SENSORSMEET2023

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks. He has published 2 books; 1 book chapter; and 220 journal articles, 120 of them being a corresponding author in Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Matter, etc. With a current h-index of 80, he was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science by the Web of Science Group. Among his many accolades are the Advanced Materials Rising Star, Materials Today Rising Star Award, ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award, Chem. Soc. Rev. Emerging Investigator Award, UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, Thought Leaders by Azo Materials, 30 Life Sciences Leaders to Watch by Informa, and many others. Beyond research, he is an associate editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Wenlong Cheng is a professor and director of research in the Department of Chemical&Biological Engineering at Monash University, Australia. He is currently a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and was also an Ambassador Tech Fellow in Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. He earned his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005 and his BS from Jilin University, China in 1999. He was Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and a research associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University. He founded Monash NanoBionics lab at the Monash University in 2010. His research interest lies at the Nano-Bio Interface, particularly self-assembly of 2D plasmonic nanomaterials, DNA nanotechnology, electronic skins and stretchable energy devices. He has published >200 papers. He is currently the scientific editor for Nanoscale Horizon (Royal Society of Chemistry) and the editorial board members for a few journals including iScience, Chemosensors, and Austin Journal of Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Jieshan Qiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Chemical Engineering College at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China. He is an internationally recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 800+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule,Matter,Chem, Sci. Adv., etc., with a citation 38800+ times and h-index of 96 (web of sci.). He has filed140+ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has won 20+ prestigious awards and prizes including the 1st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded by the Education Ministry of China. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of CIESC Journal, and is on the advisory boards of several journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, Science China Materials, and Energy Technology, etc. He is a Clavate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2021in a row, and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in 2019and 2020 in the field of chemical engineering, and 2019 Top 1% highly cited Chinese authors in the field of energy &sustainability in 2019 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChem and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Professor Datuk Dr Harith Ahmad FASc obtained his BSc in Physics with First Class Honours from the University of Malaya in 1979. Subsequently, he obtained his MSc from the University of Wales in 1980,followed by his PhD in 1983 from the same institution. Upon returning to Malaysia in 1983, he became a member of the academic staff of UM, and since then has led the university’s research into the area of photonics. He is currently a Distinguished Professor, and is also the director of the Photonics Research Centre of the University of Malaya, a Higher Education Centre of Excellence (HiCoE) under the purview of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (MOE). His substantial contributions in the area of photonics have been acknowledged with multiple awards and recognitions, including as a Fellow of Akademi Sains Malaysia and recipient of theMalaysia-TorayScienceFoundationAward,MerdekaAwardforScholasticAchievementandASEANOutstanding Scientist and Technology Award. He is very active as both a researcher and an academician, with numerous ISI ranked research publications to his name, as well as supervising numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students in photonics.

Professor Wei Xiang is Cisco Research Chair of AI and IoT and Director of the Cisco-La Trobe Centre for AI and IoT at La Trobe University. Previously, he was FoundationChair and Head of Discipline ofIoT Engineering at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Due to his instrumental leadership in establishing Australia’s first accredited Internet of Things Engineering degree program, he was inducted into Pearcy Foundation’s Hall of Fame in October 2018. He is an elected Fellow of the IET in UK and Engineers Australia. He received the TNQ Innovation Award in 2016, and PearceyEntrepreneurship Award in 2017, and Engineers Australia Cairns Engineer of the Year in 2017. He was a co-recipient of four Best Paper Awards at WiSATS’2019, WCSP’2015, IEEE WCNC’2011, and ICWMC’2009. He has been awarded several prestigious fellowship titles. He was named a Queensland International Fellow (2010-2011) by the Queensland Government of Australia, an Endeavour Research Fellow (2012-2013) by the Commonwealth Government of Australia, a Smart Futures Fellow (2012-2015) by the Queensland Government of Australia, and a JSPS Invitational Fellow jointly by the Australian Academy of Science and Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (2014-2015). He was the Vice Chair of the IEEE Northern Australia Section from 2016-2020. He was an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters(2015-2017), and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access,and Nature journal of Scientific Reports. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers including 3 books and 200 journal articles. He has severed in a large number of international conferences in the capacity of General Co-Chair, TPC Co-Chair, Symposium Chair, etc. His research interest includes the Internet of Things, wireless communications, machine learning for IoT data analytics, and computer vision.

