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Ralph M. Kennel was born in 1955 in 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 in 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 an active 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 a Professor of Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). From 2008 until his retirement in 2022 he was a Professor of 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 a Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS) as well as Vice President of 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 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 a “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 the 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.

H. Bulent Ertan received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1971 and 1973 respectively from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Leeds, the UK in 1977. He directed many industry-supported projects since 1977. He led the Intelligent Energy Conversion Group at TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council) Information Technologies and Electronics Research Institute (BILTEN) in Ankara Turkey, between 1999-2006. He was an executive committee member of the Center for Wind Energy, METU, and also director of the Electromechanics laboratory between 2011-2017. Prof. Ertan was chairman of the Mustafa Parlar Education and Research Foundation in 2000 and he was a member of the executive board of this foundation until 2016. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers so far. He is co-editor of two books entitled “Modern Electrical Derives”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 2000 (NATO ASI series) and ”Transformers: Analysis Design and Measurement” (CRC Press, 2013). Prof. Ertan is the holder of 6 national and international patents. He received the IEE Overseas Premium award in 1993 and an IEEE award in 2014, for his contributions to the IEEE standard “Trial-use guide for testing permanent magnet machines”. Professor Ertan is the founder of the Aegean International Conference on Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (ACEMP). Prof. Ertan is a member of the Turkish Chamber of Electrical Engineers and member of IET (UK) and a senior member of IEEE. He is currently the Mechatronics Engineering Department chair at Atılım University.

KA Folly (M’05, SM’10) received his BSc and MSc Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he worked at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include power system stability, control, and optimization, HVDC modeling, grid integration of renewable energy, application of computational intelligence to power systems, smart grid, and power system resilience. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), a senior member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the South African IEE (FSAIEE).

Rainer Bachmann mastered physics in the University RWTH Aachen. He became responsible for software-based process automation in KRUPP steel plants and led international projects. Later at THYSSEN STEEL, he became head of operations and software development of the overall order processing for sales and production. In 1994 he became CIO in a major, international mining and drilling company of the THYSSEN group and then headed IT and Innovation of DEMINEX – later: Veba Oil & Gas -, at that time the largest German E+P company and operating on a worldwide level. He became a partner in the internal management and strategy consultancy of the RWE group. At RWE Effizienz in 2010 he became responsible for the Global Business Development for E-Mobility. In 2012 he returned as an executive board member to management and strategy consultancy, focusing on the utilities, DSOs for electrical grids, and e-mobility working among others for major automotive OEMs, international telecom companies, and mobility services providers. Since 2017 he was the CIO at E.ON in the e-mobility business. He was a member of various workgroups at the Federal Government and the relevant associations in the challenges of the energy transition and led an EU Horizon-2020 funded research project. Since February 2021 he returned as CEO to an international management and strategy consultancy focusing on sustainability, energy management, digitization of the energy transition, smart cities and grids, and e-mobility. He is a member of the Mobility Alliance at the EU Technology Chamber and a member of the EU Senate for Technology and Commerce.

Karlheinz Blankenbach has three decades of experience in displays and LEDs. From 1988 until 1995 he was with AEG-MIS (a Mercedes subsidiary) in Germany, developing display electronics, e-signage LCDs, and software. In 1995 he was appointed to full professor at Pforzheim University, Germany, where he founded the university’s Display Lab. His main R&D activities are (automotive) LED and display topics such as optical measurements, display systems, evaluations, HMI, as well as display & LED hardware and software. Karlheinz is founding member of the ISELED alliance, a professional network of auotmotive RGB LEDs and member of Society for Information Display’s program subcommittee "Automotive/Vehicular Displays and HMI Technologies".

Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at the University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient of 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han is the winner 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is a 1% highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.

Dr. Daoud is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his PhD in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Daoud’s current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to find storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modelling and design of compatible flow batteries. He has received international renown and several awards for his pioneering research on wearable solar self-cleaning and kinetic energy harvesting technologies. His research has featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews by major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015) and SCMP (2017). He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronics and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Power Sources Advances.

