ENERGYMEET2023

Xiao-Dong Zhou is currently the Stuller Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering and Director for the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Zhou’s research interests are the synthesis, characterization, and theoretical understanding of materials for fuel cells, batteries, electrolyzers, and gas separation membranes. He is recognized for the fundamental understanding of materials and interfaces for the activation of small molecules, such as O2, CO2, and CH4. Zhou has his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the East China University of Science and Technology, and a PhD in Ceramic Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received an ECS High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division J. Bruce Wagner Young Investigator Award and Department of Defense DARPA Young Investigator Award. He serves the Society as a Technical Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and energy conversion. The former chair of the ECS High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division, Zhou has served on the board of directors and on several ECS committees. He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.

Bin Chen is full professor at Beijing Normal University in the School of Environment as well as the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control. I obtained B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, and Ph.D. degree in environmental science from Peking University. My background is energy system modelling studies. I also lead interdisciplinary research in the field of energy system engineering and climate change mitigation. To date I have authored more than 300 academic publications in peer-reviewed journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). My research is about natural science but have profound social and public impacts, the publications have been cited world widely more than 15,000 times (based on Google search) in Science Newsline, Scientific America, New Scientist, Salon Media and so forth, and have been cited by Analysis & Policy Observatory and governments such as State Council of China, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), National Energy Administration, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources, and National Science Foundation of China, etc. I rank on the Top 1000-climate Researchers List in the World by Reuters, World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020 by Stanford University, and Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier. I am serving as Editor-in-Chief of Energy, Ecology and Environment, Subject Editor of Applied Energy, and an editorial board member of Energy, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hydrodynamics, etc. I am also among the organizers and keynote speakers for various international conferences.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored about 500 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Qiming Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of Engineeringat the Pennsylvania State University, USA, since 2006. His research covers fundamentals and applications of electronic and electroactive materials, especially polymers and nanocomposites, and their energy storage and conversion applications. Zhang invented relaxor ferroelectric polymers which possess highest dielectric permittivityat room temperature and giant electroactuation. The relaxor polymers have been commercialized by Arkema. He founded a successful startup company, StrategicPolymers Inc. (now Novasentis, Inc.), in commercializing the polymer devices for energy conversion applications. In 2008, he discovered giant electrocaloric effect in polymers, creating unique opportunity for solid state coolingwith high efficiency and zero green greenhouse gas emission. More recently, his group developed dilute polymer nanocomposites in which ultra-low volume loading of nanofillers, through interfacial effects, generate marked enhancement in dielectric constant and breakdown strength, leading to high energy and power densities. He authored and co-authored over 470 journal publications and has 21 patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of APS.

Dr. Junying Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University with a Ph.D. degree and joined Beihang University in 2002, and became a full professor in 2009. She conducted research as an academic visitor in the University of Oxford in 2015. Her research interests focus on first-principle calculations and structure-properties relationship of materials for clean energy conversion and storage. Dr. Junying Zhang has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal publications with more than 8,800 citations and h-index of 52 according to Google Scholar, and won the second prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China. More than 10 invention patents have been authorized, and two patents have been transferred. Dr. Zhang has been awarded the honours of Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University and Teaching Excellence Award of Graduate Course of Beihang University. She has been selected into programs of Beijing Nova, New Century Excellent Talents in University, and Blue-sky Scholar of Beihang University. She has presided over ten projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, and Fok Yingdong Education Fund. Dr. Zhang works in the editor board of three academic journals and the academic committee of three societies.

Benjamin K. Sovacool, is Director of the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand and of the Sussex Energy Group. Benjamin is also Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). Professor Sovacool works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. Benjamin is also Co-PI of the INNOPATHS (Innovation Pathways, Strategies and Policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe) research project.

Pr. Lingai LUO is Research Director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She was Direction member of LTEN and the director of LOCIE, bothLaboratories of CNRS. She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering and the director of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences.She is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and the efficiency optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. She has developed an original strategy on the optimization of energy systems by a multi-scale approach associated with an innovative method of optimized management of fluid distribution. Shi is the author of 2 books and over 130 journal articles. She is serving as subject editor of Energy Journal, and associate editor of three others Journals.

Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society, Fellow of Energy Institute and Fellow of IMechE. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and tworecent monographs on advances in air conditioning . He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 11,000 over citations with a current h‐index of 56. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavours.

Prof. Bao-Lian Su Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgiumand Clare Hall Life Member, University of Cambridge, Prof. Su held “Belgian FrancquiChaire”in 2012-2013. He received his doctoral degree in 1992 from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France andjoined the faculty of the University of Namur in 1995 and is a full Professor since 2002.He holds also a strategy scientist position at the Wuhan University of Technology. Prof. Suwas appointed as President of the commission for the senior member selection, IUF (Academic Institute of France, 2020) and was elected as President of the International Mesostructured Materials Association in 2021. He received a series of awards and honors such as, First Class Invention Award of Sinopec, China in 1993, China Patent Excellence Award, China in 1994,Adolphe Wetrems Prize of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2007, Distinguished Award for Novel Materials and their Synthesis, IUPAC in 2011, Friendship Award of theChinese Government, 2019, First Class Nature Science Award of Hubei Province, 2019, Darsh-Wasan Award of Surface and Colloid Chemistry, 2020 and the International Mesostructured Materials Association (IMMA) Award, 2021. He has published 580SCI papers with more than 25000 citations and an H index of 82 and is a coordinator and a principal leader of more than 70 research and collaborative projects. Prof. Su’s current research fields include the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of bio-inspired hierarchically porous materials and bio-integrated living materials for catalysis, photocatalysis, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy storage and conversion and cell therapy.

