Masahiro YOSHIMURA was graduated for B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970,Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. After retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus, Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, China, . then National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Distinguished Chair Prof. He received ,Academic Award (1993) from The Ceramic Soc. Japan, 10th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) Fellow(1995),Distinguished Life Award(2017) from The Amer. Ceram. Soc., and Honorary Fellow(2017) from European Ceramic Soc.,He is nominated form Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001).Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,5 Books (48 Book Chapters) & 30 Patents, and >22,000 Internatinal. Citations with h-index >75 by Scopus,>34,000 & >88 by Google,#67 in Mater. Sci.in the World. He has organized 25 Internl Confs::IUMRS-ICA,Chiba,1997, IUMRS-ICAM,Yokohama,2003, and , 6th ISHA,2016, Tainan,Taiwan. etc. He is Founding President(2006-2008) of ISHA, President of the Advisory Board(2010-2014) in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), An Advisory Officer, IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007,Former President of MRS-Japan). He was awarded as a Distinguished Life Member in American Ceramic Society,and a Honorary Fellow in European Ceramic Society.

Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France, until 1979. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,the EU Academy of Sciences, a ForeignMember of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. He is recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 65,000 and his Hirsch factor is 111. His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Founding Director of International Center for Actuators and Transducers, Materials Research Institute and Professor of EE and MatSE,Distinguished Honors Faculty of Schreyer Honors College at The Penn State University. He wasAssociate Director (Global Technology Awareness) at The US Office of Naval Research – Global Tokyo Office from 2010 till 2014. He was also the Founder and Senior Vice President & CTO of Micromechatronics Inc., State College, PA from 2004 till 2010. After being awarded his Ph. D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, he became Research Associate/Assistant Professor (1976)in Physical Electronics Department at this university. Then, he joined Sophia University, Japan as Associate Professor in Physics Department in 1985. He was then recruited from The Penn State University in 1991. He was also involved with Space Shuttle Utilizing Committee in NASDA, Japan during 1986-88, and Vice President of NF Electronic Instruments, USA, during 1992-94. He was the Founding Chair of Smart Actuators/Sensors Committee, Japan Technology Transfer Association sponsored by Ministry of Economics, Trading and Industries, Japan from 1987 to 2014, and is a long-term Chair of International Conference on New Actuators, Messe Bremen, Germany since 1997. He was also the associate editor for Journal of Advanced Performance Materials, J. Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Uchino served as Administrative Committee Member (Elected) of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (1998-2000) and as Secretary of American Ceramic Society, Electronics Division (2002-2003). His research interest is in solid state physics, especially in ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics, including basic research on theory, materials, device designing and fabrication processes, as well as application development of solid state actuators/sensors for precision positioners, micro-robotics, ultrasonic motors, smart structures, piezoelectric transformers and energy harvesting. K. Uchino is known as the discoverer/inventor of the following famous topics: (1) lead magnesium niobate (PMN)-based electrostricive materials, (2) cofired multilayer piezoelectric actuators (MLA), (3) superior piezoelectricity in relaxor-lead titanate-based piezoelectric single crystals (PZN-PT), (4) photostrictive phenomenon, (5) shape memory ceramics, (6) magnetoelectric composite sensors, (7) transient response control scheme of piezoelectric actuators (Pulse-Drive technique), (8) micro ultrasonic motors, (9) multilayer disk piezoelectric transformers, and (10) piezoelectric loss characterization methodology. On-going research projects are also in the above areas, especially in the last three items (8), (9) and (10).He has authored 582 papers, 78 books and 33 patentsin the ceramic actuator area. 53 papers/books among his publications have been cited more than 100 times, leading to his average h-index77. Total citation number 30,600and annual average citation number 1500 are very high in College of Engineering. He was also awarded his MBA degree from St. Francis University (2008), and authored a textbook, “Entrepreneurship for Engineers” for College of Business. He is a Fellowof American Ceramic Society since 1997, a Fellow LifeMember of IEEE since 2012, a Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors since 2019, and also is a recipient of31 awards, includingWilhelm R. Buessem Award from the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, The Penn State University (2019), Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE UFFC Society (2018), International Ceramic Award from Global Academy of Ceramics(2016),IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Recognition Award (2013),Inventor Award from Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, Virginia Tech (2011), Premier Research Award from The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (2011), the Japanese Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics Award on Outstanding Academic Book (2008), SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers),Smart Product Implementation Award (2007), R&D 100 Award (2007), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Adaptive Structures Prize (2005), Outstanding Research Award from Penn State Engineering Society (1996), Academic Scholarship from Nissan Motors Scientific Foundation (1990), Best Movie Memorial Award at Japan Scientific Movie Festival (1989), and the Best Paper Award from Japanese Society of Oil/Air Pressure Control (1987).