Len Gelman, Ph.D., Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation) joined Huddersfield University as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring, and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines, and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than250 publications, 17 patents, and is Co-Editor of 12Springer books. He is Fellow of British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR), Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal “Electronics”, the International Journal “Sensors”, the International Journal “Energies”, the International Journal “Insight”, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research and the International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing. He was Chair, First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of ICNDT and EFNDT and Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring. Len made 42 plenary keynotes at major international conferences and more than 100 invited lectures and seminars in the UK, USA, France, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, India, and Israel during the period 1996-2019. He was Visiting Professor at ten Universities abroad. Len received two Rolls-Royce (UK) Awards for Innovation, COMADIT Prize (by British Institute of NDT) for significant contribution through research/development in condition monitoring, Oxford Academic Health Science Network Award, William Smith Prize by UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and USA Navy Award. During his time at Cranfield, Len has developed technologies that have been field trialed in applications ranging from aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, steam turbines, composite materials, and centrifugal compressors. He has managed as the Principal Investigator contributions to multiple EU funded programs, UK DTI programs (4 grants), multiple EPSRC grants, Royal Society grant, USA National Academy of Sciences grant, USA National Research Council grant, and multiple industrial contracts, including multiple contracts with Rolls-Royce (6 contracts), contracts with SKF, Shell, Scottish Southern Energy (two contracts), Caterpillar (the USA, two contracts), London Underground (three contracts) and Cranfield Boeing Centre of Excellence (3 contracts). Before joining Cranfield University, Len was the Principal Investigator of USA International Science Foundation grant, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation grants (two grants), USA MacArthur Foundation grant, Israel Lady Davis grant, and Italian Landau Centro Volta grant. Len was •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project Monitur •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project Indgear •the Technical Manager of EU Framework FP7 project PileInspect •the Technical Manager of UK DTI project Sustain •the Coordinator of EPSRC project Len is a reviewer of the following funding bodies: EPSRC, the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, Belgium, German Research Foundation, Germany, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, China, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, Scotland and National Research Foundation, South Africa.

Paul Grunow completed his Ph.D. at the age of 30 years from Technical University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and postdoctoral studies from the COPPE/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the general manager of Trinity Solarbeteiligungen GmbH, an investment company in renewable energies. Before, he co-founded three companies in the area of photovoltaics based in Berlin, i.e. Solon, Q-Cells, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals.

Matthias Preindl received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua, Italy, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and information technology from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the Ph.D. degree in energy engineering from the University of Padua, in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively. He is currently Associate Professor of Power Electronic Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, USA. Prior to joining Columbia University in 2016, he was an R&D Engineer of Power Electronics and Drives at Leitwind AG, Italy (2010-2012), a Post Doctoral Research Associate with the McMaster Institute for Automotive Research and Technology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (2014-2015), and a Sessional Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (2015). He serves as Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate EiC of Springer Nature/China SAE Journal of Automotive Innovation, and as the general chair of the 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. Dr. Preindl is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. He received the Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honorable mention (co-recipient, USA, 2022), Horiba Awards Honorable Mention (Japan, 2019), the Futura Foundation Award (Italy, 2017), the NSF CAREER Award (USA, 2017), as well as best paper and presentation recognitions including the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award. His research interests include the design and control of motor drives, power electronics, and batteries for transportation electrification and renewable energy.

Wenlong Ming received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. Degrees in Automation from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., in 2015. He is the winner of the prestigious IET Control & Automation Doctoral Dissertation Prize in 2017. He has been a Senior Lecturer of Power Electronics at Cardiff University, U.K., since August 2020 and a Senior Research Fellow funded by Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult, U.K., for 5 years since April 2020. He was with the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA in 2012 as an academic visiting scholar. He has (co-)authored more than 70 papers published in leading journals or refereed IEEE conferences. His research interests focus on packaging, characterization, modeling, and applications of wide-bandgap power electronics.

Wei Xu is currently working as Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) China. He did his Ph.D. from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Jul. 2008. He completed his M.S., in 2005 and B.S., in 2022 from the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University (TJU) China. His Research interests are Electromagnetic design and control algorithm of electrical machines and drive systems (linear machines, permanent magnet machines, brushless doubly-fed induction machines (BDFIMs), high-speed machines, etc.), DC/DC converters, back to back converters, and so on.

Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado-Alba was born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1984. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in telecommunications and electronics engineering and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively. In 2009, he joined GPTech, Seville, where he was a part of the Research and Development Department developing power converters for renewable energies applications. Since 2017, he has been a Power Electronics Researcher with Fundación CIRCE, where he is currently a Leader of the Power Electronics Team for Grid Integration Applications.

Guillermo Escrivá-Escrivá received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2009 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, where he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department since 2005. His research lines include energy efficiency, renewable energies, and quality problems in power systems. Between 2000 and 2005, he worked in a large construction company as a facilities engineer. During his time as a university professor, he has collaborated on various national and European projects. He has also taught courses such as circuit theory, power generation, transmission and distribution, and energy systems. He has collaborated with entities from Spain and from countries such as the United States, Holland, and Ecuador on different research projects. Among his publications are several teaching books, more than 20 papers in high-impact research journals, and communications in international congresses. His teaching work is aimed at teaching classes as well as tutoring final degree and master projects linked to energy efficiency, energy resource management, electrical installations, and intelligent management and control systems. Guillermo is one of the collaborators of the laboratory of distributed energy resources at UPV (Labder) and was one of the developers of the Derd energy management system that has controlled the power demand of the Vera Campus at UPV for more than eight years. He presents high technical training in research and applied studies and has a great interest in the transfer of knowledge from the university to the industry and vice versa.

