Eric Prevost
Vice President, Transformation Technologies for Industry 4.0, Oracle Eric Prevost has 20 years of experience working in digital and business innovation, and transformation strategy roles. His career experience includes senior and executive positions in management and IT strategy at IBM Global Services, Capgemini and Oracle. In Eric’s current role within Oracle’s Industries Solution Group, he leads digital transformation and IOT/Artificial Intelligence/Blockchain initiatives for Manufacturing industries. Prior to this role, Eric was innovation director and head of the business/IT innovation consulting team in the Capgemini Manufacturing business unit. He successfully supported manufacturing companies in their innovative transformation strategy and implementation to the services and pay per use-based business model. He is the co-author of the French Industry 4.0 whitepaper from Syntec Numerique, and authored several papers on BPM and innovation practices for business. Eric is also president of the TRIZ-France innovation association in charge of developing innovation practices in France and worldwide innovation cooperation.

John David
John is a leading expert on creating large scale on Change/Business and Digital Transformation across public sector authorities. As founder of Amnick Social Enterprise John has led on national share and support campaign, creating new jobs and think tanks with the government.
John is leading Amnick towards the creation of the next generation of publics ervices in Housing, Health, Transportation, Environment, Education etc., using people as the starting point. This is being in done in partnership with Universities, local authorities, mayors, ministers, research centers, public/private sector organizations. Amnick is using smart cities as a vehicle to create social change by starting with the people and users of services to improve quality of life for all, and seeking best use of technology to support this. This work is now being broadcast across UK, Europe, USA and Middle East.

Richard J. R. Mccullough
Mr. Richard J.R. McCullough is the Managing Director of IT-Informatik Iberia Digital, part of German IT-Informatik GmbH, focused on digitalization solutions and services. His interest for knowing how things worked, made him passionate for science and engineering. He joined the University of Portsmouth in 2006 and finalized his degree in Mechanical Engineering.During his studies he published several papers and received an award for his “Conceptual Design of a Floating Island City”.He then gained professional experience in 2009 in the Middle East & returned to Portsmouth to course his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. He also published a paper showing his findings and described a “Conceptual Underwater Drilling Rig” which could harvest several energy sources in 2010. The year later he gained extensive experience in the petrochemical industry and its service providers, realising the lack of technology being implemented on an overall. This took him to want to change how companies worked, being a Business Developer in 2014. Gaining cross sectorial experience in different industries which gave him a global vision of business processes and their interconnection, he entered the digital world. In 2016 he started in IT-Informatik, being responsible for the internationalization of the company and opened their first international office.

Debabrata Nayak
Dr. Debabrata Nayak has completed his PhD in wireless security from IIT Bombay. And has been working on security domain in last 19 years. He has been working in Huawei Telecom as Chief Security Officer . Obtained Masters degree from NIT Rourkela, specialized in Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Internet security. He has worked forINFINET (Indian Financial Network for RBI). He has presented 62 papers in international conferences and technical journals. He was active member of STIG (DoD) and reviewed guideline for Unix STIG and Network STIG. He has worked with Motorola as Senior Security Architect, Reserve Bank of India as Information Security officer, and with Tata Elxsi as Security expert
He was the Head of Patent /innovation Huawei India, He is the member of CII Innovation group.He is a Chairman of Global ICT Forum of India SIG.He is Co-Chairman for Assocham Cyber Law and IT act 2011-12, Chairman for Huawei Senior security Expert Management Committee 2011-12, International Association for Cryptological Research, Motorola information assurance forum for 3 year, WiMax Forum (GWRG Group), LTE Forum (BWA Group), 3GPP SA3 Security, Cloud Security Alliance, IEEE Security and privacy and Cryptology Research Society of India , and Key member in ITU SG17 Security (Cybex- deals country specific Security), China-Japan-Korea Security Committee. ITU Cloud Computing group. Member of CII (Conferederation of Indian Industry). He is a member of QoS Working group of TEC (DOT), He is a member of Assocham National security Group. Member of ETSI IPR Special committee. Member of Huawei technical regulation group. Huawei standard group.

Renato de Castro
Dr. Renato de Castro is a Smart City Expert and the Ambassador of Smart Cities at the TM Forum from London; a member of the board of directors at the NGO Leading Cities from Boston; and Volunteer Senior Adviser at International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for information and telecommunications. Renato also has over two decades of experience as a global executive within Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
Renato is fluent in fourlanguages and a PhD candidate in Global Law at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He has visited more than 30 countries, lecturing on smart cities and advising governments on urban projects.

