Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and Head of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics Systems at St. Petersburg University of Airspace 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 the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, Co-Chairman of International Conference Interactive Collaborative Robotics – ICR. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of SPIIRAS Proceedings Journal.

Prof. Vladislav Shishlakov is Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovative Activities, St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and Head of the Department of Management in Technical Systems. He is Honorary Worker at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since 2009. His research interests are related to the development of methods of synthesis of nonlinear systems 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.