KES-SDM-17 International Programme Committee

The role of the IPC is as follows:-

To advise on the organisation of the conference;
To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
To advise on the topics of the conference;
To help with the paper review process
To assist in monitoring overall quality.

We are grateful for their valuable assistance.

The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs.

KES-SDM-17 IPC Members

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Riccardo Accorsi	University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Emmanuel Adamides	University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Leo Alting	Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Prof. Dirk Baehre	Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
Prof. Peter Ball	University of York, United Kingdom
Prof. Alain Bernard	Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Prof. Nadia Bhuiyan	Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Dr. Samuel Bigot	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Dr. Pinar Bilge	Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Nancy Bocken	Cambridge University, UK
Prof. Alessandra Bonoli	Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Jérémy Bonvoisin	Technische Universität Berlin, Institute for Machine-tools and Factory Management, Berlin
Dr. Marco Bortolini	University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Kai Cheng	Brunel University London, UK
Dr. Wai Ming, Cheung	Northumbria University, UK
Prof. Marcello Colledani	Polytechnic of Milan and AITeM (Italian Association of Mechanical Technologist), Italy
Mr. John Cosgrove	Limerick institute of technology, Ireland
Dr. Carlos A Costa	Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Prof. Michele Dassisti	Polytechnic of Bari and AITeM (Italian Association of Mechanical Technologist), Italy
Prof. Dzung Viet Dao	Griffith University, QLD, Australia
Dr. Peter Dorrington	Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Prof. Joost Duflou	KU Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Bryony DuPont	Oregon State University, USA
Prof. Steve Evans	University of Cambridge, UK
Prof. Emilio Ferrari	University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Anna Maria Ferrari	University of Modena and Reggio, Italy
Prof. Cristiano Fragassa	Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
Prof. Archimede Forcellese	Polytechnic University of Marche and AITeM (Italian Association of Mechanical Technologist), Italy
Prof. Loris Giorgini	Department of Industrial Chemistry Toso Montanari Viale Risorgimento 4, Bologna, Italia
Dr. Susan Grant	Brunel University, United Kingdom
Prof. Chris Hinde	Loughborough University, UK
Dr. Maria Holgado	University of Cambridge, UK
Prof. Takamichi Hosoda	Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Prof. Haihong Huang	Hefei University of Technology, China
Dr. Luisa Huaccho Huatuco	University of York, UK
Dr. Giuseppe Ingarao	University of Palermo and AITeM (Italian Association of Mechanical Technologist), Italy
Dr. Alessio Ishizaka	University of Portsmouth, UK
Prof. MuDer Jeng	National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Dr. Jian JIN	Beijing Normal University, China
Prof. Stefan Junk	University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany
Prof. Mohammad Arif Kamal	Architecture Section Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Dr. Olivier Kerbrat	ENS Rennes, France
Prof. Hideki Kobayashi	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
Dr. Edwin Koh	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Kari Koskinen	Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Dr. Gul E. Okudan Kremer	Pennsylvania State University, USA
Prof. Chee-Peng Lim	Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Soon Chong Johnson LIM	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Diego Manfredi	Center for Sustainable Futures - IIT; Italy
Prof. Andrea Matta	Shanghai Joao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai, China
Prof. Paolo Minetola	Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Prof. Mario Domingo Monzón Verona	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
Prof. Matteo Mura	Department of Management, University of Bologna,Italy
Prof. Mohamed Naim	Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Johan Van Niekerk	Programme leader of the Industrial Design Department, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Prof. Gilberto Osorio-Gomez	EAFIT University, Medellín Colombia
Dr. Jae-Hwan Park	Middlesex University, UK
Prof. Paolo C. Priarone	Polytechnic of Torino and AITeM, Italy
Eng. Paul Prickett	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Dr. Laura Purvis	Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Alberto Regattieri	Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Lisha Ren	College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Hefin Rowlands	University of South Wales, UK
Prof. Davide Russo	The University of Bergamo, Italy
Dr. Michael Ryan	Cardiff University, UK,
Dr. Konstantinos Salonitis	Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Ernesto Santibanez-Gonzalez	Universidad de Talca-Chile, Universidade do Sul da Bahia - Brazil
Dr. Chris Selwood	Event Director World Solar Challenge
Prof. Luca Settineri	Politecnico di Torino and AITeM, Italy
Prof. Zhongde Shan	China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology (CAM), China
Dr. Leila Sheldrick	Imperial College, Faculty of Engineering, Dyson School of Design Engineering, UK
Dr. Alessandro Simeone	Loughborough University, UK
Michela Simoncini	Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Prof. Tien-Lung Sun	Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Prof. Tullio Antonio MariaTolio	ITIA-CNR, Polytechnic of Milan and AITeM (Italian Association of Mechanical Technologist), Italy
Dr. Parag Vichare	University of the West of Scotland, UK
Prof. Dr. Dzuraidah Abd Wahab	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Lihui Wang	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Qing Wang	Durham University, UK
Prof. Peter Wells	Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Dr. Paul Witherell	NIST, USA
Dr. Yuchun Xu	Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Imene Yahyaoui	Federal University of Espiritu Santo, Brazil
Dr. Zhinan Zhang	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China