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Adam completed the Master of Electrical Engineering Program at Białystok University of Technology (Poland) receiving both Master and Engineer degrees. He obtained Doctor of Technical Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1987, he joined the University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, where he is currently a Full Professor and former Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Former Director and current Member of the UQTR’s Research Group on Industrial Electronics, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Québec at Trois-Rivières and the Board of Governors of the University of Québec.
His research works include supercomputers applications to the electro-thermal applications and complex problems solutions in industrial environment. More specifically he worked on numerical algorithms with the use of high performance computing (HPC) for the analysis of the thermal problems in electrical, electronics and nanoelectronics devices.
He has made contributions to the numerical analysis of electro-thermal phenomena exploring and applying various techniques to the power electronics devices design and industrial process control. This contribution is reflected in the number of papers published and presented in journals and conferences including IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
He was a Chair of Canadian Heads of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, he is a recipient of the IEEE RAB/MGA Leadership Award and the IEEE Canada W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award.

Ahmed A. Kishk is a Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada (since 2011), as Tier 1Canada Research Chair in Advanced Antenna Systems. He was an Associate Editor of Antennas & Propagation Society Newsletters from 1990 to 1993, a distinguished lecturer for the Antennas and Propagation Society (2013-2015), an Editor of Antennas & Propagation Magazine (1993-2014), an editor of the ACES Journal during 1997, an Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal from 1998 to 2001, the chair of the Physics and Engineering Division of the Mississippi Academy of Science (2001-2002), a Guest Editor of the special issue on artificial magnetic conductors, soft/hard surfaces, and other complex surfaces, in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, January 2005, and a co-guest Editor in IEEE Antennas and Propagation and Wireless Letter on the special cluster on “5G/6G enabling antenna systems and associated testing technologies.”Dr. Kishk was a the general chair of the 2020 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI joint meeting and a technical program committee member for several international conferences. He was a member of the AP-S AdCom (2013-2015) and the 2017 AP-S president.
Prof. Kishk research interest includes the areas of millimeter-wave antennas for 5G/6G applications, Analog beamforming network, Dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, small antennas, microwave sensors, RFID antennas for readers and tags, Multi-function antennas, microwave circuits, EBG, artificial magnetic conductors, soft and hard surfaces, phased array antennas, reflect/transmitarray, wearable antennas, and Feeds for Parabolic reflectors. He has published over 385-refereed journal articles and 510 conference papers. He is a co-author of four books and several book chapters and the editor of four books. He offered several short courses in international conferences.
Prof. Kishk and his students received several awards. Hewon the 1995 and 2006 outstanding paper awards for papers published in the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal. He received the 1997 Outstanding Engineering Educator Awardfrom the IEEE Memphis section. He received the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Member of the Year in 1998 and 2009, Faculty research award for outstanding research performance in 2001 and 2005. He received the Award of Distinguished Technical Communication for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine's entry, 2001. He also received The Valued Contribution Award for outstanding Invited Presentation, “EM Modeling of Surfaces with STOP or GO Characteristics – Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Soft and Hard Surfaces” from the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He received the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Microwave Prize 2004. He received the 2013 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. In recognition, “For contributions and continuous improvements to teaching and research to prepare students for future careers in antennas and microwave circuits, Kishk is a Fellow of IEEE since 1998, Fellow of Electromagnetic Academy, and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He is a member of the Antennas and Propagation Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques, Sigma Xi Society, Senior member of International Union of Radio Science, Commission B, Phi Kappa Phi, Electromagnetic Compatibility, and Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society.

Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and government. Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks, a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several startup companies, an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, and a senior researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
His research interests include wireless communications and networks, and information and communication network security. He has research and industry experience in wireless communications and networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular communication networks, information and communication network security, smart grid communications, broadband satellite communications, optical communications, high-speed communications and networks, and Internet of Things.
Prof. Yi Qian is a Fellow of IEEE. He was previously Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee for Communications and Information Security. He was the Technical Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018. He serves on the Editorial Boards of several international journals and magazines, including as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Communications Society.

Karu Esselle is the Distinguished Professor in Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Professor of Macquarie University, Sydney. According to 2019 Special Report on Research published by The Australian national newspaper, he is the National Research Field Leader in Australia in both Microelectronics and Electromagnetisms fields.Karu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, IEEE and Engineers Australia.Since 2018, Karu has been chairing the prestigious Dis tinguished Lecturer Program Committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation (AP) Society – the premier global learned society dedicated for antennas and propagation - which has close to 10,000 members worldwide. Karu has authored over 600 research publications and his papers have been cited over 10,000 times. In 2020 his publications received 1,200 citations. His current h-index is 50 and i10 is 184. Since 2002, his research team has been involved with research grants, contracts and PhD scholarships worth about 20 million dollars, without counting the 245 million-dollar SmartSat Corporative Research Centre. His research has been supported by many national and international organisations including Australian Research Council, Intel, US Air Force, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Australian Department of Defence, Australian Department of industry, and German and Indian governments.His team designed the high-gain antenna system for the world’s first entirely Ka-band CubeSat made by Audacy, USA and launched to space by SpaceX in December 2018. Karu’s most recent awards include one of the two finalists for 2020 Australian Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers, 2019 Motohisa Kanda Award (from IEEE USA) for the most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on EMC in the past five years, 2019 Macquarie University Research Excellence Award for Innovative Technologies and 2019 ARC Discovery International Award.

Prof. Udaya Madawala graduated from the University of Moratuwa in 1987, and he is an eminent Professor at the University of Auckland (UoA), New Zealand. In the past, he has served at UoA as the Director of Teaching & Learning in the Department, Member of the Faculty of Engineering Staffing Committee, and as the Associate Dean (International) for Faculty of Engineering. Now he serves as the Deputy Head of Department (Research) and Member of the University Disciplinary Committee.
Udaya who is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronic Society (PELS), has over 30 years of both industry and research experience in the fields of power electronics and energy. Within this discipline, he has been working on various development and research projects in relation to bidirectional wireless power transfer (WPT), grid integration of renewable energy sources, permanent magnet motor/generator design and control and power converters. At present, he focusses on bi-directional wireless charging of electric vehicles (EVs) for V2X applications, high power converters, energy management, and mitigating the impacts of EV charging on the grid. He has served both the IEEE Power Electronics and Industrial Electronics Societies in numerous roles, relating to editorial, advisory, conference, technical committees and chapter activities. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and a member of both the Administrative Committee and Membership Development Committee of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He was the General Chair of the 2nd IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC)- 2016, held in New Zealand, and is also the Chair of SPEC Steering Committee. Udaya, who has over 300 journal and conference publications, holds a number of patents related to wireless power transfer (WPT) and power converters, and is a consultant to industry.

David Bensoussan was born in Mogador, Morocco, November 14, 1947. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1970 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1978 and 1982, respectively. He has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure de l'Université du Québec since 1980. He has published extensively in the field of control, telecommunications and energy and has filed a large number of patents. Heauthored a series of technical books published by Bordas-Dunod-Gauthier Villars, France, Academic Press, Presses Internationales de Polytechnique and Presses de l’Université du Québec. He has also written a number of literary works, including a Bible commentary. His research interests include input-output stability theory, robust multivariable feedback control design, sensitivity theory and decentralized control.

