Biography: Dr. Mohamed Badran received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with Design and Industrial concentration options and minor in Electronics with High honors and his M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from The American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2001 and 2003 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Systems and Computing from the University of Guelph, Canada in 2010. In 2011 and 2012, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The American University in Cairo. He was an assistant professor and acting chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Future University in Egypt, Egypt from 2013-2022. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The American University in Cairo.

He has received several awards and scholarships such as the Annual Academic Honors for Outstanding Achievement in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Sciences and Engineering at The American University in Cairo from 1998-2000. In addition, he received the Annual University Graduate Scholarship at University of Guelph from 2003-2006. He is a member of several societies such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Canadian Micro-Electronics Corporation (CMC), and the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate (EES). He served as a technical committee member for the International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA) from 2019-2024. He has an extensive hand on experience in different microfabrication facilities in Canada such as nanoFAB at the University of Alberta, and Center for Integrated Radio Frequency Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His current research interests are in Automated Guided Vehicles, Modeling of BioMEMS sensors, Micropumps, Rehabilitation, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Electrostatic Precipitators and Operations Research. He has published over 25 refereed publications and 1 book in these fields.

Biography: Yohan Noh received his first B.Sc. degreefrom the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University of Scienceand Technology, Korea (2002) and his second B.Sc. degree from the Department ofElectrical Engineering from Yonsei University, Korea (2004). He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. atthe Department of Science and Engineering (robotics), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in2007 and 2011, respectively. After this, he worked as a research associate in Roboticswithin the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, King's College London.During his PhD and Postdoctoral studies in the UK and Japan, he studied and proposed agreat number of the robotic systems for use in medicine and healthcare in Japan, Korea,and the UK. His work has resulted in more than seventy peer-reviewed papers includingsixteen journal papers and more than seventy papers in top journals and conferences ofrobotics. He has eleven published patents so far.He has been fortunate to have the opportunity of involvement in commercialisationprocess of a number of joint projects between academia and industry. Being ambitious tolay out a research direction which considers commercialisation of the developed system inthe beginning of a project, led to successful commercialisation of the projects and therespective products are now being sold in international market.He has facilitated many collaborative activities between robotics groups in the UK, EU, andJapan through domestic and international joint projects (EU-project STIFF-FLOP, Grant No.287728), (Wellcome Trust IEH project iFIND, Grant No.102431), and (Robotics AdvancedMedical Cluster, Japan), and have been an active member of the robotics community (IEEERAS, EMBS, ASME, RSJ, JSCAS), and helped in the organisation of RSJ, ROMANSY, ICCAS,ROBIO, ICRA, and EMBC conferences since 2008.