Virendra Sule completed his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1990 in Electrical Engineering. He has since then been on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur until 1999 and then at IIT Bombay up to the present. He has worked briefly with Computational Research Laboratories of Tata Son’s at Pune, India, and C.R.Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, India. His early contribution was in Mathematical Systems Theory wherein is gave algebraic -geometric necessary and sufficient conditions for feedback stabilizability of n-D systems. The papers on these conditions are still being cited after 25 years. He has written many other papers in feedback theory which are cited by researchers. Recently he showed that the averaging model of linearization of switched converters popular in Power Electronics needed a Mathematically rigorous approach and has proposed a new discrete-time model which is being found useful by the community. For over 15 years he has been actively working in Cryptology and Computation and has proposed new families of encryption algorithms as well as has proposed a new approach to Cryptanalysis based on black box computations.

Dr. Woo has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and he has obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. He majors in energy systems such as HVAC and its heat transfer, optimal design and control of refrigerator, reliability design of thermal components, and failure Analysis of thermal components in the marketplace using the Non-destructive such as SEM & XRAY. From 1992.03–1997, he worked in Agency for Defense Development, Chinhae, South Korea, where he has a researcher in charge of the Development of the Naval Weapon System. He was working as a Senior Reliability Engineer in Refrigerator Division, Digital Appliance, SAMSUNG Electronics. Now he is working as an associate professor in the mechanical department, at Ethiopian Technical University.

Mikita Davykoza is a first-year Ph.D. student and alumnus of first and second-degree studies at the Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. His entire career revolves around Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on investigating and developing microfluidic power sources, including 3rd generation solar cells and flow batteries. He has been struggling with mass transport resistance in solar redox flow batteries recently.

Haohao Yi received a French State Engineer degree from Chimie ParisTech-PSL in 2010, and a Ph.D. degree in physics and chemistry of materials from the Sorbonne University in France in 2014. From 2015 to 2018, she was a technical engineer and later became the deputy chief engineer at China Shoto Group. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Power Electronics s and Electrical Drives (ISEA) at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Currently, she is the Director of the Energy Storage Tech Center at EVE Energy Co. Ltd in China. Dr. Yi is interested in interdisciplinary research topics such as the physical chemistry of battery cell materials, advanced algorithms for a battery management systems, and power electronics applied to energy storage systems. She has participated in several research projects, including EU Horizon 2020 program, German national BMBF projects, and R&D projects founded by the Chinese Ministry for Industry and Information Technology.

Qin Chen received a B.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering and an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering with a focus on artificial intelligence and wind power forecasting from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His main research interests are artificial intelligence, dynamic pricing, integrating electric vehicles with the power grid, and renewable energy.

Dr. Rui Xie is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. She received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and mathematics in 2017, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2022, from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her research interests include energy storage systems, transportation electrification, renewable generation, and optimization problems in power systems.

Dr.Ts. Mohd Aliff Afira Sani is a senior lecturer at the Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2016, he obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from Okayama University of Science, and before that in 2013, he received his Master of Engineering in Intelligent Mechanical Engineering from the same university. His current research interests include mechatronics and robotics, with a focus on rehabilitative devices, intelligent robots, and flexible pneumatic actuators. He is a Professional Technologist (Ts) awarded from the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). In addition, he holds a competency certificate in Functional Safety Engineer in accordance with IEC 61508: 2010.In recent years, he has been involved in several international research collaboration projects. He has served on the Editorial Boards of various journals, as well as serving as the Keynote Speaker, Technical Committee Member, Chairman Session, and Judge ininternational conferences.

Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani (student member, IEEE) received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014, and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, in 2018. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree in Electric Vehicles at Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include electric vehicles, power electronics, renewable energies, and wireless power transfer.

Hamid Bentarzi is a full Professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the Institute (IGEE), University M’hamed Bougara, Boumerdes, Algeria. He received an M. Phil degree in applied electronics from INELEC, Boumerdes, in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree from the ENP, Algiers, in 2004. His research activities are centered upon control and protection systems reliability enhancement using recent technologies such as PMU and μPMU. Since 2021, he has been a Leader of the National Excellence “Tamayouz” Program for National Grid Integration Applications. He has been the author and co-author of more than 150 papers and three books.

Nasreddine Belbachir received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Relizane, Algeria, in 2013, and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy from the University of Mostaganem, Algeria, in 2015. Recently received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy from the University of Mostaganem, Algeria. His research interests include the optimal integration of renewable energy in distribution grids, electric vehicles, power systems protection, and PV parameters optimization. Also, he works as an electrical engineer for more than 7 years in the oil and gas industry at Sonatrach, Algeria.