Bechtold Franz
Mr. Bechtold Franz, CEO, VIA Electronic GmbH, Germany

Bijan Tadayon
Dr. Bijan Tadayon has been involved with several startup hi-tech companies. Currently, his focus is on R & D in artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, General-AI, video analysis, object recognition, soft computing, information reliability, and image search engines. For 5 years, he was with ContentGuard, a DRM/encryption startup company, which was a Xerox-PARC spin-off, jointly invested by Microsoft, Time Warner, and Thomson, with a 1 billion dollar valuation at the time. He cofounded an educational multi-media software game company. In the early 1990s, he and his brother designed and fabricated the fastest transistor in the world in its class (HBT transistor on GaAs substrate). He has had more than 80 technical journal publications and presentations and more than 100 pending or issued US and foreign patents. He got his PhD and BS degrees from Cornell (ranking second in his Class). He got his law degree from Georgetown.

Alireza Heidari
Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Distinguished Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.
He has participated at more than four hundreds reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI), PubMed and Scopus Journals. It should be noted that he is currently the President of American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Roberto Sabatini
Dr. Roberto Sabatini is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation with more than 25 years of experience in the Aerospace and Defence Industry and in Academia. He is an expert in Avionics, Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), with specific hands-on competence in Flight Guidance, Navigation and Control, C4ISR, Aviation Human Factors and Ergonomics (human-machine teaming, cognitive engineering and trusted authonomy), and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for civil and military aerospace applications. During his career, he was responsible for numerous research and flight test programs on airplanes, helicopters and UAS, and he has authored or co-authored more than 250 publications.
Professor Sabatini served several years as a Military Officer (Air Force Lieutenant Colonel), Flight Test Engineer and RDT&E/Acquisition Manager in the Italian Ministry of Defence and in the US Department of Defence. Before joining RMIT University, Professor Sabatini was the Program Manager of Cranfield University’s task-force working to the European Union Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative for Aeronautics and Air Transport (Co-Principal Investigator and Technical Program Manager of the Systems for Green Operations Integrated Technology Demonstrator – Greener Aircraft Trajectories Under ATM Constraints) and led the research team working to the development of ATM and Avionics Systems compliant with the requirements of SESAR and NextGen.

Vladimir G. Chigrinov
Dr. Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, Senior Member of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 2004 and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 25 reviews and book chapters, about 295 journal papers, more than 644 Conference presentations, and 114 patents and patent applications including 32 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974.
He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Feb 2014. He is Guest Professor in Shanghai Jiaotong University since April 2014. He is a Member of European Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 "For his educational efforts in the field of liquid-crystal devices, as evidenced by his teaching, supervision of graduate students, and prolific publications and conference presentations." He is a member of the team, which get the Best Display Prototype in I-zone in Display Week 2018.

Mehrnoosh Monshizadeh
As a major part of Mehrnoosh Monshizadeh research activities, she applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to network traffic security and anomaly detection, although the above methods have been used in different use cases, such as ehealth. During her PhD, she developed and implemented an intelligent hybrid platform composed of multiple algorithms that can dynamically detect anomalies and network security threats, such as DoS and botnets. Digital health providers can benefit greatly from these platforms for detecting anomalies and fraud in their data, and for detecting security threats on their networks. Mobile operators that provide cloud networks (SDN and NFV) and connect to Internet of things drones and robots will also benefit from the proposed security platform. Her undergraduate degree is electrical and electronics engineering, and her master's degree is industrial engineering, which compares sustainable energy with other types of energy.
Previously, she has worked on telecom mobile (LTE core and legal interception) and fixed networks. On her development team, she has worked on 3GPP and non-3gpp scenarios for NG, LIG, MME, and PCRF (Gn mobility, SGW repositioning, dedicated carriers, multiple default carriers, DPI masking, s2a, s2b).

