Committee

Hornsen (HS) TZOU is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in College of Aerospace Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) (09/2015-…), the 1st--round Fellow and National Professor of the Thousand-Talent Program of China (2008), an ASME Fellow (1996), Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, and a Chair-Professor (03/2016-06/2019) at Zhejiang University. He joined Zhejiang University (09/2009-12/2015) after nearly 30-year service at the University of Kentucky (UK) (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering). He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 1979 and 1983 respectively. He was among the pioneers in “smart structures and structronic systems.” His research and teaching interests encompass smart structures and structronic systems, precision mechatronics, hybrid multi-functional piezo/photo/flexo /megneto/electro/elastic structures, design and micro-actuation of biomedical devices and tools, dynamics and distributed sensing/control of discrete and distributed systems (shells, plates, etc.), nonlinear joint/contact dynamics and control, electromechanics, opto-thermopiezoelectric devices and systems, etc. He was invited and worked at IBM (CAD/CAM and Printer R&D), Wright Laboratory (Flight Dynamics Lab), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) (Kanagawa, Japan), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg and German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) (Braunschweig, Germany), Amway Research R&D (IRI/ASEE Fellow, 1988), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) (2001 Chair of International Cooperation), NASA Levis, Harbin Institute of Technology (China), National Taiwan University (NSC Chair Professor,2006-07), etc. He directed the StrucTronics and Design Lab (founded by NSF, JPL, ARO, NASA, AFOSR, Pratt-Whitney, IBM, Ford, industries, etc. since 1985) at UK. Dr. Tzou has won six paper awards (including ASME and AIAA Best-Paper Awards), six ASME Service Awards and three NASA Class-1 New Technology Disclosure Awards (2001, 2003 and 2009). He has authored and co-authored over 500 technical publications and was named “One of the Most Cited Authors” by the Journal of Sound of Vibration in 11/2006, “2011 top-ten cited paper” in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 one of “the most cited researchers in Mechanical Engineering” in China (Elsevier), etc. He authored Piezoelectric Shells (Sensing, Energy Harvesting and Distributed Control) (two editions) and Design of Smart Structures, Devices and Structronic Systems (two editions) and edited seven other books. He was Chair (07/2012-11/2014) and Deputy (11/2008-06/2012) of the ASME Board on Technical Knowledge Dissemination (BTKD), Executive Member of Technical Communities Operating Board (TCOB) and Chair of ASME Interdisciplinary Councils (11/2008-06/2012), a founding member of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Committee, the General Chair of the 2007 ASME International Design Technical Conferences and Computers & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), the Conference Chair of the 21st Mechanical Vibration and Sound Conference, Co-chair of the 23 International Conference on Adaptive Structures Technologies, etc.

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Qiu has extensive experiences in the analysis and design of power generator, gas and liquid fuel burners, and heat exchangers. He is currently working on the development of a SOLID FUEL BURNER. This burner is to be used to gasify supplied charcoal, combusts and transfers heat to a Stirling engine for power generation. He is also developing an advanced Stirling generator for combined heating and power generation under a DOE ARPA-E grant. Qiu has served as PI for numerous research projects funded by DOE, DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force) and NASA. He was the prime designer of an Advanced Radioisotope Stirling Generator (ARSG) for NASA/DOE. He is the lead inventor of 9 issued US patents.

Angelina Tsuboi is a software developer and an aerospace cybersecurity instructor focusing on satellite systems. With over a decade of programming and development experience in addition to being a scientific researcher for NASA, she has been involved in numerous aeronautical and space-focused security initiatives for a wide range of applications ranging from drones, aircraft, and satellites. Driven by her passion for teaching, Angelina finds joy in simplifying complex subjects such as aerospace, cybersecurity, and programming to empower her students, Angelina focuses on ensuring that her students can readily apply the acquired skills to their professional and personal endeavors. Angelina is also the founder of Stellaryx Labs, a consultation, education, and development services company at the nexus of software, security, and aerospace.

