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Giorgio Sberveglieri was born on July 17, 1947. He received the Degree in physics from the University Parma, Parma, Italy, where in 1971 started his research activities on the preparation of semiconducting thin film solar cells.,He has been appointed Associate Professor at the University of Brescia in 1987. in the following year, he established the Thin Film Laboratory, afterwards called Gas Sensor Laboratory (GSL), mainly devoted to the preparation and characterization of thin-film chemical sensors. He is the Director of GSL since 1988. in 1994, he was been appointed Full Professor of Physics, formerly at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Ferrara and then in 1996 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia. He is referee of the journals Thin Solid Films, Sensors and Actuators, Sensors and Materials, and other Journals. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Conferences on Sensor and Materials Science. During his 25 years of scientific activities, he published more than 200 papers on international reviews; he presented more than 90 oral communications to international congresses, and numerous oral communications to national congresses.

Dr. Huangxian Ju graduated and received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees fromNanjingUniversityin 1986, 1989 and 1992, respectively, and then became a lecturer in 1992, associate professor in 1993 and full professor in1999 inthis university. He was a postdoctoral researcher inMontrealUniversity(Canada) from 1996-1997 and a short-period guest professor in three universities ofGermanyandIrelandduring 1999-2002.
He won the National Funds for National Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003 and National Creative Research Groups in 2005, and was selected as a Changjiang Professor by Education Ministry of China in 2007, a chief scientist of National Basic Research Program of China by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2009. He is currently the director of State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science.
He is the member of editorial boards for 17 international journals and 9 key Chinese journals, the directors of Electroanalytical Chemistry Committee of Chinese Society of Instruments from 2008 and Analytical Chemistry Committee of Jiangsu from 2006, and the vice directors of both Analytical Chemistry Committee and Organic Analysis Committee of Chinese Chemical Society from 2011.
His research interests focus on analytical biochemistry, nanobiosensing, nanobiotechnology and molecular diagnosis. So far he has published 426 papers (374 papers in SCI journals), including 145 papers in journals with IF>5 and 246 papers in journals with IF>3.0, and authored 24 patents, 2 English books, 6 Chinese books, 14 chapters for 6 Chinese and 8 English books. His research works have been cited by SCI journals for 10128 times (9217 times by other authors), with an h-index of 56 (up to March 28, 2013).
Owing to these achievements, he received 3 “Scientific and Technological Progress Prize” from Jiangsu Province Government in 2010, 2009 and 2008, 4 “Natural Science Prize in Chinese Universities” from Education Ministry of China in 2009, 2000, 1998 and 1995, 2 “Scientific and Technological Prize” from Chinese Association for Instrumental Analysis in 2009 and 2008, “Outstanding Young Scientist Award” from Jiangsu Province Government in 2001, “Young Chemists Award” and “Liang Shuquan Award for Basic Research in Anal. Chem.” from Chinese Chemical Society in 1996 and 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.chem-ju-nju-edu.com/english/english.asp .

YangQuan Chen earned his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998. He had been a faculty of Electrical Engineering at Utah State University (USU) from 2000-12. He joined the School of Engineering, University of California, Merced (UCM) in 2012 teaching “Mechatronics”, “Engineering Service Learning” and “Unmanned Aerial Systems” for undergraduates and “Fractional Order Mechanics”, “Nonlinear Controls” and “Advanced Controls: Optimality and Robustness” for graduates. His current research interests include mechatronics for sustainability, cognitive process control, small multi-UAV based cooperative multi-spectral “personal remote sensing” and applications, applied fractional calculus in controls, modeling and complex signal processing; distributed measurement and control of distributed parameter systems with mobile actuator and sensor networks. He has been the Co-Chair for IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Aerial Robotics (2012-18). He was the Mechatronics and Embedded Systems Applications TC Chair for ASME DED in 2009-10, an Associated Editor for Journal of Dynamics Systems, Measurements and Control (2009-2015). Currently, he serves as the Topic Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Field Robotics), Associate Editor for Intelligent Service Robotics, Section Associate Editor (remote sensors) for Sensors and a Senior Editor for International Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems. He is an Associate Editor for Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Mechatronics, Control Engineering Practice, IET Control Theory and Applications, and ISA Transactions. Dr. Chen serves as a Program Co-Chair and General Co-Chair for 2016 and 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, respectively. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, AIAA, ASPRS, AUVSI and AMA. He is listed in Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He received Research of the Year awards from USU (12) and UCM (20).

Shen-Ming Chen received his Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1997. He had been an associate professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan from 1991 to 1997. Since August 1997, he has been a professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2010, he has been a Distinguished professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been the Dean(Curator) of library, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 2000 to 2006 and the Director of Extracurricular Activity, office of student affairs, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan from 1995 to 2000.His research interest includes Nanocomposite materials research, organic electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry, conducting polymer Electrochemistry, Nanoelectrochemistry, chemical sensors, biosensors, electrocatalysis, and electroanalysis.

