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Professor Noam Eliaz is the Dean of The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. He is also the director of the Biomaterials and Corrosion Laboratory, the founder of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, an Adjunct Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology, and an endowed chair professor and the founding director of TIET/TAU Center of Excellence on Advanced Manufacturing at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. The products of his research are being used in defense organizations and implant companies. He has contributed more than 500 scientific publications, which are well cited; he was listed among the top 0.24% scientists in the world over career period and among top 0.08% in the single year 2021 in the sub-field Materials in Stanford University’s list of Top 2% Scientists of the World. He was elected to The Israel Young Academy (2015) and to the US National Academy of Inventors (2020). He was a member of the Governing Board of The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). He was awarded with the title Honorary Professor of the Transylvania University of Braşov in Romania, and has won many awards.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation) joined the University of Huddersfield as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing and Condition Monitoring and the Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he had worked as a Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2005, creating a team focused on vibro-acoustical condition monitoring of complex systems with an emphasis on their practical deployment. During his time at Cranfield, Len has developed technologies which have been field trialled 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 (USA, two contracts), London Underground (three contracts) and Cranfield Boeing Centre of Excellence (3 contracts).