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Keynote Speakers<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Welcome Address from the Host University: <\/strong>Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 10:00 – 10:20 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Robert Joliet
\n<\/strong>Academic Director of Programs
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Finance
\n<\/strong>I\u00c9SEG School of Management
\n<\/strong>France<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Robert Joliet is an Associate Professor of Finance and currently the Academic Director of Programs at I\u00c9SEG School of Management and a member of the Management Board of the School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from HEC Li\u00e8ge in Belgium. His research focuses on asset allocation, sustainable finance, and decision-making under uncertainty, with publications in leading journals such as Economics Letters, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Prof. Joliet has held various leadership roles at I\u00c9SEG School of Management, including Head of the Finance, Audit-Control Department and Director of Academic Development. He is a member of the Lille \u00c9conomie Management (LEM) CNRS research lab.<\/p>\n

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Opening Keynote I: <\/strong>Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 10:20 – 11:00 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Prof. George Q. Huang<\/strong><\/span>
\nChair Professor of Smart Manufacturing<\/strong><\/span>
\nDirector of Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing<\/strong><\/span>
\nDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/strong><\/span>
\nHung Hom, Kowloon<\/strong><\/span>
\nHong Kong<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

eorge joined Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in December 2022 as Chair Professor of Smart Manufacturing. Prior to this appointment, he was Chair Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Head of Department in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at The University of Hong Kong. He gained BEng and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Southeast University (China) and Cardiff University (UK) respectively. He has conducted research projects in areas of Smart Manufacturing, Logistics, and Construction through IoT-enabled Cyber-Physical Internet and Systems Analytics. His research has been supported with substantial government and industrial grants. He has directed a strong research team and collaborated closely with leading academic and industrial organizations through joint projects and start-up companies. He has published extensively and his works have been highly cited by research communities. He serves as associate editors and editorial members for several international journals. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of IEEE, IISE, ASME, HKIE, IET and CILT.<\/p>\n

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Keynote II: <\/strong>Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 11:00 – 11:40 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Maged M. Dessouky<\/span><\/strong>
\nDean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering<\/span><\/strong>
\nProfessor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences Institute<\/span><\/strong>
\nDepartment Chair, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<\/span><\/strong>
\nUSC Viterbi School of Engineering<\/span><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/span><\/strong>
\nLos Angles, California, USA<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Dessouky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992.<\/p>\n

His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, PATH, Caltrans, FTA, and Department of Defense. He was recipient of the 2007 Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize (“Optimal Slack Time for Schedule-Based Transit Operations”). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Dr. Dessouky was a recipient of IIE Operations Research Division Excellence in Teaching Award, the USC Associates Award in Teaching (Top University Award for Teaching), Alpha Pi Mu\/Omega Rho Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Industrial Systems Engineering, the USC Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the TRW School of Engineering Teacher Award. He is area\/associate editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, IIE Transactions, and Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and previously served as Area Editor of ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.<\/p>\n

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Keynote III: <\/strong>Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm<\/p>\n

\"\"Pervaiz Akhtar, PhD, MSc, MBA, BSc, PCAP & HE UK Senior Fellow<\/strong><\/span>
\nChair (Full Professor) in Business Analytics, Big Data & Supply Chains<\/strong><\/span>
\nDirector of MBA Programmes<\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Aberdeen<\/strong><\/span>
\nAberdeen, UK<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pervaiz Akhtar is Director of the MBA suite of programmes and Chair (Full Professor) in Business Analytics, Big Data and Supply Chains. Professor Akhtar utilises mixed methods and modelling to optimize and de-risk operational performance, supply chains and business value. He was Associate Dean of Graduate Studies before joining the University of Aberdeen. He has been a Visiting Professor of Big Data and Business Analytics\/Management Science (e.g., IESSEG, France) and a member of Executive Groups. He is also associated with Imperial College London, as his philosophy of continuous learning.<\/p>\n

Due to his all-round excellence in leadership, research and teaching, he is one of only 155 academics across all disciplines in the UK who earned their Professorship under the age of 35 as per HE records and became the youngest professor from his country of origin (out of over 212 million population). He has also set consecutive promotion records.<\/p>\n

Professor Akhtar has capitalised on over 20 years of academic, consulting and industrial experiences from the UK, France, New Zealand and other countries \u2013 played leading roles in teaching and research. By integrating informatics, analytics and big data applications in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, Professor Akhtar serves to bridge the gap between academic practices and industrial requirements. He has played multiple senior management roles in industry and worked with private and non-profit-making organizations such as UNICEF, JCCP, Oxfam, MSF, Islamic Relief, Red Cross, Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser.<\/p>\n