Mahmoud Shafik
Professor Mahmoud Shafik is an international expert who has made a personal distinction and international leadership recognition, in the field of Intelligent Systems and Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience. Professor Shafik has been chairing and leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission and UK Research Council, of a budget of several millions of Euro’s and have made a great economic and social impact in his area of expertise in UK and EU, as a whole. His research work has brought many innovative outcomes that have been used commercially by a number of Small to Medium and Large enterprise organisations around the world. Professor Shafik has been supervising and external examiners for a number of PhD and MSc research students, across Europe and has a number of industrial notes and several publications in international/world leading journals and conferences. He has also a number of patents in his areas, of industrial applied research and sustainable technology. Professor Shafik is a visiting professor for a few universities in EU and Middle East. Professor Shafik is the founder of International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics-url: http://ojs.unsysdigital.com/index.php/ijrm and serving as an editorial board member of a few International Journals. He has been also serving as a Knowledge Transfer Expert for the UK-Egypt UK/Kenya Technology/Knowledge Transfer Network.

Wei Liu
Dr. Wei Liu is a (full) professor in the School of Science and Technology at GGC. His current research interests are e-health interconnection infrastructure, services and applications. He has published extensively in the related fields such as e-health interconnections, service creation platforms, application QoS (quality of service), PST (privacy security and trust) and big data applications. Prior to his GGC tenure, he had experience with top-5 consulting and lead telecommunication service provider coporation. He was a co-author of the well-known IBM redbook “TCP/IP Tutorial and Applications”. He served as technical editors for two ANSI standards in telecom service managements for which he received top industry awards. He is the founder of the International BDeHS Conference Workshop with the vision of transforming healthcare, business and ultimately society itself - and with the mission of connecting the e-health ecosystems to the communities in research, education, thought leadership - while e-health and its emerging business become a driving factor in innovation and fundamental advances. As an ITEC inauguration faculty member, Liu has served in a number of committees for ITEC/SST/GGC and beyond, including: Chair of IT course curriculum (goals and outcomes), Faculty search committee (chair), P&C committees (school committee chair and college committee member), Alternate member of faculty senate, Representative to USG International Education Council, NSF Reviewer (NSF panel list), STEM grant review panel, Grand judge in the Intel Science Fair in Atlanta, International conference committees (chair).

Nicolas H Younan
Dr. Nicolas H. Younan is currently the Department Head and James Worth Bagley Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Mississippi State University, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio University in 1988. Dr. Younan’s research interests include signal processing and pattern recognition. He has been involved in the development of advanced signal processing and pattern recognition algorithms for data mining, data fusion, feature extraction and classification, and automatic target recognition/identification. He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and book chapters. He served as the General Chair and Editor for the 4th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Co-Editor for the 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images, Guest Editor - Pattern Recognition Letters and JSTARS, and Co-Chair - Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Remote sensing (2008-2010).

Hossam Gaber
Exploration of clean energy technologies to support conservation strategies through green energy systems has gained global recognition as a means to a sustainable future in recent years. Director of UOIT’s Energy Safety and Control Lab, Hossam A. Gaber, PhD, specializes in smart energy grid engineering with an emphasis on safety and control engineering in clean energy technology.
Author of more than 210 publications including books, chapters and papers specializing in safety and control engineering for smart energy grid and interconnected micro energy grids, Dr. Gaber is a distinguished global energy systems researcher. He is leading plasma-based clean fusion energy research with national and international teams including Carleton University in Ottawa, and universities in China and Japan.
Dr. Gaber is a Fellow and Founding President of Canada’s Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety Professionals Society (RAMSP). He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions which include: Founding Chair of its SMC Hiroshima Chapter; Founding Chapter Chair of its Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, Toronto Section; and Technical Committee Founder and Chair of Intelligent Green Production Systems.

Liang Wang
Professor Liang Wang, professor, doctoral supervisors, mainly engaged in the study of abdominal imaging diagnosis and specialize in urogenital system of image diagnosis, especially good at the diagnosis of early prostate cancer, risk assessment and imaging evaluation. In the imaging diagnosis of various difficult diseases, such as dysuria, frequency and urgency of urination and male infertility, is also highly accomplished. Work in the image for 30 years, the results were reported by Reuters news agency in the public media, and get a positive evaluation in North America by chairman of urinary surgery. He has published more than 40 SCI papers on Radiology, JMRI, AJRI,etc. Articles have been cited more than 200 times, total cited more than 1300 times. To be invited to participate in diagnostic guidelines for prostate cancer imaging published by the American college of radiology PI - RADS (second edition), joint domestic experts as a corresponding author writing MRI guidelines and diagnostic consensus for prostate cancer, as the representative of China to attend Washington, global leaders summit on quality and safety in medical imaging. Reviewer for ER, JMRI, Abdominal Radiology, Chinese Journal of Radiology,etc. evaluation expert for Changjiang Scholars Program, Key projects of the ministry of science and technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2010, he presided over two general projects of the national natural science foundation of China.

