MECHMEET2023

Anthony M. Waas is the Richard A Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he holds the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair in Aerospace Engineering. He is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that he was the Boeing Egtvedt Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. His current research interests are: robotically manufactured lightweight structures, computational modeling of composite structures, 3D printed structures, damage tolerance of structures, affordable textile composites, and data science applications in modeling of materials and structures. Professor Waas was the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate Chair Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan, from 1988 to 2014, prior to joining UW in January 2015. He assumed his current position in Fall 2018. Professor Waas is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Society for Composites (ASC), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) and the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK. He is a recipient of several best paper awards, the 2016 AIAA/ASME SDM award, the AAM Jr. Research Award, the ASC Outstanding Researcher Award, and several distinguished awards from the University of Michigan, including the Stephen S. Attwood award for Excellence in Engineering, one of the highest honors for an Engineering faculty member at the University of Michigan. He received the AIAA-ASC James H. Starnes, jr. Award, 2017, for seminal contributions to composite structures and materials, and for mentoring students and other young professionals. In 2017, Professor Waas was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and in 2018 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also the recipient of the AIAA ICME Prize, 2020, and the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal, 2020. Recently, Prof. Waas was elected to the National Academies Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. Waas was also awarded to present the AIAA Dryden Lecture in Research in 2022 at the AIAA Scitech Conference.

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, metamaterials, structural health monitoring, and wind energy, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published 277 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and holds nine U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research.

Sands studied NC State, Stanford and Columbia Universities in Mechanical Engineering. He later joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty of Cornell University. He received his PhD degree in 2007 from the Naval Postgraduate School in Astronautical Engineering. After one-year postdoctoral formal graduate studies offered by Columbia University, he served in faculty positions of increasing responsibilities culminating at Chief Academic Officer, Dean, and Associate Provost. He has published more than 50 research articles, book chapters, and books, garnering five major publication awards. He shares one U.S. patent award.

Mahmoud Shafik is an international expert who has made a personal distinction and international leadership recognition, in the field of Intelligent Mechatronics Systems and Digital Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience in Intelligent Systems, Hardware and Software, AI, IoT, Industrial 4.0, 3D Smart Sensors and Actuators for Autonomous Vehicle, Machine Learning, Robotic Systems, Machine Vision, Steer-by-wire, Innovation for Sustainable Engineering, Control and instrumentation, Cancer Treatment using CVD Diamond Radio Therapy Technology, Information Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired people, Chronic Diseases ICT Technological Solutions, Assisted Living Technology, AD-HOC Wireless Technology, TeleHealth, Telecare, Climate Change, Electro-Rheological Fluid Micro Actuators Technologyand Software Tools.Shafik has also a number of patents in these areas of industrial applied research and sustainable technology. Shafik has been chairing and leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission, and UKResearch Councils, of a budget of several millionsof pounds and have made a great economic and social impact in his area of expertise in across the world. His research work has brought many innovative outcomes that have been commercially explored by several Small to Medium (SME’s) and large enterprise (LE’s) organisations. This includes and not limited to: Intersurgical Ltd – UK, Veslatec Oy – Finland, Semelab plc. – UK, PTW Freiburg – Germany, Neotek – France, Kirchmayer Handel & Consulting GmbH – Austria, Spectrum Telecom Installations Ltd – Ireland, Diamond Materials GmbH – Germany, Fireworks International Ltd – UK, PirotecniaOscense SA – Spain, Total Motion Systems Ltd –UK, Micromech Limited – UK, Smart Technology Ltd – UK, Audi -Germany, Ford – UK, Schlumberger – France, Nissan – Japan and Rolls Royce - UK. Shafik is the Senior lead academic of College of Science and Engineering collaboration programs. He has made an outstanding contribution to the College and University, as a whole. This is where he has successfully contributed to the vision and business plans to the new research and enterprise foundation (IISE) environment. He has also in confidence contributed to the accreditation of a number of Derby engineering and technology programmes…etc. Shafik has been supervising and external examiners for several PhD, and MSc research students across worldwide.

Qiang Guo, works as an associate Professor in Henan Polytechnic University, Graduated from Dalian University of Technology in 2013. His research fields include CAD, Milling technology in the machining process and Robotic machining process. His research works has been published in the journal of “International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture”, “Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing”, “Chinese Journal of Aeronautics”，“Journal of Manufacturing Systems，“Precision Engineering-Journal of the International Societies for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology”, “Science China Technological Sciences”, etc. The title of his talk will be “Surface topography in the milling process”.