Dr. Yang Chai is an Assistant Dean of Faculty of Applied Science and Textile of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Vice President of Physical Society of Hong Kong, a member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer since 2016, and was the Chair of IEEE ED/SSC Hong Kong Chapter (2017-2019). He is a recipient of RGC Early Career Award in 2014, the Semiconductor Science and Technology Early Career Research Award in 2017, PolyU FAST Faculty Award in Research and Scholar Activities in 2018/2019, Young Scientist Award of ICON-2DMAT in 2019, PolyU President’s Award in Research and Scholar Activities in 2019/2020, NR45 Young Innovators Award in 2021, and Young Scientist of World Laureate Forum in 2021. His current research interest mainly focuses on emerging electronic devices.

Prof. Ivan Ganchev is an IEEE Senior Member, a URSI Senior Member, an ITU-T Invited Expert, and an IET Invited Lecturer. He was involved in 40+ international and national research projects. Prof. Ganchev has served on the Technical Program Committee of 350+ prestigious international conferences, symposia, and workshops. He has (co)authored 1 monographic book, 3 textbooks, 4 edited books, and 300+ research papers in refereed international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Prof. Ganchev is an Area Editor of the Elsevier Computer Networks, an Editorial Board Member of the HindawiWireless Communications and Mobile Computing, MDPI Electronics, MDPI Mathematics, and Wiley Internet Technology Letters, and a Regional Editor (Europe) of the International Journal on Trust Management in Computing and Communications. He also seats on the Editorial Board and has served as a Guest Editor for multiple other international journals.

Inès CHIHI was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1984. She obtained her PhD degree in electrical engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis in 2013. From the same school she obtained her "Habilitation Universitaire" degree in electrical engineering in 2019. Inès was a professor at the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technologies of Gafsa Tunisia, from 2013 until 2016. Then she joined the National Engineering School of Bizerta, Tunisia (2016-2022). Since 2017, Inès is also the founder and president of the Association of Energy Efficiency and the Environment (AEEE) and she is a member of the first Tunisian Network for Energy Transition. Inès is a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), Program Unit of UNESCO. Since January 14, 2022 Inès has joined the Department of Engineering (DoE) at the University of Luxembourg. Her research area is based on smart sensors for estimation and identification for complex systems with unpredictable behaviors.She applies her approaches in various fields: bioengineering, energy, industry 4.0, etc.

Dr. Xavier Muñoz Berbel (male) is PhD in biotechnology (2008) and tenure researcher at the IMB-CNM (CSIC). He has 15 years of research experience in the development of transducer, sensors and biosensor on different technologies (microelectronics, screen-printing, etc.) and materials (silicon, polymer or biomaterials such silk or alginate) principally for clinical diagnosis, food analysis or environmental monitoring. During his career in Spain (IMB-CNM, University of Seville), France (University of Perpignan) and UK (University of Bath), Dr. Muñoz-Berbel has participated in 22 projects, 17 from the Spanish Government, being PI and coordinator of 6, 6 from the European Community, being PI two, and one ERA-NET action as PI and coordinator. He has co-authored 89 publications, 73 in peer-review SCI journals, with a total of 1365 citations and H-factor of 23. He has supervised six PhD Thesis (3 more on-going) and holds 14 patents, two of them licenced, and participated in +60 international conferences, with six invited presentations.

Currently, Dr. HOANG THANH VAN is a full-time Associate Professor, College of Construction and Development, Department: Ph.D. program of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Her fields of interest include GIS, Remote sensing Applications, Agriculture models, Climate Change Impact Analysis, and Disaster issues. Holding 02 Bachelor's degrees (major in Geography, and English, total in 8 years), and Mcs degree, and a Doctor of Engineering (Civil and Hydraulic Engineering) in Taiwan; Gold Medalist of Teaching in 2005; She has over 15 years of teaching, and research experience in the universities. She has carried on the Ministry of Science and Technology’s projects on Disaster Prevention Technolgy. She has published over SCI-SCIE 20 papers in international journals such as ISPRS, Remote sensing, Water, Springer Nature, and Willey. Dr.Van has delivered 05 keynote speeches at five International conferences (FIG, APFITA, ICEO-SI). She has delivered over 20 presentations, including the international conferences and tutorial lectures in the domestic workshop, and published some chapter books in Springer (Germany). She got the Outstanding Professor Award in 2022 and TOP 10% Excellent teaching from 2016-2022 (by students) 16 times. At present, Dr.Van did peer review 29 SCI & SCIE papers, is a Topic Editor in the Journal of Atmosphere (SCIE, IF: 2.68), and has done Program Committee Member's conferences six times.

