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Prof. Josiane Mothe is full professor in computer science since 2002 at the CNRS IRIT lab. She is a specialist in information retrieval, data mining, big data and applied machine learning and teaches these topics mainly at the master level at Université de Toulouse where she is part of the INSPE. She currently leads the InnEO Space PhD project H2020 which gathers together 5 European partners, and she also participates in the UNIVERSEH, Erasmus+ project.

Prof. Mihai Ivanovici is a full professor and is head of MIV Laboratory, within Department of Electronics and Computers, Transilvania University of Brașov, România and member of the IEEE Signal Processing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing societies. His research interest and expertise are in the field of colour, multispectral and hyperspectral image processing and analysis. Currently he is supervising PhD in the field of electronics, telecommunications and information technologies.

Prof. Fabio Del Frate is a Full Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches courses on Remote Sensing and Applied Electromagnetism. There he is also the Coordinator of the “Design, Application, Regulation of UAVs” Master program and Erasmus coordinator for the Engineering Macroarea. In 2006 Fabio Del Frate co-founded GEO-K srl, the first spin-off company of the University of “Tor Vergata” of which he is now President.

Radu Coliban is a Lecturer within the Department of Electronics and Computers, Transilvania University of Brașov, where he teaches courses on Image Processing and Computer Architecture. His main research interests are color and hyperspectral image processing and digital electronics design.

Dr. Mihaela Voinea (female) holds a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is an associate professor at Transylvania University, in the Psychology, Education and Teacher Training Department and has more than 20 years of experience in the educational field. Her research interests focus on the field of teacher education, intercultural education and critical thinking. She was involved in various educational projects, funded by the Ministry of Education and Research as a researcher or a trainer (e.g., “Professionalization of the teaching career – new competences for the educational actors” “Reconstruction of the national curriculum in secondary education”; “The counselled student – an excellent future employee”) and in international projects (e.g., Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation -E-READ)She is the author of more than 70 scientific papers published in volumes of international conferences, journals and books. She is involved as an educational specialist in the development of the new curricula for social education for second level and supervises methodical-scientific thesis for obtaining the first teaching degree. She has good teaching and training skills gained though professional experience, participating as a trainer and assessor in workshops or in Romanian private companies. Currently she is head of the Department of Psychology, Education and Teacher Training, from Transylvania University of Brașov and member of national educational organizations.

Daniela V. NECȘOI Is associate professor at Transilvania University of Brașov, România (UniTBv), Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Department of Psychology, Education and Teacher Training. With an education in psychology and pedagogy, former teacher for primary school, she develops educational activities for in-service and prospective teachers from early and primary school, middle, and secondary school. She cooperates with many educational institutions in creating and delivering professional continuous training programs for teachers. Her research interests gravitate around issues of educational management and methodology of teaching. She is the author and co-author of 6 books and book chapters, over 25 articles published in scientific journals or international conferences proceedings and she is member in several research grants.