Matthias Preindl received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Padua 2008, the M.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Padua 2014, in electrical engineering. He is an Associate Professor at Columbia University, USA. Prior to joining Columbia in 2016, he was an R&D Engineer of Power Electronics and Drives at Leitwind AG 2010-2012, a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at McMaster University, Canada 2014-2015. Dr. Preindl serves as Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and was the general chair of 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. He is a Fellow of IET, recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2017, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award 2019 and co-recipient of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honorable mention 2022. His research interests include the design and control of motor drives, power electronics, and batteries for transportation electrification and renewable energy.

Mario Antonio Álvarez Guerra Plasencia, Ph.D. Full member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (CEEMA) of the University of Cienfuegos (UCF). Extensive experience as an academic director, coordinator of international collaboration projects and director of the Study Center. He develops his research work in the field of energy technologies and energy efficiency. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in this field and has received various awards and decorations such as the Carlos J. Finlay Order. He currently serves as president of the UCF University Scientific Council.

Prof. Huachao Yang, from Zhejiang University, Member of State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization. Editorial member of Advances in Applied Sciences, Applied Chemical Engineering, Energy Research, Global Journal of Energy Technology Research Updates etc. His research focuses on the nanoscale mass transport and related energy storage including supercapacitors, batteries and desalination.

Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam is an A/Professor and Leader of Intelligent Energy Systems and Flexible Markets (iGRIDS) Research Group at the Department of Energy (AAU Energy), Aalborg University where he is also acting as the Vice-Leader of Power Electronic Control, Reliability and System Optimization (PESYS) and the coordinator of Integrated Energy Systems Laboratory (IES-Lab). His research interests include planning, control and operation management of microgrids, renewable/hybrid power systems and integrated energy systems with appropriate market mechanisms. He has (co)authored more than 260 technical articles, 5 books and 11 book chapters in the field. Dr. Anvari-Moghaddam serves as the Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, IEEE Access, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. He is the Vice-Chair of IEEE Denmark and IEEE-PES Danish Chapter and serves as a Technical Committee Member of several IEEE PES/IES/PELS and CIGRE working groups. He was the recipient of 2020 DUO – India Fellowship Award, DANIDA Research Fellowship grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark in 2018 and 2021, IEEE-CS Outstanding Leadership Award 2018 (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), and the 2017 IEEE-CS Outstanding Service Award (Exeter-UK).

Dr. Christophis Koroneos, National Technical University of Athens Graduate Program “Environment and Development” Research Associate / Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York (USA). Senior Research Associate, Unit of Environmental Science and Technology Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens Chairman and Vice Chairman and National Representative European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST: TU1104 Smart Energy Regions, COST Action C24: Analysis and Design of Innovative Systems for Low-EXergy in the Built Environment: COSTeXergy.

Nana Wang is a research fellow in Department of Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials of University of Wollongong. She received her PhD degree in 2016 in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Shandong University in China.She has multi-country, multi-research group research experience at the world’s top universities in China (PhD), USA (postdoctoral research), and Australia (ARC DECRA).Her research interests include (i) developinginnovative battery chemistries, such as lithium/sodium-sulfur batteries, sodium-ion batteries, Li-O2 batteries. (ii) understanding the fundamental science of the interfaces, charge transport, and reactions in and of materials using advanced characterization techniques, (ii) designing and fabricating new electrode materials with desired properties. She has published more than 65 papers in scientific journals including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials (3),Advanced Energy Materials (3),Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy and Environmental Science (4), Nano Letters (2), etc., with more than 3100 citations and H-index-32.She is a recipient of the 2020 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. She was awarded several scholarships for research excellence during my PhD study, including the Outstanding Graduates Awards (2016); Excellent Graduate Student (2015); National Scholarship (2015); Shandong University President’s Scholarship (2014); Outstanding Student Pacesetter (2014); National Scholarship (2014).She is also the Youth Editorial Board Memberof Carbon Energy and Nano Research Energy.

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 until his retirement in 2022 he was Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at TechnischeUniversitaetMuenchen (Germany). His main interests are: Sensorless control of AC drives, predictive control of power electronics and contactless energy transmission. Dr. Kennel is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he was Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Region 8 – furthermore he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS) as well as Vice President Meetings of the same society. In 2018 Dr. Kennel received the Doctoral degree honoris causa from Universitatea Stefan cel Mare in Suceava (Romania). 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 EPE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2019. 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. There he was appointed as "Jiaxi Lu Overseas Guest Professor" in 2017. In 2018 Dr. Kennel was appointed Guest Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China. In 2019 Dr. Kennel was appointed „Honorary Chair Professor“ ("distinguished visiting professor") at Shandong University in Jinan, China.

Tarek N. Saadawi has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of City College, CUNY, since 1980. His current research interests are wireless networks, multimedia networks, ad hoc networks, and packet radio networks. He has published extensively in the area of telecommunications networks. He is a coauthor of a textbook on telecommunications and a former Chair of IEEE Computer Society of New York City (1986–1987). He received the IEEE Region 1 Award in 1987.

