Ankit R. Patel is currently associated with the University of Minho, Portugal. His scholarly contributions span intelligent transportation systems, human factors, human-centered design, and smart cities. He has participated in numerous prestigious international conferences, chairing technical sessions at major ACM (CHI, OzCHI, NordiCHI, INTERACT, IMX, AutomotiveUI, MuC, COMPASS, GROUP, and India HCI), IEEE (ITEC, JRC, ECCE, MELECON, LOGISTIQUA, WF-PST, GTSNZ, SeFeT, AFRICON, e-Science, and RTSI), Design Research Society (LXD), and IFAC (CTS) events. He has delivered keynote addresses and expert talks at more than a dozen major international conferences across Asia, Africa, and Europe, focusing on intelligent transportation, sustainable urbanism, AI-driven solutions, smart cities, and interdisciplinary advances in technology, innovation, and education. He is an active member of professional bodies such as ACM, IEEE, and ASCE and serves on five transportation research board (TRB) committees, reflecting his interdisciplinary commitment to human-centric innovation. He is a lead editor for a special issue in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. He serves as an editorial board member for the various journals, including the Journal of Social Economic Research, Future Transportation, Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology, and Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility.

Mukti Advani did her undergraduation in Civil Engineering and Master's in Transportation Engineering from Gujarat University in India. She did her PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. She has been working at Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) since 2007 in the area of Transport Planning and Environment as well as Traffic Engineering and Road Safety. She has contributed to guidelines developed by Indian Road Congress (IRC) and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) related to School Zone Safety and Non motorised transport systems apart from Multimodal Passenger Terminals. Key projects she has worked on includes, GreenHouse Gases Inventory from Road Transport Sector of India, Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase (PI-CHeCK), Project iRASTE - Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety through Technology & Engineering. Indian Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM), Sustainable Transport Systems (SUSTRANS), Estimation of idling fuel (ELSIM) , Road safety through AI (iRASTE), Trip Generation Manual for Indian Cities (TripGen), Simulation Software for India (MiTRANS), etc. She has contributed as reviewer for International Journal of Injury Control and safety promotion, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor & Francis), Transportation Letters, Transport Geography, Transport Policy, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Indian Road Congress Journals (IRC) and other international/national conferences.

Dr. Areen Alsaid is an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the director of the Safe, Empathetic, & Trustworthy technologies lab. Her research focuses on affective computing and user state estimation to facilitate human and automation teaming, with a focus on driving and transportation. Before joining UM-Dearborn, she worked as a research scientist and data scientist at Ford Motor Company where she worked on developing in-vehicle technologies to increase trust and acceptance of automated vehicles. Areen earned her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MS degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida.

​Katarzyna Turoń, PhD DSc Eng., is an Associate Professor at the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. Her research focuses on sustainable urban mobility, shared transport systems, micromobility, and open innovation in transport. She explores how collaborative business models and inter-organizational partnerships support the development of future mobility solutions. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has led or contributed to numerous international research projects in the field of transport innovation. Her academic achievements have been recognized with multiple scientific awards. She is recognized among the Top 2% of the most influential scientists worldwide (Stanford University, 2022 and 2023), her work contributes to advancing both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of innovation in the mobility sector.