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapeuticapplications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks. He has already published 2 books, 160 journal articles and 110 of them are as first/corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews, Nature Energy, Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Joule, Matter, and many others. His works were selected as Research Highlights by Nature and Science 6 times and covered by world mainstream mediaover 1,000 times in total, including NPR, ABC, NBC, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Street Journal‎, and Scientific American. He also filed 14 US patents and licensed 1. With a current h-index of 72,Dr. Chenwas identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science by the Web of Science Group.His research is recognized by the 2020Altmetric Top 100, Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 by Ontario Science Centre, Highly Cited Researchers 2020/2019 in Web of Science,Chem. Soc. Rev. Emerging Investigator Award,ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award,Frontiers in ChemistryRising Stars, Nanoscale Emerging Investigator Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, MINE2020 Young Scientist Excellence Award, TenCate Protective Fabrics Award,and many others. Beyond research, he serves as an Associate Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Graduate in Chemistry (UCM 1984, Extraordinary Award), Prof. Orellana did his PhD as FPI scholar under Prof. ML Quiroga at the UCM Organic Chem. Dpmt. (1985-88, Extraordinary Award) on the synthesis and photochemistry of luminescent Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes, a pioneering work in Spain for the existing resources. He performed two 3-month predoctoral stages with Prof. AM Braun (EPFL, Lausanne; photochemical laser kinetic study of metal complexes for solar energy conversion). As a Fulbright grantee postdoc, He did research at Columbia Univ. (New York, 1988-89) with Prof. NJ Turro on photochemical probes for the study of DNA.
Prof. Orellana got tenure as Ass. Professor in 1990 at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) Organic Chem. Dpmt. where I started my own research group in Applied Photochemistry, collaborating with Prof. F. Montero (Dept. of Biochem. UCM) on the development of metal-organic photonucleases, and with Prof. María C Moreno-Bondi (UCM Analytical Chem. Dept.) on the application of luminescent indicator dyes and electron-, energy- and proton-transfer photochemistry to the development of optochemical sensors. As a result of the latter, the (Interdepartmental) Group of Optical Chemosensors and Applied Photochemistry was born (https://www.gsolfa.info/en/home/), of which he have been Director since its inception (validated by UCM as 910072; seal of "Excellence" awarded by the Spanish National Evaluation Agency-ANECA).
During 1990-2001, the GSOLFA run 5 national projects on photochemical sensors for environmental monitoring (PETRI91, AMB92/95/98, PPQ2000) and one EU project (Brite-EuRamIII BRPR-CT97) all of which he was PI; they placed GSOLFA in a relevant place of the world scene in this field. He also participated in an EU COST D1 Action, also as PI at UCM. Furthermore, 2 Spanish-German “Integrated Actions” as PI at UCM with Prof. Braun (Uni Karlsruhe, 1993-5/1998-0) allowed for the first time to characterise the production of singlet molecular oxygen by Ru(II)-polypyridyl photosensitisers (which my Group would then apply to disinfection of drinking water in less-favoured countries in two EU-INCO projects, and to self-sterilizing catheters in the CTQ2015-72708-EXP project).
In addition to the development of photochemical (bio)sensors, the collaborative research with Prof. Moreno-Bondi includes the preparation of fluorescent-tagged analytes for water and food analysis with molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), within national BQU2002, CTQ2006/2009/2012/2015, and RTI2018 grants (as PI), and 3 EU projects (QLK1-CT1999, MRTN-CT2006, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN) as UCM participant. Thanks to this collaboration, we are also internationally recognized in the MIPs field. Since 2001, the photochemical research applied to chemical sensing he lead has increased its approach to the "real" world (environment, industry, aeronautics) thanks to national (PROFIT2001; PETRI2006), regional (S-0505/AMB) and 3 EU projects (NMP2-CT2006 "POLYTECT"; FPE2005-STREP-AERO "SUPERSKYSENSE"; STREP FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4 “NANODEM”) all as PI at UCM. The production and relevance of my research in these fields led to the Full Professor accreditation (2009) and position (2011) at UCM Dpmt of Organic Chemistry (I held its Chair in 2004-2009). About 140 publications collect our research results in those fields.
It's noteworthy our strong research partnership with the industrial sector and the transfer of technology through 36 research contracts with prestigious companies (e.g. Repsol, Agilent Technologies, CESA, TAP Biosystems, Aqualogy, Naturgy, Quirón Prevención, CENER, DiagnóstiQA, Arquimea,...) and 18 patents (8 PCT/EP), which have allowed the training and transfer to industry of more than 40 graduates and PhDs. Prof. Orellana is currently Chair of the Permanent Steering Committee of the EUROPT(R)ODE Conference Series (biannual European conference of Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors), and has been co-Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Sensors & Actuators B: Chem., one of the leading journals in the field. More details on his publications may be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4572-6564.