Sayan Kumar Ray
Dr. Sayan Kumar Ray received the Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from Gulbarga University, India, Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a Design Engineer with Tait Communications, New Zealand, where he was involved in researching on the LTE and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core network. He is a Senior Lecturer and also the Research Leader and Academic Leader of Digital Technologies at Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Sayan’s research interests are in 5G networks, spectrum sharing, mobility and handover, disaster management networks, and Internet of Things. He has got multiple publications in IEEE, Elsevier and ACM journals and conferences.

Vinod Kumar Sharma
Dr. Vinod Got his MSc in Physics (specialization in electronics) from Punjabi University Patiala (India), in 1978. Received Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Physics with specialization in Solid State Materials from Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in June 1980. Dr. Vinod was awarded PhD in Solar Energy from Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) on January 1983. Worked as Senior Scientific Officer (Grade 1) at IIT Delhi during the period July 1981 – Feb.1988. Subsequently, migrated to Italy to avail Post-Doctoral Fellowship from International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, in Italy. Since then I’ve been working at various scientific institutions of international prestige; especially, JRC, ENEA, ICTP, UNESCO, etc. Have already acquired vast working experience of more than 36 years (with more than twenty-eight years working experience abroad) focusing on research and development activities on solar thermal /photovoltaic, develop european standards for solar thermal products, biomass gasification for energy production, second generation biofuels, etc. Have already published more than 150 research papers, three books, four chapters in three books, won numerous awards (inclusive of three gold medals), etc. Presently, while working as senior scientist at ENEA, also, serve as National Consultant (UNIDO), Italian expert at CTI, CEN/TC312 and Coordinator for CEN/TC312 WG2, etc.

Besim Ben-Nissan
Professor Besim Ben-Nissan has higher degrees in Metallurgical Engineering (ITU), Ceranic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering/Biomedical Engineering (University of New South Wales). Over the last three decades he has worked on production and analysis of various biomedical implants, hydroxyapatite ceramics, advanced ceramics, sol-gel developed nanocoatings for enhanced bioactivity, corrosion and abrasion protections, optical and electronic ceramics. He also has contributed in the areas of mechanical ¬properties of sol-gel developed nanocoatings.
In the biomedical field, he has involved with the development of materials for implant technology , biomimetics, bio-composites, investigative research on biomechanics and Finite Element Analysis, reliability and implant design . He has initiated worlds first reliable ceramic knee and hydroxyapatite sol gel derived nanocoatings.
He is one of the editors of the Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society and editorial board member of three international biomaterials journals. He has served as the Federal President and council member of Australian Ceramic Society (ACS), and International Society of Ceramics for Medicine and a board member of the Federation of the Advancement of Research in Medicine (FARM). He was awarded in 2000 "The Australasian Ceramic Society Award" for his contribution to Ceramic Education and Research and Development in Australia. He also received "Future Materials Award" in 2006 for his contribution to the biomedical materials field with Nanocoated materials and bone grafts.

Mohammed Safiuddin
Dr. Mohammed Safiuddin B.E. (Electrical) Osmania University, India, MSEE University of Illinois), MBA, Ph.D. UB(SUNY). Junior Engineer, Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (India) (1958-59). Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Buffalo, New York (1960-85). Research Professor, Advanced Technology Applications, Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY) (1977-present). President, STS International, Amherst, NY (1985-present). Technical interests cover static power conversion and optimal control systems applied to industrial processes, energy conservation and energy management. Holds 10 patents in this field and has published numerous technical papers. IEEE Life Fellow. Awarded Roscoe Allen Gold Medal (1957, Osmania University) for excellence in hydraulics. Awarded "IUSD Award of Merit" in 1992 (IEEE-Industry Applications Society). Recognized for meritorious achievement in continuing education by the IEEE-EAB award for the year 2000. Member Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics), Beta Gamma Sigma (Business) honor societies, and "Eminent Engineer" member Tau Beta Pi (Engineering).

