Silvano Donati (M’75, SM’98, F’03, LF’09) and has been Chair Professor of University of Pavia from 1980 to 2014, before becoming Emeritus Professor in 2015. He has authored or co-authored 350+ papers and holds a dozen patents. He has introduced self-mixing interferometry and chaos-shift-keying cryptography, the topics covered in his Distinguished Lecture talk given in 21 LEOS (now IPS) Chapters in two terms, 2007/09. He has authored two books, ‘Photodetectors’ (Prentice Hall, 1999) and ‘Electro-Optical Instrumentation’ (Prentice Hall, 2004). He has received several awards from the AEIT and IEEE, in particular the Marconi medal of AEIT, the Aaron Kressel Award and the Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. He was the founder (1996) and first Chairman (1997-01) of the Italian LEOS Chapter, LEOS VP Region 8 Membership (2002-04) and BoG (2004-06), and the Chairman of the IEEE Italy Section (2008-09). He has been Visiting Professor at several Universities of Taiwan: NTU, Taipei, 2005, Sun Yat Sen, Kaohsiung (2007, 2008, 2010), NCKU, Tainan 2012, NCHU, Taichung, 2013-14, and NTUT, Taipei 2015-6, and is advisor at COBRA (The Netherland), Oulu University (Finland), Xi'An, Nanjing and Wuhan Universities (P.R.C.) and evaluator of National Taiwan University. Prof. Donati is Life Member of SPIE, Life Fellow of the IEEE, and OSA Emeritus Fellow

Dr. Tohru Higuchi received his Ph.D from Tokyo University of Science in 2000. He worked as Assistant Professor in Tokyo University of Science, Japan from 2000 to 2007 and a visiting scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California in Berkeley, U.S.A from 2007 to 2008. From 2009, he is an Associate Professor in Tokyo University of Science. His research interests include the nanoionics devices using oxide ionic conductor and strongly correlated oxide thin film. He has authored and co-authored 210 journal papers and presented totally more than 550 oral and poster presentations including 30 invited presentations.

Mohamed Henini obtained his first degree at the University of Oran, Algeria. He went to Nottingham University and was awarded the PhD degree in 1984. Mohamed has over 25 years of experience in Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth. His particular speciality is the physics and technology of MBE growth for III-V electronic and optoelectronic devices. He has authored and co-authored over 920 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has an h-index of 50. He is the founder of two international conferences namely, Low Dimensional Structures and Devices (LDSD) and Epitaxial Semiconductors on Patterned Substrates and Novel Index Surfaces (ESPS-NIS). He edited six books which were published by Elsevier and serves on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.

Dr. Houxiao Wang received his PhD degree from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2013. He conducted the collaboration work attached with the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) in Singapore from 2009 to 2011. He got the NTU Research Scholarship (Singapore) in 2008. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University. His current research interests mainly focus on advanced laser drilling, trepanning, machining, processing and manufacturing assisted by water-based ultrasonic vibrations and/or magnetic fields, materials processing, and focused ion beam (FIB) nanofabrication and nanometrology for optical applications. He is an invited editorial board member of American Journal of Physics and Applications (AJPA). Dr. Wang is currently the member of several professional organizations such as The Optical Society of America (OSA), the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore (OPSS), and the Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRSS). He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has been invited as or served as the (honorable) plenary/keynote/invited speaker, the honorable guest/speaker, the (honorable) session chair/co-chair, the honorable/invited organizing committee member, the invited scientific committee member and/or the technical program committee member for around20 important international conferences in the area.

Greg Sun received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. He is currently a professor in Electrical Engineering and founding Chair of the Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests are in optoelectronics, silicon photonics, and nanophotonics. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and book chapters, delivered over 150 invited and contributed conference talks, and given over 50 seminars and colloquia. As of November 2018, his work has been cited over 5000 times with the h-index of 41. He served on various conference and symposium committees and as a guest editor for Optics Express, ACS Photonics andJournal of Physics D: Applied Physics. He is now an associate editor for Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Hamid Reza Karimi received the B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in electrical power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2009 to 2016 he was a full professor of Mechatronics and Control Systems at University of Agder. Since 2016, he has been a professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. His current research interests include control systems and mechatronics with applications to automotive control systems and wind energy. Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Taylor & Francis, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machines (MDPI Switzerland), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Designs (MDPI Switzerland) and an Editorial Board Member for some international journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Information Sciences, IFAC-Mechatronics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Neurocomputing, Asian Journal of Control, Journal of The Franklin Institute, for instance. He is a member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, the Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the Committee on Robust Control, and the Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi awarded as the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering.