Prof. D S Hooda (Former PVC Kurukshetra Univeristy). Ex-Dean(R) and HOD (Math.), JUET, A B Road Raghogarh , Distt. Guna-473226 (India). Field of Specialization: Information Theory and its Applications Research Interest: Information measures, source coding, and entropy optimization principles and their applications in statistics and finance mathematics, survival analysis, pattern recognition, various types of fuzzy sets and fuzzy information measures. Publications: Guided 13 PhDs and one PDF; published 138 research papers in various Journals, 32 popular articles on development of science and mathematics education in schools, colleges and universities; Published 11 books in Mathematics and Statistics and one book titled “Aryabhata: His Life and Contributions”. Awards: American Biographical Institute, USA, conferred with honorary appointment to Research Board of Advisors of the Institute in 2004; Indian Society of Information Theory bestowed with a prestigious award in 2005 for outstanding contribution to research in information theory; Awarded with International Plato award in 2010; Bestowed with Distinguished Service Award by VPI in 2011 and Life Time Achievement Award by Venus International Foundation at Chennai in 2015. Best Research Paper Award in 2017 by the World Academy Championship. Friendship Forum bestowed him with Bharat Excellence and Leading Educationist of India Awards on Sept.25, 2018. Life Time Achievement Award at International Conference held in MD University, Rohtak in 2018.

Prof. Shunli Wang is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Executive Vice President of Smart Energy Storage Institute, Academic Dean of Electric Power College at Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, IET Fellow, Provincial Senior Overseas Talent, Academic Leader of the National Electrical Safety and Quality Testing Center, Tianfu Qingcheng Provincial Scientific and Technological Talent, Academic and Technical Leader of China Science and Technology City, Top 2% Worldwide Scientist. His research interests include modeling, state estimation, and safety management for energy storage systems. 56 projects have been undertaken, supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Provincial Science and Technology Department et al. 258 research papers have been published with RIS value of 11617 and h-index value of 29. 52 intellectual property rights have been approved. 9 monographs have been published by famous publishers of Elsevier and IET and so on. The total print number of New Energy Technology and Power Management reaches 6300 copies that are reprinted 4 times. He has guided students on 29 science and technology innovation projects with 6 excellent completion and 34 awards in science and technology competitions. He has won 13 scientific and technological awards, including the Gold Award at the 48th Geneva Invention Exhibition. He served as chair of 17 international conferences, and 4 editorial boards of international journals, hosting the international new energy and energy storage system conference 3 times. The appraisal result has reached the internationally advanced level, as reported by People's Daily.

Dr. Patrick Siarry is a professor at the University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) since 2010. His research area is relatively (since 1982) new “metaheuristic” optimization such as simulated annealing, which is indicated for the so-called problems of “hard optimization” because of their ability to avoid in principle, trapping in sub-optimal solutions. Much of his work is explicitly one or the other keywords – in particular, modeling, identification, learning rule bases (artificial intelligence), control, nondestructive testing, and maintaining biological and medical engineering. Since 2009 he has served as a Director of Team Image Processing and Signal (TIS) at the Laboratory of Images, Signals, and Intelligent Systems. Prof. Siarry has 12 frames at 100% of doctoral theses and scientific career, for 32 years, resulting in various publications. The scientific and research activities of Prof. P. Siarry confirm him as a leading scientist in the area of “metaheuristic” optimization.

De Morais, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as: UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014); Visiting Professor at HUST – China (2012-2015); Distinguished Professor at AHU – China (2016-2019); Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília – Brazil (2018); CNPq-1A Research Fellow since 2010; 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He has published about 500 papers (Web of Science).

Alessandro Lo Schiavo received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree from the Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy, in 2000. From 2001 to 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy. In 2017, he was appointed Associate Professor of Electronics at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria of the Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy, where he teaches design of electronic systems and fundamentals of microelectronics. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless sensor networks, electronic circuits for energy harvesting analysis, design of analog electronic circuits, radio frequency communication circuits and nonlinear circuit theory. He is author of more than 90 papers published on highimpact international journals and on proceedings of international conferences. He is inventor of patent UIBM 102018000003632 “Vibration energy harvester optimized by electronically emulated mechanical tuning technique” by M. Balato, L. Costanzo, A. Lo Schiavo, M. Vitelli, and of patent UIBM 102019000004067 “Electronic device and method for the maximization of the average power extracted from a vibrational harvester” by L. Costanzo, A. Lo Schiavo, M. Vitelli. The international PCT extension of these patents is currently underway.

