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Featured Panelists
Dr. Charice Hayes, All 4 One Learning Solutions, USA
Dr. Charice Hayes was born in Würzburg, Germany but raised in Maryland. She currently resides in Maryland with her husband and three children. Dr. Hayes studied international business at Walden University where she earned a DBA. Dr. Hayes also has a master’s in higher education and a bachelor's in Spanish. Over the years, she has taught various adult and higher education courses. Dr. Hayes is also the owner of All 4 One Learning Solutions, a Maryland based educational and training company. As the founder/CEO, she was able to create both domestic and international clients and partnerships that complement innovation and positive social change. Dr. Hayes is also an Associate Professor of Business Management at a local community college in Maryland. Dr. Hayes speaks English and Spanish and has several published works. Her interests are education, entrepreneurship, business, innovation, and research.
Dr. Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His research mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; intelligent agent technology; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc. Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT, ), Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities ( ), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, ) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, ), Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, ), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, ) and chair (2014~) of Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning special interest group (DIGITEL SIG) for IEEE TCLT. Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's SSCI), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology ( , an Open Access journal included in Web of Science's ESCI). Dr. Chang also serves academic international conference events include being program chair (2015, 2018 to 2020) of International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE), program advising chair (2020~2021) and program committee chair (2019) International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, general program chair (2017~2021) of IEEE TCLT flagship conference International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (IEEE ICALT), executive chair (2020) of inaugural English Paper Track (EPT) of 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), consultant (2020), IPC Coordination chair (2019) and co-chair (2018) of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE),and steering committee member (2017~2020) and advisory chair (2012~2016) of IADIS International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning. Dr. Chang has given more than 125 talks and lectures in different events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 240 edited books, book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE senior member for twenty-seven years since 1996 and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. Dr. Chang was also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017) and INNS (2004-2018).
Dr. Nadia Mansour, University of Sousse, Tunisia
Dr. Nadia Mansour is an assistant at The University of Sousse Tunisia, and a visiting researcher at the University of Salamanca- Spain. Her research interests focus on Banking, macroeconomic, DSGE, Big Data, Business Tourism, and Innovation. She is an academic member and ambassador of Communication Institute of Greece, a committee member of indexed conferences, editorial Board Member of Taylor & Francis, IGI GLOBAL, and Springer, a reviewer in IGI Global, Emerald, and Wiley. She has presented various scientific papers in international (France, Morocco, USA, Turkey) and national conferences. She is also a keynote speaker and session chair in several conferences in (Turkey, India UAE). She has several published articles in ranked journals and chapters (IGI Global & Palgrave Macmillan) as well as edited books (Taylor & Francis, Springer).
Dr. George Kelley, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA
Prof. George Kelley, Ph.D., has had a 30+ year dual-career in industry and academia. He has served as manager of information systems for publicly traded and private companies, with layered staff and capital and operating budget responsibilities, and has traveled widely nationally and internationally as a consultant for businesses and government entities. As a professor of management information systems at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Prof. Kelley functions as an active research scholar and published author, journal article and book reviewer, teacher and mentor, and conference speaker and organizer. Prof. Kelley is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego State University, and Texas A&M University, and did his post-doctoral work at the California Institute Of Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University Of Cincinnati.
Dr. Randa Salah Gomaa, Zagazig University., Egypt
Dr. Randa Salah Gomaa has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University in 1996, and a master’s degree in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2006 in Medical Physiology. She has been working as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Human Medicine, Zagazig University since 1998, then as an assistant lecturer since 2002, then as a lecturer since 2006, then as an assistant professor from 2015 until July 2021 and lastly Professor until now. She is a regular member of American physiological Society (APS). IDr. Gomaa works as a reviewer in the scientific committee to examine the scientific production of applicants for the positions of assistant professor and professor in the medical sector. Medical Physiology Committee since 2023 until now.
Dr. Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Maki Habib obtained Doctor of Eng. Sciences in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics, Univ. of Tsukuba Japan. Selected research scientist at RIKEN Japan. Senior researcher at RISO-Labs Japan. Visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. Visiting expert under ADB, Associate Prof. UTM, Malaysia. Senior Manager MCRIA Malaysia. Senior research scientist with GMD-Japan. Associate Prof. with Monash Univ. leading Mechatronics program. A full Prof. Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne Univ. Invited Prof. KAIST South Korea, Visiting Prof. at Saga Univ. Japan. Since Sept. 2007 he is full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. He also served consultant and technical adviser for Toyota group, ABB, etc. He published 10 books, 24 book chapters, more than 275 papers at international journals and intern. confs. His main research focus: Human and Friendly Mechatronics, Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics/Vehicles: Control, Mapping-Localization, Navigation and Learning. Service Robots for Humanitarian Demining, Biomimetic and Biomedical Robotics, Telecooperation Distributed Teleoperation, and Collaborative Control, Intelligent and Nonlinear Control, Wireless Sensor Networks, Industry 4, Flying Robots.
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