Along with his intriguing interdisciplinary education (BSc in Double Major Mathematics and Statistics, MBA, MSc in Logistics and Supply Chains, PCAP, Senior UKHE Fellowship, PhD in Supply Chain and Operations Management with extensive Data Science Applications), his research has appeared in top-ranked journals (i.e., A*\/FT50\/CABS4\/Q1) spanning a range of domains and industries including food, healthcare, FMCG, manufacturing, humanitarian operations, performance measurement, business value creation, logistics, supply chains, technology, big data analytics and data science skills.<\/p>\n

He has extensive experience of supervising UG, PG and PhD students and warmly welcomes all students. PhD students are particularly encouraged to apply in his area of interest such as big data, blockchain technology, analytics, humanitarian logistics and business operations.<\/p>\n

Professor Akhtar has worked on multiple projects with more than 20 companies and organizations worldwide (e.g., United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Europe). He has completed more than 10 funded projects and received awards \u2013 the value more than \u00a35 million.<\/p>\n

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Keynote IV: <\/strong>Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 12:20 – 1:00 pm<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Bouchra LE HIR<\/strong><\/span>
\nVice President Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/span>
\nForvia Interiors<\/strong><\/span>
\nParis, \u00cele-de-France, France<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Bouchra Le Hir is Vice President of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence and a Board Member of FORVIA Interiors. With over a decade of international leadership experience, she plays a key role in accelerating FORVIA Interiors\u2019 digital strategy and deploying AI-powered solutions across the organization.<\/p>\n

Before joining FORVIA, Bouchra held several strategic positions at SKF, contributing to global operations across France, India, China, the United States, and Germany. Her global perspective and proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives make her a recognized expert in digital innovation and organizational transformation.<\/p>\n

Bouchra holds a dual Master\u2019s degree in Chemistry of Transformation and in Materials Engineering.<\/p>\n

She is passionate about harnessing technology to drive sustainable growth and improve industrial performance, making her a compelling voice on digital transformation, AI, and the future of mobility\u201d.<\/p>\n

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1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
\n2:00 – 3:30 Parallel Sessions
\n3:00 – 4:00 Break
\n4:00 – 6:00 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n

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Thursday, July 3, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Corporate Partner Presentation: <\/strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025, 9:40 – 10:20 am<\/p>\n

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Dr. Farouk Yalaoui
\nSenior Director (Vice President) for Research<\/strong><\/span>
\nFull Professor<\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Technology of Troyes (UTT)<\/strong><\/span>
\nTroyes, France<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Professor Farouk YALAOUI<\/strong>\u00a0is 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 \u201cConnected Innovation\u201d of UTT since 2016. He is the former director of LOSI Lab. (Logistiques et Optimisation des syst\u00e8mes Industriels) of UTT and and former director of Services and Industries of The future of Troyes Institute (ISIFT).<\/p>\n

He obtained his Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnics School of Algiers (Algeria) in 1995, his master\u2019s 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 \u00e0 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He is member of editor board of the book series \u201cAutomation and Control \u2013 Industrial Engineering\u201d, 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u20192019, INCOM 2018, ICINCO 2017, ACIIDS 2017, IEEE SSCI 2016, MIM 2016, INCOM2015, IESM 2015, MIC\u20192015, SSEMO-WCCI 2014, IEEE-CIPLS 2014, FLINS\u201914, IEEE-CIPLS 2013, CIIA\u20192013, EMO13, MIM 2013, CoDIT 2013, ICSENT\u20192012, 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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Keynote V: <\/strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025, 10:20 – 11:00 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Guoqing Zhang<\/strong><\/span>
\nProfessor<\/strong><\/span>
\nDepartment of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nFaculty of Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Windsor<\/strong><\/span>
\nWindsor, Canada<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Guoqing Zhang, is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, and also the director of Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences from City University of Hong Kong in 2000. His recent research interests include optimization in supply chain management, logistics, algorithms design and development, RFID, and facility\/warehouse layout. He has published articles on those areas in journals such as Computational Optimization and Applications, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, and Operations Research. He has served as a consultant to Auto, Energy, and Foods industries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Keynote VI: <\/strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025, 11:00 – 11:40 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Petri Helo<\/span><\/strong>
\nProfessor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems<\/span><\/strong>
\nHead of Networked Value Systems Research Group<\/span><\/strong>
\nSchool of Technology and Innovations<\/span><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Vaasa
\nFinland<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0 Prof. Helo is also partner and board member at Wapice Ltd, a software solution provider of CPQ and IoT solutions.<\/p>\n

