Dr. José Bravo is a full professor in Computer Science in the Department of Technologies and Information Systems at Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain, and head of the Modelling Ambient Intelligence Research Group (MAmI, mami- lab.eu). He is involved in several research areas such as ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, ambient assisted living, context-awareness, Internet of things, mobile computing and m-Health. He is an author of over 37 JCR articles and main researcher on several projects. H-Index (Scopus). - 22, H-Index (Google Scholar). – 30. Dr. Bravo supervised 7 PhD and over 45 computer science undergraduate theses. Since 2003, José Bravo is the organizer of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI).
Dr. Kevin Bouchard is a full professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. His research interests mainly relate to the exploitation of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the development of health technologies. He has, among other things, worked on RFID localization, ambient sensing, activity recognition with UWB, wearable technologies, etc. He has co-led several real-world deployments of smart homes for elders with cognitive decline, for individuals with special needs, and for people with chronic diseases. He has published over 160 papers and has been supervising/co-supervising more than seventy graduate students. Finally, he is the director of CYNERGIA an applied research group working with Hydro-Québec the main energy provider of the province of Québec.
Dr. Hubert Kenfack Ngankam is an assistant professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, and a member of the DOMUS Laboratory. He works in several research areas, including ambient intelligence, ambient assisted living, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, context-awareness, the Internet of things, wireless sensor networks, and multimodal human–machine interaction, with a focus on embedded/edge AI for aging-in-place. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and the developer of the NEARS-Hub telemonitoring platform and the OntoDomus semantic model, which have been deployed in 64 real-life living environments for older adults aged 65 and over and licensed to the IXIA cooperative for commercialization.
Dr. Vladimir Villarreal is a professor and researcher in Computer Science at the Technological University of Panama (UTP), Chiriquí Regional Campus, and coordinator of the Emerging Computational Technologies Research Group (GITCE). He holds a Ph.D. in Advanced Information Technologies from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His research interests include ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, mobile computing, the Internet of Things, assistive environments, and digital health. Dr. Villarreal is a distinguished researcher of Panama’s National Research System (SNI) and president of the international AmITIC Research Network. He received UTP’s Researcher of the Year Award in 2016 and 2019.