Zhongyu Li is the winner of 2022 URSI Young Scientists Award, and also the Outstanding Doctoral Society Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and he was successfully selected for the China Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. He is currently an associate professor with UESTC. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar technology (particular emphasis on bistatic/multi-static SAR moving target detection and imaging technologies). He has published more than 60 journal and conference papers. He received the “Excellent Paper Award - First Prize” at the 2019 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar. He was the TPC member of 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, 2019 APSAR, and the section chair of the 2021 CIE International Conference on Radar, 2020-2021 IEEE ICET, ALLSENSORS 2019, and 2020 ICCC. He served on the editorial boards of the ‘Modern Radar’ and ‘Radar Science and Technology’, and served as the guest/topic editors of ‘Remote Sensing’ and ‘Frontiers in Signal Processing’.

Dr Larysa Baraban completed her PhD in the University of Konstanz, Germany in 2008 in the Department of Physics. After a stint as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France, she moved to TU Dresden, Germany, where she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2011 until 2013. She is currently a leader of a group ‘’ in Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf. Dr Baraban’s research revolves around the use of nanomaterial-based biosensors and systems, flexible sensors for point-of-care diagnostics, microfluidics for high throughput biochemical analysis, artificial nano- and micromachines and magnetic soft matter.

Andrea Cusano received his Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronic Engineering on November 27, 1998 from University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. In 2003 he defended his PhD thesis carried out at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering of University of Naples with tutor Prof. Antonello Cutolo. His Ph.D. thesis was focused on “Optoelectronic Sensors for Smart Materials and Structures”. On February 2002, during his Ph.D. student course, he was engaged as Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering at University of Sannio to support Prof. Antonello Cutolo to build up the Optoelectronic Division. Since September 2002 and up to now, he has been also in charge as Professor for several courses of Electronics at the Engineering Department of University of Sannio. On December 30, 2002, he started his service as permanent researcher at the University of Sannio. On December 15, 2005 he won a national competition as Associate Professor at the University of Sannio. His research interests are focused on the suitable merging of optical fibers and nanotechnologies and was the pioneer of the “Lab on fiber Technology” concept, nowadays recognized as an hot topic in nanophotonics. He was also cofounder of several spin-off companies focused on the development of fiber optic sensing systems for industrial and life science applications: “OptoSmartS.r.l.” in 2005, “MDTech” in 2007, “OptoAdvance” in 2011, MantidS.r.l. in 2017, Often Medical in 2019. He published over 400 papers on prestigious international journals and communications in well-known international conferences worldwide; he has close to 20national and international patents currently in charge of prestigious industrial companies (AnsaldoSTS, Alenia WASS, Optosmart, MdTEch, Often Medical).Since 2011 he is Editor in Chief of Journal of Optics and Laser Technology and Results in Optics (Elsevier). He is also associate editor of Photonic Sensors (Springer Verlag), Journal of Lightwave technology (IEEE(OSA) and Sensors (Mdpi). He is member of the technical and steering program committees of several international and well recognized conferences (IEEE Sensors, International conference on Sensing Technologies, European Workshop for SHM, European Workshop on Optical Fiber Sensors, Asian-Pacific Optical Sensors, International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling (BGPP), International conference on Optical fiber Sensors). He is co-author of more than 70invited chapters published in international books, invited papers, key note and plenary lectures in prestigious scientific international journals as well as international conferences. He has been Guest editors of many Special Issues related to optical fiber sensor technologyand was the Co-Editor of 4 international and well recognized books for relevant scientific publishers. He is consultant for important companies of the Finmeccanica group (today Leonardo Group) such as Ansaldo STS and Alenia WASS. He is also consultant for CERN in Geneva where he is working on the development of innovative optical sensors for high energy physics applications.He received many international recognitions and awards for his efforts in the development of new concepts based on the suitable integration of Optical fibers and Nanotechnologies. He was also Principal Investigators of many national and international projects and was able to be funded for over that 25MEuros in the last 6 years. Recently, he was appointed as Technical Director of two important National Initiatives: - Public Private National Aggregation (Top-In-Optoelectronics Technologies for Industrial Applications) - National Research Infrastructure (C-NOS: Optoelectronics and Photonics Technologies for Life Science Applications) Finally, he works in collaboration with the REA agency of the European Commission in the frame of the FET-Open initiatives.

