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Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 112; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.

Ning Lin is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Lin’s research areas include natural hazards and risk analysis, climate change impact and adaptation, wind engineering, and coastal engineering. Her current primary focus is hurricane risk analysis. She integrates science, engineering, and policy to study hurricane-related weather extremes, how they change with changing climate, and how their impact on society can be better mitigated. She has published in high-impact journals including Science, Nature Climate Change, and PNAS on these topics. Lin is a recipient of CAREER award from National Science Foundation (NSF),Natural Hazards Early Career Award and Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from American Geophysical Union (AGU), and and Huber Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Lin received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. She also received a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in 2010 from Princeton. Before rejoining Princeton as an assistant professor in 2012, she conducted research in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.

Currently a fellow of ASME, ASCE, EMI and HKIE, Ir Professor Lim received a B.Eng. from University of Technology of Malaysia, M.Eng. and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and The University of Hong Kong. He is also a visiting professor at various universities worldwide. He has expertise in theory of plates and shells, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, metamaterials and symplectic elasticity. He is currently the subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration, joint-editor for Journal of Mechanics of Material and Structures, subject editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling, Managing Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, etc. and also on the editorial board of some other top-ranked international journals. He has published one very well-selling title entitled “Symplectic Elasticity”, co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong from Dalian University of Technology, as recorded by the publisher, World Scientific, in Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering. He has published more than 350 international journal papers and have more than 12,000 citations. Recently Professor Lim was awarded the prestigious 2020 JN Reddy Medal as a recognition “for significant and original contributions to vibration of plates and shells, smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, and symplectic elasticity”. He will deliver a plenary lecture and chair another plenary lecture at WCCM-APACM 2022, the largest biennial meet for computational scientists worldwide. He was also previously awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society. Professor Lim is a registered professional engineer in Hong Kong.

Prof. Bowen’s research focuses on the implications of quantum science on precision measurement, and applications of quantum measurement in areas ranging from quantum condensed matter physics to the biosciences. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, Director of the University of Queensland Precision Technologies Translation Hub, and a Theme Leader of the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems. His lab has significant efforts in using quantum light and quantum-limited technologies to improve biological microscopy. They also have active research efforts on integrated photonics, quantum control of macroscopic mechanical devices, and superfluid helium physics. Prof Bowen’s research is supported by the Australian Research Council, the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Lockheed Martin, the US Army Research Office and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group.

Dr. Wei is currently a principle researcher at Huawei German Research Center. He received a PhD from the University of Wales in 2010. Dr. Wei’s research interests include optics communications, photonics switching/signal processing, advanced modulation/coding, digital signal processing, algorithms, and machine learning. He edited one book and (co-)authored over 170 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers including more than 15 invited. He holds several US/European patents. Dr. Wei is a Marie Curie fellow and a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Hua’s research has centered on the development and application of novel MRI technologies for in vivo functional and physiological imaging in the brain. These include the development of human and animal MRI methods to measure functional brain activities, cerebral perfusion and oxygen metabolism at high (3 Tesla) and ultra-high (7 Tesla and above) magnetic fields. He is particularly interested in novel MRI approaches to image small blood and lymphatic vessels in the brain. Collaborating with clinical investigators, these techniques have been applied to detect functional, vascular and metabolic abnormalities in the brain in neurodegenerative diseases.

Sandra Pinelas is working as a professor in Military Academy and In 1995 December – 1999 March she is worked as a Assistant in Évora University. 1999 March – 2007 January, Assistant in Azores University and as a professor till 2007 April. Education and academic qualifications are completed her Ph.D. in 2007 in Mathematic Analysis at the Azores University and Msc in 1997 in Mathematic at the Évora University. In 1995 Graduation was completed in Mathematical Analysis at the Évora University. Professional Activities as Visiting Professor, During 2006, September, Munich University of Tecnology (Munique, Germany) and In 2009, February - March, Florida Institut of Tecnology (Melbourne, Florida, EUA) and In 2010, February – March, Florida Institut of Tecnology (Melbourne, Florida, EUA).