Edgar Harzfeld, Professor at Stralsund University. Studies and research in Leipzig and Zurich. Since 1996 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Stralsund University responsible for electrical power supply and renewable energy systems. Since 2004 - 2022 numerous research projects on the subject of electrical energy storage technologies.

Patrizia Livreri (Member, IEEE) received the master’s (cum laude) degree in electronics engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Palermo (UNIPA), Italy, in 1986 and 1992, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, she was with Elettronica SpA (Leonardo Company), Roma, Italy, where she designed microwave integrated circuits. In 1993, she joined the National Research Center CNR as a Researcher, where she was involved in microwave low noise amplifier design. Since 1994, she has been an Adjunct Professor with UNIPA, where she serves as the Director of the Power Electronics Laboratory. She is the author or coauthor of scientific books and 160 scientific publications.

Youssef Naimi has his expertise in the fields of renewable energies, and particularly in biomass, fuel cells and environment. He is full professor at sciences faculty of Ben M'sik, the university of hassan ll of casablanca. He is a vice-president of associate, the moroccan society for advancement of renewable energy (SMADER), Coordinator of the course "chemistry of the environment" License materials science chemistry (SMC), responsible for the specialized master.

Md Sayed Iftekhar has extensive experience in research, teaching, consultancy, and providing policy advice. He is an applied and environmental economist with extensive expertise in cost-benefit analysis, non-market valuation, impact assessment, mechanism designs, and sustainable management of natural resources, such as water, land, energy, and the environment. He is currently the Director of the AFE Environmental and Resource Management Research Cluster, GBS, Griffith University, and the National Secretary of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES). He is an associate editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Wiley, Q1) and the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (Oxford University Press, Q2).

He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology with the professional title of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - specializing in refrigeration. He became an assistant at the Institute of Thermal Technology and Fluid Mechanics of this university. In 1990, he obtained a doctorate in physics in the field of physics at his home faculty , specialization: technical physics, on the basis of the dissertation written under the supervision of Mieczysław Mieczyński entitled Comparative analysis of Linde-Hampson refrigerators powered by factors of different properties . There, in 1999, on the basis of his scientific achievements and the dissertation Modeling of deconduction thermohydraulics in superconducting magnets, he was awarded the degree of habilitated doctortechnical sciences in the field of construction and operation of machines, specialization: refrigeration; cryotechnics. In 2002, he took the position of associate professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. He received the title of professor of technical sciences in 2009 [1] [2] [3] . In 1998 he started working with CERN . He was a Member of Personnel of this institution, he held the position of Scientific Associate (1996–1997), he was also the plenipotentiary of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for research infrastructure at CERN (2007)

Abdelhadi Raihani, was appointed as a professor in Electronics Engineering at Hassan II University of Casablanca, ENSET Institute, Mohammedia Morocco since 1991.He received the B.S. degree in Applied Electronics in 1991 from the ENSET Institute. He has his DEA diploma in Information Processing from Ben M’sik University of Casablanca in 1994. He received the Ph.D. in Parallel Architectures Application and Image Processing from the Ain Chock University of Casablanca in 1998.He currently serves as a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at ENSET of Mohammedia. His research topics are various and large in multiple domains of medical image processing and electrical engineering, energy management systems, power and energy systems control and smart grids. He has published over than 74 papers in distinguished scientific journals and more than 60 papers in international conferences. He supervised and delivered more than 15 PhD theses. He worked closely in national research programs with IRESEN under the grant “Green INNO Project / UPISREE”.

Dr. Arash Takshi is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a faculty at the Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) at the University of South Florida. Before joining USF, Dr. Takshi was working as a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland, where he collaborated with a research group to develop an energy harvesting system for wireless sensors. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia, working on the development of Organic/Bio photovoltaic devices. Dr. Takshi’s PhD project at UBC was on low voltage organic transistors. He has more than ninety publications in scientific journals. Dr. Takshi’s research group at USF was established in fall 2010. His group is active in the field of advanced energy materials, using conducting polymers, perovskite, and nanomaterials (Ag NW, ZnO NW, TiO2 nanoparticle, graphene, MoS2) for energy conversion and storage in electrical devices. His research activities cover materials synthesis/process, device fabrication, characterization, and optimization. He has more than 98 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, 12 patents, and supervised 24 graduate students.

Pavel Zehtindjiev has been working at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research – BAS, part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He graduated in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1990 with a degree in Vertebrate Zoology. In 2001 he defended his dissertation on the characteristics of nocturnal migration of birds in Bulgaria. He is the author of over 70 scientific publications in international journals in the field of ecology.

Laura Rimsaite experienced in Legal Counsel with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in Negotiation, International Law, European Union Law, Analytical Skills, Energy, and Competition Law. Strong legal professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Competition law, Energy law from Mykolas Romeris University.

Bachelor of Law from the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB). Post-graduate degree in Electric Energy Law from UniCEUB. Master in Law and Public Policy from UniCEUB. Founder and visiting professor of the Executive MBA in Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV): Waste Energy Treatment and Recovery. Vice-President of Global WtERT for LATAM since 2023, President of the Brazilian Association for Waste Energy Recovery (ABREN) since 2019 and President of Waste to Energy Research and Technology – WtERT Brasil since 2020, Partner at Girardi & Schmitke Advogados since 2012. In 2022, he received the Energy Oscar among the 100 Most Influential in Energy. In 2021, he received the Waste Management Certificate from the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) – International Status. In 2018, he received the 2nd Place award in the Cultural Contest of Best Energy Efficiency Projects by ABESCO at the Brazilian Congress of Energy Efficiency (COBEE). Member of ISWA Working Group on Energy Recovery. Member of the Brazilian Energy Planning Society (SBPE).