Carlo Alberto Nucci graduated with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1982. He is a Full Professor and Head of the Power Systems Laboratory of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna. He is an author or co-author of over 370 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals or in proceedings of international conferences. Prof. Nucci is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Council on Large Electric Systems(CIGRE), of which he is also an Honorary member, and has received some best paper/technical international awards, including the CIGRE Technical Committee Award and the ICLPGolde Award. From January 2006 to September 2012, he served as Chairman of the CIGRE Study Committee C4 System Technical Performance. He has served as IEEEPES Region8 Repin 2009 and 2010. Since January 2010, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Electric Power Systems Research journal (Elsevier). He has served as the President of the Italian Group of the University Professors of Electrical Power Systems (GUSEE) from 2012 to 2015. He is presently serving as Italian Representative in the Horizon Europe Mission Board Sub-group “Climate-neutral and Smart cities”, and as a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the Regional Energy Plan of Emilia Romagna Region, Italy. Prof. Nucci is Doctor Honor is Causa of the University Politehnica of Bucharest and a member of the Academy of Science of the Institute of Bologna. He is also serving as vice-chair of the International Conference on Lightning Protection, ICLP.

Dr. Samir Kouro received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He currently is an academic at the Department of Electronic Engineering and serves as General Director of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurshipat UTFSM. From 2009 to 2011 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy conversion systems (photovoltaic and wind), and energy transition technologies (green hydrogen and electromobility).
Dr. Kouro is Deputy Director of the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E), and Principal Investigator of the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile), both R&D centers of excellence in Chile. He has directed 39 R&D projects, coauthored one book, 10 book chapters, 4 patents, and over 200 refereed journal and conference papers. He currently serves as President of the IEEE PELS Chapter Chile and has served as technical adviser in several energy related public policy councils and boards for the Chilean Government
Dr. Kouro was included in The Clarivate Analytics 2018 Highly Cited Researcher List, and received 2018 IEEE-AIE Outstanding Engineer Award, the 2016 IEEE Industrial Electronics Bimal K. Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applicationsin Energy Systems, the 2015 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society J. David Irwin Early Career Award, the 2012 IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award. In addition he has received 4 best paper awards in IEEE journals in the years 2019, 2016, 2012 and 2008.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation) joined Huddersfield University as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering,in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than 250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 12 Springer books.
He is Fellow of: British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR),Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Editorial Board member of the International Journal “Electronics”, the International Journal “Sensors”, the International Journal “Energies”, the International Journal “Insight”, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research and the International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing.
He was Chair of First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of ICNDT and EFNDT and Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring. Len made 42 plenary keynotes at major international conferences and more than 100 invited lectures and seminars in the UK, USA, France, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, India and Israel during period 1996-2019. He was Visiting Professor at ten Universities abroad. Len received two Rolls-Royce (UK) Awards for Innovation, COMADIT Prize (by British Institute of NDT) for significant contribution through research/development in condition monitoring, Oxford Academic Health Science Network Award, William Smith Prize by UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and USA Navy Award. During his time at Cranfield, Len has developed technologies which have been field trialled in applications ranging from aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, steam turbines, composite materials and centrifugal compressors. He has managed as the Principal Investigator contributions to multiple EU funded programs, UK DTI programs (4 grants), multiple EPSRC grants, Royal Society grant, USA National Academy of Sciences grant, USA National Research Council grant, and multiple industrial contracts, including multiple contracts with Rolls-Royce (6 contracts), contracts with SKF, Shell, Scottish Southern Energy (two contracts), Caterpillar (USA, two contracts), London Underground (three contracts) and Cranfield Boeing Centre of Excellence (3 contracts). Before joining Cranfield University, Len was the Principal Investigator of USA International Science Foundation grant, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation grants (two grants), USA MacArthur Foundation grant, Israel Lady Davis grant and Italian Landau Centro Volta grant. Len was •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project Monitur •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project Indgear •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project PileInspect •the Technical Manager of UK DTI project Sustain •the Coordinator of EPSRC project
Len is reviewer of the following funding bodies: EPSRC, the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders,Belgium, German Research Foundation, Germany, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, China, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, Scotland and National Research Foundation, South Africa.

Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is currently a full professor in electrical power engineering at Institutt for elektro, IT og kybernetikk, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Norway. His academic qualifications include first Class Electrical Engineering of Instituto Universitario Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, Venezuela (1994), Master of Business Administration (Honors) of Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua, Venezuela (1999), PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2008) and Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Professional Practice from Coventry University (2013) and Diploma in Leadership and Management (ILM Level 3), Loughborough University (2018).
He is a former a Lecturer in Electrical Power System at Electrical Power System en School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering en Loughborough University (2013-2019). He is a former academic staff of Department of Aerospace, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Coventry where he started as Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in 2012 and quickly promoted to Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in 2013. He was formerly with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester as Postdoctoral Research Associate (2009-2011). Also, he is a former associate professor (1995-2009) and Chair (1999-2001) of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Universidad Nacional Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional, Venezuela (1995-2009). He is Vice-President of Venezuelan Wind Energy Association, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Senior Member of the IEEE, member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET (UK) and member of International Council on Large Electric Systems -CIGRE. His research interest includes innovative (operation/control) schemes to optimise the performance of future energy systems.

Alireza Baghai-Wadji is Professor Emeritus at University of Cape Town (UCT). Previously, he was Academic Program Director and Assistant Dean (internationalization) with UCT. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering, and the D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) degree in physical electronics from the Vienna University of Technology. He has also been honored with the D.Sc. degree in materials science and quantum physics from Aalto University, Finland. Since 2012 he has been with University of Cape Town. He was 2005–2012 Professor, Discipline Head, Senior Member of the Platform Technologies Research Institute, and International Representative with RMIT University. From 1979-2005 he was with Vienna University of Technology: Associate Professor (1997–2005), Docent (1994–1997), Assistant Professor (1988–1994), Research Fellow (1984–1988), and Research Associate (1979–1983). He has occupied resident academic, executive, and consultancy positions on five continents, accumulating significant experience in both academia and high-tech industry: Distinguished Visiting Professor with Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Finland; Visiting Scientist with Max Planck Institute (Quantum Optics), Germany; Visiting Professor with Institute for High-Performance Computing and Senior Member with Institute for Mathematical Science, Singapore; Visiting Scientist with University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; Adjunct Professor with Arizona State University, AZ, USA; and Director of Aerospace and Aviation Electronics Program with Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Centre, Australia. He was Principal Engineering Consultant with Motorola, USA; CTS, USA; EPCOS, Germany; Siemens Matsushita, Austria; and Siemens, Germany. He was a Nokia Fellow and was awarded the prestigious Austrian Kurt Goedel Fellowship three times. Since 1997 he has been serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC). He was twice Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions UFFC. Since 2019 he has been serving as Associate Editor for the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES). He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and delivered more than 120 invited, plenary, and keynote speeches. He is the owner of one patent in the USA. He has instructed 33 half-day or full-day short courses sponsored by IEEE or ACES. His sustained efforts in the development of cutting-edge mathematical tools for zooming in the ultra near-fields in miniaturized acoustic-, electronic-, photonic, plasmonic-, and quantum devices have been honored by computational communities and widely viewed as original contributions to mathematical physics with demonstrated applications in frontiers engineering: He is Honorary Member and Fellow of Electromagnetics Academy, USA, and has been listed in Who-is-Who in Electromagnetics. He is a Visiting Professor at SUSTech, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (two years, 2020-2021). During 2017-2019 he was for a period of 19 months a High-level Foreign Expert Visiting Professor with the Xian University of Science and Technology, Xian, Shaanxi, China. He is Honorary Professor at Amity University, Noida, India, and Adjunct Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. Nicolas G. Constantin, Senior Member IEEE, received his B.Eng. degree in 1989 from the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) - University of Quebec, Canada, his M.A.Sc. degree in 1994 from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from McGill University, Canada, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at the ÉTS, Montreal, Canada. From 1989 to 1992 he worked in the design of microwave transceivers for point to point radio links. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as an RF design engineer at NEC, in the development of RF and microwave transceivers for mobile telephony. From 1998 to 2002 he was a senior design engineer at Skyworks Solutions, Inc., California, USA, where he developed GaAs HBT RFIC PAs for wireless communications. At Skyworks he was also actively involved in research on smart biasing and efficiency improvement techniques for RFIC PAs, and he is the author of several patents on the subject. He was the recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and a doctoral scholarship from the ÉTS. His primary research interests are in the design and test of Analog, RF & Millimeter-wave ICs and Front-End modules for wireless communications. He conducts research in collaboration with major companies in the wireless communication and aerospace industry.