Dr. Wang is currently an associate professor of City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of micromechanical characterization and modeling of granular soils. His works over the past 20 years include the X-ray CT characterization of micro-structures and micro-morphologies of geomaterials, and the DEM modeling and analysis of fundamental soil behaviors of crushable sands and their applications in various kinds of geotechnical engineering problems such as pile foundation, slope stability and retaining structures, etc. Dr. Wang has received a number of prestigious international research awards including VEBLEO fellow 2022, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) award 2022, Geotechnical Research Medal (UK Institution of Civil Engineers) 2011 and Higher Education Institutions Outstanding Research Award - Natural Science Award (the Ministry of Education of China) 2010. His research has attracted over 8 million HKD of external grants including the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Wang currently serves as an Associate Editor of Géotechnique, and Editorial Board Member of Computers and Geotechnics, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Soils and Foundations. So far Dr. Wang has published over 90 SCI journal papers and delivered over 30 keynote/invited lectures, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 31. Dr. Wang is among the list of world's top 2% scientists in 2022.

Sajung Yun is CEO of Predictiv. He is also a scientist and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University in bioinformatics where he is teaching genome analysis class at the graduate school. After completing his Ph.D in Biomedical Sciences, Sajung joined the National Institutes of Health on a post-doctoral research fellowship for genetic engineering. During that time, Sajung also followed an MBA at Johns Hopkins University on Healthcare Management and entrepreneurship. Sajung’s first startup was AI physician project and the second one was a telemedicine project. Sajung also gives lectures on personalized precision medicine occasionally.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics as Sustainable Geoengineering” for environmental modifications and resource circulations, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Stefania Lamponi is professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy (Department of Excellence 2018-2022) of University of Siena (Italy). Moreover, she is a co-founder and President of the academic spin-off company Sienabio ACTIVE of the University of Siena. She graduated in Biological Sciences and has a PhD in Biomaterials. Her main research interests concern the in vitro biocompatibility evaluation of polymeric materials and hydrogels for biomedical applications; evaluation of biological properties of natural and derivatised polysaccharide; polysaccharide-metal complexes as angiogenetic and antibacterial agents; polysaccharide-based hydrogels as scaffolds for cell cultures and tissue engineering, and drug delivery systems; micro and nano-patterned systems for tissue engineering; in vitro cell characterisation of micro and nanostructured surfaces for cell guidance (tissue engineering); in vitro biological evaluation of citotoxicity, citocompatibility and genotoxicity of new drugs, antioxidant molecules of natural origin and nanoparticles. Furthermore, a significant part of her research activity focuses on the extraction, chemical characterization and evaluation of in vitro bioactivity, both in cellular and a cellular systems, of bioactive substances from plants and the study of nanocarriers for the intracellular release of natural antioxidants. She is Author of 125 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international journals (ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2788-8797).

Professor Ir Dr Sevia Mahdaliza Idrus received her Bachelor in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and Master in Engineering Management in 1999, both from UTM. She obtained her Ph.D in 2004 from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in optical communication engineering. She has served UTM since 1998 as an academic and administrative staff. Her main research interests are optical communication system and network, optoelectronic design, and engineering management. Her research output have been translated into a number of publications and IPR including a high-end reference books, ‘Optical Wireless Communication: IR Connectivity’ published by Taylor and Francis, 49 book chapters and monographs, over 200 refereed research papers, 8patents granted, 36 patent filings and holds 31 UTM copyrights. To date, she has secured and been involved in 84 research and consultation projects with a total value of USD25M. She is the founder and Director of a UTM spin-off company, iSmartUrus Sdn Bhd (1057063A) successfully commercialized her invention, a novel airtime based mobile micropayment solution and application-centric IoT based mobile enforcement device for smart city. She is actively involved in a number industrial and international research collaboration projects, delivered keynote and invited speeches to many international conferences and seminars. Based on her active contribution with industry for smart city solution, she has been awarded ‘The Top Research Scientists Malaysia 2021’ by Academy Science Malaysia, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. She led a four years G2G project on ‘Radar over Fiber Foreign Object Debris Detection System’ field trial at Kuala Lumpur International Airport(KLIA) a collaboration project between UTM, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Japan and Malaysia Airport (Sepang) under financial support from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Japan. The project has made KLIA and Malaysia as world focal point for development of high precision millimetre wave radar at 90-100GHz range. She is Senior Member of IEEE and member of Editorial Board of few refereed international journals. She has been appointed as Guest Professor at Osaka Prefecture University and Tokai University, Japan in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