Kohji Mitsubayashi received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1994. Since 2003, he has been a Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. His research interests include wearable biosensors, gas sensors for non-invasive bio-monitoring, and novel battery-free artificial organs (pancreas, muscles) with “Organic Engine (chemo-mechanical energy converter with biosensing technology).” He has proposed a new device category “Cavitas sensors” in human body cavities for real-time biomonitoring such as “Soft contact lens glucose sensors” (1995, 2008, 2009, 2011), “Telemetric mouthguard sensors with a Bluetooth transmitter” (2016), “Optic pharyngeal manometric sensor for deglutition analysis” (2007), etc. In 1988, he also started to develop several types of gas-phase biosensors (bio-sniffer, sniff-cam). They allow to real-time sensing and imaging of target volatiles in exhaled air, skin gas (and food & drink) with good sensitivity, gas-selectivity, and in-sensitivity to humidity. In particular, the sniff-cam has succeeded in realizing a unique ring-shape imaging of ethanol vapor from a wine glass (RIEDEL), thus showing an egg-shape effect of the glass. This topic was published in “The Analyst” (2015) and introduced in many news media (CNN, National Geographic, Scientific American, etc.). Recently, the novel sniff-cam with a UV-LED ring light has been achieved to real-time imaging of transcutaneous volatiles (ethanol and acetaldehyde) after drinking (Anal. Chem in 2019, Analyst & ACS Sensors in 2020). He has published more than 240 peer-reviewed research articles in International Journals and 20 books including “Chemical, Gas, and Biosensors for Internet of Things and Related Applications” (first editor) on Elsevier publisher in 2019 (AAP’s 2020 PROSE Award in the Chemistry and Physics category by the Association of American Publisher (AAP).

Dr. Yen Kheng Tan is the CEO of Printed Power Pte. Ltd., Singapore and was the Chair professor of Beijing Jiaotong University. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE USA Sensors and Industrial Chair of IEEE Singapore section and was the chair of IEEE Singapore PELS/IAS chapter. Yen Kheng received his B.Eng. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore (NUS), in 2003, the M.S. degree in technological design from NUS and the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from NUS in 2011. His research activities are into to conduct research, design, development, and test bedding on various academic and industrial projects, including wireless sensor network and artificial intelligence control algorithms for smart building and environment monitoring, and power electronics for dc renewable connected grid and its high- and low-voltage power conversion interface. His editorial and reviewer experiences span across various key publishers like InTech Scientific, Springer Editorial Board, Taylor & Francis Group, John Wiley & Sciyo and worldwide societies of more than 40 IEEE, IET, ASME, Elsevier and other international transactions and conferences. He is a book editor of more than 10 books published in Taylor & Francis, John Wiley, InTech & Sciyo and has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals and international conferences as well as 2 reference books, 9 book chapters and has 8 provisional patents/technology disclosure applications.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation)joined HuddersfieldUniversity 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 than250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 12Springer 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,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.

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 and has served as a Guest Editor for multiple other international journals.

Mohsen Guizani (S’85–M’89–SM’99–F’09) received the B.S. (with distinction), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. He is currently a Professor at the Computer Science & Engineering Department in Qatar University, Qatar. Previously, he worked in different institutions: University of Idaho, Western Michigan University, University of West Florida, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Syracuse University. His research interests include wireless communications and mobile computing, applied machine learning, cloud computing, security and its application to healthcare systems. He was elevated to the IEEE Fellow in 2009. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Guizani has won several research awards including the “2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award” as well 4 Best Paper Awards from ICC and Globecom Conferences. He is the author of nine books and more than 800 publications. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award, the 2018 AdHoc Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition (CISTC) Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and is currently serves on the Editorial Boards of many IEEE journals/Transactions. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and the Chair of the TAOS Technical Committee. He served as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker and is currently the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