Prof Eric Cheng obtained his BSc and Ph.D. degrees both from the University of Bath in 1987 and 1990 respectively. Before he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997, he was with Lucas Aerospace, United Kingdom as a Principal Engineer and led a number of power electronics projects.
He is the electrical designer for the Hong Kong 1st commercial electric vehicle in Hong Kong. He is also the designer for the 1st charging network in Hong Kong. He received numerous awards related to electrical engineering, energy, and automotive. He has published over 500 papers and 7 books. He has over 100 interviews by the media on his research and development. He is now the professor and director of the Power Electronics Research Centre of the university. His research interests are all aspects of power electronics, Power Quality, Renewable energy, Motor drives, Energy Saving, EMI, high-speed rail, Electric Vessel, Electric Vehicle, and Automotive advanced components. He is the recipient of the international award in Seoul International Invention Fair 2015 Gold prize for his contribution in super-capacitor to electric vehicles, 2016 iCAN Gold Medal for his contribution in active suspension, and Gold Award of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology in 2017, and Geneva’s Invention Expo Silver Award for his contribution in an antilock braking system, in 2021. Prof. Cheng is a fellow of IEEE and IET.

Marco Liserre is currently a Full Professor and Chair of Power Electronics at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. He received the MSc and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bari Polytechnic, respectively in 1998 and 2002. He has been Associate Professor at Bari Polytechnic and Professor in Reliable Power Electronics at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published 168 technical papers, 3 book chapters and a book on Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems. These works have received more than 6000 citations. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on power electronics, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He has been Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, Founder and the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Renewable Energy Systems. Dr. Liserre has received the IES 2009 Early Career Award, the IES 2011 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, and 2011 Industrial Electronics Magazine best paper award.

Arun K. Somani came to Iowa State in 1997 as the inaugural recipient of the David C. Nicholas Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a position he held until 2003 when he received the department’s first endowed Jerry R. Junkins Chair. A year later, Somani was appointed the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s chair. He is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Association of Computing Machinery Distinguished Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
During his time as department chair, Somani led the department to create five strategic research areas in bioengineering, cyber infrastructure, distributed sensing and decision making, energy infrastructure, and small-scale technology. Somani was instrumental in the development of Iowa State’s software engineering program. He also helped lead an initiative to create a degree program for students from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in India to study in India for two years and then at Iowa State University for two years to finish their undergraduate degrees.
Somani designed a multicomputer system called Proteus, and authored Survivability and Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks (2006), in addition to more than 250 conference papers and journal articles. Somani’s research interests include optical fiber networking, computer system architecture, dependable computing, and cyber infrastructure. In 2006, he received the Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award. Before coming to Iowa State, Somani was a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1985 to 1997.
He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from BITS-Pilani (1973), master’s degrees in computer engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (1979) and electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (1983), and PhD in electrical engineering from McGill University (1985).

Sastry Pamidi received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Bombay, India. He is currently a professor and serving as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering (www.eng.famu.fsu.edu). He is the Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University (www.caps.fsu.edu), where he leads a multidisciplinary research group focusing on superconducting power applications. His research interests are in high power density superconducting devices, cryogenic dielectrics, advanced AC loss measurements, and applied cryogenics related to superconducting power applications. He has established advanced research facilities and testbeds to characterize superconducting cables cooled with gaseous helium. He has established a high voltage engineering laboratory specializing in the cryogenic dielectric characterization of insulation materials and designs for superconducting power applications. He has collaborated with many research groups around the world and delivered invited presentations at many international conferences. He authored and co-authored more than 180 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and three book chapters. He has active collaborations with superconducting wire manufacturers and several small businesses. He has served on the technical committees of many international conferences and as a guest technical editor for many special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He served as the conference chair for the 21st International Cryocoolers Conference in 2020. Dr. Pamidi is active in IEEE and is the Chair of the Power and Energy Chapter of the local IEEE Section.

Behrooz Mirafzal received his bachelor’s degree from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, in 1994, and his doctorate from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2005, all in electrical engineering. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a power engineer, as well as a lecturer, with several academic institutions in Isfahan. From 2005-08, he was with Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley, Mequon, Wisconsin, first as senior development and then promoted to a project engineer, where he was involved in research and development related to magnetic design and high-frequency reflected wave phenomena in motor-drive systems. During the time he was employed at Rockwell Automation, he was an adjunct faculty at Marquette University, and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. From 2008-11, he was an assistant professor at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. In 2011, he joined Kansas State University and established the power electronics research laboratory. In 2015, he was promoted to an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Kansas State University.
Research
Professor Mirafzal is the founder and director of the Power Electronics Research Laboratory at Kansas State University. He is a research leader in the smart inverters and power electronic applications in renewable energy systems, on-the-move technologies, and micro-grids research areas. He has over 15 years of industrial and academic experience in conceptualization, development and analysis of various modern energy conversion systems. His current research focus is on design and analysis of single-stage boost inverters for solar and wind energy systems, fault-tolerant inverters for electric vehicles, and dynamics and control of inverters for voltage and frequency stability in micro-grids.
Academic Highlights
Mirafzal is the author or co-author of more than 100 IEEE transactions and IEEE international conference papers, and holds three U.S. patents and one U.S. patent application. He is the recipient of a 2014 NSF CAREER Award, a 2012 NSF EPSCoR First award, the 2012 IEEE-PES Transactions Best Paper Award, the 2008 IEEE-IAS Transactions Second Best Paper Award, and an Innovation Award from Rockwell Automation in 2006. He has served as an IEEE senior member since 2007, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications since 2011, the technical co-chair of the IEEE IEMDC International Conference in 2009 and the technical co-chair of the NAPS Conference in 2013. He is an active member of IEEE Industry Applications, IEEE Power Electronics, IEEE Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies.