Prof. Sérgio D. Correia received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2000, his Master's Degree in Industrial Control and Maintenance Systems from Beira Interior University, Covilhã, Portugal, in 2010, and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2020. He is a Professor at the Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portugal, where he is the head of the Laboratory for Electronics and Instrumentation (LEI). He is a Researcher at NOVA School of Science and Technology, Center of Technology and Systems (UNINOVA-CTS), and VALORIZA - Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portalegre, Portugal, and has worked with several private companies for more than 20 years. His current research interests are Embedded Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Signal Processing, Embedded Systems, and Computer Architecture, topics on which he is an editor of several scientific journals, a collaborator at several International Conferences, and a visiting professor at several European universities.

Dr. Xing Zheng Wu is currently working as an associate professor in the civil engineering department of Hebei University in Baoding, China. His research interests focus on stability analysis of geostructures, numerical modelling of soil structure interaction, coastal cliff-beach erosion and hydraulic structures, flood risk mitigation measures, uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis in geotechnical and coastal engineering. Dr. Wu has published more than 20 journal papers by the first author in international journals, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Insight - Civil Engineering. He has served as an active reviewer for more than 30 international journals and he is a member of the editorial board of more than 10 journals.

Mr. Gheorghe Grigoras, senior lecturer, Ph. D. was born in 1976, February 28, in Vatra Dornei, Romania. He graduated in 1999 from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Electrical Engineering Faculty and began his academic career the same year. He was awarded the PhD scientific degree in the Power Engineering field in 2005. His scientific activity materialized in 12 published books, 1 book chapter, 185 scientific papers as main author and co-author published in conference proceedings and journals. Since 1999, he was a team member in 15 scientific research projects. As part of The National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation PNII (2007-2013) from Romania, in the Human Resources - Awarding Research Results programme, he has three awarded papers. In the last two years, he was a member in the scientific committee of prestigious international conferences: 7th International Conference on Deregulated Electricity Market Issues in South – Eastern Europe, 2012, Romania, 7th International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering, Romania, 2012, Science and Information Conference, London, UK, 2013, 2nd International Conference on Computation Theory and Information Technology Taiwan, 2013, 4th International Conference on Computing and Informatics, Malaysia, 2013. He is a reviewer for international journals: International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Energy, WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems, Network and Communication Technologies Journal, Journal of Electrical and Control Engineering, Journal of Energy and Power Engineering.

Nikolaos K. Spyrou is Professor of Astronomy at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, retired since 2011. He has taught extensively at both the under graduate and post graduated levels, conducted research work and lectured in many universities and research centers in Greece and abroad, and, also, served in many national and international administrational-scientific posts. His books and research articles belong to General Relativity Theory, Fluids, Gravitational Astrophysics, Environnemental Physis (and, secondarily, Space Physics, History of Astronomy, and Science Education). His more recent research interests belong to Relativistic Cosmology combined with Thermodynamics for the collisional polytropic fluid-Universe with thermodynamic content. This unified model, with it’s radical consequences and predictions, not only interprets the observations associated with universe expansion, but successfully confronts all the current issues of cosmological significance, thus arising as a viable alternative to the physically insufficient and conceptually inconsistent ΛCDM model.