Andrea Cusano received Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph.D in Optoelectronics from University of Naples (Federico II, Italy). He is currently Associate Professor at the Engineering Department of University of Sannio where he and Prof. Cutolo co-founded the Optoelectronic Group since 2002.
He has published over 120 journal articles and 150 refereed conference communications related to the development of new fiber optic and photonic sensors for physical, chemical and biological sensing applications.
In this context, he has also co-authored more than 10 chapters published in international books and invited papers in many prestigious international journals.
He has been co-editor of several Special Issues related to photonics technologies for sensing applications published in prestigious International journals as the case of IEEE Sensors, IEEE Photonics, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology.
He is Co-Editor of 7 international books: “Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors: Recent Advancements, Industrial Applications and Market Exploitation” Bentham e-book 2010, “Photonic Bandgap Structures. Novel Technological Platforms for Physical, Chemical and Biological Sensing”Bentham 2012, "Selected Topics on Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals”, World Scientific Pub. 2011,“Optochemical Nanosensors”, Taylor&Francis 2013, “Lab on Fiber Technology Springer 2014.
He currently has 4 international patents with major industrial companies (Ansaldo STS, Alenia WASS, Optosmart and MdTEch) and more than 10 national patents. He actually serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier) and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Photonic Sensors (Springer). In 2015, he was selected as Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He is a member of the technical committee of several international conferences such as IEEE Sensors, ICST, EWSHM, EWOFS.
Prof. Cusano is cofounder of two spin-off companies “OptoSmart S.r.l.” (2005) and “Optoadvance” (2011) and has been a consultant for major companies of the Finmeccanica group such as Ansaldo STS and Alenia WASS. He has also collaborations with CERN in Geneva where he is working on the development of innovative sensors for high energy physics applications. He received many international recognitions and awards for efforts in the development of innovative optical sensing systems and has been Principal Investigator of many national and international projects. Finally, in 2015, he was nominated Technical director of a public-private aggregation (Top-in Optoelectronic Technologies for Industry) including several national research centers, 3 big companies from Finmeccanica and 11 SMEs.

Zhihan Lv is IEEE Senior Member, British Computer Society Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Full Member of Sigma Xi, Career-long Scientific Influence Rankings of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists. He is currently a Professor of Qingdao University, China. He has been an Assistant Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2012 to 2016. He received his Ph.D. from Paris7 University and Ocean University of China in 2012. He worked in CNRS (France) as Research Engineer, Umea University/ KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) as Postdoc Research Fellow, Fundacion FIVAN (Spain) as Experienced Researcher, University College London (UK) as Research Associate, University of Barcelona (Spain) as Postdoc. He was a Marie Curie Fellow in European Union's Seventh Framework Program LANPERCEPT. His research mainly focuses on Digital Twins, Internet of Things, Multimedia, Virtual Reality, Serious Game, HCI, Big data. He has contributed 300+ papers in the related fields on journals including 51 papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions, such as IEEE TC, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE TMC, IEEE TFS, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TBD, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSAC, IEEE JSTSP, IEEE COMMAG, IEEE Network, IEEE IOTJ, ACM TOMM, ACM TOIT, ACM TIST, and conferences such as ACM MM, ACM CHI, ACM Siggraph, ICCV, IEEE Virtual Reality.
He has more than 20 ESI highly cited papers and 10 ESI hot papers. He is Editor-in-Chief of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems(KeAi), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter, Computer Communications, Scientific Reports, Plos one, IET Image Processing, Frontiers in Plant Science. He is the Leading Guest Editors for 40 special issues including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Network, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Future Generation Computer Systems. He is Co-Chair or Program Committee member of ACM MM 2021, ACM IUI2015-2021, IEEE CHASE Workshop on BIGDATA4HEALTH 2016, 2017, IEEE/CIC WIN Workshop 2016, IIKI2016-2021, WASA2016, 2017, IEEE PDGC2016, ACM SAC2017-WCN Track, IEEE CTS2016 Workshop on IoT2016, IEEE DASC2017,2020, ISAPE2017, IoTBDS2017, IEEE AIMS2017, IEEE iThings-2017, IEEE VTC2017-Fall, IEEE INFOCOM 2020-2021 workshop, ACM MobiCom 2020 workshop, ISAIR2021, ICC 2021 workshop. He has reviewed 400 papers as a reviewer for journals such as IEEE TMM, ACM TOMM, IEEE TII, IEEE TBD, IEEE TMC, IEEE TLT, IEEE TETC, IEEE TC, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TITS, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TDSC, ACM TOIT, IEEE Network, IEEE MultiMedia, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMAG, and conference e.g. ACM MUM, ACM CHI, ACM DIS, IEEE EuroVis, ACM UIST, ACM MobileHCI, ACM CHIPLAY, ACM CSCW, ACM SUI, ACM ITS, IEEE VAST, IEEE VR, ACM IUI, IEEE 3DUI, ACM TVX, ACM Creativity & Cognition, ACM EICS, ACM IDC, IEEE ICSIPA, GI, IEEE ITSC, IEEE Sensors, ACM ACI, ACM VRST, ACM ISS, ACM HRI. He has received more than 20 awards from China, Europe, IEEE.
He has received 1.5 million US dollars funding from government and industry as PI. He has been involved in many European and Chinese projects supported with funding of 25 million US dollars. He has given 30 invited talks for universities and companies in Europe and China, e.g., Aston University, University of Gothenburg, University of Geneva, Linkoping University, Aarhus University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent. He has given 14 keynote speech for International conferences.