Professor Fushuan Wen received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He joined the faculty of Zhejiang University in 1991 and has been a full professor and the director of the Institute of Power Economics and Information since 1997, and the director of Zhejiang University-Insigma Joint Research Center for Smart Grids since 2010. He is currently a professor in energy systems at Tallinn University of Technology, taking leaves from Zhejiang University. He is also on the editorial boards of more than 10 journals. Prof Wen is the General Chairman of 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia (ISGT Asia 2020), Nov. 23-27, 2020, Perth, Australia. He has published 650+ journal papers including 180+ SCI-indexed papers, 470+ EI-indexed papers, and 650+ Scopus-indexed papers. His publications have been cited for 13000+ times. He has completed and is undertaking more than 160 grants and projects from governmental organizations and industry.

Prof. Ivan Ganchev is an IEEE Senior Member, a URSI Senior Member, an ITU-T Invited Expert, and an IET Invited Lecturer. He was involved in 40+ international and national research projects.Prof. Ganchev has served on the Technical Program Committee of 350+ prestigious international conferences, symposia, and workshops. He has (co)authored 1 monographic book, 3 textbooks, 4 edited books, and 300+ research papers in refereed international journals, books, and conference proceedings.Prof. Ganchev is an Area Editor of the Elsevier Computer Networks, an Editorial Board Member of the HindawiWireless Communications and Mobile Computing, MDPI Electronics, MDPI Mathematics, and Wiley Internet Technology Letters, and a Regional Editor (Europe) of the International Journal on Trust Management in Computing and Communications. He also seats on the Editorial Board of and has served as a Guest Editor for multiple other international journals

Professor Dr. Nasrudin Abd Rahim holds PhD from Heriot-Watt University, UK. He became a Chartered Engineer in 2000 and promoted as a Professor in 2003. He is a Fellow in the Institution of Engineering Technology (FIET) and Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASM). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE). Professor Dr. Nasrudin is the Founder and Director of the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), one of the ten nationally acclaimed Higher Institutions’ Centre of Excellence (HICoE) of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE). He is also the Chairman of the University of Malaya Advanced Engineering & Technology (AET) Research Cluster.
His professional contribution in imparting and adding to knowledge, and furthering progress in his field, extends beyond the perimeters of the university. At regional and international levels, he has served in various capacities for IEE and IEEE, the most recent has been the Chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Motor Sub-Committee Working Group 8 upon his election to the position in 2006. He also has been made the Malaysia SEE Forum Coordinator in 2009. In research, he has led, and co-researched, projects of national and international importance, with funding totaling millions of ringgit. He is a published author of more than 100 refereed journals, 175 articles, and books, and has had more than fifteen PhD candidates graduated. Among many other academic and field-related awards won locally and internationally, is the AUNSEED-Net Research Grant, of which he had the honor of being its first recipient. He had in 2008-2011 been made Visiting Research Fellow to the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Professor Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Provost and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University, Michigan. He is Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He served as the University of Bridgeport (UB) Executive Vice President, Research and Economic Development, and the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education (2018-2020), Interim Provost (2020), and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science (2010-2020). He was the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) laboratory (1995-2020), the Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTech IncUBator) (2010-2011), and the Founding Director of the UB Innovation Center (2019-2020). He was the Senior Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research (2014-2018), Vice President (2008-2014), Vice Provost (2006-2008), Dean of the School of Engineering (1999-2018), Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Technology Management. He was a Professor of Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (2000-2010), an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport (1995-1999), a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah (1992-1995), and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania from (1989-1991).
His background is in the fields of computer science and engineering, STEM Education, control theory, robotics, automation, manufacturing, AI, computer vision and signal processing. He has published over 250refereed journal and conference papers, and book chapters in these and other areas, in addition to 27 books. Dr. Sobh served or currently serves on the editorial boards of 18 journals, and has served as Chair, Technical Program Chair and on the program committees of over 300 international conferences and workshops in the Robotics, Computer Vision, Automation, Sensing, Computing, Systems, Control, Online Engineering and Engineering Education areas. He has presented more than 150 keynote speeches, invited talks and lectures, colloquia and seminars at research meetings, University departments, research centers, and companies.
Professor Sobh has supervised over 50 award-winning graduate and undergraduate students working on different projects within robotics, prototyping, computer vision, control, and manufacturing; in addition to more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students working on their B.S. projects, Master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertations. Dr. Sobh is active in consulting and providing service to many industrial organizations and companies. He has consulted for several companies in the U.S., Switzerland, India, Malaysia, England, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Egypt, to support projects in higher education, robotics, automation, manufacturing, sensing, and control. He has also worked at Philips Laboratories in New York, and a number of companies in Egypt. Dr. Sobh has been awarded over 60 research awards and grants to pursue his work in robotics, automation, STEM education, manufacturing, and sensing. Dr. Sobh is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Dr. Sobh is a recipient of the ASEE Northeastern U.S. Distinguished Engineering Professor of the Year award, the IEEE Northeast Technological Innovation Research Award, an ACE Higher Education Award and several other merits in recognition of his educational, research, scholarly and service activities in engineering, education, computing and diversity initiatives. Dr. Sobh is a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer (P.E.), a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a Certified Professional Manager (C.M.) by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers at James Madison University, a Certified Reliability Engineer (C.R.E.) by the American Society for Quality, a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society), Phi Beta Delta (International Honor Society), Upsilon Pi Epsilon (National Honor Society for the Computing Sciences), Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society) and an honorary member of Delta Mu Delta (National Honor Society for Business Administration). Dr. Sobh is a member, senior member, founding or board member of several professional organizations including; ACM, IEEE, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), the Bridgeport Discovery Museum, the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP), and the International E-Learning Association (IELA). Dr. Sobh is a graduate of Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1983 and a life member of the Old Victorians Association.

N.S.Kopeika was born in Baltimore in 1944. Raised in Philadelphia, he received B.Sc.,M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. He and his family moved to Israel, and he began his career at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Lecturer in 1973. He chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for two terms [1989-1993], and was named Reuven and Francis Feinberg Professor of Electrooptics in 1994. He was the first head of the Department of Electrooptical and Photonics Engineering 1999-2005, which grants graduate degrees only. He and Shlomi Arnon were awarded the JJ Thomson Award by the IEE in 1999 for their outstanding paper. In 2001 he was awarded the Glant Prize for excellence in teaching. He has published over 200 papers in international reviewed journals and over 160 papers at various conferences. Recent research involves development of a novel inexpensive focal plane array camera for terahertz imaging. He is a Fellow of SPIE. Other areas of research include: interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas, the optogalvanic effect, environmental effects on optoelectronic devices, imaging system theory, propagation of light through the atmosphere, imaging and wireless communication through the atmosphere, image processing and restoration from atmospheric blur, imaging in the presence of motion and vibration, lidar, target acquisition, and image quality in general. He is the author of the textbook A SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPROACH TO IMAGING published by SPIE Press [first printing 1998, second printing 2000], and is topical editor for Marcel Dekker for the topic "atmospheric optics" in their ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OPTICAL ENGINEERING. He also co-authored with Natan Blaunstein, Shlomi Arnon, and Arkadi Zilberman the book APPLIED ASPECTS OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND LIDAR, published in 2010 by Taylor & Francis group, CRC Press , and edited with Natan Blaunstein the book OPTICAL WAVES AND LASER BEAMS IN THE IRREGULAR ATMOSPHERE, published in 2018 also by Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press. He retired officially in 2013 and is still quite active professionally.

