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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.