Francisco Kleber de Araújo Lima was born on November 3, 1968 in Fortaleza. He is an Electrical Engineer (1998) and a Master’s in electrical engineering (2003), from the Federal University of Ceará. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2009) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Between 2008 and 2009 he was working with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, as part of his PhD. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará and has experience in the field of Power Electronics, working mainly in the following research lines: Renewable Energies, Wind Power Generation, Power Electronics, Power Quality, Active Filtering, FACTS devices and Synchronization Systems. Professor Lima coordinates the Laboratory of Power Electronics Applications and Energy Systems Integration, and he is a member of the Brazilian Society of Power Electronics (SOBRAEP), CIGRÉ and IEEE.

Semaria Ruiz was born in Medellín Colombia, on September 29, 1992. She received her bachelor’s degree as Electrical Engineer in 2015, and her M.Sc. degree in 2017, from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia. Furthermore, she finished her Ph.D. In Energetic Systems in 2022 at the same university. Currently, she works in Garrett motion, a company Spin-off of Honeywell located in Prague, which is focused on Diesel and electric mobility control solutions. Starting in 2016, she has been working as a researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the areas of microgrids, renewable sources control, artificial intelligence applied to power systems, and electric vehicles; in which she has published 17 papers. Moreover, she has focused her recent work, on her Ph.D. thesis and her work in the industry, on advanced control strategies for electric vehicles that provide electrical ancillary services to the electrical networks.

Anekant Jain (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal, India in 2014, and the M.Tech. degree in digital communication from the RGPV, Bhopal, India, in 2018, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India., He is currently a Teaching Assistant with the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. His current research interests include electric vehicle charging, multilevel converters, communication methodologies, and cyber-physical systems.

Amir.A. Ghavifekr is currently an assistant professor of control engineering at university of Tabriz-Iran. He was born in Tabriz on May, 13, 1987. He was studying at University of Tabriz in Electrical –Control Engineering and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Control Engineering in 2009 and 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in control engineering in the field of Teleoperation systems from university of Tabriz with cooperation of university of Verona in Italy in 2018. His thesis was about “Multi-rate control of Teleoperation systems with Networked Structures”. His research interests are focused on: Teleoperation and Telesurgery, Robotic manipulators, Network Control Systems (NCS), Multi-rate Control, Digital Control, Nonlinear Control, Virtual reality, and also, he has worked on intelligent systems. He has actively engaged with the professional community. Amir is an active Senior member of the IEEE and the member of development committee of IEEE Iran section. Recently he has been selected as the chair of the IEEE young professional committee of Iran section. He has also served several reputable IEEE indexed conferences such as PEDSTC, ICCIA, ICEE and SGC as the executive chair and international relation chair.

Dr. Samanta, is presently working as Assistant Professor at RIT Kosovo (A.U.K), Rochester Institute of Technology – RIT Global Campus, Dr. Shpetim Robaj, n.n., Germia Campus, Prishtina 10000, Kosovo, Europe. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engg. from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in the area of SAR Image Processing. He is keenly interested in Interdisciplinary Research & Development and has experience spanning fields of SAR Image Analysis, Video surveillance, Heuristic algorithm for Image Classification, Deep Learning Framework for Detection and Classification, Blockchain, Statistical Modelling, Wireless Adhoc Network, Natural Language Processing, V2I Communication. He has successfully completed six Consultancy Projects. He has received funding 8,110 USD under Open Access, Publication fund. He has received funding under International Travel Support Scheme in 2019 for attending conference in Thailand. He has received Travel Grant for speaker in Conference, Seminar etc.., for two years from July, 2019. He is the owner of 21 Patents (3 Design Indian Patent and 2 Australian patent Granted, 16 Indian Patents published) and 2 copyright. He has authored and coauthored over 207 research papers in international journal (SCI/SCIE/ESCI/Scopus) and conferences including IEEE, Springer and Elsevier Conference proceeding. He has received “Scholastic Award” at 2nd International conference on Computer Science and IT application, CSIT-2011, Delhi, India. He is a co-author of 13 books and the co-editor of 11 books, available for sale on Amazon and Flipkart. He has presented various papers at International conferences and received Best Paper awards. He has author and co-authored of 08 Book Chapters. He also serves as acquisition editor for Springer, Wiley, CRC, Scrivener Publishing LLC, Beverly, USA. and Elsevier. He is a Professional IEEE Member, an Associate Life Member of Computer Society of India (CSI) and a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He is a Convener, Keynote speaker, Session chair, Co-chair, Publicity chair, Publication chair, Advisory Board, Technical Program Committee members in many prestigious International and National conferences. He was invited speaker at several Institutions.

