Prof. Seán McLoone is Director of the Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems at QUB. He has expertise spanning 30 years in AI and computational intelligence techniques, with a particular interest in Industry 4.0/5.0 applications, including AI enhanced collaborative robotics, condition monitoring, process optimisation, energy efficiency and sustainability. He has graduated over 30 PhD students, published more than 270 international peer reviewed journal and conference papers on his research, and secured funding in excess of £25M (£6M as PI). At QUB, he is a member of the AMIC Academic Board and Digital Factory Technology Strategy Group. Externally he serves on the Editorial Board of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the IFAC Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence and Control (TC 3.2) and the AI and Data Grand Challenges Research Committee of the UK Advanced Control Engineering (ACE) network. He has previously served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) (2014-2021), as Chairman of the UK & Ireland Section of the IEEE (2006-2009), as Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University (2009-2012), and as Director of the Energy Power and Intelligent Control Research Centre at QUB (2012-2024).