Professor Thomas is the Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is an outstanding leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Thomas’s ground breaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnological and nano-biomedical sciences, have made transformative differences in the development of new materials for automotive, space, housing and biomedical fields. Professor Thomas has received a number of national and international awards which include: Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Distinguished Professorship from Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, MRSI medal, CRSI medal and Sukumar Maithy award. He is in the list of most productive researchers in India and holds a position of No.5. Professor Thomas has published over 600 peer reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters. He has co-edited 35 books published by Royal Society, Wiley, Wood head, Elsevier, CRC Press, Springer, Nova etc. He is the inventor of 4 patents. The H index of Prof. Thomas is 67 and has more than 17,000 citations. Prof. Thomas has delivered over 300 Plenary/Inaugural and Invited lectures in national/international meetings over 30 countries. He has established a state of the art laboratory at Mahatma Gandhi University in the area of Polymer Science and Engineering and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology through external funding form DST, CSIR, UGC, DBT, DRDO, AICTE, ISRO, TWAS, KSCSTE, BRNS, UGC-DAE, Du Pont, USA, General Cables, USA, Surface Treat Czech Republic, Apollo Tyres. Professor Thomas has several international collaborative projects with a large number of countries abroad. He has already supervised 65 PhD theses. The former co-workers of Prof.Thomas occupy leading positions in India and abroad.

Professor Tong Lin received his PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1998. He is a Professor and Personal Chair in Fibrous Materials, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and an ARC Future Fellow. His research interest covers a wide area of electrospinning, nanofibres, functional fabrics, polymers, and applications in diverse fields.

Prof. Dr. Jordi Arbiol having graduated in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, he went on to obtain his PhD in transmission electron microscopy as applied to nanostructured materials from this same university in 2001, earning the “European Doctorate” label in recognition of the project’s European dimension, as well as the university’s extraordinary doctorate award. He then held the position of assistant professor at the UB, before becoming a group leader at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in 2009, as well as the scientific supervisor of this institute’s electron microscopy facility. It was here that he began his personal and professional mission to improve Barcelona’s baseline electron microscopy infrastructure, an endeavour he has continued to pursue at the ICN2, which he joined in 2015 as the leader of the Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group. In 2017 he became the president of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME), having been its vice-president from 2013 to 2017 and board member since 2009. In 2019 he became Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM). He was also appointed by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) as the scientific supervisor of its strategic multidisciplinary area of Electron Microscopy. Other recognitions include the 2014 EU40 Materials Prize (E-MRS), the 2014 EMS Outstanding Paper Award and being listed in the Top 40 under 40 Power List (2014) by The Analytical Scientist. He currently has more than 360 peer-reviewed publications, h-index: 69 WoS (78 GoS), with more than 14950 WoS (19200 GoS) citations.

Prof. Dr. Cyrille Boyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier II. After working with Dupont Performance Elastomers, Cyrille moved to UNSW in the centre for advanced macromolecular design. He was awarded the SCOPUS Young Researcher of the year Award in 2012, one of the six 2015 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes (Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the year), the 2016 LeFevre Memorial Prize and nominated as one of the inaugural Knowledge Nation 100 selected by the Knowledge Society, guided by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb and senior commentators from The Australian newspaper. Cyrille’s research has also been recognized by several international awards, including ACS Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Award and Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award. Cyrille is the co-director of Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and member of Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design. The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine regroups 12 academics, 25 post-docs and research associates and 80 PhD students. Cyrille’s research interests mainly cover the use of photoredox catalysts to perform living radical polymerization and polymer post-modification, hybrid organic–inorganic nanoparticles for imaging and drug delivery. Cyrille has published over 200 research articles, 5 book chapters and eight patents which have gathered over 18446 citations resulting in H-index of 78.

