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Prof. Minvydas Kazys Ragulskis, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Tentative speech title: Nonuniform embedding based feature extraction for bearing fault diagnosis

Minvydas Ragulskis is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical Modelling at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems, with particular interests in nonlinear time series analysis, nonlinear differential equations, chaotic and complex networks, and intelligent fault diagnosis. He has supervised 14 doctoral dissertations to completion. Prof. Ragulskis has been included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist List and is a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) and an invited expert at the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency. He has served as a plenary speaker at numerous national and international conferences.

Prof. Hang Su, Paris-Saclay University, France

Tentative speech title: Evolutionary Human–robot Interaction for Future Embodied Systems

Hang Su is currently a Professor at the IBISC Laboratory, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Évry Paris-Saclay, France. He received his Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2019. He currently serves as a Co-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems. He has been invited to deliver a talk at Nature Conferences Autonomous Robotics 2026. He is actively involved in the academic community through editorial services, including Associate Editor of the IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter and associate-editor roles for several IEEE Transactions journals, as well as leading international robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. Dr. Su has published over 150 papers in international journals and conferences. His research contributions have been recognized by multiple awards, including the Outstanding Interaction Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2022, the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2021), the Best Conference Paper Award in Advanced Robotics at ICARM 2020, and the ICRA Travel Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2019. His research interests include human–robot interaction, medical robotics, exoskeletons, sensor fusion, bilateral teleoperation, and embodied intelligence.