ICICT 2025-Hilo, Hawaii, United States

ICICT 2025 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
University of California, Irvine, USA

Speech Title: Cyber-Physical Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Systems: Facing Hard Realities and Exploring the Road Ahead

Mohammad Al Faruque is currently with the University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is a full professor and directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. He was the IEEE CEDA Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2023. Prof. Al Faruque also directs the Samueli School of Engineering Autonomous Systems Initiatives.

Assoc. Prof. Travis Mandel
University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

Speech Title: Optimizing Human-AI Collaboration to Benefit Hawaii’s Environment

Dr. Travis Mandel is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where he also leads the interdisciplinary data science program as Program Coordinator. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2017 and his BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. Dr. Mandel’s research interests lie in artificial intelligence and its interactions with people, including the ethical and transparent use of AI. He is particularly interested in how AI can work together with community members to help solve important scientific problems facing the state of Hawaii. This has involved addressing challenging problems in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and more. Supported by his NSF CAREER award and other grants, Dr. Mandel leads a team of talented undergraduate students to study these problems while advancing their technical skillset. He also received the Editor’s Choice award from the journal Pattern Recognition in September 2023.

More speakers to be announced.

ICICT Previous Distinguished Speakers


Prof. Zhu Han University of Houston, USA IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor	Prof. Hao Ying Wayne State University, USA IEEE Fellow	Prof. Sule Yildirim Yayilgan Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway	Prof. Alaa Sheta Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Prof. Anu A. Gokhale St. Augustine’s University, USA	Prof. Mohsen Guizani Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE IEEE Fellow	Prof. Ping Wang Robert Morris University, USA

ICICT 2025 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque University of California, Irvine, USA

Assoc. Prof. Travis Mandel University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

University of Houston, USA IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor

Wayne State University, USA IEEE Fellow

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Southern Connecticut State University, USA

St. Augustine’s University, USA

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE IEEE Fellow

Robert Morris University, USA

Prof. Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
University of California, Irvine, USA

Assoc. Prof. Travis Mandel
University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

University of Houston, USA
IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor

Wayne State University, USA
IEEE Fellow

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE
IEEE Fellow