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Chen is currently a Specially-appointed Professor at Nankai University, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1995. After two years of postdoctoral work at Princeton University, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Research Staff Member before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University in 1998. He has edited one book, and published 8 invited book chapters and about 250 papers in refereed journals. His work received numerous citations with an h-index of 53 (according to ISI Web of Sci.). He was elected to the Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2009 and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. Dr. Chen has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Optics Letters, Light Science & Applications, Science Bulletin, Advances in Physics X, Scientific Reports, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including the Program/General Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Dr. Richard J. Spontak is a Distinguished Professor and Alumni Distinguished Graduate and Undergraduate Professor in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering (with honors/high distinction) from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and was later awarded the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. He then pursued post-doctoral research in Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and Condensed Matter Physics at the Institute for Energy Technology (Norway) before joining the Corporate Research Division of the Procter & Gamble Company in 1990. In 1992, he accepted a faculty position at North Carolina State University, where he supervises the Macromolecular Materials & Morphology Group. Since that time, Spontak has published over 290 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 35 scholarly works as book chapters and invited monographs, and his work has been featured on 30 journal covers and cited over 13,000 times according to Google Scholar. Although active in a diverse range of disciplines, his primary research interests relate to the phase behavior and morphology/property development of nanostructured polymers, polymer nanocomposites and coatings, electron microscopy, and stimuli-responsive soft materials. In recognition of his fundamental and applied research endeavors, he is the recipient of numerous honors and awards such as the Alcoa Foundation Engineering Achievement and Distinguished Engineering Research Awards, Alexander von Humboldt and Tewkesbury fellowships, the North Carolina State University Alumni Outstanding Research and Global Engagement Awards, the American Chemical Society (PMSE Division) Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science & Engineering, the German Society for Electron Microscopy Ernst Ruska Prize, the American Chemical Society (Rubber Division) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Colwyn Medal, the Norwegian University of Science & Technology Lars Onsager Medal, and the Society of Plastics Engineers International Award. An elected fellow of the American Physical Society, IOM3, the Royal Society of Chemistry and other societies, he is or has been on the editorial advisory board of more than 20 international journals and holds editorial positions on 3 of them. He has been recognized as a 2007 Outstanding Scholar Alumnus and a 2012 Alumni Fellow by the Pennsylvania State University, and he is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the North Carolina State University Research Leadership, Global Engagement and Outstanding Teaching Academies. Spontak is also a highly acclaimed educator and academic mentor. For his instructional effectiveness employing cooperative and active learning pedagogies in the classroom and his widespread efforts to promote interdisciplinary engineering design and undergraduate research, he has received college- and alumni-level Outstanding Teaching Awards, as well as the university-level Board of Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest institutional honor bestowed by the University of North Carolina system. He has also received an International Network for Engineering Education & Research Recognition Award and the American Society for Engineering Education Southeast Region Outstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award, and he has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and an Erasmus Fellow.

Dr. Habil. Vaidotas KAŽUKAUSKAS is a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He was awarded Dr. Habil. degree in 1999. The topics of his research work are carrier transport, generation, recombination and trapping phenomena in advanced materials and structures for (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic applications. Prof. V. Kažukauskas is/was involved as a team leader into the six large-scale international projects and other numerous projects. He was awarded the National Science Award of Lithuanian Republic, the National Science Award for the Distinguished Scientist, the Science Award of the Rector of Vilnius University and others. V. Kažukauskas has more than 380 publications, had delivered more than 60 invited lectures at the international conferences, and authored three textbooks.

