 José R. Celaya is a Senior Data Scientist in the Software Technology and Innovation Center at Schlumberger, Menlo Park, CA, USA. Previously, he was a research scientist with SGT Inc., a senior member in the Prognostics Center of Excellence, and the Diagnostics and Prognostics Group Co-Lead at NASA Ames Research Center. He received a Ph.D. degree in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems in 2008, a M. E. degree in Operations Research and Statistics in 2008, a M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy New York; and a B. S. in Cybernetics Engineering in 2001 from CETYS University, México.
 Louise Travé-Massuyès, from LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France) will talk about BRIDGE: Integration of FDI and DX approaches (T4). She is Research Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working at LAAS, Toulouse, France, in which she has led the « Diagnosis and Supervisory Control » (DISCO) Group for several years.
Her main research interests are in Qualitative and Model-Based Reasoning and applications to dynamic systems Supervision and Diagnosis. She has been particularly active in bridging the AI and Control Engineering Model-Based Diagnosis communities, as leader of the BRIDGE Task Group of the MONET European Network. She has been responsible from several industrial and european projects and published more than 250 papers in international conference proceedings and scientific journals. She is coordinator of the Maintenance & Diagnosis Strategic Field within the Aerospace Valley World Competitiveness Cluster, and serves as the contact evaluator for the projects submitted to the French Research Funding Agency. She serves in the Editorial Board of the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Journal. She is member of the IFAC Safeprocess Technical Committee and Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.
 Gregory Provan is currently a Professor at the Computer Science Department at University College Cork (UCC), in Cork, Ireland. He received a D.Phil. degree in computer science from the University of Oxford, England. He also holds an MSc degree from Stanford University and a BSE from Princeton University.
Prof. Provan works in the areas of diagnostics, systems modelling, control, machine learning, energy systems optimisation, and algorithms. He is currently involved with three research organizations: he is the Director of the Complex Systems Lab (http://www.cs.ucc.ie/ccsl/) at UCC; he is a Principal Investigator (PI) in the Irish Centre for Software Engineering Research (LERO: http://www.lero.ie/); and he is a funded investigator in the Centre for Data Analytics (Insight: https://www.insight-centre.org/).
Prior to his appointment at UCC, he spent 10 years as technical manager at Rockwell Scientific Company, leading the Autonomous Systems group. During that time Dr. Provan was involved in designing control and diagnostics systems, with applications to DoD platforms, as well as the Space Shuttle and Boeing/Airbus commercial aircraft. While at Rockwell Dr. Provan obtained funding from NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval Research.
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