Said El Beid received the B. in Electrical Engineering with first class honours in Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Hassan II University, Morocco, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco. From 2015 to 2019 He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering where he was the head of Electrical Systems and Renewable Energies Team at Chouaib-Doukkali University, Morocco. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering in National School of Applied Sciences in Cadi Ayyad University and a Member of the Research Team of Control and Computer Sciences for Smarts Systems and Green Energy at Cadi Ayyad University since 2019. He is a member of TPC of several renamed international conferences and a member of the reviewing committee of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Energy Reports, IEEE Power Electronics Letters, International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, Asian Journal of Control. He has participated in several national and international research projects. He has published several papers in reputed international journals and international conferences. His main areas of research interest are power electronics, Renewable energy Systems, switching-mode power supplies, modeling and control of DC–DC converters and multilevel converters, Electric Vehicle, Lithium-ion battery.

Zaid Ahmed Aljawary received his M.Eng. in Electrical (Telecommunications and Electronics ) Engineering from the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) in 2009. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in power electronics from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the University of Valladolid (UVa) in Spain in 2022. Currently, he is a lecturer and researcher in the biomedical department Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the Qaiwan International University-UTM franchised. Dr. Al-Jawary is working on modern power system modeling, analysis, and controlling of reliable operation of future power electronic-based PV power systems. Experienced Lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Skilled in Computer Networking, Academic Research, Engineering, Research, and Teaching.

I am a professor at Politehnica University of Timisoara - Romania, Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation, Department of Management and has an overall experience of 15 years of programming, teaching and research. In 2007 I graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science, specializing in Software at Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT). In 2010 I graduated Master in Business Administration, from the Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation. I become Dr. Eng. (Ph.D degree, 2013) of Politehnica University of Timisoara – Romania. I am the head of the Entrepreneurship Office of Politehnica University of Timișoara, director of Research Center in Engineering and Management (http://www.mpt.upt.ro/eng/research/research-center/members.html), president of the scientific committee of the Academy of Political Leadership, vice-president of the Society for Ergonomics and Work Environment Management, and a member of World Economics Association (WEA), International Economics Development and Research Center (IEDRC), and Academic Management Society of Romania. I am the director, manager or member of national and international projects. Ms. Ivascu has been involved in projects with local authorities. I have published 9 books, contributed scientifically to over 190 scientific researches, and was invited to participate in numerous international and national events

Dr. Neeraj Kumar Misra is an Associate Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)-AP University, Amaravati, India. He is curiously participating in academic and research activities (mentoring UG, PG, and PhD students) along with FDPs and STCs to enhance his teaching-learning skills. He is supervising three PhD scholars. He worked for 5 years as an Associate Professor in the Electronics and Communication Department at BIET Hyderabad. He has rectified faculty as Associate Professor from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH). During his work at BIET Hyderabad, he was Criteria-3 in-charge of NAAC and academic incharge. He has more than 9-years of experience in teaching and research. Under his supervision, 12 M.Tech students completed their degrees from JNTUH Hyderabad. He did his Full-time PhD under the Teaching Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-II), Government of India and a World Bank Fellowship from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University in the year 2017. He did his B.Tech from Integral University, and his Post-Graduation first class with distinction. He did PGD in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence from NIT Warangal, and PGDBA in Operations Management from Symbiosis, Pune. He is the author or a co-author of more than 70 papers published in SCI, Scopus, and peer-reviewed international journals, and conference proceedings. He has published 14-SCI papers in Springer, Elsevier, World Scientific, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and IET, and a 15-Book Chapter in Springer. He is the author or a co-author of 3 international books. The paper with the highest impact factor, 8.907, was published in Elsevier's Journal of Energy Storage. He has the citation of Google scholar citation 325, i10-15 and h-index-11 He is the inventor or co-inventor of 7 Indian patents published and 3 international patents granted. He received the Best Research Peace Award by RULA INTERNATIONAL AWARDS under the title “Quantum Computing” in the year 2019 and received the Best “Young Achiever Award” in the year 2019 for high impact factor paper publication at a young age by the Institute for Scholars. Under his supervision, 14 M.Tech (Completed) and 3 Ph.D (Ongoing) students completed their degrees. He has received the best paper award at the International Conference on Advancement in Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN) at Amity University, Noida and the best paper award at the Springer-sponsored International Conference on Micro/Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits, and Systems at NIT Silchar, Assam, India. He is a TPC/reviewer member of several reputed national and international conference proceedings. He has received a funded FDP grant from AICTE-ISTE INDUCTION/REFRESHER PROGRAMMES. titled “Pedagogy: Innovative Methods of Teaching and Learning” as single Coordinator and also handled the MODROB Project from AICTE. He completed the AICTE-funded project with a budget of Rs. 18 lahks. He is an editorial board member of ACTA SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER SCIENCES, Journal of Computer Hardware Engineering USA, Journal of Modern Electronic Technology from Synergy Publishing, and Information Engineering and Applied Computing. He is a senior member of IEEE,ISTE, ACM, IAENG, IRED, World Research Council, and IETE. His research interests are in quantum computing, reversible computing, Fault-Tolerant Circuit Architecture, QCA technology, Nano-magnetic logic, DFT, and Low Power and Reliability-Aware VLSI circuits.

Dr. MD Shouquat Hossain received his Ph.D. degree at the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia. Dr. Shouquat has 12 years of experience in research and expertise in various renewable energy projects. He published and contributed several numbers of International Scientific Indexing (ISI) and conference papers with renowned publishers and full-length research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at UMPEDAC, the University of Malaya, in 2019. He is currently working as a research fellow at Peking University, Beijing, China. His current research focuses on electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy with building applications, MPPT, solar PV efficiency, PVT, PCM, statistical model, micro-smart grid, solar PV efficiency, and real-time control and monitoring. Dr. Shouquat is a member of different professional bodies. He is an active member of IEEE and the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET). He was a member of IACT and the journal editorial board of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER) in 2011. He is working as a technical committee member at the 3rd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES 2022), October 27–October 30, 2022, Beijing, China. Guest Editor member at Sustainability working on a Special Issue: Challenges to Carbon Neutrality in Developing Countries.

