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PASQUALE DAPONTE was born in Minori (SA), Italy, on March 7, 1957. He obtained his bachelor's degree and master's degree "cum laude" in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from University of Naples, Italy. He is a Full Professor of Electronic Measurements at University of Sannio - Benevento. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Italian Association on Electrical and Electronic Measurements, and Past President of IMEKO. He is member of: Working Group of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Committee N°10 Subcommittee of the Waveform Measurements and Analysis Committee, IMEKO Technical Committee TC-4 “Measurements of Electrical Quantities”, Editorial Board of Measurement Journal, Acta IMEKO and of Sensors. He is Associate Editor of IET Science Measurement & Technology Journal. He is member of the Board of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Naples Charter. He has organised some national or international meetings in the field of Electronic Measurements and European co-operation and he was General Chairman of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conference for 2006, Technical Programme Co-Chair for I2MTC 2015.
He was a co-founder of the IEEE Symposium on Measurement for Medical Applications MeMeA, now, he is the Chair of the MeMeA Steering Committee, memea2018.ieee-ims.org
He is the co-founder of the;
- IEEE Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, www.metroaerospace.org
- IEEE Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, www.metroind40iot.org
- IEEE Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry, www.metroagrifor.org
- IEEE Workshop on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, www.metroarcheo.com
- IMEKO Workshop on Metrology for Geotechnics, www.metrogeotechnics.org
- IEEE Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, www.metrosea.org. - IEEE Workshop on Metrology for Automotive, https://www.metroautomotive.org.
He is involved in some European projects. He has published more than 330 scientific papers in journals and at national and international conferences on the following subjects: Measurements and Drones, ADC and DAC Modelling and Testing, Digital Signal Processing, Distributed Measurement Systems.

He received; - in 1987 from the Italian Society of Ophthalmology the award for the researches on the digital signal processing of the ultrasounds in echo-ophthalmology,
- in 2009 the IEEE Fellowship,
- in 2009 the Laurea Honoris Causa in Electrical Engineering from Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi" of Iasi (Romania),
- the “The Ludwik Finkelstein Medal 2014” from the Institute of Measurement and Control of United Kingdom,
- in 2015, in the framework of Florence Academic Leader Programme, the “Florence Ambassador Award”,
- in May 2018 the “Career Excellence Award” from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society “For a lifelong career and outstanding leadership in research and education on instrumentation and measurement, and a passionate and continuous service, international in scope, to the profession.”,
- in September 2018 the IMEKO Distinguished Service Award,
- in 2020 AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award “For contributions to metrology for aerospace applications”.

Professor Sam ZhangShanyong, FRSC, FTFS, FIoMMM, better known as Sam Zhang, earned his Ph.D. degree in Ceramics in 1991 from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He was a tenured full professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Since January 2018, he joined School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, China. He serves as the founding and current director of the Centre for Advanced Thin Films and Devices(http://fmae.swu.edu.cn/s/fmaenew/yjzx/). Prof. Zhang’s research covers Energy Films and Coatings, Biological Materials and Hard Coatings. He has published 13 books and over360peer reviewed international journal papers with 31.3 citations per article and h-index: 56 and total citation of over 11,000 times as at 31 Oct 2021.(https://publons.com/researcher/2817766/sam-zhang/). His Materials Characterization Techniques has been adopted as core textbook by more than 30 American and European universities. His recent books were published at CRC Press in October 2020: Sam Zhang (ed),Materials for Energy, and in August 2021: Protective Thin Coatings Technology and Functional Thin Films. Currently Prof. Zhang is working on 3 new books to be published next year: “Materials for Devices”, edited by Sam Zhang, to be published by CRC press, 2022, “Materials in Advanced Manufacturing”, edited by Yingquan Yu and Sam Zhang, to be published by CRC press, 2022 and another 4-volume “Materials for Energy Handbook” in Chinese to be published by Chongqing University Press, 2022.