Dr. Alexander L. Kalamkarov is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada since 1993, and Director of Smart Materials Centre since 1995. He was awarded the PhD degree from the Moscow State University in 1979 and the Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1990. His academic career spans over 40 years in Research and University teaching. He has taught in the Universities in USA, England, France, Australia, Japan, and visited numerous Universities and Research Institutes around the world. Research performed by Prof. Kalamkarov in mechanics of solids, and specifically in micromechanics of advanced composite materialsand smart structures is internationally recognized. Hehas authored more than 350research publications, including 150refereed journal papers, 8 Research Monographs and 2 US patents. Prof. Kalamkarov is awarded the CANCAM Gold Medal for the “outstanding contribution in the area of Applied Mechanics” in 2011. He has served as a Vice-President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and is a Member of numerous prestigious International Editorial and Advisory boards in the area of composite materials and smart structures.

Dr. Rosli Ahmad is a metallurgical researcher known for his contribution to the magnesium research as well as his work in promoting magnesium for light-weighting applications in the transportation sector. He received his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wales in 2006.

Dr. EminTaner ELMAS, is an “Assistant Professor” and “Head of Department” of “Energy Systems Engineering” of “Faculty of Engineering And Natural Sciences” at Iskenderun Technical University (İSTE) in Turkey. He is also the “Director of Energy Institute” of İSTE- Iskenderun Technical University and he is a universitysenate member at İSTE. His job title is DR. Mechanical Engineer, M.Sc., Ph.D., and he was born in 25/06/1974 in Sivas / Turkey. He has graduated from faculty of Mechanical Engineering as B.Sc. in 1995 and then completed his M.Sc. in “Energy” at Mechanical Engineering Department of DokuzEylül University in İzmir, Turkey and after that he received his Ph.D. in “Thermodynamics” at Mechanical Engineering Department of Ege University, in İzmir, Turkey. He has worked in various industrial companies at different scope of supply, sectors, subjects and at different positions, e.g. Site Chief, Project Manager, Management Representative, Quality Manager, Factory Manager, Energy Manager, R&D Manager (CSO-Chief Science Officer , CTO-Chief Technology Officer), Business Development Manager (CBDO-Chief Business Development Officer), Deputy General Manager and General Manager. He is also serving as a Peer Reviewer and member of SCIEI- Science And Engineering Institute. Asst. Prof. Dr. ELMAS has served as a Peer Reviewer for NPP- NASA Postdoctoral Program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA) and USRA (Universities Space Research Association, USA). He has also served as a Peer Reviewer for some NASA EPSCoR and NASA EPSCoR ISS Proposal projects. He has also made peer reviews for various articles / publications for some universities. Asst. Prof. Dr. ELMAS has also been serving as a Peer Reviewer and member for the Education Committee of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) International Gas Turbine Institute. He is also member of American Energy Society (AES).

Dr. Mohan Reddy Moola working as a Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Curtin University Sarawak Campus. Prior joining Curtin University, he worked several years as a lecturer in India and Ethiopia. In addition, he has 2 years industrial experience in Sujala Pipes Pvt Ltd, India. He obtained his PhD (Manufacturing area) from Curtin University and Master degree (Mechanical Systems, Dynamics and Control) from I.I.T. Kharagpur. His teaching interest in the area of Materials, Mechanics, Machine Dynamics, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Process. His current research focused on the machining of Composite materials.