Samir Kumar Pal is a Professor and currently heading the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. He completed his M. Tech and Ph.D., from the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has published more than 160 papers in the international journals. He also contributed many book chapters for his credit. He had also participated in several international conferences. Currently, he is having google scholar citation of 1072 and h- index of 18. He has completed 13 R& D projects and 3 are ongoing. He is actively involved in numerous consultancy projects and completed 72 projects so far and 14 are in progress. He received the prestigious ‘National Geoscience Award (2017-2018)’ of Ministry of Mines, Government of India in 2018.

Dr. Chaaabane Raoudha Associate Professor at Preparatory Institute of Engineering Studies of Monastir, Monastir, IPEIM),Monastir University. Permanent researcher at Laboratory Thermal and Energetic Systems Studies (LESTE) at the National School of Engineering of Monastir (ENIM), Monastir University. She received the PhD in Physics (2013) and the HDR degree(Accreditation to Supervise Research) in Energy Engineering (2019) at the Department of Energy Engineering, Laboratory of Thermal and Energetic Systems Studies-LESTE at the National School of Engineering of Monastir-ENIM, from Monastir University (Tunisia). She has been a faculty member in Physics department at the University of Monastir and at the University of Gabes for more than20 years. She has extensive experience in research and teaching. Her areas of interest include computing science, Computational Engineering, numerical simulation, CFD, engineering dynamic fluid, heat and mass transfer, Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), Heat and Mass Transfer and Convective-Radiative Heat Transfer in engineering applications … She has published book, two book chapters, 35international papers in peer-reviewed journals and about 45international conferences. She is reviewer for more than5 journals in Elsevier, Springer and AIP Physics.

Dr. Ajay Singh received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, in 2003, the M.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2012. From May 2013 to January 2016, he was a Faculty Member with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur, Raipur, India. From January 2016 to March 2018, he was a Faculty Member with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Hamirpur, India, on leave from the National Institute of Technology Raipur. Since March 2018, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests are in physical-layer security, wireless powered communications, and molecular communications.

Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering, from Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He received his PhD degree in electrical power engineering from University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia in 2014. He is currently an assistant professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. His main research interests are smart grids, renewable energy, microgrids, power system operation and electricity markets. He is an editorial board member of IET renewable power generation and international journal of metaheuristics. His H-index is 32 and his number of citations is 4500.

Jung-Chang Wang (J.-C. Wang) is a full Professor and Dean in the School of Marine Engineering (D.M.E.), National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), Keelung, Taiwan, and is also the Director of the Thermal-Fluid Illumination Laboratory. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Mechanical PhD from National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taiwan in 2007. He has been teaching and researching on electronic heat transfer and renewable energy for more than ten years. He has published more than 100 research papers in international journals, conferences and patents, and edited seven book chapters. His main research interest includes applied and software engineering in thermal-fluid science.

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Dr. Satyendra Singh received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Govt. Engineering College Bikaner (Rajasthan) in 2008 and M. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur in 2011. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. on the Topic of Bidding Strategies in an Emerging Electricity Market in Electrical Engineering from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. He is an engineering and skill educational professional with over 12 years of experience in industry, administration, teaching and research in the Electrical domain. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor-I in School of Electrical Skills, Bhartiya Skill Development University Jaipur (Rajendra and Ursula Joshi Charitable Trust), and involved in teaching and practical training based on the Swiss dual system. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and published his research findings in reputed SCI/SCOPUS Indexed Journals, in reputed International and National conferences, SCOPUS Indexed book chapters and one Indian patent. He was awarded “BEST RESEARCHER’S AWARD 2020” by the Institute of Scientific Research Foundation, Jaipur and “Most Innovative Scientific Research Award” by South Asia Management Association, Singapore. Moreover, he has delivered various expert talks in FDP, STTP, Workshops, etc., as a resource person. He has also been a recorded reviewer for many SCI Indexed journals namely IET Generation Transmission and Distribution, Journal of Cleaner Production, Electric Power Systems Research, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering Hindawi. Renewable Energy. Moreover, he has served as Keynote Speaker, Session Chair and Co-Chair in the most prestigious and renowned National and International conferences.

ALI AHMED SALEMReceived M.Eng. in Electrical Power Engineering from University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) 2016. He received Ph.D. degree at High Voltage in Faculty of Electrical Engineering, also from UTHM 2020. Currently, he is with the UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia (UTM) Grantee for a postdoctoral fellow. His research interest includes high voltage outdoor insulators, Lightning, Electrical Discharges, Nanodielectrics, Condition MonitoringPower Electronics and Photovoltaic This author is IEEE member.He is reviewer for more than 6 journals in Elsevier and MDPI. He is Gest editor for special issue in Energies journal MDPI.

Dr. Aijie Liu obtained her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen. From 2018 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Haining Tian’s group, at Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently, she is working at Xiamen University as an associate professor. Her research interests are in the field of hierarchical nanomaterials via (macro) molecule self-assembly for sustainable green energy and biomedical applications.