Dr Ruxandra Botez obtained her Aerospace Engineering degree from the Faculty of Aerospace Design in Bucharest, Romania in 1984. Ruxandra obtained her Master in Applied Sciences degree from École Polytechnique in 1989 and her PhD degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1994. She worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University until 1995. Dr Botez has Aerospace Engineering experience acquired in two Aerospace companies: IAR-Brasov in Romania (1984-1987), and Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal, Canada (1995-1997). Dr Ruxandra Mihaela Botez is Full Professor, and Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE at the École de technologie supérieure ÉTS in Montreal, Canada since 1998. Dr Botez is the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011. Dr Botez has graduated on her research projects more than 264 Bachelor’s internship students, 128 Master’s in Engineering students and 20 PhD Students. She is Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA and Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society Fellow. Dr Botez and her team work in collaboration with Aerospace companies, research institutes and universities in Canada (Bombardier Aerospace, Bell Helicopter Textron, CAE Inc., CMC Electronics-Esterline, IAR-NRC), in Italy (University of Naples, University of Bologna and CIRA), in Romania (INCAS, Military Technical Academy), in Mexico (Hydra Technologies), in Brazil (UNESP), in the USA (NASA) and in other countries. Dr Botez is Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin, edited by the National Institute for Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli INCAS in Romania. She and her team have published more than 500 scientific publications, including 160 journal papers, 300 conference proceedings papers and 7 book chapters; they have won more than 50 awards, and their research was mentioned in more than 100 media articles.

Prof.Ing. Václav Uruba, CSc. (born 1957) He obtained his degree Ing. In 1981, Fac. Mech. Eng., CTU Prague, Applied Mechanics,CSc. (Ph.D.) in 1991, Academy of Sciences, Applied Mechanics,Doc. (associated prof.) in 2007, Fac. Mech. Eng., CTU Prague, Applied Mechanics and Prof. (2014) Fac. Mech. Eng., UWB Plzen, Mechanical Engineering. He was engaged in the Academy of Sciences of the CR, Institute of Thermomechanics, Prague asPhD student 1984-1987, scientific worker 1987-1995,Head of research Department of Fluid Dynamics 1995-2011,Head of Laboratory of Turbulent Shear Flows since 2011 and Professor, University of West Bohemia Plzen, since 2014. International experience: postdoc stay at CEAT, Université de Poitiers, France 1993 – 1 year, research stay Queens University, Belfast, UK 2007 – 2 months. His interests include theory of turbulence, stability of flow, dynamical systems, laminar/turbulent transition, experimental techniques for turbulent flows (hot-wire anemometry, PIV), experiments in situ (e.g. in steam turbines) in particular and fluid mechanics in general. Publication record is represented more than 450 research publications, including over 50 impacted journal papers and several hundreds conference contributions. He gives lectures in Czech Technical University, University of West Bohemia, Charles University and Technical University of Czestochowa. He was responsible of many research projects: 7 Czech basic research, 3 Czech applied research and 8 international projects, including 1 FP7 project.

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Dr X.J. Jing received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence & Control, and PhD degree in Robotics both from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China. He also achieved the PhD degree in nonlinear systems and signal processing from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. He is now a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Before joining in CityU, he was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, working on biomedical signal processing, and thereafter an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests are generally related to Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration, and Control focusing on theory and methods for employing nonlinear benefits in engineering, including nonlinear frequency domain methods, nonlinear system identification or signal processing, vibration control, robust control, sensor technology, energy harvesting, nonlinear fault diagnosis or information processing, bio-inspired systems and methods, and robotics etc. Dr Jing received 2016 IEEE SMC Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award for the robust control theory in vehicle suspension systems; The passive anti-vibration structure developed by his group received 2017 TechConnect Innovation Award, recognized as the top 20% of all submitted technologies as ranked by the TechConnect Corporate & Investment Partner Committee, which was also reported in many local media press including a specific interview in a TVB program in 2017; He was honored with the 2017 EASD Senior Research Prize in the area of development of methodologies for structural dynamics due to “his important contributions for the analysis and design of nonlinear systems”, awarded by the European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD), which is an important and prestigious once-3-year event in Europe; The innovative technology BIAVE (bio-inspired anti-vibration exoskeleton for operating hand-held demolition tools) invented by his R&D team received the 2017 Hong Kong CIC Construction Innovation Award (The First Prize in Construction Safety, one of the three First Prizes among more than 120 submissions), which is an important well-recognized once-2-year event in HK with international peers as award committee members each time. Dr Jing currently serves as Associate Editors of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He also served as Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics during 2015-2020. He was the lead editor of a special issue on “Employing nonlinear benefits in engineering” published in the archive journal MSSP in 2019, lead editor of special issue on “Next generation of vibration control exploiting nonlinearities” to be published in MSSP in 2022, and served as the general chair of ICANDVC2021 Zhuhai, China. Dr Jing is a Senior IEEE member, and actively participate different R&D and scholar activities serving industry government programmes and international conferences.