Aimé Lay-Ekuakille (SM'12), received the first M.D. degree in electronic engineering (control technology and automation) from the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 1988, the second M.D. degree in clinical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, in 2002, a M.D. (h.c.) in environmental management and sanitation from IFAD Institute, Kinshasa, DRC in 2020, and a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, in 2001. He is with the Dept of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Italy, since 2000, and the Director of Instrumentation and Measurement Lab I. Prof. Aimé Lay-Ekuakille is a Senior Member of IEEE. His main areas of research are: (i) Instrumentation and Measurements for Biomedical, Environmental and Industrial applications, (ii) Sensors and Sensing Systems, (iii) Nanotechnology, (iv) Artificial intelligence for Instrumentation and Measurement, and (v) Ageing and Characterization of Photovoltaic Panels. He authored and co-authored more than 300 papers on indexed international conferences and journals, as well as 5 international books. He serves as, Senior Editor of Measurement: Food (Elsevier), Editor of Measurement Journal (Elsevier, NL), Editor of Measurement: Sensors (Elsevier, NL), Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (USA), Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems (USA), Associate Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering published by Hindawi (UK), and member of some international journals such as Sensors (Mdpi, CH), American Journal of Biomedical Engineering published by SAP (USA). Prof. Aimé Lay-Ekuakille is the Chairman of Imeko TC19 on Environmental Measurements, Chairman of IEEE IMS TC34 on Instrumentation and Measurement in Nanotechnology, and Chairman of the Nanosensors TC within the Italian chapter of IEEE Sensors Council. He is/was Visiting and Adjunct Professor in different international universities, namely, MMU of Kenya, Chemnitz Technical University (Germany), ISTA University (DRC), Panamerican University in Aguascalientes (Mexico), VUB - Free University of Brussels (Belgium), University of Navarra (Spain). He mentors different Ph.D students in Italy and international universities. He continues to serve as scientific consultant for national and international institutions

Victor Borovkov currently works a senior research scientist at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia). He graduated from Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, obtained his PhD in 1988, and worked at Osaka University, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, National Institute for Resources and Environment, as a researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency, as a group leader, Metek Co. Ltd., as a senior scientific advisor, and South-Central University for Nationalities as a full professor. He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, an author of more than 145 publications including research papers, reviews, and books with the h-index of 28 (Scopus), 29 (WOS), and 30 (Google Scholar), 10 patents, and serving as an external peer-reviewer of various international journals and scientific foundations. He participated in different international and industrial collaboration projects and attended numerous international and national conferences as an invited speaker and a member of advisory committees. He has been awarded a JSPS Fellowship, 1991; Elected Member of the Advisory Board of International Symmetry Association (ISA), 2013; MDPI Travel Grant Awards, 2015, 2018, 2020; invited member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), 2017. His current research interests include chemistry of porphyrins and related macrocycles, supramolecular chemistry, nanotechnology, chirality science, functional chiral materials, chemical and chirality sensors, and asymmetric catalysis.

Salvatore Petralia is a Researcher at the University of Catania. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2003. He was a visiting researcher in chemistry at the Instituto de Tecnologia Chimica, working twith the team of prof. M.A. Miranda (Valencia 2000). He was visiting researcher at Applied Microarray Inc. (Tempe, US, periodically 2005-2015) working with a multidisciplinary team in the development and industrialization of DNA-chip (In-Check® platform). From 2004 to 2020, he has been with STMicroelectronics, covering several R&D positions in the sectors of silicon DNA-on-chip, surface chemistry, and nanomaterials. He is a scientific advisor for biotech companies in the field of nanomaterials and biosensing. He leads the laboratory of nanomaterial in the University of Catania. His research interest includes surface chemistry, sensing device and innovative nanomaterials for biomedical application. He is the co-author of more than 110 scientific publications in international journals and coinventor of 8 patents in that domain.

