COGNITIVE 2026 - The Eighteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
	April 19, 2026 - April 23, 2026
 COGNITIVE 2026: Committees
Onsite and Online Options: In order to accommodate various situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation (pdf slides or pre-recorded videos).
	COGNITIVE 2026 Steering Committee Chair 
    
      
        
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          Jaime Lloret Mauri 
            Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 
            Spain 
              
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          Jaime Lloret Mauri 
            Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 
            Spain 
              
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	COGNITIVE 2026 Steering Committee
    
      
        
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          Thomas Ågotnes 
            University of Bergen 
            Norway 
              
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          Jayfus Tucker Doswell 
            The Juxtopia Group, Inc. 
            USA 
              
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          Muneo Kitajima 
            Nagaoka University of Technology (Emeritus) 
            Japan 
              
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          Thomas Ågotnes 
            University of Bergen 
            Norway 
              
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          Jayfus Tucker Doswell 
            The Juxtopia Group, Inc. 
            USA 
              
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          Muneo Kitajima 
            Nagaoka University of Technology (Emeritus) 
            Japan 
              
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	COGNITIVE 2026 Publicity Chairs 
	Francisco Javier Díaz Blasco, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Ali Ahmad, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
José Miguel Jiménez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Sandra Viciano Tudela, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
	 
	COGNITIVE 2026 Technical Program Committee
	Witold Abramowicz,  University of Economics and Business, Poland
Thomas Agotnes,  University of Bergen, Norway
Vered Aharonson, University of the Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg, South Africa
Thangarajah  Akilan, Lakehead University, Canada
Maksim  Alekseevich Eremeev, Genentech, USA
Piotr Artiemjew,  University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn, Poland
Divya B, SSNCE, India
Thierry Bellet, University Gustave Eiffel,  France
Petr Berka, University of Economics,  Prague, Czech Republic
Ateet Bhalla,  Independent Consultant, India
Mahdi Bidar, University of Regina, Canada
Guy Andre Boy, CentraleSupélec, LGI, Paris Saclay  University / ESTIA Institute of Technology, France
Dilyana Budakova,  Technical University of Sofia - Branch Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Valerie Camps, Paul Sabatier University - IRIT, Toulouse, France
Yaser Chaaban,  Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
Olga Chernavskaya,  P. N. Lebeved Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Helder Coelho,  Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Igor Val Danilov, Academic Center for Coherent Intelligence,  Latvia
Angel P. del Pobil, Jaume I University,  Spain
Soumyabrata Dev, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jerome Dinet, University  of Lorraine, France
Serena Doria, University G.d'Annunzio Chieti,  Italy
Piero Dominici, University of Perugia,  Italy
Jayfus Tucker Doswell, The Juxtopia Group, Inc., USA
António Dourado,  University of Coimbra, Portugal
Birgitta Dresp-Langley,  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | ICube Lab, CNRS - University  of Strasbourg, France
Mounîm A. El  Yacoubi, Telecom SudParis, France
Fernanda M. Eliott, Noyce Science Center  - Grinnell College, USA
Mauro Gaggero,  National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Foteini Grivokostopoulou, University of Patras, Greece
António  Guilherme Correia, INESC TEC / University of  Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Fikret Gürgen,   Bogazici University, Turkey
Hironori Hiaishi, Ashikaga University, Japan
Michitaka Hirose, RCAST (Research Center for Advanced Science  and Technology) - University of Tokyo, Japan
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Gahangir Hossain, West Texas A&M University, USA
Md.  Sirajul Islam, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Makoto  Itoh, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Xinghua Jia,  ULC Robotics, USA
Yasushi Kambayashi, Sanyo-Onoda City University, Japan
Ryotaro Kamimura,  Tokai University, Japan
Fakhri Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada
Muneo Kitajima, Nagaoka University of  Technology, Japan
Joao E. Kogler Jr., Polytechnic School  of Engineering of University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Damir Krstinić, University of Split,  Croatia
Miroslav Kulich,  Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Leonardo Lana de Carvalho, Universidade  Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri - UFVJM, Brazil
Nathan Lau, Virginia Tech, USA
Runze Li, University of California at Riverside,  USA
Hakim Lounis, UQAM, Canada
Prabhat Mahanti,  University of New Brunswick, Canada
Wajahat Mahmood  Qazi, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore, Pakistan
Aurelie Mailloux, Reims Hospital / 2LPN laboratory, France
Giuseppe Mangioni,  DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy
Armand Manukyan, Lorraine Laboratory of  Psychology and Neurosciences 2LPN (University of Lorraine) / Association  Jean-Baptiste Thiéry, France
Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes -  LIST3N (Informatics and digital society Lab), France
Katsuko T. Nakahira, Nagaoka University of  Technology, Japan
Ardavan S. Nobandegani, McGill  University, Montreal, Canada
Yoshimasa Ohmoto, Shizuoka University,  Japan
Andrew J. Parkes, University of Nottingham,  UK
Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
J. Javier Rainer  Granados, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain
Om Prakash  Rishi, University of Kota, India
Alexandr Ryjov,  Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy  and Public Administration, Russia
José Santos Reyes, University  of A Coruña, Spain
Razieh Saremi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Ljiljana Šerić, University of Split,  Croatia
Paul Smart, University of Southampton, UK
S.Vidhusha, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Stanimir Stoyanov,  Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", Bulgaria
Nasseh Tabrizi, East Carolina University, USA
Tiago Thompsen Primo, Samsung Research Institute, Brazil
Gary Ushaw,  Newcastle University, UK
Jaap van den Herik, Leiden Centre of  Data Science (LCDS) | Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Emilio Vivancos, Valencian Research Institute  for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN) | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Han  Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai / Zhuhai Institute of Advanced  Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xianzhi Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary,  Canada
Ye Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology,  USA
Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, NTNU, Norway
Besma Zeddini, EISTI, France