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Keynote VII: <\/strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Min Xie
\n<\/strong>Chair Professor, Department of Systems Engineering
\n<\/strong>Chair Professor, Affiliate, Department of Data Science
\n<\/strong>City University of Hong Kong
\n<\/strong>Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, PRC
\n<\/strong>Fellow of IEEE (2006)
\n<\/strong>Elected Member of Int Statistical Institute (2010)
\n<\/strong>Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2022)
\n<\/strong>Asian Region VP of Inst of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2022-2024)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

M. Xie completed his undergraduate studies in Sweden, earning a direct MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1984, followed by a PhD from Link\u00f6ping University in 1987. In 1991, he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellowship, later becoming a full professor in 2005. In May 2011, Professor Xie moved to the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), as Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering. He has conducted extensive research in industrial engineering, focusing on reliability engineering and quality management, and has published over 300 journal articles and authored 10 books. At NUS and CityU, Prof Xie supervised more than 70 PhD students, now holding positions in industry and academia across various continents. Prof Xie has also served as editor, associate editor, or on editorial board member for over 10 leading international journals. Prof Xie was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005 and elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He currently serves as Chairman of Fellow Evaluation Committee for IEEE TEMS society and VP for Asian Region of IISE.<\/p>\n

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Keynote VIII: <\/strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025, 12:20 – 1:00 pm<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Romain BRUNIAUX, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>Valeo Group Industrial Vice-President
\n<\/strong>Power Division Industrial Vice-President
\n<\/strong>Paris, France<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Presentation Title: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Valeo’s Factories<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Romain Bruniaux studied in the USA and France. He spent 6 months in 1995 at University of Iowa (Iowa City) working with Professor Andrew Kusiak about production cell optimization. In France, he studied in the French Institute for Advanced Mechanical Engineering (Clermont Ferrand) from 1992 to 1996, specializing in Production Systems. He is an IFMA engineer. He completed his Ph.D. with Doctor Christophe Caux and Professor Henri Pierreval in Clermont Ferrand University. His Ph.D. is dedicated to continuous simulation of industrial site networks, applied to supply chains in the automotive industry. After a first research period, Romain decided in 2000 to join the Automotive Industry : he took various management positions in the Stellantis factory (Poissy). Then, he joined Alstom Transport (Railway Industry) in 2006 to take the position of Lean Manufacturing Director, deploying the Alstom Production System in 28 production sites in the world. Romain became in 2010 Site Managing Director of a 700 people factory in Le Creusot. In 2013, he was promoted to become successively quality director and industrial director for a scope of 25 sites at Alstom Transport Headquarter in Saint-Ouen. Romain joined Valeo in 2018, back in the Automotive industry. He started at Valeo as Industrial Director for a Product Group (15 factories worldwide). After successive promotions, Romain is today Valeo Group Industrial Vice-President and Power Division Industrial Vice-President, covering more than 150 factories in the world. His current responsibilities include the definition of the industry 4.0 roadmap for the entire Valeo group, with a specific focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n

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1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
\n2:00 – 3:30 Parallel Sessions
\n3:00 – 4:00 Break
\n4:00 – 6:00 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n

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Friday, July 4, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Keynote IX: <\/strong>Friday, July 4, 2025, 10:20 – 11:00 am<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Jianxin (Roger) Jiao<\/strong><\/span>
\nAssociate Professor of Enterprise Systems Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nG,W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology<\/strong><\/span>
\nAtlanta, GA, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Dr. Jiao joined the Woodruff School in December 2008. Prior, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before his career in Singapore, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1998 to 1999. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Lecturer of Industrial Engineering in the School of Management at Tianjin University, China, and from 1988 to 1990, he worked as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Design at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jiao’s research activities are geared toward a good leverage of practical relevance and academic rigor. He is interested in a number of investigations related to an extended enterprise, involving engineering design and product development (design theory and methodology, product family and product platform, customer requirement management, affective design and Kansei engineering, design project management, service modeling and service delivery system design), enterprise engineering and industrial systems (reconfigurable manufacturing systems, production planning and control, supply chain management and engineering logistics, system modeling and simulation, sales\/marketing manufacturing interface, global manufacturing and operations, mass customization), as well as manufacturing and management information systems (artificial intelligence in design and manufacturing, industrial applications of e-commerce, virtual enterprise).<\/p>\n

