Robotics & Automation Organizing Committee

Amr Al Khateeb

Liverpool Business School, UK

Abdul Hafaz Ngah

University of Malaysia , Malaysia

Fredrik Heiding

Harvard University, US

Bo Li

Nanjing University, China

Jessica Lopez Espejel

Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France
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Amr Al Khateeb

Liverpool Business School, UK

Dr Amr Al Khateeb is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moore’s University. Amr has been teaching marketing since 2012 and has achieved a prestigious teaching award.

Amr graduated from University of Reading with a PhD in marketing. His thesis is entitled “Consumers’ favourable emotional feelings towards foreign countries: investigating the effects of consumer affinity on brand perceptions”.

Amr has active research projects in e-retailing and branding and has published in various marketing journals.

Abdul Hafaz Ngah

University of Malaysia , Malaysia

Abdul Hafaz Ngah is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Economy and Social Development, University of Malaysia Terengganu. He received his PhD in Technology Management (halal supply chain) from University Malaysia Pahang. His research interests are in technology management, halal logistics and supply chain, halal food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, technology adoption, consumer behaviour and tourism management.

Fredrik Heiding

Harvard University, US

Fredrik Heiding is a research fellow at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Division of Network and Systems Engineering at KTH. His research interests include usable security & privacy, cybersecurity policies, technical fraud & deception, ethical hacking, disinformation, and the economics of information security.

At Harvard, Fredrik is currently working with Bruce Schneier to investigate how cyberattacks can be automated using Large Language Models. He will present their latest work (“Devising and Detecting Phishing: Large Language Models (GPT3, GPT4) vs. Smaller Human Models (V-Triad, Generic Emails”) at Black Hat US in August 2023. He is also analysing Darknet marketplaces to find malware targeting the 100 most common IoT devices from US smart cities.

Bo Li

Nanjing University, China

Li Bo is an associate researcher and master supervisor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mainly engaged in research work on robotics and intelligent control, multi-body system dynamics and control, robot processing dynamics and vibration control. He has presided over 2 national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and the key projects of the Military Science and Technology Commission’s Basic Strengthening Plan, and 3 provincial and ministerial-level projects such as the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation and the sub-topics of the National Key R&D Plan. Published more than 30 high-level papers, edited 2 monographs (ranked 2nd), applied for 2 international PCT patents, authorized more than 30 national invention patents, one of which achieved patent conversion and application of 1.8 million yuan, and registered 5 software copyrights. Won 1 first prize for National Defence Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 5th) and 1 first prize for Jiangsu Provincial Teaching Achievement Award

Jessica Lopez Espejel

Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France

Hi! I am Jessica López Espejel, a deep learning researcher with a passion for Artificial Intelligence. My research interests encompass various aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as text and code generation, automatic evaluation, and small language models. Currently, I am particularly fascinated by everything related to Large Language Models.