Aitizaz Ali is an experienced researcher with more than 5 years of cutting-edge teaching and research experience in prestigious institutes including Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), Monash University (Australia) and University of Management and Technology (Pakistan). During his professional career in Malaysia and Pakistan, he has taught numerous industry-relevant courses such as Programming for Cyber Security, Cryptography, E-Security, Computer Systems and Mathematics for Computing. He has supervised several MSc and undergraduate students in their dissertation. He was a postgraduate student coordinator, chief exam invigilator, and curriculum development committee member at the University of Management and Technology Pakistan. He has co-authored more than 30 research papers (150+ Google Citations), including in international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. He was awarded PhD full-time fellowship by Monash University (Malaysia Campus) in 2019.

Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak is a research fellow in the GREMA Research Group (Radiofrequency, Electromagnetism, Microwaves and Antennas Group) at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. He received his B.Sc. with honors (ranked 2nd among his colleagues) in communication engineering from Aswan University, Egypt in 2011 then he joined the department of electrical engineering, Aswan University as a teaching assistant. He received his M.Sc. in multimedia and communication from Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) in 2015 (with an excellent grade) then he joined the GREMA Research Group as a research fellow. He received his Ph.D. from UC3M in March 2022 (with an excellent grade and cum laude/international mentions) in the field of antennas and radiometers for radio astronomy applications. He has authored/co-authored 14 JCR journals (10 in the first quartile Q1 and 3 in the second quartile Q2 following Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Ranking), 2 invited papers, and 37 international conference papers. He has participated in 12 R&D and industrial projects financed by HUAWEI, SENER, European Space Agency (ESA), Madrid Regional Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy and Business, and other private companies with a total fund exceeding 2.7 million Euros. He served as a TPC member/peer reviewer for several JCR journals and international conferences such as Optics Express (Q1), IEEE Access (Q1), Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER) (Q2), International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IJIM) (Q3), EuCAP, ITCE, ICEECC, AsiaSim, and CIAP. His technical interests include ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas, reflector/feed systems, remote sensing, Earth Observation Radiometers, radio astronomy receivers, 5G communications, mobile base stations, array feeds, RF circuit design, mm-wave/THz technologies, and whispering gallery mode resonators. Mr. Abdalmalak received the Erasmus Mundus GreenIT grant, in 2014, the Young Scientists' Award (2nd Prize) by URSI/Spain in 2017, was selected as the IEEE Ambassador for the IEEEXtreme 14.0 Competition at Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) in 2020, was selected as the IEEE section lead for Spain for the IEEEXtreme 15.0 Competition in 2021, and was elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2022.

Hao Wu received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2008, and a PhDdegree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2013. From 2013 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at Guangzhou institute of energy conversion, Chinese academy of sciences, where his work focused on machine vision research and development. Currently, he is a Lecturer of mechanical engineering at the Anhui University of Technology, China. His research interests include automated visual inspection, machine vision, and deep learning. He is a senior member of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and a member of IEEE, published over 20 related papers, hosted a number of related scientific research projects, and participated in the development of automatic optical inspection system, which won the first prize of Guangdong Province Science and Technology Progress Award.

Jiali Li (she/her), Professor, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the areas of nanoscale materials characterization and their applications in biophysics that include solid-state nanopore fabrication, single molecules of DNA and protein manipulation, detection, and characterization. She has been one of the pioneers in developing solid-state nanopore technology and its applications.

Mary-Lou Tercier-Waeber is PhD in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences and senior research associate at the University of Geneva-Switzerland. She is leading the development of innovative chemical sensors, mini/micro-integrated analytical systems, submersibles probes and analytical techniques, and thefield application of these tools to study hazardous trace metal speciation, bio-geochemical cycles and ecotoxicity.She has over 80 publications in international peer reviewed journals, 1 patent, 5 invited book chapters (h-factor 29).She has been involved as UNIGE PI, scientific collaborator, WP leader, scientific coordinator and project coordinator in over 20 national and EU projects.