Frank N. Crespilho was born on November 9, 1978, in Jaú in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his BSc in chemistry in 2002 and MS in chemistry in 2004, both from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the same institution in 2007, under the supervision of Dr. Francisco C. Nart and Prof. O.N. Oliveira Jr. (as co-supervisor), with a one-year stay as a Visiting Researcher (2005–2006) in the laboratory of Dr. C.M.A. Brett at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He was a FAPESP post-doctoral researcher (2008) in the laboratory of Dr. V. Zucolotto (USP, Brazil) and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Federal University (UFABC), Brazil (2009-2012). He was a Visiting Associate in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, Caltech (USA), in the group of Dr. J.K. Barton (2014–2015), and a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany (2016), working in the group of Dr. Klaus Kern alongside Dr. Kannan Balasubramanian (a senior scientist). He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, working with Dr. Michael Aziz at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2018-2019). Since 2012, he has been a Professor at the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (Brazil), and Coordinator of the Bioelectrochemistry and Interfaces Laboratory. Since 2019 he is fellow of the J. A. P. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, with fellow appointment to work at Materials Science Group, SEAS facilities, and at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Harvard University. He is a User Researcher at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (CNPEM-LNLS). Through his research activities, he has trained 14 undergraduate students and supervised 9 masters and 10 doctors, and 6 postdoctoral scholars.He was awarded with more than 10 research grants, in Brazil and overseas, and raised more than two million dollars in scholarships and scientific research projects. He received 9 international scholarships for support his students in collaborative research at institutions in Europe and in the United States of America andcelebrated several international agreements with different international research institutions. He is the inventor of four patents and work in technology transfer with a biotechnology company in the field of biosensor.He won the Grant CAPES 2020 from the Brazil Federal Government, which including funding for research in pandemics subjects, specially to develop rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test affordable for low-income families. He is the Coordinator of COVID-19 Network in proteomics and diagnostics chemistry at the University of São Paulo. He was the inventor of the "Popular Fast Test of COVID-19", costing less than a dollar, for mass testing in developing countries.He received eleven awards in recognition of his research and academic activity.He has more than 60 invited contributions to international research conferences (USA, Europe, UK, Asia, and South America), including conferences, universities, and research centres.He has trained more than 30 students, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Research interests of Professor Crespilho includes fundamental and applied bioelectrochemistrywith a distinctive focus on the chemistry of life and health. His recent interest includes fundamental and applied bioelectrochemistry, and electron transfer reactions. Biological mechanism understanding and technological implications from discoveries can be highlighted in his scientific carrier. His recent work focuses on in situ and operando spectroscopic-electrochemistry elucidation of the electron transfer mechanism involving redox enzyme, proteins, DNA, and drug delivery in single cells. He studies electron transfer reactions, and for this he has been developing electrodes based on carbon structures, 2D materials, mesoporous and non-conventional hybrid-magnetic materials. As far as fundamental science is concerned, he has made contributions on the field of protein immobilization processes on solid surfaces, single cells micro-FTIR analysis, bio-electrocatalysis and coupling analytical tools to resolve electron transfer mechanism in proteins. For recent achievements, he is the pioneer in couple Electrochemistry with Mass Spectrometry to observe the NADH reactions in Alcohol Dehydrogenases (Chemical Communications, 2017), and couple Electrochemistry with X-Ray Spectroscopy to details the 3-dimensional mechanism for O2 catalytic reduction reaction at the multicopper centers in Bilirubin Oxidase (Nature Communications, 2020). Recently, he developed a technique named Electrochemical Coupled Vibrational Spectromicroscopy (EVSM), patent number BR 10 2019 001293-5, which consist in a multiplex infrared spectroscopy imaging system for monitoring spatially resolved redox chemistry in inorganic and biological materials (Analytical Chemistry, 2018). With this new technique, it was demonstrated for the first time a real-time redox monitoring approach for a nitrosyl ruthenium complex acting as NO-donor agent in a single A549 cancer cell (Nitric Oxide, 2020).

Dr. Shugayev has received his Master’s from Boston University and his PhD from Purdue University in 2017. After that he had worked as ORISE fellow at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Over his career he had been employed in semiconductor industry (ASM International), defense industry (Raytheon Technologies) and academia (MIT). His main research interests are in photonic devices, sensors and quantum technologies. Additionally he is interested in low temperature plasma physics, chemistry and catalysis.

Dr Feras Awaysheh received a PhD. in Big Data and Cloud Computing from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2020. He obtained a BSc. in Software Engineering degree from Al Balqa' Applied University in 2008 and MSc. Degree from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) With distinction in 2010, majoring in Computer Networks and Information Security. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Data Systems at the University of Tartu, Estonia, with the Data Systems Group (DSG) of Delta research centre. Dr Awaysheh worked as a researcher at the CiTIUS research centre and a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Prior to that, he held an appointment at the University of Charles Darwin, Australia as a visiting professor. His main research interest includes large-scale distributed systems and Big Data analytics in general. Besides, developing and running software reliably in production for resource management and middlewares for load-balancing and scheduling in Cloud, IoT, and Edge deployment architectures. Also, data privacy-preserving architectures and pipelines, including the federated learning model. He convened and chaired many conferences, workshops and serving as an associated editor at many journals, including Springer Cluster Computing.

Prof. Mahesh Kumar is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, India. He has received M.Tech degree in Solid State Materials from IIT Delhi and Ph.D degree in Engineering from IISc Bangalore, India. He worked at Central Research Laboratory of Bharat Electronics Ltd. (CRL-BEL) Bangalore as Scientist from 2005 to 2013. He also worked at University of Paderborn, Germany as visiting scientist under Bilateral Exchange Programme of INSA and at University of South Dakota, USA as Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellow supported by Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum.He has received INSA Medal for Young Scientists-2014 by Indian National Science Academy,the MRSI Medal-2016 by Materials Research Society of India, DAE-Young Achiever Award-2016 by BRNS, ISSS Young Scientist Award 2017 by the Institute for Smart Structures and Systems,and Research Excellence Award 2020 by IIT Jodhpur. He is also Editorial Board member of Nano Express (IOP Publishing) and Frontiers in Sensors.He is founding Member and former Chair of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 125 research articles. His research interests are focused on 2D materials, Nanomaterials, Sensors, Semiconductor materials and devices.

