o Professor Makhlouf experts over 26 years in materials science &nano-manufacturing engineering. He is an Metallurgical Consultant and Reviewer for several leading companies, funding agencies and universities, organizer and session chair at numerous international conferences, and advisor editor for Elsevier. He is a Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology, Central Metallurgical R&D Institute, Egypt and a former Full Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, University of Texas Pan American (UTPA). He established a state-of-the-art Surface Engineering Laboratory at UTPA.

Dr. Liang GAO is Professor of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE), the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technologyand Vice Dean of Research & Development Office, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He obtainedhis B.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronic engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2002.He has been a professor at HUST ever since 2006.

Zaki Sari is currently a senior consultant at Panafricain Istitute of Water and Engergy (PAUWES) anda Manufacturing Engineering Professor at AboubekrBelkaid University of Tlemcen (UABT), Algeria; he is the former Director of Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of Tlemcen (MELT), and the former head of the National Curriculum of Manufacturing Engineering. He obtained his Engineer degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Electrical Engineering, Boumerdes, Algeria in 1987; his Magister degree in power engineering from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, Algeria in 1990; and his Doctorate degree in manufacturing engineering from Tlemcen University in 2003. He obtained also a certificate in system engineering management from University of Missouri Rolla, USA, in 2003. After his Engineer degree, he joined the Faculty staff of the National Institute of Electrical Engineering, Boumerdes, Algeria. Then he joined the University of Tlemcen as assistant professor in 1992. In 2004 he became an associate professor then a full professor in 2009. His teaching skills include project management, factory physics, CIM, AS/RS, scheduling… Special interests : Design Modeling Optimization Flexible Manufacturing Systems Scheduling Supply Chain Management

Theodore Trafalis is professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, the MS, MSIE, and PhD in Operations Research from Purdue University. He was listed in the 1993/1994 edition of Who’s Who in the World and was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University (1989-1990), an invited Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (1996), a visiting Associate Professor at Blaise Pascal University, France and at the Technical University of Crete (1998). He was also an invited visiting Associate Professor at Akita Prefectural University, Japan (2001) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece (2007). Professor Trafalis received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award in 1991 and the Regents Award at the University of Oklahoma for his research activities in 2004. He is chief editor of Intelligent Control and Automation and participates on the editorial board of Technology and Investment, and Circuits and Systems, an associate editor of Computational Management and The Journal of Heuristics and have been on the Program Committee of several international conferences in the field of intelligent systems, data mining and optimization, on which his research interest is concentrated. He has been continuously funded through NSF and the NOAA, National Weather Service. He has published more than 150 articles in journals and conference proceedings, received several awards for his papers, 10 edited books/book chapters, and made over one hundred technical presentations.

Bo Chen if professor of Operational Research and Management Science at University of Warwick.Formerly Senior ESRC Management Research Fellow, Visiting Professor in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, USA, and Chair Professor in Mathematical Sciences and Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. Currently Fellow of the UK's Operational Research Society.

Ying Liu is Deputy Head of International and Industry Experience Tutor and Reader in Intelligent Manufacturing. Associate Editor- ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering & Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering (Taylor and Francis). He was Senior Lecturer with the Institute of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Cardiff University and Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore. Ying Liu’s research interests focus primarily on design informatics, manufacturing informatics, intelligent manufacturing, design methodology and process, product design, ICT in design and manufacturing, intelligent data analytics, information processing and management in conceptual design, engineering design and manufacturing using techniques such as data/text mining, machine learning, information retrieval, computational intelligence, AI and so on for knowledge discovery and management purpose.

Mehdi Toloo, B.Sc. (Pure Mathematics), M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics), Ph.D. (Operations Research), Associate professor at Department of Business Administration, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Areas of interest include Data Envelopment Analysis, Multi-objective programming and Network Flows. He has written fifteen books. His research has been published in European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computers, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Expert Systems with Applications, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Measurement, Computational Economics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, International Journal of Management Science, The Journal of Supercomuting, and Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.

Dr. Kailash [Kal] C. Kapur is a Professor Emeritusof Industrial & Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was the Director of Industrial Engineering at the University of Washington from January 1993 to September 1999. He was a Professor and the Director of the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma from 1989-1992 and a professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan from1970-1989. Dr. Kapur received the Ph. D. degree (1969) in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, California.He has also had visiting professor appointments at the University of Maryland, College Park; Beihang University previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics [BUAA], Beijing, China; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology [HKUST], Hong Kong. He has co-authored the book Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1977. He has co-authored (with Professor Michael Pecht) a new book, Reliability Engineering, John Wiley, 2014.He has also published over dozen book chapters in many handbooks such as Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Design, Reliability Engineering and Management, Engineering Statistics, Operations Research and Performability Engineering handbooks. He has published over seventy research papers in scholarly journals and given many keynote speeches at the international conferences in the last couple of years. He received the Allan ChopTechnical Advancement Award from the Reliability Division and the Craig Award from the Automotive Division of American Society for Quality [ASQ]. He is aFellow of American Society for Quality, a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a registered professional engineer.

Gursel A. Suer is a professor in the ISE Department at Ohio University. He has obtained his BSIE and MSIE degrees from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and PhD in IE from Wichita State University. He is on the editorial board of various journals. He has co-chaired two Computers and Industrial Engineering Conferences (1997-Puerto Rico, 2005-Istanbul), ANNIE Conference in 2009. He also initiated Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing Conferences which were held in 2000-Puerto Rico, 2003-Ohio, 2006-Netherlands, 2009-Japan. He is also organized a workshop on CM/SERU in 2016 Ohio. He was the program chair for FAIM 2018 Conference held in USA and program co-chair for ICPR to be held in Chicago in 2019. He has consulted various companies such as AVON, HP, General Dynamics, Ocular Science, Lifescan, Circo Caribe, Allergan America, Excel, Vornado, and carried out several funded projects sponsored by MVESC, TS Trim, Ohio University, NSF, AVON, Checkpoint, and Timberland. Most of his research has been motivated by his experiences and observations in industrial settings. His main interests are applied scheduling, manufacturing system design, supply chain, vehicle routing, logistics, applied optimization, decision making, genetic algorithms and hybrid systems, intelligent systems with human component, modeling competitive business strategies. He has offered workshops in Intelligent Manufacturing and Logistics and Cellular Manufacturing in various International Conferences and gave key note speeches. He has edited seven Conference Proceedings and four special issues with different journals. He has published over 60 journal papers, published 20 chapters in edited books, about 80 refereed conference papers, about 40 conference papers, and made 50 presentations. He also edited a book on cellular manufacturing in 2017.