Milos Manic of IEEE IES

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Dr. Manic is a Professor with the Computer Science Department and Director of VCU Cybersecurity Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has completed over 60  research grants in AI/ML, has given over 70 invited talks around the world, authored over 300 refereed articles, and holds several U.S. patents. He is an inductee of US National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of Commonwealth Cyber Initiative. He is an IEEE IES President, IEEE Fellow, recipient of IEEE IES 2019 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, 2012 J. David Irwin Early Career Award, 2017 IEM Best Paper Award, associate editor of Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Open Journal of Industrial Electronics Society, and Senior Life AdCom member. He served as AE of Trans. on Industrial Electronics, was a founding chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Resilience and Security in Industry, and was a general chair of IEEE IECON 2018, HSI 2019, ICIT 2023.

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Yajun Pan of IEEE IES

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Ya-Jun Pan is a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Pan’s research interests are mainly in robust nonlinear control, cyber physical systems, intelligent mechatronics, and robotics with 200+ authored journal and conference papers published. She has been recognized as a Fellow  of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE’2023), Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC’2021), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (FASME’2017), Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (FCSME’2023) and awarded the CSME Mechatronics Medal Award (2025), the research excellence award (2008) at Dalhousie University and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2016) from Germany. She serves as IES Vice President for Membership Activities (2025-2026). She is a Senior Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and Associate Editor for seven IEEE Transactions. She has served in many conference  organizing committees, VP Atlantic for CSME, Chair for IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer Program and Women in Engineering in IES.

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Dusanka Boskovic of Region 8

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Dusanka Boskovic received her diploma, master and doctoral degrees from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she is a Vice-Rector for Quality and professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department Control and Electronics. Her research, and courses she is teaching, are focused on software and system engineering in biomedical and cognitive domains. In addition to being university teacher and researcher at the University of Sarajevo, she has a long professional experience in systems and business process analysis. She is often engaged in multidisciplinary and challenging work environments requiring problem-solving and communication skills. She is highly motivated to learn about the problem domain and committed in achieving high level user experience. Being committed to promoting multidisciplinary research, she is active volunteer and the founding President for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national association for biomedical engineering. She has been engaged in several projects promoting accreditation activities to improve quality of engineering education.

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Subodha Charles of IEEE Students

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Subodha Charles is a faculty member at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Florida, USA, and his B.Sc. specializing in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include hardware security and trust, embedded systems and computer architecture. He has published in premier international conferences and journals related to those areas. He has gathered industry experience at Intel, USA and Zone24x7, Sri Lanka.

Subodha co-founded a company in Sri Lanka operating in the energy sector in 2013 and it is currently one of the country's market leaders. The company has invested and expanded into other areas such as construction, software, digital marketing and healthcare and is now operating as a group of companies - “Pearl Cluster”. He has volunteered at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 2011 and has held several global leadership positions. He has successfully led many initiatives within IEEE to foster entrepreneurship, industry collaboration and membership growth. Several international awards within IEEE have recognized his efforts.

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