Nader Motee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University and a globally-recognized scholar in distributed control systems and real-time robot perception, will provide a technical keynote address to the 7th International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ICCIA 2020). This academic event, hosted by the University of Tabriz in Tabriz, Iran, is incorporating virtual content this year due to complications brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will take place Feb 23-24, 2021.