Lab Operations, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;Prof. Dr. Laliberté is a Professor and Associate Chair - Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and leads the Advanced Aircraft Design Laboratory. Prior to joining Carleton in 2008, he was a Research Officer at the NRC Aerospace Research Centre from 2001-2008 in the Structures and Materials Performance Laboratory. His research focuses on the design, manufacturing, and testing of advanced aerospace systems, including sustainable aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft systems, and other novel platforms, in collaboration with government and industry partners. From 2019 to 2026, he was Program Director for the multi-university NSERC-CREATE Uninhabited aircraft systems Training, Innovation, and Leadership Initiative (UTILI) with multiple Canadian and International academic, government, and industry partners to train Canadian graduate students in the safe operation of modern drone systems.

Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;Prof. Dr. Youmin Zhang is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University, Canada. His research interests include monitoring, diagnosis, and physical fault/cyber-attack tolerant/resilient control of uncrewed systems and smart grids. These research areas have applications in forest fire management and smart cities within the framework of cyber-physical systems, combining remote sensing and image processing techniques. He has published 12 books and over 800 journal and conference papers, which have been cited up to 38,646 times on Google Scholar with an h-index of 98 and i10-index of 507 currently. His publications have been ranked in Lifetime as #1 Globally in the Specialties of both "Aircraft Systems" and "Fault Tolerance", and #2 Globally in the Specialty of "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" according to the current rankings by ScholarGPS. He has also been consistently listed in the Stanford’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” since its first list in 2021 for both "Career" and "Single Year", and is selected as a 2025 "Highly Cited Researcher" by Clarivate. He has been awarded to the “Concordia University Research Award 2025” and “Concordia University’s Research Impact Award (RIA) 2026”. Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and CSME and served as the President of the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems from 2019 to 2022. He is currently serving as the International Director (Region 7) of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), and a Member of IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). Additionally, he has held roles as (Co-/Associate/Deputy) Editor-in-Chief, and (Advisory) Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor for over 30 journals. He has served as (Honorary) General Chair and Program Chair for several conferences related to autonomous/unmanned systems, renewable energies, and smart cities many times. http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/

School of Engineering of Ilha Solteira, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil;Dr. Bueno is an associate professor at UNESP, dept. of Mechanical Engineering. He worked with EMBRAER SA as engineer in the Technological Development Department and PSA Peugeot Citroen as product development engineer with experimental tests in prototype vehicles. His research ranges over the topics of aeroelasticity, smart materials, structural dynamics and unsteady aerodynamics. He is focused on creating mathematical and computational models of fluid-structural interaction (aeroelasticity) with applications to aerospace vehicles, including gust alleviation, vibration control and structural health monitoring. Dr. Bueno received his B.Eng. (Hons., first in class) in 2006 and M.Eng. (2007) degrees in mechanical engineering from the FEIS UNESP and a PhD (2014) in aeronautical engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil. He was a visiting researcher at Duke University, EUA (2019), and he received Habilitation (venia legendi) in Control in 2025. Dr. Bueno received the Medal of Honor for Education from the City Hall of Ilha Solteira (São Paulo State, Brazil) in 2022. He has supervised several undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical engineering.

Departamento de Investigación, Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Tianguistenco (TecNM), Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico;Dr. Hugo Yáñez-Badillo is a Professor-Researcher at the Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Tianguistenco, TecNM, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechatronics and conducts research in robust and intelligent control, dynamic systems, parameter estimation, embedded systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles. His current research interests focus on physical intelligence, particularly the integration of sensing, learning, estimation, and control to develop adaptive and autonomous mechatronic and robotic systems. He is also a collaborator with the LARCASE laboratory at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada. He is currently a Level 1 member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII).