Ron Barrett received Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Kansas in 1988 and '93 and a Master's from the University of Maryland in 1990 in aerospace engineering. He is a National Academy Fellow, has authored more than 400 technical publications, holds 28 patents, has served on faculties in Auburn, Alabama, TU Delft, Holland, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and KU and coached 44 international aircraft design award winning projects. He currently teaches a range of aerospace design courses and directs research in unique corners of the aerospace world from hypersonic munitions to flying toys to net negative carbon flight operations at the University of Kansas, USA.

Prof. Bernard H. Foing, president Space Renaissance International, executive director of ILEWG, CEO LUNEX EuroSpaceHub and EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation, Qomosys Chief Scientist. ERA chair at Riga Latvia, guest Prof at Leiden observatory, ISU, IPSA and formerly EPFL, VU Amsterdam . Member IAF committees (IPC, space exploration, astronomy, space habitats, traffic management, ITACCUS former chair), founder of ArtMoonMars and MoonGallery. Full member International Academy of Astronautics since 2010, vice-chair COSPAR planetary and PEX Panel on Exploration Panel, co-director IMA International Moonbase Alliance, founder Moon Village & MVA, EGU space instrumentation officer. Former ESA Chief Scientist, senior advisor to DG, chair of ESTEC staff association committee (2012-2017) & SMART-1 Lead scientist. Co-Investigator of SOHO, XMM, BIOPAN, SMART-1, Mars Express, COROT, ISS/Expose, BIOMEX, ExoMars. Publications : 980 articles, including 240 refereed papers. Edited 10 Books. Academics : Habilitation 1990. He has been working at CNRS, and as post-doc astronomer ESO European Southern Observatory Chile, PhD astrophysics & space techniques (CNRS, Lockheed, SacPeak, Boulder, Harvard), Prof agrégé Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure ENSET Paris-Saclay”. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_fTVp0kAAAAJ&hl=en

Oliver King-Smith is the Founder and CEO of smartR AI, pioneering private, deterministic Systems of Intelligence for highly regulated, complex industries. A veteran executive and operator, Oliver specializes in building advanced AI architectures that sit securely on top of legacy data estates—such as PLM and ERP networks—without requiring a costly "rip-and-replace" overhaul. His career focuses on eliminating operational risk, bridging technical data silos, and driving execution velocity across the aerospace, defense, and manufacturing sectors. An innovator with deep expertise in data visualization, statistics, machine vision, robotics, and AI, Oliver holds a PhD in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and an executive MBA from Stanford. He is a frequent industry speaker dedicated to transforming static data into an active engine for human-machine collaboration.

Dr. ir. Roelof Vos is an Associate Professor at the Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on new aircraft configurations and technologies to enable sustainable aviation. Amongst others, he is the lead for the Flying V project, which is carried out at TU Delft in collaboration with industrial partners. Vos has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, presented over 100 conference papers, and holds 4 patents. He has worked on various projects funded by the European Commission, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and through public-private partnerships. He teaches courses on Aircraft Design and Aerodynamic Design as well as professional classes on Aerodynamic Design and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Design. He is the author of the textbook "Introduction to Transonic Aerodynamics." Vos is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of the AIAA Aircraft Design Technical Committee. He holds a BSc (2004) and MSc (2005) in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD (2009) from the University of Kansas, sponsored by the Fulbright Program.

Dr. Arvind Gangoli Rao, is a Chair Professor of Sustainable Aircraft Propulsion at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft. Dr. Gangoli Rao obtained his masters and PhD in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and later worked at Technion, Israel as a post-doctoral researcher. Dr. Gangoli Rao is a specialist in aircraft propulsion and has worked on a variety of problems related to gas turbines and novel propulsion systems for aircraft, especially ones dealing with the usage of alternative energy sources. He has authored around 120 publications. He is listed in the top 2% scientists of aerospace engineering in the study of Stanford University and Elsevier. Dr. Gangoli Rao has been involved in several EU projects and Dutch funded projects on sustainable aviation along with the industrial partners. He is the Dutch representative International Society of Air Breathing Engines (ISABE). He is also a member of the ACARE (Advisory Committee for Research and innovation in Europe) working group on Energy and Environment.

