Invited Speakers 

Prof. Vladimir Estivill
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 

Bio: Vladimir Estivill-Castro is currently a full professor of the Department of Engineering at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and a visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has worked professionally in Mexico, the United States, Australia, Spain and Canada as a scholar, academic, consultant, programmer, project leader, and teacher. He holds a bachelor’s in mathematics and a master's in mathematics, as well as a master's in education and a doctorate in computer science. He pioneered privacy-preserving data mining. He received the Best PhD supervisor Award for Computer Science from the Australian Teaching and Learning Council in 2010. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, and software engineering. His current research interests are machine ethics and model-driven engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Lorenzo Bettini
DISIA, Univ. Firenze, Italy
 

Bio: Lorenzo Bettini is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at DISIA Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni `Giuseppe Parenti', Università di Firenze, Italy, since February 2016.
Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (Researcher) in Computer Science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy.
His research interests cover design, theory and implementation of programming languages with IDE support (in particular Object-Oriented languages and Network aware languages).
He is a committer of the Eclipse projects Xtext and SWTBot, and the project lead of the Eclipse project EMF Parsley.
Contact him at lorenzo.bettini@unifi.it, or visit https://www.lorenzobettini.it.

 

Assoc. Prof. Masateru Tsunoda
Kindai University, Japan
 

Bio: Masateru Tsunoda is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics at Kindai Unitersity, Japan. His research interests include software measurement and human factors in software development. Tsunoda received a Doctor of Engineering in information science from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. He is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, and the Japan Society for Information and Systems in Education.

 

Prof. Hamed Taherdoost
Hamta Business Corporation & University Canada West, Canada
 

Bio: Dr. Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning global scholar, R&D professional, and industry leader with more than two decades of international experience across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. He is a Professor at University Canada West (Canada), and also holds adjunct faculty appointments at Westcliff University (USA), GISMA University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the Victorian Institute of Technology (Australia), bringing a truly international perspective to higher education and research supervision.

In industry, Dr. Taherdoost has held senior executive roles including CTO, R&D Director, and CEO within startups and multinational organizations, leading applied innovation initiatives in digital transformation, cybersecurity, and emerging technology strategy. He is the Founder of Hamta Business Corporation and has advised more than 150 companies globally on R&D planning, technology commercialization, and innovation management, securing over $50M through competitive funding and incentive programs, including Canada’s SR&ED program.

A prolific scholar and research methodologist, Dr. Taherdoost has authored and edited numerous academic and professional books and has published over 450 scholarly works spanning research methodology, technology adoption, cybersecurity, blockchain, and AI-driven transformation. His textbooks on digital transformation and R&D are adopted by universities worldwide. He serves as Series Editor for Routledge’s Mastering Academic Excellence series and Jenny Stanford’s Quantum Computing series, and holds editorial and reviewer roles with high-impact international journals and publishers, including IEEE, Springer, IGI Global, EAI, Frontiers, and others.

Ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists (Stanford–Elsevier, 2021–2025), Dr. Taherdoost has received numerous awards for both academic excellence and industry innovation, underscoring his unique ability to bridge academia and industry on a global scale.