Dr. Ahmad AA Alkhatib is an Assistant Professor at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan.Dr. Alkhatib holds the Ph.D. from University of Wales, Newport- UK with a speciality in Wireless Network; an MSc, earned at The University of Technology, Sydney Australia with major of Telecommunication Engineering and Telecommunication Network; an BSc, from Yarmouk University in Telecommunication Engineering. Dr Alkhatib worked on multiple projects on Sensor Network Applications and published articles in several prestigious scholarly journals and conferences. He introducesnovel techniques for sensor localization in addition to advanced technology with innovative methods to create a cost effective and more reliable, automated approach forglobal problem of Forest/Wildfire Fire Detection and early warning - with extended lifespan for the network. He also introduces multiple techniques for IOT, (ITS) intelligent transportation systems,infrared sensor for vehicle counting and others.

Bernhard STROBL, Male, Diplom-Ingenieur, is a Thematic Coordinator/Senior Engineer and Research Project Manager working in AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Digital Safety and Security since 1987. He studied informatics at the technical university Vienna and has successfully applied his skills in various national and international projects. He was involved in specification, implementation and project management of several projects for building hardware and software for video encoding, decoding, transmission and storage. For AIT he developed a patent for a video encoding algorithm, at the moment he manages the AIT internal program “Identity Management and Video Analytics” with a new focus on contactless biometrics. He is the coordinator the EU funded FP7 project MobilePass. Within AIT and at international level he provides overall strategic guidance of industry-oriented R&D activities within the area of identity management, biometrics, embedded video analysis and coordination across projects: tooling, SW-, HW-Modules, technologies, methodologies. He is an expert member in the CENELEC Technical Committee 224 Working Group 18 “Biometric application profiles for law enforcement and border control authorities using portable identification systems”.

Babar Shah an Associate Professor at the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, UAE. Dr. Babar received MS degree (2007) from University of Derby, UK and PhD (2014) from Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. Dr. Babar professional services includes but are not limited to - Guest Editorships, University Services, Workshops Chair, Technical Program Committee Member, and reviewer for several international journals and conferences. He has authored over 60 scientific research articles in prestigious international journals and conferences. His Research interests include WSN, WBAN, IoT, Churn Prediction, Security, Real-time communication and Mobile P2P networks.

Ahmed Abd El Aziz is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He obtained his BSc degree in Electronics and Communications department at Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, (AAST) in 2003. He was then appointed as a teaching assistant at the same university. He received his MSc degree from same university, in 2006. He then joined Optical Communication Research Group (OCRG) at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and achieved his Ph. D degree in 2012. At the same year he joined Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, (AAST) as a lecturer and in 2013 he founded the Photonic Research Laboratory (PRL). He became associate professor in June 2016 and a professor in June 2020. He is supervising a number of research students in Egypt and UK and has published over 50 papers. He was appointed as the Vice Dean for student affairs in the College of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology AAST and acting Vice Dean for practical training as well as higher education and research in November 2019. He is a reviewer for a number of IEEE and IET conferences and journals as well as an invited speaker in international conferences. He has also helped in organizing few IEEE conferences and currently a member in the technical committee of IEEE conferences. His research interests involve Passive Optical Networks, Optical Communications, All-Optical Routing, LTE, Radio over Fiber (RoF), Free Space Optics (FSO), Visible Light Communications (VLC), Photonic Devices, Li-F, Photonic Signal Processing, LED-LED, and optical in Biomedical Applications. Ahmed is the IEEE AAST-Student Branch Alexandria Counselor since summer 2015. The branch won many prizes as the best branch and best events in Egypt section and the region 8.