Professor Stathis Michaelides is currently the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University (TCU). Prior to this he was chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he also held the Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering and was the Founder and Director of the NSF-supported Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing (SiViRT). In the past he was the Founding Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas (2006-2007); the Leo S.Weil Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University (1998-2007); Director of the South-Central Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (2002-2007); Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the School of Engineering at Tulane University (1992-2003); Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tulane (1990-1992). Between 1980 and 1989 he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware, where he also served as Acting Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department (1985-1987). Professor Michaelides holds a B.A. degree (honors) from Oxford University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University. He was awarded an honorary M.A. degree from Oxford University (1983); the Casberg and Schillizzi Scholarships at St. Johns College, Oxford; the student chapter ASME/Phi,Beta,Tau excellence in teaching award (1991 and 2001); the Lee H. Johnson award for teaching excellence (1995); a Senior Fulbright Fellowship (1997); the ASME Freeman Scholar Award (2002); the Outstanding Researcher Award at Tulane (2003); the ASME Outstanding Service Award (2007); the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2014); and the ASME 90th Anniversary of FED Medal, 2016. Professor Michaelides was a member of the executive committee of the Fluids Engineering Division of the ASME (2002-08) and served as chair of the Division in 2005-2006. Prior to this he has served as chair (1996-1998) of the Multiphase Flow Technical Committee. He served twice as the President of the ASEE Gulf-South Region (1992-93 and 2016-2017). He chaired the 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flows (New Orleans May 27 to June 1, 2001) and was the vice-chair of the 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flows, (Yokohama, Japan May 2004). He has published more than 160 journal papers and has contributed more than 250 papers and presentations in national and international conferences. He is currently editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has also authored six books on: a) Particles, Bubbles and Drops – their motion and heat transfer (World Scientific, 2006); b) Alternative Energy Sources (Springer 2012); c) Heat and Mass Transfer in Particulate Suspensions (Springer 2013); d) Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Nanofluids (Springer 2014); e) Multiphase Flow Handbook, 2nd Edition (CRC Press 2017); and f) Energy, the Environment and Sustainability, (CRC Press 2018).

Dr. Ivo(yl) P. Koutsaroff is Pentalingual (2 Asian Languages and 3 European) Professional (Executive Technical Director) working on Advanced Thin film Materials & Devices. He authored ~80 publications with over 356 citations and an inventor of more than 58 patents. He has over 22 years of experience in research & development in industrial environment, new materials development, process development, intellectual property, device performance improvement by leading small development teams. His technical competencies include physics, materials science, electrical engineering, thin film deposition, complex nitride, oxide and oxynitride materials, surface science, plasma processes, ferroelectrics, piezoelectric multilayer devices, RF passive components, software for automation, and optics. His main R&D activities cover conceptual & experimental design of new high performance piezoelectric and high-K dielectric thin films, passive devices (IPDs) and development of novel anion-controlled inorganic material systems for various energy-storage applications. Strong utilization of conceptual and experimental combinatorial and film stoichiometry variation approach for creation of new functional nitride/oxide/oxynitride materials and optimization of their functionalities by using various deposition techniques. The key difference is in utilization of sample size on large wafer size level sufficient for direct testing of various device concepts. He is expert on plasma deposition techniques and process development based on PECVD, RF, HiMIPS, quasi-reactive sputtering (PVD), PECVD, MBE and ALD. He was a Guest-Editor of CGD journal ACS. He organized a FE Thin Films symposium at the MRS (Boston, 2003) and he is the founder of ANIM1 Symposium (E-MRS Strasbourg, 2013). He was also Session Chair at a ISIF, a MRS, E-MRS Symposia, etc. He is regularly invited to conduct a peer review for articles published in APL,JAP, APL Materials, etc.He had Professional Engineer license from PEO to practice as an Electronic Engineer in Canada.