Wadhah Hussein Aldoori is a Mechanical Engineer and Assistant Professor at Tikrit University in Iraq. He received his BS and MS from the Tikrit University (Iraq) and PhD from Sudan University of Science and Technology (Sudan) in Mechanical Engineering/Power. He taught classes at Foundation of Technical Education, Samarra University and Tikrit University. His interesting researches in the field of Heat Transfer, Heat Exchangers, Power Plants, Internal Combustion Engines, Energy System. He has several published papersin these areas.

SANDERSON CÉSAR MACÊDO BARBALHO received the bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and the master’s degree in operations management from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, and the Ph.D. degree in new product development from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2006. He is currently a Professor with the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and a former Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute.

Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 120 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak in three year of his retirement, 2020 and 2022. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Maher Yahya Salloom is a Mechanical Engineer and Assistant Professor at the University of Baghdad/ Iraq. He received his BSc. and MSc. from University of Baghdad (Iraq) and Ph.D. from University Sains Malaysia (USM) in Mechanical Engineering/ Control. He taught classes for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Mechatronics Engineering Department and Automated Manufacturing Engineering Department/Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering/ University of Baghdad. He supervised many MSc. Students. As well as he taught classes for undergraduate students at the Department of Production Engineering and Metallurgy/ University of Technology. His interesting researches are in the field of Hydraulic and Pneumatic Control systems, Automation Systems, Robotics, CAD/CAM, and 3D Printer technology. He has several published papers in these areas.

Qi Zhou is an academic researcher from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topic(s): Welding & Surrogate model. The author has an h-index of 19, co-authored 103 publication(s) receiving 1177 citation(s). Previous affiliations of Qi Zhou include Georgia Institute of Technology.

Fatima Zahra BAGHLI is currently a professor in the Department of Mechatronics at the Higher School of Technology, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal Morocco, where she has been since 2017. She received her PhD in Mechatronics /Robotics from Abdelmalek Essaadi University. She received her Master’s Degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences, Tetuan, Morocco. Her research includes mechatronic and robotic system modeling and control.

Ali Akgül is full professor in Siirt university, Art and Science Faculty, Department of Mathematics. He is head of the Mathematics department. He made a big contribution on fractional calculus and numerical methods. He has more than 250 research papers in very good journals. He has given many talks as invited speaker in many international conferences.

Mohammad Abdulaziz Jum’ah AL-Tarawneh was born in Al Karak, Jordan in 1963.He received a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering/Thermal Power in 1987 from Yarmouk University in Jordan. He enrolled in Royal Maintenance Corps in the same year in Jordan and served there for 23 years in which he received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering/Thermal Sciences in 2004 from University of Jordan and he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering/Thermal Sciences in 2008 from University of Jordan. He is now a full-time professor of Mechanical Engineering in the mechanical engineering department at The Hashemite University since 2010 and he served multiple roles such head of mechanical engineering department, head of allied engineering sciences department, dean’s assistant for industrial affairs and he’s currently in the position of vice dean of the college of engineering. He has numerous publications in well respected journals in the fields of heat transfer in porous media, refrigeration and air conditioning, thermodynamic cycles, solar energy and fluid mechanics.

Xueguan Song is currently a Professor and the group head of the Design of Major Equipment at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China.Dr. Song received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from DUT in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was a Researcher Associate in Newcastle University, UK, from 2012 to 2014. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, two books and two book chapters in various research fields including engineering optimization, computational fluid dynamics simulation and digital twins. His research interest includes multidisciplinary design optimization, surrogate modeling, AI and digital twin.

Zakaria TAGNAMAS received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cadi Ayyad Morocco, in 2021. His specialty is energetics and process engineering. His research fields include drying, food science and renewable energies. His research works have been published in several international journals.