Fotini Paraskeva
Dr. Fotini Paraskeva is an associate professor in learning psychology with the aid of technology in the Department of Digital Systems, at University of Piraeus. Her research interest is broadly of study learning with media and I.C.T. in educational settings, with particular emphasis on cognitive, emotional and social aspects. The intent of her research is to develop teaching methodologies in educational and training context with practical implications (computer based learning, digital tools and games, authentic assessment). Her current work also involves specific applied research design of the use of I.C.T. in rich training and work environments such as professional development in I.T. context based on quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Mario Ferreira
Dr. Mario F. S. Ferreira graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and he received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 and the Aggregation in Physics in 2006, both from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. His research interests have been concerned with the modeling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, nanophotonics, optical sensors, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is actually the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N – Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 350 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books.
He is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE - The International Society for Optical and Photonics, IEEE Photonics Society, and the Portuguese Physical Society. He has been a member of the “Membership & Education Services Council”, “Publications Council”, “Web Committee”, and “Special Publications Activities Committee” of OSA. He has been a member of the “Symposia Committee” and the “SPIE Awards Committee” of SPIE. He is a Travelling Lecturer of SPIE and OSA, having been invited to present lectures in many countries around the world. He has been the General Chair of the “Optical Sensors” Meeting, part of the annual “OSA Advanced Photonics Congress” since 2010. He served also in the technical committees of various international conferences and as a reviewer of several scientific journals in the area of optics and optoelectronics.

Liming Chen
Dr. Liming Chen is Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University, United Kingdom. He received his B.Eng and M.Eng from Beijing Institute of Technology(BIT), Beijing, China, and his Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence from De Montfort University, UK. He has worked as a senior research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, and then a lecturer, a senior lecturer and a reader at the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, before he took the Professorship at De Montfort University.
Liming’s research focuses on context computing, agent based intelligent systems, human machine interaction, data and knowledge engineering and their applications specifically in the domain of smart home based assistive living. Special emphases have been placed on the use of semantic technologies for behaviour modelling and analysis, activity recognition, user profile modelling, and interface and interaction personalisation and adaptation. He has published extensively in these areas with over 100 peer-reviewed papers spanning both theoretical and applied research domains. He is a grant holder of Research Projects funded by national (EPSRC, DEL), European (FP7, AAL) funding bodies and industry partners (SAP and IN2). He is a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the International Organization for Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, an assistant editor in chief for IJPCC and has served as PC chairs and on technical program committees for various conferences.

Moutaz Haddara
Dr. Haddara is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway, Adjunct Professor at SP Jain School of Global Management, and Professor at TIAS School for Business & Society, Utrecht, Netherlands. Formerly, he has been an Associate Prof. at the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. Haddara works as a visiting scholar at several other institutions including the University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Haddara holds a PhD in Information Systems from UiA.
He has more than 40 publications in the areas of big data, enterprise systems, smart factories, benefits management, and query optimization techniques. Haddara serves as an editorial and review board member for several information systems journals and conferences. He also works closely with the industry, and serves as an advisory council member for the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance in EMEA regions. He also has served as a researcher and consultant for several international institutions, governments and NGOs including the European Union, Deloitte and the government of Egypt. His projects mainly focus on the areas of ERP systems and Big Data Analytics. The projects include funding from Egyptian, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish institutions. Currently, he serves as an external evaluator for technology-related proposals for grants at the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Haddara also holds managerial positions at the Swedish organisation Fursa International AB for human development and other foundations.

Ehsan Asadi

Miimu Airaksinen
Dr. Miimu Airaksinen works as CEO and Managing Director at RIL Finnish Association of Civil Engineers. Before she joined RIL she worked over 10 years as a research professor in Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT. She is currently active in European Innovation Platform for Smart Cities and Communities. She is board member of CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) and she leads a CIB task group for smart cities.
She was also nominated to UN habitat policy adviser for group 9 focusing on smart cities. Airaksinen is also working as a domain expert in European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, COST, Transport and Urban Development.

Shaomin Wu
Professor Shaomin Wu received his PhD and MSc in Applied Statistics. He is currently Programme Director for the MSc Business Analytics and coordinates the Student Implant Scheme. His current research interests include Business Data Analysis, Applied Stochastic Processes, and Risk Management.
Professor Wu serves on the editorial board of several journals, including IISE Transactions, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and IMA Journal of Management Mathematics. He has co-chaired 3 international conferences, has been invited to act as scientific committee members by more than 18 international conferences, has edited 3 special issues, has been invited to review research proposals for four countries, and has published over 60 papers in academic journals. Professor Wu has also won research funding from the EPSRC as the PI and a Co-I, respectively. He is currently undertaking a research project funded by the ESRC as a co-investigator.

