Robin T. Bye, got his Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has been working at the Aalesund University College (AAUC) in Norway since 2008 and is now an associate professor in automation engineering. Apart from teaching automation and computer engineering classes for cybernetics, microcontrollers, and intelligent systems, he also supervises PhD and bachelor students on their theses' topics. His main research interests belong to areas such as computational modeling and simulation of human movements, bio-inspired robotics and automation, and dynamic resource allocation.

Marco Caputano was born in Southern Italy in 1980. He has obtained an M.Sc. in Control Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II in Italy. His final dissertation was on nuclear plasma modeling in the framework of nuclear fusion research. He broadened his academic education with a Masters in Mechatronic Systems Design obtained from the Engineering Polytechnic of Milano, Italy. His former work activities include modeling and numerical simulations for nuclear fusion research (CREATE consortium, Napoli, Italy), and in the field of aeronautical engineering (SAFRAN group, Paris, France). Currently, he works as a Mechatronics Engineer for ASML in the Netherlands.

Mohamed H. Zaher is from Egypt; he is a Mechatronics and Controls Engineer. He received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering with System Dynamics and Mechatronics Focus from Cairo University in Egypt and his Ph.D from University of Illinois at Chicago. Mohamed taught mechanical engineering curriculum at both universities including the use of software tools such as MATLAB and Simulink. He also worked on contract at Caterpillar, Case New Holland, and Servo Tech Inc., where he worked with several professional tools on several developmental projects.