Professor Elkhatib Kamal is an Associate Professor in Laboratoire des sciences du
numérique de Nantes (LS2N), École Centrale de Nantes, Nantes 44300, France. He received
the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Menoufia University, Egypt, and
the Ph.D. degree in Automation and Industrial Computing from the CRIStAL Laboratory,
University of Lille, France.
His research focuses on intelligent and robust control systems, artificial intelligence, power
electronics, and energy management for advanced engineering applications. His expertise
includes Model Predictive Control (MPC), robust and fault-tolerant control, fuzzy and neuro-
fuzzy systems, optimization, and real-time control implementation. His current research is
centered on More-Electric Aircraft (MEA), hydrogen-powered hybrid propulsion systems,
intelligent battery management, renewable energy integration, smart grids, and resilient
energy infrastructures.
Professor Kamal has contributed to several major European research and industrial projects in
aerospace, smart grids, hybrid electric vehicles, HVDC transmission, and renewable energy
systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 98 peer-reviewed scientific
publications in leading international journals and conferences and serves on the editorial
boards and technical committees of several international journals and IEEE/IFAC
conferences.
His research aims to develop intelligent, resilient, and sustainable control and energy
management solutions that support the next generation of aerospace systems, clean energy
technologies, and electrified transportation.

Prof. Konstantin LUKIN, IEEE Fellow, received his diploma in Radiophysics & Electronics from Kharkov State University, Ukraine, in 1973. He is Head of the Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, LNDES, at IRE NASU. He completed his Candidate of Sciences thesis in IRE NASU and defended it at Moscow State University (MSU) in 1980. He completed his Doctor of Sciences dissertation in Physical Electronics in IRE NASU and defended it at Kharkov State University in 1989. He has been a visiting scientist at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in 1996-1997 and a visiting professor at the Joint Research Center (JRC, Ispra, Italy) in 1997-198. Senior Associate ICTP in 1998-2013. Since 2023 he is visiting professor in Instituto Tecnologico Aeronautica (ITA, Brazil). In 1991 he founded the Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, LNDES, at the IRE NASU, where Dynamical Chaos and Noise Radar Technology are under intense research. For his significant contributions to Radar with Noise and Chaotic signals he was elected as IEEE Fellow in 2009. His current research areas: digital generation and processing of random/chaotic/noise signals and their applications in Noise Radar for SAR imaging; differential SAR interferometry; microwave monitoring of urban areas and detection of pre-catastrophic states of large objects, such as landslides, bridges, TV towers, dams, large buildings, hangars; Computer Simulation of Quantum Noise Radar; Conceptual Design of Reusable Rocket with Vertical Takeoff & Landing Capability. He was Chairman of RTO/NATO Task Groups on ‘Noise Radar Technology' about 20 years. Prof. K. Lukin is author & coauthor of 460 scientific publications, 3 monographs and 5 Chapters in monographs. He was a TPC member of the EUSAR, IRS, SPSympo, IRMMW-THz, MSMW, IEEE IVEC and Chairman of NRT-2002, 2003, 2012 Int. Conferences. He was leader of many int. R&D projects on Noise Radar Systems, ground SAR imaging and microwave monitoring of environment. He was principal investigator of the SCOUT Project under FP-7 Program and Co-Director of 3 Projects under NATO SPS Program: G4809, G5395; G5465. In 2019, his Project G4809 on ‘Compact Sensor for UAV’ (in cooperation with Spain & South Korea) was recognized as the best SPS innovative Project of the last 10 years.

Joseph P. Firmage is widely recognized as a leading scientist and technology pioneer for nearly four
decades. He serves as Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the newly assembled, industry
ecosystem-shaping enterprise, the Academy of Science and Arts.
After 28 years and approximately $40 million in cumulative research and development, the Academy has
been formally established through the unification of prior theoretical and experimental programs.
Over the last six months, Mr. Firmage has opened and articulated the full scope of the Academy’s scientific
achievements, already evidenced in more than 100 published scientific and technical papers (many
proprietary), having reached hundreds of thousands of professional readers.
The Academy is now positioned to initiate $7–9 figure intellectual property licensing and co-development
contracts, beginning in Q2 2026 for its ORIGAMI Virtual Matter Generator, and in Q4 2026 for its Energy
Tap Generator and Acceleromotor propellantless propulsion engine.
Each of these platforms represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for global economic expansion
between 2026 and 2040. Firmage expects the Academy to achieve profitability by Q4 2026, with
plans—market conditions permitting—for an initial public offering in early 2027.