Filippo Giubileo currently works as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Superconductors, Innovative Materials and Devices (SPIN) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), since 2004. He has the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. His research activity deals with electrical properties of 1D and 2D nanomaterials and their application as field effect transistors, photodetectors, chemical sensors, field emitters. His expertise includes advanced surface analysis on nanometer scale by scanning probe microscopy/spectroscopy in high magnetic field and variable temperatures. FG also works in the field of superconductivity, mostly on what concerns interface phenomena, proximity effect, symmetry of the superconducting order parameters, and tunneling spectroscopy. FG has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was Chair-Organizer for several international conferences (ISMN08, SM-2010, S4E-2014, GM-2016, TTN-2018, NANO M&D-2019). He serves as member of editorial board for international journals (Nanomaterials, Nano Express, Journal of Nanomaterials, Chemosensors). FG has participated in several international conferences as a keynote or invited speaker.

Dr. Ibrahim M. Abdel-Motaleb, Ph.D., PE, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Microelectronics Laboratory at Northern Illinois University. He served as the chair of the department of Electrical Engineering from 2008-2015 and assistant to the Dean of Engineering from 2015-2016. He created the biomedical engineering program at the department and served as its director until 2017. Dr. Abdel-Motaleb has a BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Physics from Cairo University. He received his MS degree in Physics from the University of Manitoba, Canada and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His areas of expertise are in (a) Fabrication, characterization, and modeling of nano/micro electronic devices, integrated circuits, and 3D ICs, (b) nano/electronic material growth and characterization, (c) MEMS design and fabrication, and (d) biomedical engineering instrumentation. He published more than 100 refereed articles and received hundreds of thousands of research fund. He advised more than 5 PhD students and about 50 MS students.
Dr. Ibrahim served as the General Chairman of the 2015 IEEE Electro/Information Technology (IEEE-EIT-2015) and the Registration Chairman for the same conference in 2020 (IEEE-EIT-2020). He presented numerous keynote speeches and Invited papers in technical conferences. He is an expert witness in the US courts. He is a likened professional engineer in the State of Illinois, USA

Ralph M. Kennel was born in 1955 at Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 1979 he got his diploma degree and in 1984 his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.
From 1983 to 1999 he worked on several positions with Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany). Until 1997 he was responsible for the development of servo drives. Dr. Kennel was one of the main supporters of VECON and SERCOS interface, two multi-company development projects for a microcontroller and a digital interface especially dedicated to servo drives. Furthermore he took actively part in the definition and release of new standards with respect to CE marking for servo drives.
Between 1997 and 1999 Dr. Kennel was responsible for "Advanced and Product Development of Fractional Horsepower Motors" in automotive applications. His main activity was preparing the introduction of brushless drive concepts to the automotive market.
From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Kennel was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, UK). From 1999 - 2008 he was Professor for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). Since 2008 he is Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at TechnischeUniversitaetMuenchen (Germany). His main interests today are: Sensorless control of AC drives, predictive control of power electronics and Hardware-in-the-Loop systems.
Dr. Kennel is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he is Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS). Dr. Kennel has received in 2013 the Harry Owen Distinguished Service Award from IEEE-PELS, the EPE Association Distinguished Service Award in 2015 as well as the 2019 EPE Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2018 Dr. Kennel received the Doctoral degree honoris causa from Universitatea Stefan cel Mare in Suceava (Romania).
Dr. Kennel was appointed “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) from 2016 to 2019 and as “Visiting Professor” at the Haixi Institute by the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2021.

Werner Rosenkranz studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany. There he received the Ph.D. and the Habilitation at the Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik. He worked on Phase-locked Loops, digital FM-systems, and Digital Signal Processing. In 1989 he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie and Lucent Technologies in Nuremberg, Germany, where he was responsible for a transmission group in the basic development team. In 1997 he became Professor and head of the Chair for Communications in the Department of Engineering of the University of Kiel, Germany. In 2016 he became Professor Emeritus. His main research activities are transmission-aspects in very high-speed digital communication systems with focus on optical transmission, synchronization systems, signal processing, and simulation. He is author or coauthor of more than 200 publications on selected topics as e.g. compensation and equalization of optical transmission channels, advanced modulation formats in optical communications, high-speed transmission, modeling of channel impairments etc. Prof. Rosenkranz is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the OSA, and member of VDE and ITG.

Igor Cvetkovic received his Dipl. Ing. Degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 2004 (area - Power Systems). After working several years for the Electric Power Industry of Serbia as an Engineer for Regulation and Maintenance of Power Electronics Equipment at the Nikola Tesla Power Plant, Igor joined Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, USA in 2007 as a visiting scholar. Year later, he started Direct Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech, and completed his M.S. degree in Power Electronics in 2010. The same year he started working full-time as a research engineer at CPES while in parallel pursuing his doctorate part-time. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 and is now working as a Research Scientist and a Technical Director at CPES. Igor is a member of IEEE, and his research interests include ac- and dc- electronic power distribution systems design and stability, as well as power electronics-based system-level modeling and control.

Dr Hossein Ameli is a research associate at Imperial College London. He got his PhD degree from Electrical and Electronic Engineering department at Imperial College London. His research is mainly focused on interaction of gas/hydrogen and electricity systems from operation and planning perspectives. In this context, the modelling is carried out for e.g., GB energy system in 2030 and 2050, where a significant part of heat and transport sector should be electrified. Furthermore, cost-effective transition to lower-carbon energy system achieved by employment of flexibility options (i.e., demand side response, electricity storage, flexible gas plants, multi-directional compressors, and interconnections) in the integrated operation and planning of different energy vectors (mainly gas/hydrogen, heat and electricity) is investigated. He contributed in many scientific papers as well as research projects related to energy industry such as projects for Committee of Climate Change (CCC) and Ofgem.

Dr. Raziq Yaqub earned a Ph.D. from Tokyo, Japan, in Wireless Communication Systems, and an MBA from New Jersey, USA in Marketing. He is an inventor of technologies in Cybersecurity, Wireless Communications, and Smart Grid, with 40+ issued patents. He has been an inductee of New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, since 2014. He received an award of “Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2019” from the President of Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, an award of “Innovator Young Faculty”, and an award of “Outstanding Engineering Educator” from the Dean of the college, and an “Outstanding Engineer 2020” award from IEEE region-3.
He has 25 years of experience in industry, government, and academia in USA. Currently he is serving as an Associate Professor to lead Cybersecurity, Wireless Communication, and Smart Grid. He steered 4G/LTE research and standardization efforts as an Executive Director of Toshiba America Research, directed Cybersecurity training efforts as a Department Head of NIKSUN University, and led research and development team to develop wireless charger and media hubs for the automotive industry as a Director of Global R&D of Tecvox. He remained Sr. Consultant to the State of New Jersey to secure $87M grant for 4G/LTE deployment for first respondents, a spokesperson in 3GPP for the Department of Homeland Security, an invited Researcher in NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH to lead cybersecurity of aerial vehicles in 2019, and Artificial Intellgence based falut detection and prediction in 2021. He also remained an inventor for Wells Fargo, USA for cybersecurity of Fintech.
He served scientific community as a Chairman and a contributor in standards organizations such as MWIF, 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, and OMA, a lead member for ABET accreditation, Chair of Academic Standards Committee, Chair of IEEE Membership Development, Evaluator for technical papers, Ph.D. theses, patents and grant proposals, Vice Chair of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019, organizer of numerous global conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker, Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Gained cultural competence and social skills around diversity by living in different countries, serving in historically black university, and communicating in English, Japanese, Hindi, and Urdu.