M. S. BHASKAR received the bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India in 2011 and a master’s degree in power electronics and drives from the Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT University, India in 2014, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Johannesburg, South Africa in 2019. He is with Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was a Post-Doctoral researcher with his Ph.D. tutor in the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark in 2019. He worked as a Researcher Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar in 2018-2019. He worked as a Research Student with Power Quality Research Group, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Aug/Sept 2017. He has authored 150 plus scientific papers with particular reference to DC/DC and DC/AC converter, and high gain converter, and received the Best Paper Research Paper Awards from IEEE-GPECOM’20, IEEE-CENCON’19, IEEE-ICCPCT’14, IET-CEAT’16. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, Industrial Application, and Power and Energy, Robotics and Automation, Vehicular Technology Societies, Young Professionals, various IEEE Councils, and Technical Communities. He is a reviewer member of various international journals and conferences, including IEEE and IET. He received the IEEE ACCESS award “Reviewer of Month” in Jan 2019 for his valuable and thorough feedback on manuscripts, and for his quick turnaround on reviews. He is the Associate Editor of IET Power Electronicsand Topic Editor of MDPI Electronics, Switzerland.

Jesús U. Liceaga-Castro. (BEng’85–MSc’88–PhD’95) was born in México City, México. He received the B. Eng. Degree in electronic engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, México, in 1985; the M.Sc. degree in automatic control from the CINVESTAV-IPN, México in 1988 and, the Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 1995. He was a full-time professor and leader of the Electric Machine Control Research Group at the ITESM-CEM, México. He is currently a full-time professor and head of the Process Control Research Group in the Department of Electronics at UAM-Azcapotzalco, México.

Riadh Bourzami completed his PhD from Strasbourg University-France was earned in 2014 after obtaining a Master's degree from the European School of Chemistry Polymer and Materials (ECPM) in 2010. I have worked as a teacher- researcher at the University of Sétif Algeria for more than ten years. In 2021, I received my Research Direction Accreditation. I really oversee a multidisciplinary research team that is aiming to develop innovative materials for water remediation based on adsorption and advanced oxidation processes. We also work in the area of molecular chemistry, designing and developing novel multifunctional molecules with practical uses. There have been more than 47 publications in these two fields.

He is born in Mansoura, Egypt. Obtained B.Sc. & M.Sc. degrees in Physics at Mansoura University, Egypt, and Ph.D. degree at Maine Univ., USA. Granted the AMIDEAST-Peace Fellowship, USA in 1983. Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK in 1994 (British Council Research Grant). Now, head of the group of theoretical solid state physics (GTSSP) at Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura Univ., Egypt. Interested in band structure calculations, optical and electronic properties of materials (quantum wells, dots, wires). Coauthor of book: Advances in Condensed Matter and Materials, Nova Publishers, Volume 10 , 2011 2nd quarter. He was teaching many Physics courses for undergraduate and graduate levels at UAE Univ., Khalifa Bin Zayed Air college, UAE, and Taief Univ., Saudi Arabia. He is still teaching Physics courses and conducting scientific research at Mansoura Univ., Egypt. He has published many publications and attended a lot of international conferences.

Jaouad BENHAMOU is a Ph.D in physics and engineering. His specialty is mechanics and energetics. His thesis topic is the application of the lattice Boltzmann method to the study of waves propagation in fluids. He works in particular on 2D and 3D simulations of acoustic waves and their interaction with thermal convection.

Qinyuan Zheng is an engineer and a scholar. He has published some papers in the field of artificial intelligence, and his research interests include image recognition, natural language processing, etc.

Dhiren Kumar Behera is currently working as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at state owned Government Engineering College named as Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology(IGIT), Sarang, Odisha, India and in addition he was the elected member of the Board of Governors of IGIT from 2016-18. He did his PhD in Engineering from prestigious University named as Jadavpur University, Kolkata and his master degree from University College of Engineering(now VSSUT), Burla. He did his graduation from Visvesvarya Regional College of Engineering now National Institute of Technology(NIT), Nagpur in Mechanical Engineering. He had presented his paper in different parts of country as well as chaired many conferences. He had too presented and chaired in international conferences abroad. His paper has appeared in Springer-verlag, Inderscience, and Elsevier, IGI Global. He is working in the area of Industrial Engineering & Management, scheduling, Decision Science, FMS, Reliability, Quality Engineering and soft computing & Powder Metallurgy. He has teaching experience of more than 24 years. He had delivered many keynote address,Resource Persons,Invited talks/Session Chairs in different parts of reputed University/Institutes. He did his schooling from Sainik School, Bhubaneswar. He is also editorial member as well reviewer of many Journals. He is also co-authors with many foreign Professors of reputed Institute/Universities outside India. He is the life member of many academics organisations such as ISTE, IE (India), Odisha Bigyan Congress and many others. Besides above he had also delivered an invited technical talk in DD TV channels. He is one of the 8 authors/ reseachers from IGIT Sarang whose name appears in AD Rankings for Scientist and one among two authors from Mechanical Engineering Department of the Institute(IGIT).