As a research scientist, Dr. Omid Akbarzadeh Pivehzhani works with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He used to work at the Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre, University of Malaya in Malaysia from 2016 to 2020. His main research area is heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering. He has spent 13 years in academic-industrial projects as a research officer and post-doctoral. Dr Omid has worked as a chemical engineer for 5 years in the oil and gas industry. He developed advanced smart catalysts, especially for the oil and gas industries. Dr Omid has contributed to two PETRONAS Research SdnBhd industrial catalyst projects and worked on an international Airbus R&D project in NANOCAT. Currently, he is the PI of the graphene catalyst project at Hokkaido University in Japan, a project member of the FRGS grant in UTP and assigned to the NANOCAT centre project. Dr. Omid was the Chairman, keynote speaker and organising committee of many international conferences. He is currently the supervisor of three PhD students from different countries. He has published many ISI papers; and book chapters and has two approved and granted patents. Also, he has hands-on experience and passed several pieces of training on handling different types of equipment which are being widely used for material synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation. He is in close collaboration with other departments, government agencies and universities worldwide. He was a visiting researcher at Jiangsu University China and Hokkaido University Japan. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and a Senior Member of the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. Omid was awarded a full fellowship from the University Technology PETRONAS during his PhD and was involved asa lab demonstrator and teaching in the different courses of chemical engineering. He was awarded the Silver Medal atthe 27th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX 2016), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia and the Silver Medal of Post Graduate Research Project at the 35th Science & Engineering Design Exhibition (SEDEX 35).

I am an Armenian, and my homeland is Armenia. Science is my element. My area of interest is natural sciences. From natural phenomena, I have given a new explanation for the occurrence of hail (The Formation of the Hail and the Newlycome Snow. XXI International Congress of Teoretical and Applied Mechanics. 2004,Warsaw, Poland) In recent years, I have mainly dealt with the problems of astronomy and astrophysics, starting with the Big Bang, the formation of the Solar system, issues of energy and stability of stars. I also consider my scientific work “On the experiment of Michelson-Morley” (PhysCon 2009. Catania, Italy.) to be one of my important achievements. where I proved that the mentioned experiment, which is the basis of Einstein's theory, was a failed experiment.

Prof. Dr. Yew Kee WONG (Eric) is a Professor, Associate Vice President and Registrar at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. Previously, he served as a Professor at BASIS, Jiangxi Normal University in Jiangxi, and Huanghuai University in Henan. He obtained a BSc (Hons) in Computing Systems and a PhD in AI from Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. He was the youngest undergraduate and PhD student admitted to NTU at the age of 15 and 19 respectively. He served as Senior Programmer Director at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) between 2001 and 2016. He currently serves as a Research Project Supervisor at the Southern Institute of Technology in New Zealand for Masters and PhD students. His research interests include AI, quantum computing, big data analytics, and Web3 technology. In his career as a researcher, he has used a variety of programming languages, including Python, Rust, Java, JavaScript, C++, HTML, PHP, and SQL.

Raul Duarte Salgueiral Gomes Campilho has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2009) and a Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering, both from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). He is an auxiliary professor of the Mechanical Engineering department of ISEP – School of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Porto (Portugal), where he teaches several courses of the Bachelor and Master degree in Mechanical Engineering. Since 2023 he is the deputy director of CIDEM – Center for Research & Development in Mechanical Engineering. He develops his research activities in ISEP and INEGI – Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, which is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO), and is affiliated to the LAETA – Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aerospace. His research mainly focuses on adhesive joints; structural adhesives; design of bonded joints; experimental testing; Finite Element Method; Extended Finite Element Method; Meshless Methods; Cohesive Zone Models; composite materials; numerical modeling of composite materials; micromechanics; macromechanics; design of mechanical structures; flexible production; automation; robotics; and actuator systems. He was the principal investigator of 1 national R&D project and participated as a researcher in 6 national R&D projects, all funded through competitive calls. He also participated in 1 R&D project in collaboration with the Portuguese industry (funded through competitive calls). He is/was the (co)supervisor of 6 PhDs (1 concluded and 5 ongoing) and 258 MSc thesis. His publication record contains 340 articles & reviews published in Web of Science-indexed journals and 154 book chapters. He also co-edited 3 books and was the (co)author of over 400 communications that were presented in international conferences and 18 communications presented in national conferences.

Dr. Dariusz Jacek Jakobczak he is currently working as a assistant professor Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Sniadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland. He received PhD in He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Dariusz Jacek Jakobczak he wrote as a many articles and he also wrote a book named as an Analyzing Risk through Probabilistic Modeling in Operations Research