Prof. Dr. J. Rod Franklin, P.E., Kühne Logistics University
Professor Franklin is currently Professor of Logistics Practice and Academic Director of Executive Education at Kuehne Logistics University in Hamburg, Germany. Professor Franklin is an engineer by training and a registered Professional Engineer. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University (graduating with distinction), his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business (graduating with honors), and his doctorate in management from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.
Prior to returning to academia, Professor Franklin worked in various management roles in operations, product development, consulting, and logistics for Cameron Iron Works, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Theodore Barry & Associates, Arthur Young & Co., Digital Equipment Corporation, Entex Information Services, USCO Logistics, and Kuehne + Nagel.
Rod’s main research interests are in the field of modern logistics operations, digitalization, sustainability, logistics collaboration, urban logistics, supply chain analytics, and the Physical Internet. He has authored numerous peer reviewed papers on logistics operations, forecasting, open science, auctions, and the Physical Internet. He has also managed several industry and EU funded projects on supply chain digitalization, blockchain and smart contracts, cloud services for logistics, last mile delivery, and IoT in supply chain operations
Prof. Dr. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Technical University of Denmark
Lazaros Nalpantidis is Professor of Autonomous Systems at the Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Lazaros also serves as Head of the Automation and Control Group and Head of Studies for the DTU’s MSc programme in Autonomous Systems. Before joining DTU, Lazaros was Associate Professor of Robotics at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, where he also served as Head of Section for Sustainable Production within the Department for Materials and Production. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), Computer Vision & Active Perception Lab. (CVAP) of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His research is in the area of autonomous systems
Researcher. Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis is a Senior Researcher (Grade C’) of the Information Technologies Institute of CERTH. He received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the M.Sc. in Advanced Computing and Communication Systems and the Ph.D. in Human – Computer Interaction through Affective Interfaces in 2006, 2008 and 2012 respectively, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His main research interests include human-robot interaction, robot vision, service robot perception and cognition, affective computing, human motion, activity and behavior analysis and modelling, safe and social-aware robot navigation, bio-signals processing and sensor management, multimodal interfaces, machine learning and pattern recognition.