Eugen Rusu received a diploma in Naval Architecture (1982) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering(1997). Between 1999 and 2004, he worked as a post-doc fellow at the at Hydrographical Institute of the Portuguese Navy, where he was responsible for wave modelling and provided environmental support for some major situations such as: the accident of the M/V Prestige (2002) and the NATO exercises Unified Odyssey (2002) and ‘Swordfish’ (2003). Eugen Rusu worked as a consulting Scientist at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spezia, Italy (2005),having modelling coastal waves and surf zone processes as main tasks. Starting in 2006, in parallel with his activity as professor at the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati, he has been working as a professor collaborator at CENTEC (Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering at University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2012, he has also acted as an expert for the European Commission. Eugen Rusu has published more than 150 works in the fields of renewable energy and marine engineering and he received awards including Doctor Honoris Causa (2015) at the Maritime University of Constanta, Romania Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Renewable Energy (2015) and Ocean Engineering (2016) journals; and Top 1% World Reviewers in the field of engineering (2018 and 2019). He is also the President of the Council of the Doctoral Schools in Galati University and of the Romanian National Commission of Mechanical Engineering. Since 2018, he has been a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, the highest level scientific and cultural forumin Romania.

Mehmet Emir Koksal is a Visiting Professor at the Chair Mathematics of Systems Theory in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente and he is also a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the Ondokuz Mayis University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey in 2009. After receiving his Ph.D., he studied as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne between 2009-2010. In 2014, he passed the exam held by The Presidency of the Inter-University Council of Turkey and received the title of Associate Professor in Mathematics. His research interests are in systems and control theory, differential equations, and numerical analysis. The main focus is on the development and analysis of commutativity conditions of time-varying systems, feedback systems, decomposition and transitivity properties of commutativity, and applications of commutativity in physical systems using differential and difference equations. He also studies ordinary and partial differential equations, their numerical solution methods, and mathematical modeling and analysis of various engineering problems using differential equations. His research has been published in top international journals. He has received numerous grants and awards. He reviewed over 200 manuscripts for 60 different international peer-reviewed journals and 40 different international conferences. His research has been mainly supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In this field, he has led two national projects, one of which was awarded a project performance award. He has been a keynote speaker, invited speaker and a member of the organizing and scientific committees of many well-known international conferences.

Miklós Zrínyi is a currently a professor at Semmelweis University, Hungary. He has completed his diploma in chemistry at 1975 at L. Eötvös University, Hungary. Later on he joined as a Ordinary Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He wrote 4 books (in Hungarian), 11 chapters in various books (in English, Japanese and Chinese) more than 350 papers and articles in scientific journals, 6 patents Hirsch index : 46

Mustapha Elyaqouti was born in Agadir, Morocco, in 1984. He received the technical University degree (DUT) in Electrical Engineering from the High School of Technologies of Agadir (EST Agadir), in 2006. He received his BSc degree in physics and a post graduate degree in Materials Engineering and energetic environment from Ibn Zohr University, in 2010 and 2012. PhD Electrical Engineering and Renewable energies at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco in 2017. Currently member of Laboratory of Materials, signals, systems and physical modeling and working as habilitate professor at Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir since 2018. His research focuses on the thematic of Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energies.

Hayat EL BAAMRANI is a Ph.D. student in thermal and energetics. Her thesis deals with the numerical and experimental study of liquid film evaporation flowing in a vertical plate. She obtained her Master's degree in Energy Efficiency and Building Control in 2016 from the National School of Applied Sciences of Agadir, Morocco. My research activities focus on the phase change phenomenon, heat and mass transfer, and energy efficiency in buildings. In addition to research work, I have been actively involved in teaching.

Tasawar Abbas is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics department at the University of Wah. He received his doctorate degree in applied mathematics from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Abbas has numerous publications in well-reputed journals to his credit. His specialization is the Numerical and theoretical Analysis and Simulations of the differential equations arising in different fields of applied sciences.