Shazrah Shahzad is presently a Doctoral Candidate at Department of Micro and Nano Electronics at Tsinghua University, Beijing. She is working on Highly sensitive and ultra-fast responsive Gas Sensors using 2D materials (rGO, MoS2 and Tungsten Disulphide). Previously, she completed her Masters in Nanoscience and Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. Additionally, she served as a Research Associate on a Project Funded by U.S. Pakistan Center forAdvanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), Islamabadon “Development of self-cleaning and low emissivity thin films for glass”. Her specialization and research interests revolve around gas sensors, thin film deposition and nano materials synthesis and characterization.

Jérôme Brunet received his Ph.D. degree in material science and components for electronic from Université Blaise Pascal, France, in 2003. Since 2004, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Chemical Microsensors and Sensor-Systems division at the Institut Pascal laboratory (Clermont Auvergne University). In 2017, he received its accreditation as research supervisor for his scientific works on gas-sensing properties of molecular semiconductors and the development of chemosensors devoted to the titration of outdoor pollutants in atmosphere. He is co-author of one international patent, more than 60 papers in JRC journal and more than 60 conference papers. He has also participated to 17 international conferences as invited speaker, is reviewer for more than 16 peer-reviewed journals as well as for the French National Research Agency (ANR) and has ensured scientific responsibilities in national, international and industrials projects. His research is now focused on the development of acoustic, conductimetric and plasmonic microsensors and sensor-systems implementing nanocarbons, phthalocyanines and hybrid materials as sensing materials for the monitoring of gas at low concentrations. In 2021, he became the team leader of his Chemical Microsensors and Sensor-Systems group.

Dr. Boon Giin Lee received his B.I.T. degree in information technology from Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia, in 2007, his M.S. degree in electronic engineering from Dongseo University, Busan, South Korea, and his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea. From 2013 to 2014, he worked in Changsung Ace company as Software Engineer for year in Seoul, Korea. After this, from 2014 to 2019, he was employed as Assistant Professor with Department of Electronic Engineering in Keimyung University, South Korea. Since 2019, he has been with the School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), where he was an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor since 2022. Lee is the Head of Smart Firefighting Operations System (SFOS) Laboratory in Nottingham Ningbo China Beacons Institute and Head of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Laboratory in UNNC. He has published over 40 SCI journal and conference papers and obtained 3 patents. He serves as a guest editor for Sensors Journal special issue and as a reviewer for other international journals. He was the invited speaker and TPC member of several conferences. He was the recipient of the IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award in 2019. His research interests lie in the area of human-computer interaction, deep learning, computer vision, and smart wearable sensing.

Salvatore Petralia is Researcher at University of Catania. He received the Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2003. He was a visiting at the Instituto de Tecnologia Chimica, working twith the team of prof. M.A. Miranda (Valencia 2000) at Applied Microarray Inc. (Tempe, US, periodically 2005-2015) working with multidisciplinary team in the development and industrialization of DNA-chip (In-Check® platform). From 2004 to 2020, he has been with STMicroelectronics, covering several R&D positions in the sectors of silicon DNA-on-chip, surface chemistry and nanomaterials. He is scientific advisor for biotech companies in the field of nanomaterials and biosensing. He lead the Laboratory of Nanomaterial in the University of Catania. His research interest include surface chemistry, sensing device and innovative nanomaterials for biomedical application. He is the co-author of more than 120 scientific publications in international journals and coinventor of 10 patents in that domain.

W. Merlijn van Spengen studied electrical engineering at the TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and earned a PhD in applied science from the KU Leuven, Belgium, while staying at the independent microelectronics research center IMEC. Here he developed models for microscale adhesion and the effect of dielectric charging on MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) switches. Back in the Netherlands, he continued his research first at Leiden University and later as an associate professor at TU Delft, working on MEMS reliability and electronic measurement technology. He has received the prestigious Veni and Vidi grants. Van Spengen is an experienced analog electronics design expert and founding director of the company Falco Systems. With his team at Falco Systems, he currently strives to provide the best high voltage amplifiers for driving piezo actuators and MEMS devices.

