Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and Head of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics Systems at Saint Petersburg University of Aerospace Instrumentation. His research focuses on the interaction of autonomous robotic systems and users in a cyber-physical environment. He is a member of Scientific Board of Robotics and Mechatronics of Russian Academy of Sciences; the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control; the International Speech Communication Association’s committee on East Europe; Co-Chairman of the international conferences Speech and Computer (SPECOM), and Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR); and Chairman of the interdisciplinary workshop Analysis of Conversational Russian Speech (AR-3). He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SPIIRAS Proceedings Journal.
Prof. Vladislav Shishlakov is Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovative Activities, Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and Head of the Department of Management in Technical Systems. Prof. Shishlakov has been an Honorary Worker at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since 2009. He is the author of three books and more than 200 scientific papers (teaching publications, programs, algorithms, articles, reports). His research interests are related to the development of the methods of synthesis of nonlinear of automatic control systems, which are continuous, and with different types of signal modulation, as well as the development and research of electromechanical and electric power systems and complexes based on the effects of high-temperature superconductivity.