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Henk A.P. Blom is Full Professor with Delft University of Technology, holding the Chair in
Air Traffic Management (ATM) Safety, and has been Principal Scientist with National
Aerospace Laboratory NLR, The Netherlands. He is an IEEE Fellow.
His research has focused on exploiting the theory of stochastic modeling and analysis in
two ATM research domains: 1) Bayesian data fusion; and 2) Safety risk assessment. In
the data fusion domain, his novel methods have been implemented in Eurocontrol’s
multi-sensor target tracking system ARTAS. He also received (jointly with Dr. Yaakov
Bar-Shalom) the 2022 Pioneer Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society for the development of the Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) approach to multi-
model estimation and maneuvering target tracking.
In the safety domain, he has been leader in the development and application of Agent-
based Dynamic Risk Modelling and Simulation (ABDRMS) methodology, to identify
unknown emergent behaviour of a novel socio-technical ATM design, and to realize
effective feedback to the design. In support of this ABDRMS development, he has
conducted hazard brainstorms with pilots and controllers, and has systematically
organized collaboration with researchers from safety-relevant disciplines, ranging from
human cognitive behavior to rare event simulation of stochastic hybrid systems.

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The author has been a nuclear power station C&I nuclear safety expert and an IFR pilot, he also designed and produced specialised instruments for the electricity industry, but now he works independently and pro-bono in theoretical quantum physics. The author has worked on alarm information design logic and the elimination of needless alarm message flooding that is the very devil in all complex surveillance of automated systems. He is the best person that any aviation control business firm or department, who would like an industry-external independent cybernetic strategy audit of their avionics systems work or offerings, could ever appoint to help them find generic opportunities for vast improvements to the safety performance of what they can achieve.

W.F. Lawless. USMC-R, Lt.Col aviator (ret.); P.E. In 1977, at Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS), SC, in charge of nuclear waste management, he blew the whistle on DOE’s mis-management of its military radioactive wastes (e.g., Building Bombs, 1989). After PhD, 1992, DOE invited his environmental guidance at SRS (e.g., he recommended the regulated closure in 1997 of the first two HLW radioactive tanks). His research is on autonomous human-machine-AI teams. With the Naval Research Lab (NRL), DC, he has co-edited 14 books on AI (e.g., Elsevier, 2026). He has co-organized special issues: AI Magazine, 2019 (“Human-machine teams and explainable AI"); 13 AAAI symposia at Stanford; Frontiers in Physics (“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Structure and Performance of Interdependent Autonomous Human-Machine Teams & Systems”); AHFE S.I.G.'s: 2023; 2025; 2026; Entropy (“An Entropy Approach to Structure and Perform. of Interdependent Autonomous Human-Machine Teams and Systems”); and AAAI-26’s workshop (“Orchestrating Synthesized Human and AI-Agentic Workflows: AI Agency Benefits, Disruptions & Management”). Conferences (e.g., QIP-26 on quantum foundations: “Squeezing” quantum-like interdependent uncertainty defeats AI risks, social science limits, and supports Bohr’s complementarity duality”). Awards: e.g., top article AHFE 2024, distinguished faculty NRL, summer 2025, and AHFE’s Distinguished Researcher 2025. Currently: Call: Springer Nature’s Human-Intelligent Systems Integration (July-August 2026).

Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Harm Buning Collegiate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Since 1980, he has published eight books
(on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 425 journal papers and 690 proceedings papers, given 79 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 71 Ph.D. students, and supervised more than 75 MS degrees.  He works in the
areas of applying smart materials and structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Instituted for Acoustics and Vibrations, Society of Experimental Mechanics and American Academy of Mechanics. He holds the 2000 ASME Adaptive Structures Award, the 2003 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime
Achievement Award, the ASME Den Hartog Award for lifetime achievement in teaching and research in vibration, the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award in Structural Health Monitoring, the 2014 AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Award and elected to Honorary Member of ASME in 2026. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999-2024) and the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (1989-1999).

Constantin Voloşencu is a prominent Professor in the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics at the Politehnica University of Timişoara, Romania. His professional achievements are extensive, particularly in control systems, electrical drives, and intelligent systems (including fuzzy logic and neural networks). He is the author of over 10 books, 11 book chapters, and more than 170 scientific papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He holds
27 patents and has managed numerous research grants. He has developed various electrical and automation systems for industrial applications, including machine tools and high-power ultrasound processes. He serves as editor-in-chief and a member of the editorial boards of international journals; he has served on scientific committees at many international conferences and has been a plenary and keynote speaker at numerous global conferences. Significant contributions to both academic research and practical engineering development characterize his career.

Augusto Mattos Schaedler is a senior aerospace and space technology executive and currently Head of Space R&D at Terma, where he leads international teams and technology development across advanced space systems, satellite ground infrastructure and next-generation mission operations.
With more than 20 years of international experience across aerospace, defense and space, Augusto has built a truly global career, having lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Brazil, Taiwan and Israel. This worldwide exposure has shaped his perspective on technology, leadership and innovation, allowing him to work across different engineering cultures, industries and complex international programs.