Dr. Pratima Singh is a Research Scientist at Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) where she leads the Center for Air Pollution Studies (CAPS). She has around a decade of experience in research and policy engagement. Her research focuses on urban air quality management by carrying out measurement studies like emission inventories for developing clean air action plans and Policy assessment for clean air. She is actively involved on several platform and initiatives to help understand the challenges of air pollution and its impact to the various stakeholders groups. She holds a PhD in Natural Resources (Energy and Environment) from TERI University, New Delhi. She received the Senior Research Fellowship from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for her doctoral research and is an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, U.K.

Nurettin Cetinkaya received the B.S., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electric and electronics engineering from Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, in 1993,1998, and 2005, respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Konya Technical University, Turkey. He also works as an advisor in Konya organized industrial zone. His research interests include power system planning, smartgrid, energy efficiency, renewable energy, power system economics, and management. He is working on the effects of different variables that concern economic operation, especially in solar power plants. Protection and infrastructure design in power systems are among the main topics of study. He is a referee for many international journals. He received publication awards given by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

Dr. Ashwini Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor (Research Track Faculty) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, SGT University, Gurugram, India. Prior to joining the university, Dr. Kumar has gained 11+ Years of experience holding different academic and Research responsibilities in different organizations. He has completed his research in Optimal Thermohydraulic Performance of Three sides Artificially Roughened Solar Air Heaters at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He received the Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur. He has authored several scientific articles in high Impact Journals. His research contribution includes articles in Artificial Roughness, Heat Transfer, Composites, Solar Air Heaters, Coatings, CFD Analysis, Fins and Flow Analysis and Thermal Optimization Techniques. He has received Best Session Paper Award in International Conferences, 2016 in NIT Patna, and the “Academic Excellence Award” for the session 2018-19 by Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur, during the international conference ETCDWP-II, 2019, 12-14 Feb 2019, Jaipur, India. Dr. Kumar is associated with many Universities, along with that, he is an Editorial Board Member of Reputed Journals, and also a Reviewer of International Journal (SCI & Scopus Index). He has published a total of 96 research items to date, which includes 20 papers in SCI/Scopus, 23 International /national conferences, books, and book chapters with total Google scholar citations of 1260+. He has also patented a no. of work based on a different technical system. Also looks forward to guiding many research scholars often developing his own interest in the field in which he is an expediter. He believes that Science, Engineering, and Technology are advancing at a fast pace, and obsolescence of physical infrastructure, skills, and competence take place rapidly. He is keen on taking steps to improve the existing infrastructure, investment, and intellectual strength wherever they exist and network them so as to utilize them effectively and optimally for meeting the changing needs. Not only does he profess the values of Indian culture but also does practice many of the fundamental principles of humanity and society. While dedicating himself to the cause of creating world-class infrastructure, he has also undertaken many community services in various parts of India out of his quest to contribute more to society. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the chemical engineering department of KTH Institute About my research field: During my PhD studies at Aarhus university of Denmark, I investigated application of low-cost organic redox species in redox flow batteries. The idea was to develop organic-based RFBs with competitive cell potential, energy density, and power density compared to all-vanadium systems. Straight after graduation, I joined the chemical engineering department at KTH as a postdoctoral researcher. My main task was to investigate low-cost and chemically robust hydrocarbon-based ion exchange membranes as an alternative for costly fluorinated Nafion membrane. Currently, I am working as Assistant Professor at the same department and my research is mainly on developing novel electrolytes, electrodes and membranes for three types of flow batteries including inorganic, organic and hybrid.

Seyed Amir Mansouri was born on September 9, 1989 in Ahvaz, Iran. He is an Electrical Engineer (2012) and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering (2015), from the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2020) from the Islamic Azad University. Between 2016 to 2020 he was working with the Islamic Azad University, in Tehran, as part of his PhD. His research interests are smart grids scheduling, virtual power plant scheduling, optimal integration of renewable energy resources, planning and operation of multi-carrier energy systems, designing P2X converters, designing hydrogen-based infrastructures, system decarbonization, smart scheduling via the internet of things (IoT) concept, home energy management system (HEMS), grid-connected electric vehicles (EVs), scheduling of smart charging/battery swap stations, bidding strategy in competitive energy markets, sizing and sizing of energy storage systems, game-theoretic approaches, resilience enhancement, power system reliability enhancement, demand-side management programs, distribution feeder reconfiguration. He also has a strong background in simulation using MATLAB and GAMS software.

Ahmet Duran Şahin finished undergraduate program at Meteorology Department of İstanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1994 and graduated to MSc. and PhD. at Atmospheric Science Program of Science and Technology Institute of ITU in 1996 and 2002 respectively. He also attended a post doctorial research program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada between 2004 and 2005. Because of his high-impact scientific researches, he was awarded by the Research and Technology Council of Turkey, TÜBİTAK in 2006. His main research areas could be divided into two parts, one of them atmospheric sciences-renewable energy sources that include wind energy, solar energy, wind-solar hybrid systems, exergy, climate, climate change and the other one is statistical-mathematical modelling that includes spatial models, temporal models, risk analysis, spatio-temporal models, geostatistic, fuzzy logic and neural networks. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Duran Şahin has been the Head of the Meteorological Engineering Department and the Board Member of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2012. He served as a member of the Board of the Istanbul Technical University Institute of Science and Technology between 2014 and 2020

