Keynote Speakers

Prof. Lishuai Li

Lishuai Li received Ph.D. and M.S. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, BEng. in Aircraft Design and Engineering from Fudan University. She is a Professor in the Dept. of Data Science, Dept. of System Engineering, and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, served as Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research) at City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the application of data science to intelligent systems, to improve operations of complex systems, particularly for air transportation systems and industrial intelligence. Since 2022, she has been included in the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world’s top 2% scientists. Prof. Li is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and serves as the president of the INFORMS Air Transport Systems Section. She is also an associate editor for several top journals in (air) transportation, such as Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Transportation. She previously worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, Operations Practice, in the United States, and taught at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Prof. Sameer Alam

Sameer Alam is the Director of the Air Traffic Management Research Institute (A joint research institute of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and NTU, Singapore) and an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NTU, Singapore. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications to ATM and airport operations. His expertise spans Human-AI Teaming, Conformal Automation, Multi-Agent Systems, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, and Learning under Uncertainty. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals and international conferences.

Sameer serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (since 2023), AIAA Journal of Air Transport (special issue, 2023), and as a member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part C (since 2018). He has also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (2024), as a Program Committee member for the FAA-Eurocontrol U.S./Europe ATM R&D Seminar (since 2020) and Program Committee member for the SESAR Innovation Days (since 2024). Sameer has served as a technical consultant for: -ICAO’s Middle East Regional Monitoring Agency (2013–2024) -Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Kingdom of Bahrain (2015–2024) -Saab Singapore (2022–2024).

Sameer received his PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2008. His postdoctoral research on AI algorithms for advanced air traffic concepts was supported by Eurocontrol (CARE Innovative Research Grant, 2009–2010) and Airservices Australia (ARC Linkage Grant, 2010–2011). In 2011, he was appointed as a University Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at UNSW Canberra and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor equivalent) in 2015. He joined NTU Singapore as an Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering in 2017 and was granted tenure in 2023. Sameer has also been a visiting scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, California (2011), and at École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), Toulouse, France (2016–2017).