Keynote Speakers
June 9, 2026
Conference Opening: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:00 – 10:30 am
Keynote I: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:30 – 11:00 am
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Keynote II: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 11:00 – 11:30 am
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Keynote III: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Dr. Anthony Rollett
U.S. Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science and University Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Director of the NASA STRI IMQCAM and the NextManufacturing Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Keynote IV: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 12:00 – 12:30 pm
Dr. Jag Sarangapani
William A. Rutledge – Emerson Electric Company Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO, USA
Dr. Sarangapani is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Rutledge-Emerson Chair at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA. He was the Site Director for the graduated NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance Systems for 13 years and an Interim Director for Intelligent Systems Center. He also has a courtesy appointment with the Department of Computer Science. He has co-authored 209 peer-reviewed journal articles as two-author papers, 308 refereed IEEE conference articles, several book chapters, and co-authored five books and two edited books. He holds 21 patents, one defense publication, with several pending. He has supervised the completion of over 36 doctoral students and 32 M.S. thesis students. His research funding is more than $47 million dollars (his shared credit over $13.8 million) from NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, AFRL, Boeing, Honeywell, Sandia and from other companies. His current research interests include learning, adaptation, neural network decision making and control, networked control systems/cyber physical systems, prognostics/bigdata, and autonomous systems/robotics with healthcare applications. He served/serving on various editorial boards including as a Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, organizing committees in various international conferences, and as a co-editor for the IET Book series on Control.
Keynote V: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 12:30 – 1:00 pm
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June 10, 2026
Keynote VI: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:00 – 10:30 am
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Keynote VII: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:30 – 11:00 am
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Keynote VIII: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 11:00 – 11:30 am
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Keynote IX: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Keynote X: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 12:00 – 12:30 pm
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June 11, 2026
Keynote XI: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 10:00 – 10:30 am
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Keynote XII: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 10:30 – 11:00 am
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Keynote XIII: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 11:00 – 11:30 am
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Keynote XIV: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Keynote XV: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 12:00 – 12:30 pm
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