Professor. Lee received his Ph.D. from Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech. U.S. in 1991. He finished M.S. and B.S in Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Currently he is a Professor and Director, Konkuk Aerospace Design∙Airworthiness Research Institute, KADA, a Center of Excellence, Ministry of Education, Korea. He served as the president of the Korean Society of Aeronautics and Space Sciences, KSAS, a major academic society in Aerospace in Korea, and served/serving as a vice president or president of several academic societies including the Innovative Defense Acquisition Society-Korea, IDEAS-K, KSAA, and KOSSE, KSCM. He is the corresponding author or co-author of over 600 publications including 13 patents and 74 top international journal papers. His research interests are Urban Air Mobility, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, MDO, Aerodynamic Design and Optimization, Aerospace Vehicle Design for Aircraft, Space Launcher, UAV/Drones, Digital Twin/Flight simulation and Artificial Intelligence Applications for Aerospace Vehicles. He received several honors and awards in his academic career. He has been serving as the Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, General Chair of International Conferences, the technical program chair, and the symposium chair for various international conferences including APISAT, ACSMO, KSAS, KSAA. He served as a Specialized Member at Defense Acquisition Committee, Ministry of National Defense, Korea and at Policy Planning Committee / Business Committee, DAPA, MND, Korea.

Giancarlo Genta got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1971 and one in Aerospace Engineering in 1972 at the Politecnico di Torino. Then he became assistant professor of Machine Design at the same University. He taught a course in Astronautical Propulsion and then he lectured in Motor Vehicle Mechanics. In 1983 he became Associate Pr ofessor of Design of Aircraft Engines at the School of Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino and then he became full Professor in Machine Design. From 1989 to 1995 he was head of the Department of Mechanics at Politecnico di Torino. From 1998 to 2015 he coordinated the PhD course in Mechatronics at the PhD School of Politecnico di Torino. He gave courses in Italy and abroad in the context of different programs for Developing Countries in Kenya, Somalia, India and at the International Labour Office. From 2003 to 2018 was responsible for the courses in Automotive Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. Since 2018 he is Professor Emeritus at the Politecnico di Torino. Since 1999 he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Torino and since 2006 he is a member (corresponding member since 2001) of the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2013 he received the International Yangel Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the development of space sciences and technologies and, in the same year, received the Engineering Science Award for outstanding achievement in engineering science of the International Academy of Astronautics. He performed research, mainly in the field of machine design, in particular dealing with static and dynamic structural analysis. He worked in the field of magnetic suspension systems and in general of the dynamics of controlled systems. He was one of the promoters of the Interdepartmental Laboratory of Mechatronics which works in the areas of magnetic bearings (active, passive, and superconducting) and mobile robots. Since 1996 he deals with space systems and space robotics. Since 2012 he heads the IAA Study Group on Human Mars Exploration (SG 3.16, and then SG 3.27). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Starshot Project. He participated to the design and construction of experimental equipment that are currently part of the Laboratory of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Politecnico di Torino. He is the author of over 350 scientific papers covering various sectors of mechanical design, published in scientific journals or presented at conferences, and of 4 patents. He is the author of 30 books, including textbooks, research monographies and popular science books. He is also the author of 4 science fiction novels, published in Italian and English

Dr. Novella gained his PhD degree in 2009 at Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain, where he has a permanent position as Associate Professor in the Department of Thermal and Reciprocating Engines. From year 2009 he is combining his teaching activities in the field of thermal engines with his research responsibilities focused on advanced powertrain concepts for future SI and CI internal combustion engines, including the use of hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels in transportation applications, by combining experimental and modelling activities. Prof. Novella has participated in more than 40 projects funded by public institutions or by top automotive companies, and the quality of his research is supported by more than 70 publications in scientific journals and 30 contributions of the most relevant international conferences. He is also associate editor of the prestigious International Journal of Engine Research.

Professor Caishan Liu received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1997.He is now a full professor and the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China. His current research interests are generally related to Multibody System Dynamics, Contact/impact and Friction, Stability of Nonlinear Dynamics, Granular Physics, Bicycle dynamics, as well as the dynamics and control problems in various aerospace engineering applications, including vibration suppression of flexible structure, Aircraft landing dynamics and control, Separation mechanism dynamics, etc. Dr Liu has publishedover 100 peer reviewed papers. He currently serves as the Associate Editors of Multibody System Dynamics (MBS), and Int. J. Mechanical System Dynamics (IJMSD), the editor board of Int. J. Mechanical Science. He also served as editor member of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) during 2016-2020. Dr Liuhas been serving as the Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, General Chair of International Conferences, the technical program chair, and the symposium chair for various international conferences. He has presided over a number of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and enterprise research projects.

