Combating AI-generated Fake Content

Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy

Alberto Del Bimbo is Emeritus Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Florence and a leading expert in Computer Vision, Multimedia Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence, with more than 500 scientific publications and recognition as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2016.
He has held major academic leadership roles, including Chair of ACM SIGMM (2021–2025), Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOMM, and General Chair or Program Chair of several top international conferences such as ECCV, ICPR, and ACM Multimedia.

A century of EEG: from neural signals to precision brain health

Dr. Mahmoud Hassan, Mindig Rennes, France

Mahmoud Hassan is a brain scientist who, along with his team, is focused on developing new methods to decode normal and pathological brain functions using EEG. Active in both research and industry, M. Hassan is the founder of MINDIG (Rennes, France) https://mindig.io/, a company specializing in EEG data analysis. MINDIG is pioneering the field of precision brain health and medicine by combining AI, EEG, and neuroscience. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the engineering department at Reykjavik University, Iceland.

From Assistive Interfaces to Neurotherapeutics: Haptic‑Driven Tremor Modulation in Parkinson’s Disease

Prof. Kwangtaek Kim, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Kwangtaek Kim received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2010. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University, where he directs the Immersive Computing for Touch Lab. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at Incheon National University and as a Visiting Professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil.

His research focuses on haptics, tactile interfaces, wearable haptic systems, multisensory perception, virtual palpation for biomedical imaging, rehabilitation technologies, Haptic-XR training, and 3D haptic rendering. He has also held research positions at Microsoft Research Asia, LG Electronics, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute.

Dr. Kim received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Incheon National University (2016), the Microsoft Research Spot Award (2013), and the Outstanding Engineer Award from LG Electronics (2005). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and a recipient of multiple research grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea and the National Science Foundation.