Dr. Willem Anemaat is the President of DARcorporation in Lawrence, Kansas, USA, an aerospace engineering consulting firm he cofounded in 1991.

Dr. Anemaat holds an MSAE degree (1987) from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2007 from The University of Kansas.

Dr. Anemaat served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal from 2009-2023. Dr. Anemaat is an AIAA Associate Fellow and previous chair of the AIAA Aircraft Design Technical Committee. He received the AIAA Sustained Service Award in 2021 and the 2025 University of Kansas Distinguished Engineering Services Award (DESA) in 2025. He is the Honors & Awards Chair for the AIAA Wichita Section.

He is the chief architect of the Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA) software, a commercial conceptual and preliminary airplane design tool. He is an instructor for KU Jayhawk Global Short Courses in the field of aircraft design, flight dynamics and introduction to aerospace engineering. He has coinventor on two patents and has authored over 60 technical publications.

Serhii Shevchenko was born in 1961, in 1984 he graduated from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (KhPI) with a degree in "Hydraulic Machines and Automation").
In 1990 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Development and research of new designs of gland seals for pumping equipment of nuclear power plants".
He worked in the research laboratory of vibration reliability of machines of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of the Sumy branch of KHPI (later SumDU): from 1984 to 1994 - a research associate, participated in developments in the field of aviation technology and nuclear power plants.
Since 1995, he has created and managed private enterprises of the machine-building industry of Ukraine, which were engaged in the production of pumping and compressor equipment for various industries.
Since July 2020, he has been a senior researcher at the Pukhov Institute, Institute for Modelling in Power Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IPME).
In June 2023, he defended his doctoral (Doctor of Technical Sciences) dissertation on the topic "Mathematical models of processes in sealing systems of centrifugal machines".
Since August 2024, he has been an academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine (head of the Sumy regional organization).
Since January 2025, he has been the scientific supervisor of the fundamental work "Creation of models, methods and means of increasing the safety and efficiency of the functioning of power pumping equipment", leading researcher.
The direction of S. Shevchenko's scientific research is related to the development of methods for the theory of sealing and vibration reliability of centrifugal machines.

Jerry Zeyu Gao is a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Now, he is the director of SJSU research center on Smart Technology, Computing, and Complex Systems. He had over 27 years of academic research and teaching experience and over 10 years of industry working and management experience on software engineering and IT development applications. He has published three technical books and over hundreds (350) publications in IEEE/ACM journals, magazines, international conferences and workshops. His Google Scholar citation is over 10K+ and his ResearchGate reads is over 386K+. His current research areas include machine learning, smart cities, AI test automation, AI clouds and mobile clouds. In 2010, Jerry Gao has been recognized by University of Texas at Arlington as a distinguished Alumna for College of Engineering at its 50th anniversary. In 2011, he was award as a KSI Fellow in SEKE2011. In 2013, Dr. Gao has received the College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in scholarship, Dr. Gao served as an editorial board member and an associate editor for numerous international journals in software engineering, machine learning, and smart cities, such as IEEE Software, Journal of Smart Cities, Energies, and Agriculture. Dr. Gao has been included and listed in Marquis American Who's Who 2020-2022. In last 10 years, Dr. Gao has played as one of leaders in organizing many international conferences and workshops as a conference co-chair, program co-chair, and workshop co-chair. Now, he is the steering board chair for IEEE CISOSE congress and IEEE Future Technology Summit, and the steering board member for IEEE Smart World Congress. IEEE CISOSE congress includes IEEE BigDataService, IEEEAITest, IEEE Intelligent Mobile Cloud, IEEE SOSE, and IEEE DAPPS. In addition, he served as a chair for many other conferences, such as IEEE CAI2025, IEEE AITest2025, IEEE BigDataService*, IEEE MobileCloud*, IEEE Smart World Congress 2017, Smart City Innovation 2017, SEKE06-2016, IEEE SOSE2011-2013, ICYCS'05, TQACBS2005-2006, WMCS2004-2010, IEEE EMOBS07-08, TEST'07, and EECC2006

Dr. Chung Yuan Kung is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. He earned his BS (1969) and MS (1972) in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, an MS in Physics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (1974), and a PhD in Materials Science from Northwestern University (1979). After postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and six years in the U.S. semiconductor industry with Fairchild and National Semiconductor, Dr. Kung joined Taiwan’s ITRI in 1987 and served on NCHU’s faculty from 1991 until his retirement in 2016. His 2024 publications represent a culmination of decades spent unraveling the deep connections between geometry and material.