Ibrahim M. M. El Emary received the Dr. Eng. Degree in 1998 from the Electronic and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Egypt. From 1998 to 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer sciences in different faculties and institutes in Egypt. From 2002 to 2010, he worked as visiting professor of computer science and engineering in two universities in Jordan. Currently, he is a visiting Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His research interests cover: various analytic and discrete event simulation techniques, performance evaluation of communication networks, application of intelligent techniques in managing computer communication network, and performing a comparative study between various policies and strategies of routing, congestion control, subnetting of computer communication networks. He published more than 200 articles in various refereed international journals and conferences “84 of these publications having high citation on Scopus index” covering: Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligent, Expert Systems, Software Agents, Information Retrieval, E-learning, Case Based Reasoning, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition and Robotic engineering. Also, in the current time, he is too interested in making a lot of scientific research in wireless sensor networks in view point of enhancing its algorithms of congestion control and routing protocols. He extends his research interest to cover Big Data, IoT and Edge Computing as well as Quantum & Fast Computing, BI and KM in decision making process. Finally, he publishes five book chapters in two international books (Published by IGI publisher) as well as coeditor of two books edited by two international publishers (Springer Verlag and LAP Lampert). Also, he published four books with CRC Press Taylor & Francis as well as one book with John Wiley. One of his books with CRC Press selected as the book of the year on 2013 from the Digital ACM. He gets the prize of Who’s Who for seven successive years from year 2013 till 2020

Jason Colwell holds the position of Associate Professor of Mathematics at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. Raised in Edmonton, Canada, Jason Colwell received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Alberta. After earning his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, he has enjoyed applying his mathematical skills in a variety of contexts. His work has ranged from wildland fire ecology (involving image processing and data science), to philosophy (concerning theological arguments), to agricultural engineering (on the topic of machine vision), to consulting work (involving combinatorics). Most recently, he has solved a 40-year-old problem in theoretical chemistry on the subject of homochirality, which is critical in the study of the origins of life.

Full Professor in Technical Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Organization and Management at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland. An expert cooperating with many institutions, including the National Center for Research and Development. In 2010-2020: Vice-President and Member of the Presidium of the Committee on Production Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-founder and elected chairman of the Polish Society for Technology Assessment. 2007 - 2015: Member of the Parliament (Sejm) of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Science and Higher Education, Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Innovation and New Technologies. Member of the Polish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Areas of Scientific Interests: Production Engineering, Innovation Management, Assessment of Social Impact of New Technologies, and Products (Technology Assessment - TA), Maintenance Management, Engineering of Acoustical Environment, Computer-Aided Engineering, SMART CITY, INDUSTRY 4.0; Areas of Research Projects: implementing and assessing innovations, management of data from maintenance from technical systems, implementations of expertise of CMMs class (Computerized Maintenance Management systems) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in industrial practice, development of acoustic maps using GIS technology, implementation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm in MSME's (Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises), practical aspects of the SMART CITY concept systems, implementations of tools of CMMs class (Computerized Maintenance Management systems) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in industrial practice, development of acoustic maps using GIS technology, implementation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm in MSME's (Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises), practical aspects of the SMART CITY concept.