Yuriy Vashpanov

Sumit Kumar Gupta
Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta Dean, Faculty of Science Parishkar College of Global Excellence, Jaipur in the Department of physics, With over 15 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience. He hasbeen published 25 research papers in highly reputed UGC Approved International Journals.He hasbeen written 7 books for B.TECH engineering. He hasbeen appointed state coordinator DST Funding project Inspire 2018 at Parishkar College of Global Excellence, Jaipur.
He hasbeen appointed as The International Editorial Board member in 45 UGC approved Peer Reviewed, Scopus, Thomson’s Reuters International Journals .He guided 12 M.sc (physics) Projects, 3 MPhil (Physics) thesis, 10 MTECH Projects and 4 students on going Ph.D. under his Supervision. He havebeen awarded Best Dean of year 2018 By GECL at MIET Meerut . He has organized 3 international conference Scopus journal.
He served as members: Life Member Indian Science Congress Association, Member of Instrument Society of India (2003-2004), Life Member, Rajasthan Ganita Parishad, Rajasthan, Indian Physics Society Member, National Academy of Science, India Member, Indian Physics Society, Member, American Physics Society Member, ocean Future Society Member, National society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG). Member, Arizona Science Center (Member 1461638)Member, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Member, Institute for engineering research and publication (IFERP) . He was also appointed as examiner of various Universities and colleges.

Pengcheng Jiao
Pengcheng Jiao earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from West Virginia University and Michigan State University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Prior to joining the Ocean College at Zhejiang University as Research Professor in 2018, Dr. Jiao was working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jiao’s research interests include advanced metastructures, mechanical metamaterials, multiscale structural stability analysis, artificial intelligence in costal engineering, structural health monitoring and energy harvesting. Particular interests are focused on: 1) conceptual development and investigation of structural components and systems to expand advanced features; 2) micro/nanoscale fabrication and testing of plate-shaped mechanical metamaterials; 3) applications of artificial intelligence algorithms in design and optimization of marine structures; and 4) deployment of metastructures for multifunctional applications such as vibration-enabled energy harvesting and damage sensing in structural health monitoring.

Hiroshi Uechi
Hiroshi Uechi, PhD in nuclear physics. He obtained his doctoral degree in nuclear physics (theoretical nuclear physics) from Indiana University, USA, under the guidance of Professor Brian D. Serot who founded the nuclear field theory, quantum hadrodynamics (QHD) with Professor John D. Walecka. Currently, he is a professor at Osaka Gakuin University, and has been working on nuclear many-body theory and nuclear astrophysics. He has been investigating self-consistent QHD approximations in terms of Landau’s Fermi-liquid theory and density functional theory (DFT), while applying QHD nonlinear effective models and approximations to neutron star calculations. He revealed that nonlinear mean-field approximation method for nuclear matter is equivalent to Hartree approximation and suggested the importance of self-consistent approximation method beyond mean-field approximations.

Damien Deleruyelle
Damien Deleruyelle is full professor at INSA Lyon (France). His research activities concern emerging memory technologies (RRAM, FeRAM, NC-Flash, …) spanning from multi-scale electrical characterization up to physical modeling and simulation. He received the Ph.D. degree in micro and nanoelectronics from Aix-Marseille University in 2004 after a thesis carried out at CEA-Leti (Grenoble, France) on ultra-scaled Flash memories. From 2005 to 2016 he served as associate professor at Aix-Marseille and headed the Memory group of Im2np (Institut Matériaux Microélectronique Nanoscience de Provence, Marseille, France) in 2016. During this period he has been involved as project leader or contributor in several project funded either by the French National Research Agency or the European Community. These projects were concerning Nanocrystal-based memories (MEMOIRE, ANR-05-PNANO-043-01), the development of resistive memories for flexible electronics applications (REFLEX, ANR-11-JS03-008-1) and Resistive RAM memories (Hedy, FP6 IST, no. 33751). In 2016 he moved to INL (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, France) were he is currently developing Conductive-Bridge RAM memories based on polymer materials for flexible electronics and Ferroelectric Memories under the EU project grant 3Ferro (H2020, no. 33751780302). He his author and co-author of more than 40 papers published in international journals or conferences. He also served as conference organizer or scientific committee for the E-MRS Symposium and the IEEE International Memory Workshop (Since 2012).

