Keynote Speakers
June 1, 2027
9:30 – 10:00: Opening and Welcome Address
10:00 – 11:00: Keynote I
Dr. Yingzi Lin
COE Distinguished Professor and Chair, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Yingzi Lin is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and director of the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems (IHMS) Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Her area of expertise is in intelligent human-machine systems, human factors and applications in healthcare and transportation safety, smart structures and systems, sensors and sensing systems, multimodality information fusion, driver-vehicle systems, patient safety, human-machine interface design, human-robot interaction, robotics, and human-friendly mechatronics. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and major industries such as GM and BOSE. She is a recipient of a few prestigious research awards, including NSF CAREER award and NSERC UFA (University Faculty Award). She has published over two hundred technical papers in referred journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.
11:00 – 12:00: Keynote II
12:00 – 13:00: Keynote III
June 2, 2027
10:00 – 11:00: Keynote IV
Dr. Milind Tambe
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Principal Scientist and Director for “AI for Social Good” at Google Research
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Milind Tambe is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University; concurrently, he is Principal Scientist and Director for “AI for Social Good” at Google Research. Prof. Tambe and his team have developed innovative AI and multi-agent reasoning systems that have been successfully deployed to deliver real-world impact in public health, public safety, and wildlife conservation. He is the recipient of the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, the AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, and the AAMAS ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. He is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. His contributions in Operations Research and public safety have also been recognized with the INFORMS Wagner Prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, Military Operations Research Society Rist Prize, the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, and commendations and certificates of appreciation from the US Coast Guard, the Federal Air Marshals Service, and airport police at the city of Los Angeles.
11:00 – 12:00: Keynote V
12:00 – 13:00: Keynote VI
June 3, 2027
10:00 – 11:00: Keynote VII
Dr. Ozlem Ergun
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Global Resilience Institute
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Özlem Ergun is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. Dr. Ergun’s research focuses on design and management of large-scale and decentralized networks. She has applied her work on network design, management, and resilience to problems arising in many critical systems including transportation, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. She has worked with organizations that respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises around the world, including USAID, UN WFP, UNHCR, IFRC, OXFAM America, CARE USA, FEMA, USACE, CDC, AFCEMA, and MedShare International. Recently, Dr. Ergun partnered with the Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) to help match qualified medical professionals to Long Term Care facilities with open positions around the state as part of the state’s response efforts to COVID-19. Dr. Ergun also served as a member of the National Academies Committee on Building Adaptable and Resilient Supply Chains after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the National Academies Committee on Security of America’s Medical Supply Chain. She was the President of INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Service and Needs in 2013 and is an INFORMS fellow. She served as the Area Editor at the Operations Research journal for Policy Modeling Public Sector Area and currently serves as the Department co-Editor at MSOM journal for the Environment, Health and Society Department. She is also the founder of Verioptum.
11:00 – 12:00: Keynote VIII
12:00 – 13:00: Keynote IX