Pietro Ferraro is currently director of research at CNR Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI-CNR), Napoli Italy. Previously, he has been foundered and director of ISASI-CNR f(2014-2019) and President of CNR Research Area in Pozzuoli (2012-2019). Currently he has various roles in different public and private organizations in Italy. He also worked as Principal Investigator with Leonardo Compnay (former Finmccanica - Alenia Aeronautics. He has published 12 book chapters, 350 papers in journals, more than 300 papers at International Conferences. He edited two books with Springer. He holds 14 patents. Among his current scientific interests are: holography, interferometry, microscopy, fabrication of micro-nanostructures, ferroelectric crystals, optical fiber sensors, fiber bragg gratings, nano-microfluidics, optofluidics, EHD Ink jet printing, soft matter. Dr. Ferraro has chaired many International Conferences. He is in the Editorial Board of Optics and Lasers in Engineering (Elsevier) and Topic Editor of Biomedical Optics Express (OSA) and Light: Science & Applications (Nature) He is Fellow of SPIE and Fellow of OSA. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Member of IEEE Photonics Italian Chapter. In 2020 was recipient of the prestigious SPIE Dennis Gabor Award. According to Google Scholar he has more 13.600 citations and H-index of 61. He has published his research in many high-ranked journals among which are: Nature-Light & Science Applications, Nature Nanotechnology, Science, PNAS, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Proceedings of IEEE, ACS Materials and Interfaces, Lab On a Chip, Nature Communications.

Prof. Olég Figóvsky D.Sc. in Materials Engineering (Nanotechnology, Composite Materials), academician of EAS, RAASN and REA. He was elected as the honorary professor of a few universities in Poland (WSG) and Russian Federation (KSTU(KAI), VGASU (Russia), IKU), chairman of the UNESCO chair "Green Chemistry". He is the author of more than 500 inventions and 20 books. Last his elaborations are nanostructured nonisocyanate polyurethanes, nanocellulose and nanocomposites based on epoxy-rubber and organic alkali soluble silicate binders. Novel nanotechnologies invented by Prof. O. Figovsky were the basis for establishing industrial production in the US, Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Israel. he is editor-in-chief of US journal ICMS, president of IFI and chief of department STE of IPAOW - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Figovsky

Professor Dao Hua ZHANG received his MSc degree from Shandong University, China and PhD degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He joined Nanyang Technological University in 1991 as a lecturer and is currently a full professor, Deputy Director, Centre for Semiconductor lighting and Display, Director, Photonic Nano-Structure and Applications program and Senator. He also served as Deputy Head of Microelectronics Division, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Senator of NTU etc. Professor Zhang’s main research interests include semiconductor materials, devices and technology, photonic metamaterials and applications. He has successfully completed over 30 research projects. One of them is the first $10M Competitive Research Program (CRP) of NTU (as Lead Principal Investigator), which was assessed as “outstanding word class research progress” by the international evaluation committee members including a Nobel laureate. He has published over 530 papers in international journals and international conferences, 6 books/ proceedings, and 3 book chapters and he also filed 7 patents. He received Singapore President national day medal and several best paper awards. Professor Zhang is the editor and guest editor of over 10 international journals. He is in International Advisory Committee of several international conferences. He has also chaired and co-chair of over 10 international conferences. He is a fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) and Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET).

Dr. E H Yang is a Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. The first to receive a MEMS Ph.D. in his native South Korea, he joined Stevens in 2006 following tenure as a senior member of the engineering staff at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was awarded, among other honors, the Lew Allen Award for Excellence for developing MEMS-based actuators and microvalves for large-aperture space telescopes and deformable mirrors capable of correcting for optical aberrations to improve high-resolution imaging.Through the Stevens Micro Device Laboratory, Dr. Yang facilitates student research and hands-on education in emerging nanotechnologies. In addition to his role as a faculty advisor of the nanotechnology graduate program, he spearheaded the design of Stevens' first undergraduate nanotechnology research-track training program. Dr. Yang has secured more than 35 federal grants and contracts totaling approximately $8.5 million, including funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Reconnaissance Office, US Army, and NASA. Dr.Yang's professional service credits include editorial or editorial board positions for several journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports and multiple track chair positions for ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE). He has produced more than 300 journal papers, conference proceedings, and presentations and has delivered 86 keynote or invited talks. He holds 17 issued or pending patents in the fields of micro- and nanotechnology. Dr. Yang was a featured Micro- and Nano- Systems Engineering and Packaging track plenary speaker at IMECE in 2018. He received the Award for Research Excellence at Stevens in 2019. Dr. Yang has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction for academic inventors. He has also been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his extensive contributions to the fields of micro- and nanotechnology.

