
Prof. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
University of Kansas Lawrence, USA
Courtesy Professor
of AE & EECS | Life Fellow of IEEE & Fellow
of IFAC | Distinguished Member of IEEE CSS |
Past Chair of IEEE WIE
BOZENNA PASIK-DUNCAN received her Master's
degree in Mathematics from University of
Warsaw in 1970, and her Ph.D. and D.Sc.
(Habilitation) degrees in Mathematics from
the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978 and
1986 respectively. She is a Professor of
Mathematics, a Courtesy Professor of both
EECS and AE, and an ITTC Investigator at the
University of Kansas. Her research interests
are primarily in stochastic systems and
stochastic adaptive control, system
identification and estimation, and control
education as a field that spans science,
technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) education.
Dr. Pasik-Duncan is actively involved with
IEEE CSS and currently serves as Deputy
Chair of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on
Control Education. Furthemore, Dr.
Pasik-Duncan currently serves on the Board
of Goveners for the IEEE SSIT and is a
voting member of the IEEE Women In
Engineering Committee. Dr. Pasik-Duncan was
the 2017-2018 Chair of IEEE Women in
Engineering (WIE) She has been the CSS
Vice-President of Member Activities, the
IEEE CSS Liaison to IEEE WIE, an Associate
Editor and Associate Editor at Large of the
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
Chair of the Standing Committees on
Assistance of Engineers at Risk and
International Affairs, and Founder and First
Chair of the WiC Group. Dr. Pasik-Duncan is
also associated with the IFAC as a past
Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on
Control Education and currently serves on
the IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering
Textbook Prize Selection Committee and on
the IFAC Technical Board as the Education
Liaison to all IFAC Technical Committees.
She is the past Program Director of the SIAM
Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory
and was formerly involved with SIAM in
several other capacities.
Dr. Pasik-Duncan is an IFAC Fellow, an IEEE
Fellow, Distinguished Member of the CSS, and
a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal. She has received many awards,
including the Kemper Award, H.O.P.E Award,
L. Hay Award, Steeples Service to Kansas
Award, KU Chancellors Club Teaching
Professorship and is a member of the KU
Women's Hall of Fame. She served on the
Friends of the Lied Center Board and
currently serves on the SMA Academic Program
Advisory Board. She is Founder and Faculty
Advisor to the AWM Student Chapter at KU,
Founder and Coordinator of the MAM /
Outreach Program, and faculty advisor for
the NSF GK-12 Program at KU.

Prof. Steven T. Moore
Central Queensland University Australia,
Australia
Steven Moore received a PhD in biomedical
engineering from the University of Sydney
and subsequently took up a post-doctoral
position at Mount Sinai Medical Center in
New York City. Over the next 20 years Dr
Moore received over USD$6.2 million in
funding from NASA to study the effects of
microgravity on neurological function, with
experiments aboard the space shuttle and the
Mir and International space stations. In
2016 Dr Moore returned to Australia to take
up the position of Deputy Dean for Research
at Central Queensland University, overseeing
the research portfolio for the School of
Engineering and Technology.

Prof. Chris Tisdell
University of New South Wales, Australia
Chris Tisdell is Professor of Mathematics,
Digital Education and STEM Education at The
University of New South Wales (UNSW) in
Sydney. He is best known for contributions
to digital education that have positively
impacted millions of people around the world
by exploring the challenges of scale,
flexibility and personalized learning. This
includes leading a YouTube educational
channel that is ranked within the top 1%
worldwide; and authoring textbooks with a
readership of 10 million globally. A teacher
at heart, the quality and impact of Chris’
work on student learning has been recognized
at national and international levels,
through fellowships and prestigious awards
for educational excellence, including
diversity and inclusion.
Chris promotes innovation in education
through public engagement and thought
leadership at national and international
levels as an expert and public figure. He is
proud to collaborate with key partners
within the education industry, ensuring
continuous improvement and collaborative
advantage.

Prof. William W. Guo
Central Queensland University Australia,
Australia
William is a teaching professor in
mathematics education and computing at
CQUniversity. He has made a profound impact
on students learning outcomes and experience
in mathematics for hundreds of engineering
and education students at CQUniversity since
2013. This includes writing three brand-new
mathematics textbooks published by Pearson
since 2014, which have been liked by
students. His effort on teaching mathematics
subjects has been appreciated by students,
which has brought him multiple Student Voice
Commendation Awards since 2014. His
excellence in education has been recognized
nationally by Australian Research Council
(ARC) as an ARC nominated Expert Peer
Reviewer in STEM Education in the 2018
Excellence in Research of Australia (ERA)
assessment. He was also an External Expert
of Tertiary Education Quality & Standards
Agency (TEQSA) of Australia (2017-2019).
His research in modelling, simulation and
applied computation is also internationally
recognized through his 100+ publications,
leadership roles in international
conferences, editorship of special issues in
international journals, including Frontiers
in Genetics, IEEE Access, International
Journal of Computational Intelligence
Systems, Mathematical Problems in
Engineering.
William received his PhD from The University
of Western Australia in 1999. He has been a
faculty member at Edith Cowan University
(2001-2007) and Central Queensland
University (2007-). He is a member of IEEE
and an Accredited Member of AustMS.