Keynote
Friday, July 4, 2025
Keynote IX: Friday, July 4, 2025, 10:00 – 10:40 am
Dr. Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
Associate Professor of Enterprise Systems Engineering
G,W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
Keynote X: Friday, July 4, 2025, 10:40 – 11:20 am
Alexandre Dolgui, Dr.habil., Ph.D., IISE Fellow
Professor and Head
Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Dept.
IMT Atlantique, LS2N-CNRS
La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler – B.P. 20722
F-44307 NANTES Cedex 3, France
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR)
Keynote XI: Friday, July 4, 2025, 11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Prof Bingwen Yan
Head of Department
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cape Town, South Africa
Keynote XII: Friday, July 4, 2025, 12:00 – 12:40 pm