Dr. Shakir Khan presently working as an associate professor in the college of computer and information sciences (CCIS), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has 15+ years of rich national and international teaching, research, and IT experience, including five years at King Saud University for research, training, and teaching, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has sound research knowledge along with the supervision of more than a dozen master scholars in different fields of Computer Science. He has more than 70 publications in reputed journals and conferences, 45 of which are SCI-indexed. He has also published two books and three patents. He contributed to many International Journals and Conferences as Editor, Member of the Advisory board, Reviewer, Program Committee Member, and keynote Speaker. His research interest includes Data Mining, Data Science, AI, Cloud Computing, IoT, Big Data & Analytics, Bioinformatics, E-learning, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. He has been acknowledged by Imam University and received a research excellence award in 2019 and received as a leader for a programming team at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh as the team was the third winner out of 40 teams. He has been awarded three-research projects from the Deanship of Scientific Research, Imam University, and one from the ministry of education, Saudi Arabia. One project is awarded as PI for the International Research Partnership Program with one of the computer science professors at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. Dr. Khan is delivering these projects timely and he is also doing collaborative research with the University of Electronic Science and Technology China (UESTC), China, and other professors globally.

Dr. Youssef AGREBI ZORGANI is a full-time Professor in electronics and power drive at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Sfax, TUNISIA. Dr. Youssef AGREBI ZORGANI received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National School of Engineering of Sfax (ENIS)- Tunisia and his Ph.D. degree in Automatic from the Faculty of Science, University of d'Aix-Marseille – France. Dr. Youssef AGREBI ZORGANI has published 30+ papers and 1 book in the field of power Electronics and Motor Drives. He is a Member of the Laboratory of Sciences and Techniques of Automatic control & computer engineering Lab-STA (ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia). Dr. Youssef AGREBI ZORGANI actively serves as a reviewer in several journals and conference publications, including IEEE conferences and journals. He is the ECONOV’2022 International Conference on Ecological Innovation Chairman for 2022. His research interests focus on Electrical Power Engineering, Electrical& Electronics Engineering, Power Electronics, RenewableEnergy, and Control systems.

Khairul Nizam Tahar is currently anAssociate Professor in Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture Planning and Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He obtained his Diploma in Geomatic Science (GIS), Bachelor of Surveying Science and Geomatics (Honours) and Master in Geographical Information Science degrees from Department of Surveying Science and Geomatics, UiTM, Malaysia in 2005, 2007 and 2008 respectively and PhD degree from UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2013. His major research includes geomatics field such as aerial photogrammetry and close range photogrammetry especially on UAV applications. He has published 1 book, 1 book chapter and over 60 articles in journals and conference proceedings. He also received a number of research grants from university and ministry. He conducts a few research as the principal investigator and co-investigator on UAV positioning, building footprint extraction using UAV, rapid airborne geospatial mapping system and automatic counting of shipping containers using UAV.

Dr. N. Lakshminarasamma obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is a faculty in Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in the Dept of Electrical Engineering since 2009. Prior to this, she has put in 4 years in academics; she has worked as a software engineer in I2 Technologies India Private Limited and as a systems specialist in GE Healthcare India Limited. Her areas of interest are power electronics, Switched mode power conversion and renewable energy systems. She has coauthored several journal papers in peer-reviewed journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and several premier conferences. She is a recipient of outstanding women researcher award 2022 from the Department of Science and Technology. She has She has co‐authored several journal papers in peer‐ reviewed journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and several premier conferences and holds 8 patents on power conversion systems related to space and defence applications.

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.

Dr OLIVER DZOBO is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Science Engineering at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, since November 2016. Prior to joining the University of Johannesburg, I have been involved in various projects including the national energy efficiency audit project in Zimbabwe. I was the project leader in the energy efficiency audit of the mining and manufacturing sectors. The project involved developing baseline energy efficiency benchmarks for various industrial and residential sectors in the country and developing policy framework for the energy regulator to implement in order to promote energy efficiency in the country. Current research topics I am pursuing involves the implementation of new energy system optimization algorithms in smart grids that will provide the electricity user and the power utility with the capability to manage risk, pollutants emission, and energy efficiency directly, along with reducing costs, the possibility of taking financial positions where available, long term and inter-period Conditional Value-at risk (CVaR) constraints. This also include the use of Blockchain technology application in energy delivery between peer prosumers for optimal and secure operation of the power system network.

MOHAMED K. ELMEZUGHI received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Hons.) from the University of Tripoli, Libya, in 2017. He received a master’s degree in Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa, in 2020. Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. degree at the UKZN. The focus of his Ph.D. research is on Millimeter-Wave channel modeling for 5G mobile communication systems and beyond. He contributed to the body of knowledge by publishing several research papers in international journals and conferences and preparing lecture notes for undergraduate students. His research interests include artificial intelligence, millimeter-wave systems, wireless channel modeling, signal detection, antennas design, radio propagation, and channel parameters estimation.