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Dr. Paul Royall

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Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK
Interests: delivery of medicines by drone; the maintenance of quality of medicines and medical products by drone; exploration of the relationship between solid state properties and the performance of pharmaceutical materials and medicines
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Dr. Inkyu Sa

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Tencent XR Vision Lab, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: UAV; robot vision; state estimation; deep learning in agriculture (horticulture); reinforcement learning; agricultural robotics; visual inertial navigation; AI generated content
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Prof. Dr. Xingling Shao

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Electrical and Control Engineering School, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
Interests: navigation; guidance and control; multiagent coordiantion; intelligent decision-making; sensing and model-free control with applications on drones
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Prof. Dr. Efstratios Stylianidis

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School of Spatial Planning and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: photogrammetry; geomatics; cultural heritage; documentation
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Dr. Giordano Teza

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Creti 12, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: remote sensing (terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion) and application to landslide monitoring; cultural heritage; preservation and medical imaging; 3D modeling; image processing; thermal imaging; GNSS and applications to crustal kinematics; deep learning and applications to time series analysis and medical imaging
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Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Tomiyama

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Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-0058, Japan
Interests: embedded and cyber-physical systems; electronic design automation and optimization; autonomous drones; biochip synthesis
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Dr. Darren Turner

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TerraLuma Research Group, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS 7005, Australia
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); UAV sensor integration; hyperspectral; multispectral; and thermal image processing; classification and machine learning; change detection; terrain analysis techniques; image processing; geometric accuracy
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Prof. Dr. Kimon P. Valavanis

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Interests: unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); integration into the national airspace system (NAS); safety levels; risk analysis; reliability assessment; classification and certification procedures
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Dr. Geert Verhoeven

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Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 (Room A5.04), 1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: terrestrial and airborne photography plus multi- and hyperspectral imaging; image-based 3D modelling; image fusion; scientific visualisations; digital archaeology; landscape archaeology
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Dr. Peter Webley

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Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA
Interests: remote sensing natural hazard assessment; aerosol dispersion modeling; advanced visualization of natural hazards; scenario planning for potential impact from volcanic events; uncertainty analysis applied to natural hazards; real-time event detection methodologies from satellite remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. Serge Wich

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School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
Interests: great apes; conservation; drones
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Prof. Dr. Ke Xiong

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1. School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
2. Engineering Research Center of Network Management Technology for High Speed Railway of Ministry of Education, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Railway Traffic Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
4. National Engineering Research Center of Advanced Network Technologies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: IoT; wireless cooperative networks; wireless powered networks; AI-based network optimization and network information theory
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Dr. Dimitrios Zarpalas

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Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: UAV detection and classification; 3D/4D computer vision; 3D human reconstruction and motion capturing; medical image processing
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Dr. Peiying Zhang

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Qingdao Institute of Software, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: semantic computing; future internet architecture; network virtualization; artificial intelligence for networking
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Prof. Dr. Ziyang Zhen

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College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Interests: guidance, navigation and control; formation/swarm cooperative control
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Prof. Dr. Yu-Jun Zheng

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School of Information Science and Technology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Interests: evolutionary algorithms; swarm intelligence; hybridization of human-machine intelligence; neuro-fuzzy systems; UAV search and rescue; intelligent transportation; smart healthcare and public health; artificial intelligence
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Bollard

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School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: conservation planning; unmanned aerial vehicles; multi and hyperspectral imaging; marine mammal; habitat modelling; object recognition; spatial ecology; multitemporal remote sensing
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Prof. Dr. César Briso-Rodríguez

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Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Technical University of Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain
Interests: channel modeling; UAV technologies; antenna design
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Prof. Dr. Mou Chen

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College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing 211106, China
Interests: control systems engineering; electrical engineering; aerospace engineering
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Dr. Bo Cheng

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA
Interests: biomechanics and mechanobiology; mechanical sciences; sensors & controls
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Dr. Ismael Colomina

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GeoNumerics, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: geomatics; navigation; geometric photogrammetry and remote sensing; sensor modelling; sensor integration; sensor orientation and calibration; multi-sensor integration for orientation and navigation; indoor/outdoor navigation; estimation methods; software systems for orientation and navigation; unmanned aerial systems; unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry, remote sensing and mapping; combined terrestrial and aerial mobile mapping systems
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Dr. Agostino De Marco

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Interests: flight dynamics modeling; aircraft stability and control; nonlinear aerodynamics modeling; aircraft design
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Dr. Marco Di Felice

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: unmanned aerial networks; Internet of Things; edge computing
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Dr. Zhi Feng

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School of Automation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: UAV; cooperative control; distributed optimization; game theory and NE seeking; security and resilience
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Dr. Fei Gao

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College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: drones; autonomous navigation; motion planning; environmental perception; robot swarm; SLAM
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Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Haas

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323 Frank Rhodes Hall, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Interests: wireless and mobile systems and networks; information assurance and network security; modeling of complex communication systems; biologically-inspired systems; communication systems for in-vivo applications; design, modeling, and implementation of cross-layer protocols and systems; cross-disciplinary research initiatives

Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Tech, Weir Hall, Room 208, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Interests: drones (UAV/MAV/NAV/PAV): fixed wings; flapping wings; tilt-rotor/wing drones; morphing drones; space and marine drones
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Dr. Yongzhao Hua

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Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: distributed control; formation control; intelligent control; uav swarm
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Dr. Chao Huang

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Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: human–machine collaborative control; decision making; path planning; fault-tolerant control with the application of automated vehicles
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Prof. Dr. Rakesh Kapania

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Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: structural analysis and optimal design; multidisciplinary design optimization and analysis; control of flexible wings, and aeroelasticity

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