Ephraim Suhir
Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 400+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. This year he received the 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems.

Evgueni Bordatchev

David Humphrey
David A Humphreys received a BSc in electronic engineering from Southampton University, UK in 1978 and a PhD in electronic engineering from London University, UK in 1990. His thesis concerned the accurate measurement of high-speed optoelectronic devices at telecommunication wavelengths. He joined the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK in 1978 developed metrology for photodiodes at up to mm-wave frequencies, optical wavelength capabilities for optical communications and waveform metrology for RF communications. His recent interests include full-waveform characterization of the primary-standard electro-optic sampling system, RF waveforms for wireless communications, EVM, New Radio, nonlinear RF measurements and correlated waveform uncertainties. He was the coordinator for the Euramet EMRP IND51 “Metrology for RF and Optical Communications” joint research project from June 2013 until June 2016 and has participated in several other Euramet projects (IND16 “Ultrafast”, SIB62 “HF Circuits”, “MET5G”) relating to RF, instrumentation and physical-layer metrology. He is Vice-Chair of the P1765 IEEE pre-standards group on “The uncertainties in Error-Vector-Measurement (EVM)”. Dr Humphreys is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET (UK), an IEEE Senior Member and a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. He was awarded the IEE Ambrose Fleming Premium in 1987 and has published over 100 peer reviewed journal and conference papers.

Ehsan Asadi
Dr. Ehsan Asadi is Co-founder and CTO at Transforma Robotics, a Singapore-based company in the field of robotics and automation in the built environment, and he serves as a scientist in robotics. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Mechanical Engineering and his PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, in 2013. Previously, he has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Robotics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as well as other research groups and robotics companies including, Poli-rotorcraft, Italy, and Terabee S.A.S, France. His main expertise includes sensor fusion, vision-aided inertial navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping, robot vision and field robotics.
He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and his involvement in research and development has led to publishing numerous articles in refereed journals and international conferences in robotics. He also serves as IEEE Access Associate Editor and reviewer for scientific journals and conferences, including the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE ICRA and IEEE IROS.

Michael Pecht
Prof Michael Pecht (25,000+ citations, 70+ H-Index) has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin. He is also a Professor in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is also the Director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering), which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an SAE Fellow and an IMAPS Fellow. He served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Access for six years, as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for nine years, and editor-in-chief of Microelectronics Reliability for sixteen years. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two US Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. FDA. He has written more than twenty books on product reliability, development, use and supply chain management. He has also written a series of books of the electronics industry in China, Korea, Japan and India. He has written over 700 technical articles and 10 patents. In 2015 he was awarded the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Award for visionary leadership in the development of physics-of-failure-based and prognostics-based approaches to electronics reliability. He was also awarded the Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship. In 2010, he received the IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for his innovations in the area of prognostics and systems health management. In 2008, he was awarded the highest reliability honor, the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

George Vassilacopoulos
George Vassilacopoulos, born in 1954, is a Professor of “Health Information Systems” at the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, Director of the “Digital Health Services” Laboratory and Director of the Postgraduate Program “Information Systems and Services”. He has been Head of the Department of Digital Systems (elected, 1999-2011), Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs (elected, 2008-2013) of the University of Piraeus, and Deputy President of the University of Piraeus Board (elected, 2012-2016). He has also been Visiting Professor of Health Informatics at New York University (NYU) during the period 2014-2017.
Professor Vassilacopoulos holds a B.Sc degree in “Mathematics” from the University of Athens, Greece, an M.Sc degree in “Statistics and Operational Research” from Loughborough University of Technology, UK, and a Ph.D degree in “Health Informatics” from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
He has mainly worked in the field of Health Informatics leading the corresponding research group at the University of Piraeus. His current research interests focus on the areas of health analytics, healthcare process management, health information systems and services, health data security and privacy, electronic healthcare records, health systems interoperability, and computer simulation. He has published extensively in the areas of his research, having authored more than 200 publications in international journals, conference proceedings, books and technical reports, and has supervised more than 200 MSc dissertations and more than 20 PhD theses. He has participated at various posts in several conferences and workshops, has served as a reviewer and guest editor in various journals and books and has acted as an evaluator and reviewer in various research programs. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Certified IT Professional (CITP).