Dr. Akhtar is an Assoc. Professor at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) of The National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). He received his BSc in 1996 and MSc in 1998 in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2000, he was awarded the Japanese Government’s Monbukagakusho Scholarship and joined the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in Okazaki, Japan where attained his PhD in March 2003. After his PhD, he joined at the Dept. of Electronic Chemistry of The Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan as a Postdoctoral Researcher for three years. Subsequently, he worked at Fujifilm Fine Chemical Company in Japan in 2006-2007 (Chemist), King Saud University in Saudi Arabia in 2009-2010 (Assistant Professor), Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan at the Dept. of Chemistry in in 2010-2012 (Assistant Professor) and University of Malaya at The Dept. of Chemistry in 2012-2013 (Senior Lecturer). He was also awarded one of the most prestigious fellowship of JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion Science) in 2007-2009 at the Dept. of Electronics and Applied Physics of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests are on rational design of organic/inorganic semiconductors, Nano-materials for various applications, including Dye-sensitized Solar cells (DSSCs), Perovskite thin film solar cell, Graphene /Quantum dots-based Hybrid solar cells , Bulk-heterojunction Solar cells (BHJs), Light-Emitting Organic Field-effect Transistors (LE-OFETs), Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs), Flexible Memory Devices, Chemical and Biological Sensors, Nano-electronics and Electroluminescence devices.

Mário F. S. Ferreira was born in Ovar, Portugal. He 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. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. 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, namely: “Optics and Photonics” (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), “Topics of Mathematical Physics” (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2017, Brazil, in Portuguese), “Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances” (Ed., NOVA Science Publishers, 2016), and “Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers” (John Wiley & Sons, OSA, 2011). 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. He is presently an Associate Editor of “Optical Fiber Technology- Materials, Devices, and Systems” (Elsevier) and a member of the Advisory Board of “Fiber and Integrated Optics” (Taylor & Francis), “Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics” (Old City Publishing, Inc.), “Journal of Optics and Photonics” (Herbert Publications), and “International Journal of Optics” (Hindawi Publishing Corporation). He was the Guest Editor of the Special Issues “Fiber and Integrated Optics: Fiber Optics in Portugal” (Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Vol. 24, Nº 3-4, 2005) and “Fiber and Integrated Optics: Nonlinear Fiber Optics” (Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Vol. 34, 2015.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last four years (2014 - 2018) over 50 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE). Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

He received his PhD degree in Polymer Science from Hokkaido University in 1999 under the supervision of Profs. YoshihitoOsada and Jian Ping Gong. In this year, he moved to Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University as an assistant professor. In 2002, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Patrick De Kepper of CRPP Bordeaux in France. He works currently at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University as a research professor since 2016. He has published more than 110 scientific papers (including reviews and books) and 11 patents dedicated to soft materials, especially magnetic responsive gels or elastomers.

Manuel Malaver graduated in Central University of Venezuela, who held Doctor in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He has been Professor in General Physics, Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Fluids in the Maritime University of the Caribbean since January 2007.Member of research promotion program since 11/25/2006 to 12/31/2008 with the rank of research candidate. Member of research promotion program since 01/20/2009 until 12/31/2010 with the rank of Researcher Level I. Member of the stimulus program for research and innovation since June 2011 until february 2013 with the rank of Research Level A.Member of the Editorial Committee International of the RevistaIngeniería of the University of Costa Rica since June 24, 2013 until june 2015.Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Science Reports since December 27, 2013. Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science, Open Science Journal of Modern Physics and American Journal of Modern Physics and Application from march 25, 2014 until march 25, 2016.Member of the Editorial Board of American Journal of Modern Physics from may 14, 2014. Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science from may 14, 2014. Member of the Editorial Board of American Journal of Physics and Applications from may 14, 2014. Lead Guest Editor of special issue “Compact Objects in General Relativity” in International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science. Member of the Editorial Board of Universal Journal of Physics and Applications since march 31, 2015 until march 30, 2018. Member of the Editorial Board of General Scientific Researches since July 1, 2016.Member of the Editorial Board of World Applied Programming since July 1, 2016.Academic Editor of Physical Science International Journal since 07/15/2017 until 07/14/2021. Academic Editor of Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research since 08/17/2017 until 08/17/2020. Referee of Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research, Annals of Physics, Journal of Applied Physical Science International, British Journal of Applied Science and Technology, British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, Universal Journal of Physics and Applications, Astrophysics and Space Science, Enseñanza de lasCiencias, Physical Science International Journal, British Journal of Applied Science and Technology, Asian Journal of Physical Sciences. Member of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SEMA) since 3/3/2010. Academic Member of Athens Institute for Education and Research since 3/1/2016. He is an author of more than 50 research papers in international journals and 2 textbooks. His areas of research are Applied Mathematics, Exact Solutions to the Einstein Field Equations, Mathematical Physics, General Relativity, Cosmology and Gravitation and Applied Thermodynamics