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Dr. Keitaro NARUSE is currently a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan. His research interests include swarm robots and their application to agricultural robotic systems, and interface system for disaster response robots. Currently, he has worked for design, development, and standardization of networked distributed intelligent robot systems with heterogeneous robots and sensors. He has applied the networked distributed intelligence to service robot systems, factory automation systems, and intelligent disaster respond robot system.

Dr Mahesha Ranasoma currently serves as the CEO of Global Rubber Industries and he served as managing director of Dipped Products PLC for over eight years. He was on the board of directors of Hayleys PLC and he also served as the Country Chairman and Managing Director of Shell Gas Lanka Limited and Shell Terminal Lanka Limited. He also has over six years of research and development as well as teaching experience as a senior university lecturer in civil/coastal engineering at the Open University of Sri Lanka. He is versed in environmental management and was an active consultant for major private sector and donor funded projects in Sri Lanka. Dr Mahesha Ranasoma holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, an MBA from the University of Wales, UK, along with a PhD specializing in Coastal Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.