Prof. Dr. Katarina Monkova was inaugurated in the field of mechanical engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech Republic). She completed her engineering studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University in Košice Slovakia and graduated as the best student of the year (1/187) with the Rector's Award for excellent results achieved during her studies with a rating of 1.00 (and all exams for the first attempt). Since then, she has been working continuously at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies of the Technical University in Košice with a seat in Prešov, Slovakia, and she currently works as a professor in the field of Production Engineering. Her theoretical knowledge and extensive activities for industrial companies allow her to combine scientific and professional activities in the field of design of production technologies and technical equipment with areas of interest, such as metamaterials or simulation of technical components. She is a member of many international scientific organizations (ESIS, SCIEI, IAENG, WASET, IACSIT, SAISE, etc.); member, co-chair and chair of the scientific committees at many domestic and foreign conferences, as well as a member of evaluation commissions and graduate committees. Katarina Monkova is a member of the Sectoral Verification and Evaluation Panels for Technical Information Sciences and Council for Research, Development and Innovation at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic; and she is like the only woman a member of the "Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Research Team (AMTRteam)" - Top Team of Slovakia in the Mechanical Engineering field. She is also a member of editorial boards and a reviewer of articles in many distinguished journals. During her many years of work at FMT TU Košice, she has been a responsible researcher and a member of the teams of many international and domestic projects. At present, she is an author of more than 350 publications at home and abroad, the main author of 9 monographs and 9 university textbooks and scripts.

Dr. Aditya Baraskar is a Chief Scientist and Mission Designer for the world's first Laser-based Debris removal project at SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation Japan. Director and Co-founder of Entropy Research and Development Pvt ltd India. With a postdoctoral experience at Kyushu University Japan, on a debris evolution model and searched for small debris in the near-Earth environment using Tomo-e-Gozen system (an AI integrated optical telescope). He completed Dr. Eng. from Kyushu University Japan on Energy Orbit - a small Space Solar Power Satellite constellation in Earth Orbit to transmit and rent Wireless power to nearby Satellite and space objects by Laser. Having interset in space policy and law, he completed a postgraduate diploma in GIS and Space Law from NALSAR University. He pursued a Master of Space System and Rocket Engineering from Moscow aviation Institute Russia and defended projects under MAI and NPO Lavochkin, a Russian aerospace company (ROSCOSMOS). A Bachelor of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from North Maharastra University Jalgaon India. He worked with multiple space institutes and agencies in space-faring nations to develop futuristic technology. He designed small satellites for debris detection and communication. He is the inventor and P. I. for the Energy orbit for laser power transmission system in space; the project is awarded by S-Booster 2021. He started multiple startups and invested in microsatellite designing, research & development company, agriculture, fishery automation laboratory, and Parking management system.

Associate Professor Lilong Pang received his PhD degree in Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics in 2012 from Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China. Since then, he has been working continuously at the faculty of Advanced Nuclear Energy Center in Institute of Modern Physics, CAS. He was honored as Young Scholar of West Light Talent Program, CAS. His current research interests are generally related to Radiation damage effects in nuclear materials, Friction and wear, Granular flow spallation target, Wear-resistant coatings, Liquid metal corrosion-resistant coatings. Dr.Pangis actively participating a new nuclear energy project, the industry government program-- China initiative Accelerator Driven Subcritical system (CiADS). He designed and upgraded some experimental equipments used for CiADS. He is currently preparing and building the Special Coating Research Laboratory. He was responsible of many research projects: 2National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1Province Natural Science Foundation, 1West Light Talent Program, CAS. By now, he is the author of more than 60 publications at home and abroad, and of 5 patents. He also serves as an article reviewer for some eminent journals.

Dr. Sun is an Associate Professor at Wuhan University. She received her Bachelor degree and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of Beijing in 2014 and 2020, respectively. Dr. Sun concentrated on the deterministic modeling of micro-contact and macro-dynamic of mechanical structure interface, ranging from bolted joint to gear meshing. She is also an instructor of machines and mechanisms theory (undergraduate course in WHU).