Huamin Li received his BS degree from the College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, in 2007, his MS degree from the College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea, in 2010, and his PhD degree in the Department of Nano Science and Technology, SKKU, Suwon, Korea, in 2013. His PhD research focused on 2D electronics and optoelectronics. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame. His postdoctoral work included the development of low-voltage and steep subthreshold swing (SS) components for beyond-CMOS electronic systems using low-dimensional materials. To date, his research results have been included in one book chapter (2013), published in Nature Communications (2015), Scientific Reports (2014), IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices (2009-2012) etc., presented in IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM, 2009, 2011-2013), and filed five US and Korean patents with the collaboration of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. In 2012, he received Chinese Government Award for outstanding self-financed students abroad by China Scholarship Council.

Mohammed Salih Mohammed Gismalla received B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Communication) from the International University of Africa (IUA), Sudan in 2010, and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering (Communication) from Sudan University of Science and Technology in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication) from the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia, March 2021. From 2010 to 2017, he was a Teaching Assistant and a Lecturer with the Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, IUA, and University of Bahri. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Lightwave Communication Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).He has authored and co-authored more than 20 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, and he serving as a reviewer for various International Journals and conferences. He also won two gold medals and two silver medals in international research innovation and exhibitions, and second place in the conference. Besides, he registered two intellectual property (IP).He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Photonics Society. His research interests are focused on the Visible Light Communication (VLC), Free Space Optics (FSO), Optical Communication, Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G/6G wireless networks.

Samir Flazi received the B.E degree in electrical engineering from Aleppo University in 1973.After working four years for industrial complexes and for university construction in Algeria, he started and completed his D.Eng. and D.E at Paul Sabatier University, France, in 1981 and 1987 respectively. He started working at the University of Science and Technology of Oran, Algeria, in 1979 and continued until his retirement in 2020; he was professor at the faculty of electrical engineering and director of the high voltage laboratory.His research interests are flashover, pollution measurements, breakdown in front of a discharge and electrostatic applications.

Adrián Will received a degree in Mathematics from FAMAF-UNC and a Ph.D in Mathematics from the same university. He currently is the Director of the Research Group GITIA, a Research Group focused on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and its applications, in the National Technological University (UTN), Tucumán Faculty. He has published articles in several national and international journals and conferences, and presented two patent applications. He is also involved in several industrial projects dealing with Optimization of Electricity Distribution Networks, Energy Consumption Management, and Human Thermal Comfort, among others.

Mohamed Himdi received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 1990.,Since 2003, he has been a Professor with the University of Rennes 1, where he was the Head of the Department of High Frequency and Antennas, IETR, until 2013. He has authored or coauthored 133 journal articles and over 280 papers in conference proceedings. He has also coauthored nine book chapters. He holds 40 patents. His research activities concern passive and active millimeter-wave antennas. His research interests include the development of new architectures of antenna arrays, and new three-dimensional (3-D) antenna technologies. He was a Laureate of the 2D National Competition for the Creation of Enterprises in Innovative Technologies, in 2000 (Ministry of Industry and Education). In March 2015, he received the JEC-AWARD at Paris on Pure composite material antenna embedded into a motorhome roof for the Digital Terrestrial Television reception.

Arumugam Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless Communications and Head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London since September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King’s College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications from April 2013 to August 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007.
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Systems, 5G and beyond Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Molecular Communications. He published more than 500 technical papers (including nearly 250 top IEEE journal papers) in scientific journals and international conferences. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC’2016), IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM’2017) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2018 (VTC’2018). He is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and a Senior Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2006-2011), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2006-2017) and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He served as the Chair for the Signal Processing and Communication Electronics Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society and Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in numerous IEEE conferences. He received the IEEE Communications Society SPCE outstanding service award 2012 and IEEE Communications Society RCC outstanding service award 2014. He has been selected as a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Shireesh Kumar Rai received the B. Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication EngineeringfromUttarPradesh Technical University, Lucknowin 2008. During 2008-10, he was a Lecturer in Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Gr. Noida. He has completed M.Tech. (VLSI Design) from YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad in 2012. During 2012- 13 he was Sr. Lecturer in Echelon Institute of Technology, Faridabad. He joined Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (University of Delhi), New Delhi in 2013 as a Teaching cum Research Fellow and has completed Ph.D. in 2017. He has worked as a Lecturer in Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra during 2016-2017. Since 2017, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.He has authored/co-authored more than 25 research papers in international journals and conferences.

Dr. Ravi Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India He obtained his PhD in microelectronics and signal processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India in 2012. Dr. Kumar has worked at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland as a visiting research fellow in 2017-2018. He has more than 50 publications to his credit in pe Dr. Ravi Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India He obtained his PhD in microelectronics and signal processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India in 2012. Dr. Kumar has worked at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland as a visiting research fellow in 2017-2018. He has more than 50 publications to his credit in peer reviewed journals and conferences. His primary research interest lies in the field of intelligent sensing, artificial intelligence and predictive control. er reviewed journals and conferences. His primary research interest lies in the field of intelligent sensing, artificial intelligence and predictive control.

Umit Cali is a technology researcher conducting academic-based research activities in energy analytics, blockchain and economics.
Umit has 20 years international experience in the fields of energy systems, data science, blockchain technologies, ICT, energy markets and economics. He is currently working as an associate professor of Energy Informatics in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Doctor of Engineering Science (1999); professor; Laureate of Government Award of the Russian Federation in the field of education (2011), and in the field of science and equipment (2008); full member of International academy of Sciences of the higher school (2002); and ecology, human safety and nature (2010); leading researcher in University of Texas (the USA, 1996). Other achievements: Liquidator of Chernobyl accident consequences (1986), Encyclopedia "The Best People of Russia" (2003, 2004), Outstanding Scientists 2008/2009 (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge), Honorary Professor of Mongolian State University of Science and Technology, Cosmonaut Federation of Russia “Order n.a. Sergey P. Korolev”, Medal of Merit of the Cosmonaut Federation of Russia, Cosmonaut Federation of Russia “Order n.a. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky”, Merit badge of Konstantin E.Tsiolkovsky of the Federal Space Agency, "Order of Friendship" of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Chairman of the Russian-Kyrgyz Consortium of Technical Universities, Chairman of the “It’s time to study in Russia!” Consortium, Board member of the committee for the “Global Energy Prize”, head of the department of the Department of Thermal Power Plants, Order “Eminent Educator of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” (2018), Medal for development of science and technology of Vietnam (2019), Member of International Committee for awarding the “Global Energy” Prize. Experience of scientific and pedagogical work - 33 years, author and the coauthor of more than 250 scientific papers and patents, including monographs.

Attia El-Fergany (SM’14) received the BSc degree (1994), MSc degree (1998) and PhD degree (2001), all in Electrical Power Engineering from Zagazig University in Zagazig, Egypt. He has been with the University of Zagazig since 1998, presently as Full Professor since 2018. El-Fergany has authored/co-authored numerous articles published in the refereed renowned journals. Attia has been given many awards for distinct international publishing. He has been listed among the top 2% scientists in 2019 by Stanford; ranked 11889 overall and 223 in Energy field. In addition, he delivered numerous short courses and participated in many field electrical technical studies. He is an Associate Editor of the AEJ and BEEI journals. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the IET. His research is concerned with the use of intelligent techniques to solve electric power system problems.