Dr. Ganesan Sivaramakrishnan has gone through 4 years of engineering studies from 2011 to 2015 in the field of electronics and communication. At the end of his engineering studies, he worked as an intern student on an algorithm “sparsity adaptive matching pursuit algorithm” which was used for image compression. He holds a master's degree in the field of molecular nano and biophotonics(2015-2017), during his master's study he was interested in the subject of neuroscience. To explore, the field he had an opportunity to make up an internship in a Brain Physiology Lab and performed patch clamping experiments to study the behavior of the ion channels in the neuron cell. Further, he did his master's internship project in the neuro photonics laboratory where he was working on the development of a super-resolution microscopy, and at the end of his internship, he co-signed a research article “Compressive three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy with speckle-saturated fluorescence excitation”. He continued his educational journey and he also holds a Ph.D. degree in the field of optoelectronics. During his Ph.D. he has developed a portable optical high sensitive biosensor that works based on surface plasmon resonance. This portable biosensor includes three novel technologies and one of the interesting technologies is the localized temperature control using the plasmonic layer as a Joules heater. This work has been published with the title “Plasmonic Layer as a Localized Temperature Control Element for Surface Plasmonic Resonance-Based Sensors”. He also co-signed a research article “Leak-free integrated microfluidic channel fabrication for surface plasmon resonance applications”. After his Ph.D. he worked as a research engineer and fabricated three-dimensional micro-batteries and micro capacitors. He obtained reputed project funding and Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher working with a research lab MULTITEL and an industry D-tek, Mons. Here he is developing a portable optical biosensor with high sensitivity and high throughput.

Dr. Ramachandran Rajendran is currently working as a Research Associate Professor in SUSTech Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, India. After his Postdoctoral research (2016-2018) in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at SUSTech, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the school of microelectronics. He has published more than 50 research articles and 4 book chapters. Dr. Ramachandran Rajendran has awarded the International Young Scientist Research Grant from NSFC, China. His research interest includes 2D materials, Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and their derivatives for electrocatalysts, electrochemical sensors, and energy storage applications.

Varij Panwar received his Ph.D. degree on conducting polymer composites from the Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he worked as a as a post-doctoral researcher and research group leader in Micro-Actuator Lab, at Robot Research Initiative, Chonnam National University, Gwangju Korea. He worked as a principal Investigator in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, from 2013 to 2016 and received research grant from National Research Foundation of Korea on polymer actuator and sensors. In 2016, he moved to Graphic Era (Deemed to be)University, Dehradun, India where he is now professor and received research grant from science and engineering research board (SERB), department of Science and technology (DST) for conducting research on ionic polymer transducer. His current research interests are ionic polymer metal nanocomposites for sensors, actuators, Agro based ionic sensors, ionic polymer membrane for biofuel cell and toxic ion detection, ionic polymer based piezoresistive sensor.

Dr. Nashi Khalid Alqahtani is working as an Assistant Professor of Food Science and Technology at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia. He earned his MSc degree and Ph.D. at RMIT University in Australia – all in Food Science. Supervisor interests are Functional foods, Characterization, Structure and function of natural and Modified hydrocolloid, Soluble and insoluble dietary fibre: molecular characteristics and physiological benefit, Structural properties and novel functionality.

Dr. Omar Cheikhrouhou is an Assistant Professor at College of Computer and Information Technology, Taif, KSA. He is also a member of CES Lab (Computer and Embedded System), University of Sfax, National School of Engineers. Dr. Omar Cheikhrouhou has received his B.S., M.S., andPh.D. degrees in Computer Science from the National School of Engineers of Sfax in March 2012. His Ph.D. deals with security in Wireless Sensor Networks and more precisely in "Secure Group Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks". Currently, his research interests span over several areas related to Wireless Sensor Networks, CyberSecurity, Edge Computing, Blockchain, Multi-Robot SystemCoordination, etc.,
Dr. Omar has several publications in several high-quality international journals and conferences. He has received some awards, including the “Governor Prize” from the Governor of Sfax in 2005.

Dr. Vinod Singh is currently a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Associate Director of Human Resource Development Centre at Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi and the M.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He was honoured with the University Gold Medal in both the B.Sc. and M.Sc. He has the teaching, research and academic administrative experience of more than 18 years. He has been awarded the Research Excellence Award by DTU for two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018 and the best presentation award in Nano India 2017 conference. He has delivered more than 10 invited talks in international and national academic events. He is the Principal Investigator of two sponsored research projects funded by the All India Council for Technical Education and DTU. He was the convener of a reputed International Conference on Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Nano Physics with Applications (CAMNP-2019) held in December 2019 at DTU and is the editor of Springer’s proceedings in physics for CAMNP-2019. Along with holding the position of an editorial board member of Frontiers in Sensors, he is also a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) and the Board of Studies (BOS) of the Department. He is an active researcher supervising six Ph.D. scholars and has published a patent (granted) and several research papers in international peer reviewed journals of high repute including Nature publishing group. His research interests include material science, sensors, 2D materials, functional nanomaterials and their size dependent properties and applications.

FEHAID ALQAHTANI received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from King Khalid University, K.S.A., in 2008, the M.Sc. degree in IT project management from Teesside University, U.K, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in computer sci- ence (Artificial Intelligence Based Affective State Analysis for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) Using Physiological Signals) from the University of the West of Scotland, U.K, in 2020. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, King Fahad Naval Academy, Ministry of Defense, K.S.A. He is a leading team member in the AI Society research committee in Saudi Arabia. He has authored and co-authored several research papers; including leading international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. His research interests include affective computing and machine learning.