Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, and Data Sciences in Sports

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Maude J. Blondin Eng has been an assistant professor at the Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) Department at UdeS since Sept. 2020. She is the headof Multiobjective Optimization REsearch lab (MORE Lab) at UdeS a laboratorythat she founded and counts currently 9 students and postdocs. She has strongoptimization and control training applied to practical systems with advanced skillsin distributed and multiobjective optimization and control algorithms applied toMAS (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Postdoctoral research in Mechanical andAerospace engineering University of Florida Gainesville Florida USA). Shepublished a book on the recent progress of optimization in control in 2021 andcoedited two contributed books. She is on the editorial board of the SN OperationsResearch Forum journal. She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles inrenowned conferences and journals and reviewed more than 55 publications forrecognized conferences and high-impact factors journals. She has been invited as aguest speaker on eight national and international occasions. Since the start of hercareer i.e. Sept. 2020 she has gathered more than 620k$ as PI/co-PI and more than500k$ as a co-investigator.Iztok Fister Jr. received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from theUniversity of Maribor in 2011 and 2013 respectively where he is currentlypursuing a Ph.D. degree. He has participated in the development of more than 100scientific papers. His interests include evolutionary computation sports datamining and mobile and pervasive computing. Furthermore he is a member of theEditorial Board of several international journals. He has acted as a programcommittee in more than 25 international conferences.Panos M. Pardalos serves as professor emeritus of industrial and systemsengineering at the University of Florida. Additionally he is the Paul and HeidiBrown Preeminent Professor of industrial and systems engineering. He is also anaffiliated faculty member of the computer and information science Department theHellenic Studies Center and the biomedical engineering program. He is also thedirector of the Center for Applied Optimization. Pardalos is a world-leading expertin global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests includenetwork design problems optimization in telecommunications e-commerce datamining biomedical applications and massive computing.