Gehad Alkady is a PHD candidate in Ain Shams university in Egypt. She works as an assistant lecturer and a researcher in the Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECNG) department at the American University in Cairo. She received her MS degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the American University in Cairo in 2015. She is a coauthor of 32 conference papers and 2 journals. She got several awards include Best Female Scientist in MECO 2017 and Gratitude award for scientific and research contribution. She is a member in SEAD research group in the American University in Cairo since 2014 and a member in the scientific committee of the Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) since 2016. Moreover, she is a member in IEEE, IEEE Reliability society and IEEE Industrial Electronics society (IES) since 2016. She is also serving as a reviewer for various International Journals and conferences. Her current research interests include FPGAs, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance, Dependable Systems, Testing, Embedded Systems, Machine learning, Fault-tolerant FPGA-based applications.

Tomoo Nakai received a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Tohoku University in 2005, and presently a general researcher of electrical and information technology department of Industrial Technology Institute, Miyagi Prefectural Government. He has worked on magnetic sensor, sensor network, energy harvesting, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) technology. The Magnetic Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Japanese Society of Non-Destructive Inspection, and IEEE member.  URL: https://www.mit.pref.miyagi.jp/  Research Interest: Magnetic thin film, Sensor, Nondestructive evaluatio

Mr. Hamed Radpour received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. He is currently a research assistant at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) where he is pursuing the M.Sc in Electrical Engineering. He was awardedKAIST scholarship and joined the Microwave and Antenna Laboratory (MALAB) in 2020. He published several papers in relativistic scattering and Inter-Satellite link(ISL) communications in various journals. His current research interests are Deep Learning in Wireless Communications,Massive MIMO systems, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), 5G mmWave technology, channel modelingand vehicular/UAV communications.

Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman began his career at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), in mid-2007 as a lecturer and appointed as a senior lecturer in early 2008. In January 2010, he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Systems. His specialization is in the field of electronic engineering specifically in optical communication system. He has been involved in many impact researches, academic writing, teaching, supervision, leadership positions, registered prototype and innovation, policy development and community services. He was promoted to full Professor at the age of 33 years old; which is very young and rare in Malaysia. This has demonstrated his outstanding personality and contribution to the field of science and technology. He was Deputy Dean Academic in Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment before been promoted to Director of Alumni Relation Center, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is also professional engineer registered under Board of Egineering Malaysia.
To date, he has produced more than 13 PhD graduates, 16 Master of Science students, 286 journal articles, 196 proceeding, 21 books, 10 chapter in book. 24 awards/medals for science and technology exhibitions, 6 granted research patents, lead more than 10 impact research with cumulative MYR 4 million, head more than 5 impact community, held more than 10 administration positions, and involved in more than 5 important committees (e.g., Program Accreditation Evaluation Panel for Washington Accord EAC & ETAC, Malaysia Academic of Science).He was giving the keynote speech in several reputable conferences such as 2020 5th International Seminar on Computer Technology, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (ISCME 2020), 2019 4th International Conference on Information Science, Computer Technology and Transportation (ISCTT 2019), 2020 World Conference of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (2020 WCASET) and many more.
During his tenure at UKM, he was appointed as the appraiser grants Industrial Grant Scheme (IGS) and was involved in giving advice to the Ministry of Health in the assessment of the use of Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) before they are brought into Malaysia. He is also active in giving motivational talks to university students as well as speakers for Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) to guide the new lecturers/researchers in conducting research.

Dr. Bouziane BRIK currently working as associate professor at Burgundy (Bourgogne) university and DRIVE laboratory, in France. Before joining Burgundy university, he was a post-doc at university of Troyes, CESI school, and Eurecom school. He has been working on 5G network slicing in the context of H2020 European projects on 5G including MonB5G and 5GDrones. His research interests also include the Internet of Things (IoT), the IoT in industrial systems, smart grid, and vehicular networks. He is an active member in many conferences' organizing committees such as WCNC’21, ICC’21, GIIS’2020, EAI’19, and EAI CICom’21. He actively organize different special issues in prestigious journals as well as conference workshop. He also acted or still act as a Reviewer of many IFIP, ACM, and IEEE conferences (ICC, Globecom, WCNC, IWCMC, GIIS, LCN, etc.) and journals such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS), IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, etc.

Prof. Dr.Sachi Nandan Mohanty, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering Pune, India. He received his PostDoc from IIT Kanpur in the year 2019 and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India in the year 2015, with MHRD scholarship from Govt of India. He has edited 14 books in association with Springer, Wiley and CRC Press. His research areas include Data mining, Big Data Analysis, Cognitive Science, Fuzzy Decision Making, Brain-Computer Interface, and Computational Intelligence. Prof. S N Mohanty has received 3 Best Paper awards during his Ph.D at IIT Kharagpur from International Conference at Benjing, China, and the other at International Conference on Soft Computing applications organized by IIT Rookee in the year 2013. He has awarded Best thesis award first prize by Computer Society of India in the year 2015. He has published 42 International Journals of International repute and has been elected as FELLOW of Institute of Engineers, IETE, and Senior member of IEEE Computer Society Hyderabad chapter. He also the reviewer of Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier), Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), Spatial Information Research (Springer).

Dr.Yuan Xing is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Stout. He got his BS degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University. He obtained his MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Rochester, New York, USA. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Baylor University, Texas, USA. His research interests include far field wireless power transfer, applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms in Wireless Charging Networks and Implementing the Deep Learning algorithms in hardware. He has published many high-level research journal or conference papers in IEEE and Cambridge University Press. Besides research paper, he has been working on multiple research projects in far-field wireless power transfer and Deep Learning fields. The most recent project is sponsored by Wisys Technology Foundation. He and his research team built the wireless charging robots with different functionalities, which can be applied in real-life wireless charging systems.

Dr Thar Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah in UAE. He has received a PhD in Autonomic Cloud Applications from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK (in 2010), where he also worked as Senior Lecturer and Reader in Cloud Engineering from 2013-2020. Before then, he was a Lecturer in Computer Science in Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Baker has published numerous refereed research papers in multidisciplinary research areas including Cloud Engineering, Distributed Software Systems, and Energy Efficient Networks. He has been actively involved as member of editorial board and review committee for many peer reviewed international journals and is on programme committee for several international conferences.

Raghav Prasad Parouha, is currently Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, (A Central University Established by an Act of Parliament) Lalpur, Amarkantak, Dist.-Anuppur Madhya Pradesh - 484887 India. He did Ph. D. from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, Assam India in August 2015 and M. Sc. from Govt. Model Science College (Auto.) ‘A+’, Jabalpur, (M.P.). His area of research interests related to Computational Intelligence including Algorithm Design, Real World Application etc. He has received Young Scientist Award (YSA) by International Academy of Physical Sciences (IAPS), Allahabad (U.P.), India. He has about 35 repute national and international publications and attended about 42 and organized around 07 workshops/seminars etc.