Prof. Ghada Amer is Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research Faculty of Engineering – Benha University, the President of Centre for Strategic Studies of Science and Technology, and V.P. at Arab Science and Technology Foundation. She holds few more positions within her profession, like the Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre at Benha University, the CEO, and the Co-founder of ASTF innovation Lab, the ex-Head of Electrical Engineering Department at Benha University, and the CEO of the Global Awqaf Research Centre. Because she believes in the importance of R&D and innovation for the community, she was selected in 2016 to be one of the Rolex Enterprise Awards for Innovation Jury members. Also, she was selected from the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) as one of the inspiring stories for women in the STEM field in Rising to the Top Book Volume IV: African Women Engineering Leaders Share Their Journeys to Professional Success. This webinar will feature five co-authors listed below from Rising to the Top Volume IV, set to be published in July 2021. She was named in Jan 2014 as one of the “Top 20 Influential Muslim Women Scientists in the World”, by on Muslim-Science Magazine. And named the "Personality of the Year", by Muslim Science magazine, United Kingdom 2015, Also she ranked the first place as the 50 most prominent leader in entrepreneurship of the Arab woman in 2014 issued by the Sayidaty magazine, and in 2016,2017 she named one of the “the 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2016”, in the field of science and technology, by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. She published about 42 papers in international journals Prof Ghada is an active advocate of socio-economic development that is based on RDI within her country and the region. She worked since 2009 as a volunteer with the Arab Science and Technology Foundation and later joined as a volunteer Manager for Women Programs. For her active participation, Prof. Ghada was elected as a member of the Board of Directors (2011) and then the VP of the Foundation (since 2012). Within her involvement with the ASTF, she developed and led more than twenty projects and programs to support scientific development and entrepreneurship. During the past three years (by fundraising), she was able to raise more than $ 2 million, to support research, innovation, and entrepreneurship activities that aim to create jobs and support the Arab community. She helped to establish 142 startups on innovative ideas from the region.

Alireza Ghasempour has been a faculty member in the Information and Communications Technology department at the University of Applied Science and Technology for more than 10 years. He has extensive experience in research, teaching, and executive positions. His areas of interest include smart grids, Internet of Things, machine learning, deep learning, optimization techniques, and wireless networks. He has published two book chapters, several papers in peer-reviewed journals, IEEE and international conferences.

I am Ramzi RZIG Doctor of Energy Engineering from the National School of Engineers of Monastir from Tunisia. After engineering cycle at the National School of Engineers of Monastir, I did my thesis in heat and mass transfer (Porous Media) in Laboratory of Thermal and Energy Systems Studies. During my professional career, I held the position of Adjunct Faculty at Higher Institute of Sciences and Technology of Environment of Borj Cedria and currently I am a University Assistant in the mechanical department of Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Kef.

Ashkan Sami received the B.S.E.E. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virgina Tech), USA, in 1990, the M.S. degree in computer science-artificial intelligence and robotics from Shiraz University, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering-data engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2006 from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where his Ph.D. work became a Japanese national project and earned him a tenured faculty position at Tohoku University.,He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering with Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, and has been a National Elite's Foundation Professor since 2019s. He has graduated more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students under his supervision. He teaches and conducts multidisciplinary research on data science, applied AI, cyber security, and software engineering. His current research focuses on AI-based system design.

I completed my undergraduate in engineering, electrical and electronics engineering in 2009 from VLB janakiammal college of engineering and technology, Tamilnadu, India. Then in 2011, I pursued my master of engineering with a specialization in power electronics and drives from Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, India. Then, I completed my doctoral degree in electrical engineering in 2020 from Anna University, India. My research areas are design and finite element analysis on special electrical machines such as switched reluctance motor, BLDC motor, PMSM, and synchronous reluctance motor for electric vehicle and drone applications. I have published more than 50 research articles in both conferences and journals. I also published 4 patents, am a lifetime member of ISTE, a society member of IEEE (magnetics and solid-state circuits), and authorized 2 reference books. Now, I am working as an Associate Professor at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (Now called, Mohan Babu University), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Dr. Anteneh WodajeBayeh is currently an assistant professor at Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAIT), School of Chemical and Bio-engineering, where he has been a faculty member since 2012. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2019. He has broad experience in developing nanostructured materials for various energy storage systems such as redox flow batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and organic–inorganic nanohybrids for photovoltaic cells. He received the young excellent project investigator from Ministry of Science and Technology of Ethiopia and Taiwan University Young Scholar Award. He has published 16+ research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented his research work in 8+ international conferences.

Prof. Tawfiq Hussein Elmenfy is working as a Professor of Automatic Control, University of Benghazi. Electrical and Electronics Dept. PhD, Power System Stability and Control. Previously he was as a Chairman of National Board for Technical and Vocational Education, Staff Member at Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Benghazi, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Benghazi. (2014 : 2018) and Head of Consultancy and Researches Office at Faculty of Engineering, University of Benghazi.

Dr. Ahmed FEYDI, Associate with the Department of electrical Engineering, Higher Institute of Technological Studies Tunisia. My skills have focused on decentralized optimal control for interconnected large_scale power systems and stabilizability study since 2014. Also I work in robotics to design autonomous systems using control algorithms which interpret sensory feedback to control actuators that move robots such as autonomous vehicles "Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving Systems (ADS)".