His research is motivated by the current trend of manufacturing companies to move toward global manufacturing in order to better leverage capabilities and resources worldwide. Product realization then becomes globally distributed and necessitates collaboration that transcends geographic boundaries. Strategic engineering with a focus on product creation suggests itself to be of primary importance for companies to gain competitive edges. Product design has to address individual customer needs along with diverse market niches, while maintaining low costs and near mass production efficiency. Build-to-order and reconfiguration have become common norms. The traditional spectrum of product fulfillment therefore must be expended to encompass marketing, design, production, as well as supply and value chains; and must be aligned with the self-adaptability of a learning organization. Dr. Jiao’s vision is that the product creation horizon will be shifted from a physical product perspective to a total life cycle experience. Product creation should be more than just dealing with pieces of hardware, but rather should be enacted as the co-design of an entire ecosystem, including fulfillment, services, experiences and human satisfaction at the individual and the community levels.<\/p>\n

Education<\/p>\n

    \n
  • \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 1998<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M.E. (Intelligent Manufacturing), Tianjin University, China, 1993<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B.E. (Mechanical Design), Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China, 1988<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Keynote X: <\/strong>Friday, July 4, 2025, 11:00 – 11:40 am<\/p>\n

    \"\"Alexandre Dolgui, Dr.habil., Ph.D., IISE Fellow<\/strong><\/span>
    \nProfessor and Head<\/strong><\/span>
    \nAutomation, Production and Computer Sciences Dept.<\/strong><\/span>
    \nIMT Atlantique, LS2N-CNRS<\/strong><\/span>
    \nLa Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler – B.P. 20722<\/strong><\/span>
    \nF-44307 NANTES Cedex 3, France<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

    Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Dr. Alexandre Dolgui is an IISE Fellow, Distinguished Professor and the Head of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department at the IMT Atlantique, France. His research focuses on manufacturing line design, production planning and supply chain optimization. His main results are based on the exact mathematical programming methods and their intelligent coupling with heuristics and metaheuristics algorithms. He is the co-author of 5 books, the co-editor of 25 books or conference proceedings, the author of 270 refereed journal papers, 4 prefaces of books, 31 editorials and 37 book chapters as well as over 400 papers in conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Research, an Area Editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, past Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science (2005-2008), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2006-2009) and Omega-the International Journal of Management Science (2009-2012), consulting Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (2009- ). He is Member of the Editorial Boards for 27 other journals, including the International Journal of Production Economics. He is an Active Fellow of the European Academy for Industrial Management, Member of the Board of the International Foundation for Production Research, former Chair of IFAC TC 5.2 Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control (2011-2017, currently a vice chair), Member of IFIP WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems, IEEE System Council Analytics and Risk Technical Committee, Guest editor of special issues of European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega \u2013 The International Journal of Management Science, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms, and Annual Reviews in Control; he was General Scientific Chair of the 12th IFAC symposium INCOM\u201906, and IFIP APMS\u20192021, Chairman of International Program Committee of SCM\u201902, MOSIM\u201904, INCOM\u201909, INCOM\u201912, IESM\u201913, MIM\u201913, INCOM\u201915, IESM\u201917, GSC\u201918, MIM\u201919 and Chairman of Steering committee of MIM\u201916. Chairman of Organizing Committee of the International Conference MOSIM\u201901 and ROADEF\u20192011; last ten years, he was Member of Program Committees of over 200 International Conferences.<\/p>\n

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    Keynote XI: <\/strong>Friday, July 4, 2025, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm<\/p>\n

    \"\"Prof Bingwen Yan<\/strong><\/span>
    \nHead of Department<\/strong><\/span>
    \nDepartment of Industrial & Systems Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
    \nCape Peninsula University of Technology<\/strong><\/span>
    \nCape Town, South Africa<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

    Bingwen Yan is based at Faculty of Engineering and The Built Environment, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

    Bingwen Yan is a professor and the Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.<\/p>\n

    His research spans a wide range of fields, including industrial engineering, engineering management, public administration and business management.<\/p>\n

    \n

    Keynote XII: <\/strong>Friday, July 4, 2025, 12:20 – 1:00 pm<\/p>\n

    Dr. Thierry Benoist<\/strong><\/span>
    \nFounder and CEO
    \nHexaly
    \nParis, France<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Thierry Benoist is an Operations Research expert with 25 years of experience bridging research and industry applications. He founded Hexaly in 2012 to provide the market with a new kind of mathematical optimization solver. Before that, he worked for 10 years delivering OR solutions in various industries like manufacturing, transportation, construction, telecom, advertising, banking, and energy. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has won several awards in Operations Research.<\/p>\n

    \n

    1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
    \n2:00 – 3:30 Parallel Sessions
    \n3:00 – 4:00 Break
    \n4:00 – 6:00 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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