Evangelos Alevizos is an Oceanographer with seafloor mapping expertise. He has graduated from the Department of Oceanography and Marine Biosciences (University of the Aegean, Greece) and he has received his PhD in Physical Geography from the Christian Albrechts Universitätzu Kiel (Germany, 2017). During his doctoral studies at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Kiel, Germany),he was working on a wide range of seafloor mapping and imaging techniques, involving hydro-acoustic datasets frommulti-beam echo-sounders. He has broad experience with GIS and image analysis applications such as supervised classification, Object-Based Image Analysis, geostatistics and geomorphology. Over the last years, he has been involved in several projects from coastal zone monitoring to deep-sea habitat mapping and he has developed various geospatial tools and workflows forseafloor characterization as well as for bathymetry retrieval using optical sensors. His latest research work focuses on the integration ofdrone/satellite imagery with unmanned surface vehicle observations for shallow seafloor mapping.

Dr. Jun Li received a Ph.D. degree in surface sciences from Princeton University in 1995 and carried out postdoctoral research in electrochemistry in Cornell University (1994-1997). He has developed a research career on nanosciences and nanotechnologies through his employment with Molecular Imaging Co. (1997-1998), the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (Singapore, 1998-2000), NASA Ames Research Center (2000-2007) and Kansas State University (2007 – present). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, invited book chapters, referred proceeding papers and an edited book. He is the inventor in 32 patent applications (14 granted so far). His research work in nanotechnology has been highlighted in over 40 public news reports (including Nature, MIT Technology Review, etc.). He received the first annual Nano50 Award by NASA Tech Briefs under Innovator category in 2005. Dr. Li has been serving as an associate editor (2007 - 2014) and senior editor (2015 - present) for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. He was elected as 2019 class of Fellow of National Academy of Inventors and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2021).

Oscar Castillo was born in Vitoria, Spain, in 1974. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the Basque Country University in 2001, where he is member of the academic staff since then. He is author of more than 160 papers (h = 37) in the areas of Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science. His interest topics include the preparation of porous metal-organic materials from different approaches such as the coordination bond based MOFs, supramolecular assembly of discrete polynuclear metal-organic entities and metal-organic aerogels. They are employed in applications such as drug carriers, photocatalysts, CO2 capture and valorization, effluents remediation and more recently as sensors.

Dr Anwaar Ulhaq is serving as a senior lecturer and deputy leader, Machine Vision and Digital Health Research in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Anwaar holds a PhD (Artificial Intelligence) from Monash University, Australia. He has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Australia. His research interests include artificial creativity, deep learning, data analytics and computer vision.

Dr. Sunim Bian is a Research Assistant Professor in the Cen BRAIN Center(Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advanced Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies)at the Westlake UniversitySchool of Engineering, with multidisciplinary researchinterestsin pharmaceutical science, medicine and biosensors, andbioelectronics for precision medicine applications. Dr. Bian received the Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Science from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) in 2018, and the M.Eng.in Nutrition and Food Safety from China Agricultural University (Beijing, China)in 2014. She was awarded multiple Chinese National Scholarships in recognition of her passionate pursuit of science during her educational endeavors. She has authored over 20 SCI listed papers and holds four national innovation patents. She serves as a Youth Editor of The Innovation- Cell Press, a Review Editor of the Frontiers in Analytical Science Journal and as a reviewer for several other international journals. In 2022, she was awarded a Youth Science Fund grant from theNational Natural Science Foundation of China.

Lebile Ilerioluwa Joseph is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Marine Engineeringat Dalian Maritime University, China. He has been awarded several Chinese national scholarships towards pursing his academic goals due to his excellent performance. He has also won several awards ranging from national to college-level, including the Outstanding Academic Performance Award and the 2020 Autumn Excellent Performance Award. In his career, Joseph has worked in several organizations including shipyard and power plants. Also,he has published and peer-reviewed several SCI papers and he is currently a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). His area of primary focus is- Particle detection sensors and microfluidic technologies.

Papa-Silly Traoré was born in Senegal in 1991. He received Ph. D degree from Grenoble INP, France, in 2017 and the M.Sc degrees (in Engineering and Research) from École Polytechnique de l’Université de Nantes (Polytech’ Nantes), Nantes, France, in 2014. He is currently Associate Professor at ESP (Polytechnic School of Dakar), Dakar, Senegal. His current research is focused on high sensitivity digital GMI sensors and renewable energy.