Han Dedong received a Ph.D degree from Peking University and is working as an Associate Professor in School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University. His research interests include new semiconductor materials and devices, flexible electronics, new thin film transistors, and nanotechnology. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and applied for more than 50 patents.

Sepehr Janghorbani is a final year doctoral student at Rutgers University, NJ, USA, where he is currently working on designing novel machine learning methods to address problems in computer vision and natural language processing. Sepehr’s research spans a wide variety of topics in machine learning including self-supervised generative modeling, scalable computer vision and scene understanding, analysis of vision-language models, and self-supervised natural language understanding systems. Prior to his PhD studies, Sepehr received his master of science in computer science with a concentration in machine learning from Rutgers University and his BSc in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology graduating at the top of his class. In addition to his academic contributions, he has also worked as part of the research and development team in companies such as Apple and Disney research, implementing his research ideas in industrial settings. Sepehr’s work has been published in some of the top conferences and journals in the field including ICLR, NAACL, and AAMAS. He has also been serving as a peer-reviewer for numerous publication outlets including AAAI, EMNLP, EACL, TIP, TCSVT, etc, as well as serving as a program committee member on the Web Conference.

Guofeng Cui is currently a third year Ph.D. student in computer science department of Rutgers University. His research focuses on automated programming and machine learning, namely neurosymbolic programming. He investigates to apply neural program synthesis for interpretable and more reliable model to solve deep learning and reinforcement learning tasks.

Kun Wang is an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics. He obtained a PhD degree from Rutgers University in 2022. He has worked in the field of tensegrity robotics and differentiable simulation. In addition, he has published numerous papers in well-recognized journals and conferences such as IJRR, ICRA, IROS, etc.

Naina Chaturvedi is a woman in Tech with work experience of 6.3 years in Tech as a software Engineer, research experience of 2 years and a member of ACM, ACM-W, oSTEM, Google’s Women Tech Maker, Anita Borg Tech Mentor, Grace Hopper Celebration, Society of Women Engineers, AISES, Women Engineering Society UK, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), Women who code. She had pursued her Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from the USA with full scholarship. She is an upcoming PhD Computer Science at Rutgers University.

Xinglong Zhang is a master student in the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University. He works on blockchain and big data.

Dr. of Sc., Prof., Member (Academician) of Georgian National Academy of Science Kartlos Joseph Kachiashvili is Professor of Georgian Technical University, Faculty of Informatics and Control Systems. He also is Senior Scientific Worker of the I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and Principal Scientific Worker of Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Georgian Technical University. He was working in many scientific research institutes and universities in Georgia, Russia and Pakistan on the positions: engineer, scientific worker, Head of Laboratory, Head of Department, Head of National Center, Professor, Rector of Institute. He has 236 scientific papers published in various esteemed reputable International Journals. He is a Member of Various (30) Professional Bodies and Editorial Boards of international scientific journals. Among them 4 journals have impact factor and two is included in the SCOPUS data base. He published six monographs and four text-books in Georgia, Ukraine, USA and Indonesia. He has received many prestigious awards and rewards. His research interests are: Mathematical Statistics, Data Analysis (Environmental, Agricultural, Medical), Mathematical Mo¬deling and Simulation, New Computer Technologies Development, System Analysis (Environmental Water Pollution), Com¬pu¬ting Mathematics.

Chen Wenhui received a Ph.D degree from Pai Chai University, Korea and currently working in Hengyang Normal University, China. His research interests include machine learning, machine motion control, automation and other fields. He has work and research experience in machine vision, robotics, industrial control and other fields. Some papers have been published in SCI and Scopus journals.

SAFEH NISRINE obtained her Master's degree in engineering and technology for education and training and she will soon defend her thesis and part of the Information Technology and Modeling Laboratory. In charge of distance education (e-learning service) at the Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sick Casablanca Morocco since September 2019. Temporary teacher at the Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sick Casablanca Morocco.