Lina Mohjazi was born in Latakia, Syria. She received the B.Sc. (Honors) degree from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al-Ain, UAE, in 2008 (Full Scholarship), the M.Sc. degree from Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2012 (Full Scholarship), and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., in 2018, all in electrical and electronic engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. From 2015 to 2020 she was with Khalifa University (KU) as a Lecturer. From 2018 to 2020 she was a Research Associate at the KU Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (C2PS), KU, UAE. From 2019 to 2020 she was a Visiting Research Associate with the Communications, Sensing and Imaging (CSI) group at the School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. She has authored and co-authored more than 20 research papers in international high-impact journals and highly-rated conferences.
Dr. Mohjazi is a Senior member of the IEEE and an active reviewer for more than 20 top-notch and multidisciplinary IEEE journals and conferences. She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, an Area Editor for Physical Communication (Elsevier) and a Review Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks. Dr. Mohjazi has served as a member of the Technical Program Committee and as a Session Chair for several IEEE flagship conferences. She actively participates in organizing IEEE conferences and workshops.
Dr. Mohjazi is endorsed as a UK Exceptional Talent by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. She is also the recipient of multiple teaching awards.

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, in 2016. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher with the URV since 2018, and an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Aswan University, Egypt, since 2016. He has participated in several projects funded by the European Union and the Government of Spain. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals and conferences. He was the Manager of the Elearning and Digital Library Center, Aswan University, in 2018. His research interests include the application of machine learning and deep learning to several real-world problems, including smart grid analysis, time-series forecasting, and medical image analysis. DR. Abdel-Nasser received the Marc Esteva Vivanco prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on Artificial Intelligence in 2017.

Lalit Garg is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Malta, and an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Ulster University, UK. He has supervised 200+ Masters' dissertations, 2 DBA and 2 PhD thesis and published 120+ high impact publications in refereed journals/conferences/books, five edited books and20 patents. He has delivered several keynote speeches and organized/chaired international conferences, and consulted numerous public and private organizations for information systems implementation and management. His research interests are business intelligence, machine learning, data science, deep learning, cloud computing, mobile computing, Internet of Things (IoT), information systems, management science and their applications mainly in healthcare and medical domains. He participates in many EU, and local funded projects, including a one million euros Erasmus+ Capacity-Building project in Higher Education (CBHE) titled Training for Medical education via innovative eTechnology (MediTec). The University of Malta has awarded him the 2021-22 Research Excellence Fund of 60,000 EUR for exploring Novel Intelligent Computing Methods for healthcare requirements forecasting, allocation and management (NICE-Healthcare).

Mohamed A. Bahloul is a graduate research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is from Sfax, Tunisia. He received a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from KAUST in 2017. KAUST is not his first experience studying abroad. He first studies at the University of Montpellier, France, where he has earned a master's degree in microelectronic systems. He has also earned another master's degree in embedded systems from the National School of Engineering of Sfax in collaboration with Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Mohamed received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the National School of Engineering of Sfax. His engineer training in EE from three different schools (ENIS-Tunisia, UM-France & KAUST-KSA) and his personal skills allowed him to acquire solid knowledge, a real sense of the field, and a true team spirit. Currently, his research projects focus on bridging physics-based fractional-order modeling and data-driven approaches for characterizing and monitoring biological Systems. He is also working on memristor based computation-in-memory. Mohamed received many awards, such as winning the best paper award for Africa and the Middle East region at the 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC' 18). He also won first place in the IEEE SSD'21 Ph.D. student contest for his research Work. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences. He is also serving as a reviewer for various International Journals and conferences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), and Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).

Fadhil Mukhlif Completed his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Tikrit, Iraq in 2010, M.Eng. in Telecommunication Systems from University Technical Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia in 2013 and Ph.D in Computer Networks & Wireless from Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2020. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia. His research interest mainly includes Computer Networks, AI, Machine & Deep Learning, Telecommunication Networks, UAV, IoT, WSN, Game Theory, Cloud Networks.

BENDAOUD Mohamed received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Caddy Ayad University, Marrakech, Morocco, in 2019. He is currently an A/Professor at National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Khouribga, Sultan Moulay Slimane University. He is General Chair of the International Conference on Electrical Systems & Automation in Khouribga, Morocco. His research interests include: 1) Modeling, analysis and control of switching systems; 2)Bond Graph; 3) Renewable Energy.

Assia Batoul Hamidane was born in Algeria, in 1990. She received the L.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Networks & Telecommunication from the University of BLIDA, Blida, Algeria, in 2010 and 2012,respectively. She received the P.h.D degree in electronics from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria, in 2020. Her current researches include adaptive techniques for Communication systems, satellite communication systems, transmission systems for Next generations, information coding, channel transmission and signal processing.

Professor Abdelkader Aissat received the magister diploma and doctorate degree in electronics from the University of Blida, ENP Algeria in 1999 and 2007 respectively. He became lecturer in the department of electronics of Blida University. He occupied a post of the head of electronics department. He joined the Engineering Faculty of Blida University in 2000 to 2003 as director of pedagogy and research. His research interests include materials, semiconductors, semiconductors lasers, detection, modeling of the components optoelectronic, microwaves and mixed. His is an active reviewer in Elsevier, IEEE, Springer. He has several publications and conferences (232). He has achieved international projects in the field of materials, new materials and nanostructures for optoelectronics and photovoltaic.

Hamid Nebdi received his second Master degree (1997) and his PhD (2000) in atomic physics at University Catholic of Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium). He got his first Master degree (1995) in physics of radiation-matter interactions at University of Hassan II (Casablanca, Morocco) and his bachelor degree (1993) in physics at University Chouaïb Doukkali (El Jadida, Morocco). He joined the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) of the Belgian Space Pole in 2001 as First Assistant Researcher and became the Acting Head of Section Ionospheric Profiles in 2003. He participated to many national and international research projects such as ESA Space Weather Pilot Project and Galileo Joint Undertaking. He was Belgian delegate in many Management Committees of COST actions and member in the Ionospheric Effects Group of the Space Weather Working Team of the European Space Agency. He was one of the initiators of the project: Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence and a research valorisation project: Magnetic Valley. He worked four years as Assistant Professor of Physics at Umm Al-Qura University conjointly in College of Applied Sciences, Medicine Colleges and College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture in Saudi Arabia. And he participated actively in many projects and committees. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks, oral and poster communications, and published in national/international conference proceedings. He has authored and co-authored several papers, chapters, book of abstracts, and a special issue. He has served as Conference Chair, Co-Chair, Program Committee, Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee member in several national and international conferences, workshops and congresses in different fields of the physics of radiation-matter interactions (atomic physics, laser physics, space weather, ionosphere …). He teaches more than 24 courses of physics and mathematics in Arabic, French and English in 3 universities. He is now Director of Laboratory ISTM (Innovation in Science, Technologies and Modeling), which he founded in 2018, and Associate Professor of Physics at Chouaïb Doukkali University where he began as Assistant Professor in 2012.

Naser Vosoughi Kurdkandi was born in Bostanabad, East Azerbaijan, Iran, in 1989. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran, the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran in 2011, 2014, and 2019, respectively. His current researches include multilevel inverters, grid-connected PV inverters, DC-DC switched-capacitor, and switched-inductor converters, high current switching power supply for copper plating, switching power supplies for industrial applications, fast charge station for electric vehicles, battery-based energy storage systems and induction motor drive.