Prof. Mahmoud Shafik
BEng (Hons) MSc MPhil PhD CEng FHEA MIET MASME MCOMEH

University of Hertfordshire, UK

Professor Mahmoud Shafik is a well-known expert in Digital Innovation in Engineering with over 20 years of industrial applied research experience. His expertise spans various fields, including, Intelligent Systems and Digital Technology, Innovation for Sustainable Engineering, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industrial Automation, Robotic Systems, Autonomous Systems, Internet of Everything (IoE), Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems, Fly, Drive and Steer-by-wire, 3D Smart Sensors and Actuators, Machine Vision, Cancer Treatment using CVD Diamond Radio Therapy Technology, Information Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired people, Electro-Rheological Fluid Micro Actuators Technology, AD-HOC Wireless Technology, Assisted Living Technology, Chronic Diseases ICT Technological Solutions, Telehealth, Telecare, Climate Change, and Software Tools. Shafik has also a number of patents in these areas of industrial applied research and sustainable technology.
Shafik has been leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission, Innovate UK and UK Research Councils, of a budget of several millions of euros and have made an international technical, economic and social impact in his area of expertise. His research work has brought many groundbreaking outcomes that have been commercially explored by several Small to Medium (SME’s) and large enterprise (LE’s) organisations. This includes and not limited to: Intersurgical Ltd – UK, Veslatec Oy – Finland, Semelab plc. – UK, PTW Freiburg – Germany, Neotek – France, Kirchmayer Handel & Consulting GmbH – Austria, Spectrum Telecom Installations Ltd – Ireland, Diamond Materials GmbH – Germany, Fireworks International Ltd – UK, Pirotecnia Oscense SA – Spain, Total Motion Systems Ltd –UK, Micromech Limited – UK, Smart Technology Ltd – UK, Audi -Germany, Ford – UK, Schlumberger – France, Nissan – Japan and Rolls Royce - UK.
Shafik is the co-founder of Institute of Innovation in Sustainable Engineering (IISE) - https://www.derby.ac.uk/colleges/science-engineering/iise/, founder of International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics - http://ojs.unsysdigital.com/index.php/ijrm, Editor-In-Chief of both Journal of Traffic and Logistics - http://www.jtle.net/ and International Journal of Mechatronics Engineering - https://www.svedbergopen.com/journals/ijme/about-the-journal/. He is serving as a chairman and plenary speaker of: International Conference on Intelligent Traffic and Transportation (ICITT) - http://www.icitt.org/, International Conference in Automation and Mechatronics Engineering - https://www.icame.org/, International Conference in Communication and Network Technology - http://www.iccnt.org/index.html, and Co-general Chair of International Conference Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research - http://www.icmerr.com/index.html.
Shafik has joined the University of Hertfordshire in September 2025. He is CEO of GIES Innovation Ltd and formal senior lead academic and MSc course director of MSc in Mechatronics University of Derby - http://www.derby.ac.uk/. He has been supervising and external examiners for several PhD, and MSc research programmes across worldwide. He is a visiting professor, industrial and curriculum consultant for a few organisations in EU, Japan, China, and Middle East. He is also a committee member of The Consortium of UK University Manufacturing and Engineering (COMEH) for the Engineering Professorial Council - https://epc.ac.uk/network/communities/comeh/ and is serving as an Assessor and Knowledge Transfer Expert for the UK Knowledge Transfer Network, UKRC, Innovate-UK and EC Research Programmes.
For more information of Professor Shafik profile, career, achievements and selected publications please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mahmoud-shafik-ph-d/7/237/60 & ORCID: Mahmoud Shafik (PhD) BEng MSc PhD FHEA MIET MASME, Intelligent Systems and Digital Technology (0000-0001-8296-5698) - ORCID & https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahmoud_Shafik.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Teresa Zielinska

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Teresa Zielinska is Full professor of technical sciences. Deputy director for research at the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics of the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and Rector’s Proxy of WUT for internationalization and doctoral education. Member of the Control and Robotics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the Polish Section of Robotics and Automation IEEE (2016-2019) and Secretary General of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) (2011-2019). Local coordinator of the Japan-Europe Master of Advanced Robotics (JEMARO), member of the Experts Team of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017-2018), member of the Council of the National Science Center (2019-2022). She conducted research at several international universities, e.g. Polytechnic University of Turin (grant from the Italian Ministry of Education), Loughborough University of Technology (UK, grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - senior research fellow. Visiting professor at: National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Griffith University (Australia), Keio University (Japan), Shanghai Jiaotong University (China), Tianjin University of Technology (China). She is the co-holder of 2 national patents and the author or co-author of over 300 publications. Teresa Zielińska received the award of the Minister of Higher Education (Poland) for her scientific monograph, the Gold Cross of Merit and the Medal of the National Education Commission, as well as many university awards for her scientific activity. She graduated from the Faculty of Electronics of the Warsaw University of Technology, specializing in control, received her doctorate in robotics, and obtained her habilitation at the Institute of Biocybernetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests concern robotics, in particular biorobotics. Teresa Zielinska deals with the design and implementation of real-time control systems, motion synthesis and the design of novel robotic systems inspired by biology. She designed a prototype of a shear force sensor, developed and implemented a model of a biological Central Pattern Generator to generate motion for a humanoid robot, implemented a control system for an autonomous team of biologically inspired autonomous walking machines. Currently, her research interests focus on predicting human movement and actions. She is a laureate of the 1000 Talents Experts Program of Tianjin Municipality. She serves as Vice President of HERITAGE Network (Europe-India, is a member of the advisory board of Chist-Era and coordinates of academic cooperation between WUT - NTU and NUS (Singapore).

Prof. Masafumi Miwa

Tokushima University, Japan

Professor Dr Masafumi Miwa is worldwide recognised expert UAV engineering and technology. In 1996 he was appointed as Assistant Professor at Wakayama University, Faculty of System Engineering, 2007 Associate Professor at Tokushima University, Institute of Technology and Science, 2016 Associate Professor at Tokushima University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, and 2017 Associate Professor at Tokushima University, Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences. Professor Miwa started his research on UAV around 2000. After developing autonomous flight controller using GPS with a single-rotor helicopter, he engaged in research on multicopters and various drones. He is conducting research and development on attitude control and autonomous control of various drones incorporating thrust deflection technology, as well as on peripheral technologies required to realize drone transport. In addition, he is verifying the practical application of drone transport by actually performing drone transport.