Ophir Nave is a researcher at the Jerusalem College of Technology. His main areas of interest are applied mathematics in the fields of engineering, combustion, biology, medicine, and education. In the combustion research area, he specialized in combustion processes of monodisperse and polydisperse fuel spray in diesel engines, computation of the delay time, and applying asymptotical method for mathematical model of spray combustion. In the field of application medicine, He specialized in mathematical models describing the connections between different cancerous tumors such as bladder cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and brain tumors, the treatment, and the immune system. Immunotherapeutic treatments.

Professor, Dr. Mohammad Taghi Darvishi graduated in applied mathematics from Shiraz University, Iran. In 1999, he has received his PhD degree from Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. Now, he is an academic staff in Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. Dr. Darvishi was former head of department of mathematics in Razi University for more than six years. He supervised about forty Msc and seven PhD students and he has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate classes in mathematical sciences. He has published more than 100 papers in various journals. His research interests are: Numerical and analytical methods to solve ODEs, PDEs and integral equations, iterative algorithms to solve linear and nonlinear systems, study on shallow waters and mathematical modellings.

Dr. Abdul Wahid is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to this, he worked as a research engineer on anomaly and fraud detection from banking data at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique, Mathématiques, Automatique et Signal (IRIMAS), University of Upper Alsace, France, in collaboration with ENYGMA and funded by Région Grand-Est. From September 2021 to September 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow on a DETSI-project in the INFormatique et RESeaux (INFRES), Telecom Paris, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France. Here, he worked on fraud detection in the telecom sector using artificial intelligence techniques. He obtained his bachelor's degree in information technology from MIT Muzaffarpur, India, master's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Patna, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. Before joining as a Ph.D. scholar at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He has many research articles published in reputed conferences and journals. His research interests include Anomaly Detection, Fraud Detection, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. He is a reviewer for several reputed journals and conferences, including Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Access, etc. He has also served as a Technical Program Committee member at many reputed international conferences and has been serving as a guest editor of reputed Journals.

Walaa Jumiawi is currently a final year Ph.D. student in computer science at Beirut Arab University, Beirut. He is experienced in image processing and segmentation, image steganography, games design, and web development. His field of research covers, improving thresholding-based segmentation methods, binarization, and object detection, performing supervised and unsupervised evaluation, and building a novel thresholding model for accurate image segmentation.

Sarah V. Ramos is Doctor of Philosophy in Education Administration major in Higher Education (HEDA) from Ateneo de Davao University along with (Ph.D. Candidate). she completed Master of English in Applied Linguistics from University of Southeastern Philippines. Sarah V. Ramos eligibility in Licensure Examination for Teachers, National Certificate II in Food Processing and National Certificate II in Bread and Pastry Production.

Astutyis a professor at Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).During her more than 30 years in UTM she has served the faculty and the university as a Dean of faculty, Deputy Dean of Graduate School, Postgraduate Academic Manager, Head of laboratories and also Operation Manager for Executive programme. She was also the secretary for Malaysia Postgraduate Dean Council and currently a member for Board of Directors, Asia Professional Education Network hosted by Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT), Tokyo, Japan. She received her Bachelor in Materials Eng. (pioneer batch) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1988, MSc in Corrosion Sc. and Eng. from UMIST, UK and PhD (Mechanical) from UTM in 2005. Her research interest is devoted to Materials Engineering specifically on high temperature oxidation of alloys, compositional modification of newly developed (α+β)Ti-Alloys, developing Accelerated Corrosion Test Procedures for Malaysia automotive industry, Life Assessment of Oxidized Supercritical Tubes in Power Generation Boilers, Ultraviolet Treatment for MIC of steels and rejuvenation of Ni-Cr superalloy turbine blade. She was appointed as a Visiting Professor at Sudan University of Science and Technology and also has been annually appointed as a Visiting Professor at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand since 2015. She is also a panel of expert for several universities in the area of Materials and Corrosion engineering.