Professor Andrew Ware, Professor of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK.

As Professor in Computing, Andrew is engaged in both teaching and research. He is currently supervising eight PhD students and leading on a number of initiatives with local companies.

Beyond the University, Professor Ware is currently working as external examiner in Computing for Staffordshire University, with particular responsibility for helping to oversee the development of new provision in Ghana. In terms of international work, Professor Ware is currently the USW representative on two European Funded Intensive Programmes and involved with projects in Singapore, Norway and Canada.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales is an innovative collaboration that gives businesses and researchers access to world-class, secure and relatively easy to use HPC technology. USW is one of the partners in the collaboration and has devolved targets in terms of industrial usage, student engagement, as well as research and curriculum development. Professor Ware is the lead academic from USW on this exciting and dynamic project.

Andrew has supervised nearly 30 PhD students and has lead on collaborative projects both within the UK and Europe. He has lectured in many parts of the World including the USA, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong. His main research interest is the application of AI techniques to help solve real world problems.

Hoshang Kolivand is a Reader (Associate Professor) in AI and Mixed Reality at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He received his MS degree in applied mathematics and computer from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 1999, and his PhD from Media and Games Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGIC-X) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2013. He has completed a Post Doctoral in Augmented Reality at UTM in 2014. Previously he worked as a lecturer at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran and then as a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Currently, he is also a Visiting Professor at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research: BIHER, Chennai, India. He has published numerous articles in international journals, conference proceedings and technical papers, including chapters in books. He is an active member of IEEE and TCP of several conferences and international journals. He has also published many books in object-oriented programming and mathematics. His research interests include Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

Hoshang's invited speech at iCETiC '23 will focus on the 'Advances and Challenges of AI in Mixed Reality'.