Roberto Morandotti received a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Genova (Italy) in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he was with the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and from 2002 to 2003, he was with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, where he worked on the characterization of novel optical structures. In June 2003, he joined the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications (INRS-EMT), Universite´ du Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he has been a Full Professor since 2008. He is the author and coauthor of more than 350 papers in international scientific journals and conferences (including over 30 contributions to Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics and Nature Communication). His research interests deal with the linear and nonlinear properties of various structures for integrated optics, with the study of novel thin film based technologies for optoelectronics applications as well as with nonlinear optics at unusual wavelengths. Dr. Morandotti is currently serving and/or has served as a Technical Committee Member and a Chair for several Optical Society of America (OSA), Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, IEEE and SPIE meetings. He is an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow (the most prestigious award for young scientists in Canada), a Fellow of the OSA, a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, and an elected member of the Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society).

Dr. Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in Dept. of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee Univ. (KHU). He received BS from Seoul National Univ. and MS/PhD from KAIST in Korea. He spent sabbatical years atNIST in USA,Australian National Univ., and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at Institute of Natural Sciences at KHU for 10 years, and was appointed asFellow Professor from2009. He has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots/nanowires/graphene/2D-related materials, and the other on their applications in optoelectronic devices.He has published over 225 papers.

Prof. Dermot Brabazon completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in the area of Materials Science from University College Dublin. From 1995 to 2000 he worked with Materials Ireland, a state funded materials science research centre. He was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University at the start of 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in 2007, to Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. Dermot was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009 and is currently Director for the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU; and Deputy Director for the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. His teaching and research activities are focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies with a particular emphasis on the development of advanced technologies to enable improved production capability and quality for achieving a broad societal benefit.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. He has also worked in Nanotechnology and computational modeling of top-down Nanofabrication, in particular in nanoparticles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects.

Dr. Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD, a researcher-immunologist, a clinician, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University, Russia, in 1980. Suchkov has been trained at the Institute for Medical Enzymology, The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, National Center for Immunology (Russia), NIH, Bethesda, USA, and British Society forImmunology to cover 4 British university facilities. Since 2005, Dr Suchkov has been working as Professor of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and of A.I.Evdokimov Moscow State Medical & Dental University. From 2007, Suchkov is the First Vice-President and Dean of School of PPPM Politics and Management of the University of World Politics and Law. In 1991-1995, Dr Suchkov was a Scientific Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the Interna-tional Journal“Biomedical Science” (Russian Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and TheInternational Publishing Bureau at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995-2005, Suchkov was a Director of the Russian-American Program in Immunology of the Eye Dis-eases.Dr Suchkov is a member of EPMA (European Association of Predictive, Preventive and Person-alized Medicine,Brussels-Bonn), a member of the NY Academy of Sciences, a member of the Editorial Boards for Open Journal of Immunology, EPMA J., and Personalized Medicine Universe, and others. Dr Suchkov is known as a co-author of the Concept of post-infectious clinical and immunological syn-drome, co-author of a concept of abzymes and their impact into the pathogenesis ofautuimmunity conditions, and as one of the pioneers in promoting the Concept of PPPM into a practical branchof health services. Now r Suchkov is a Chair of Dept for Personalized & Translational Medicine, and Director, Center for Personalized & Translational Reproductology, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Prof Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD Chair, Dept for Personalized and Translational Medicine, Director, Center for Personalized Reproductology & Pediatrics, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia Member, EPMA, Brussels, EU Member, PMC, Washington, DC, USA Member, ISPM, Tokyo, Japan Member, New York Academy of Sciences Member, ACS, USA Member, AHA, USA Member, AMEE, Dundee, UK Secretary General, UCC, Cambridge, UK

Dr Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director designate of Materials Science and Engineering Initiative at NUS, Singapore. He did his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada (1992). In August 2017 he was highlighted among Top 1% Scientist of the World Position by The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and among 2.5% among scientists as per ResearchGate. To his credit are: (i) Disintegrated Melt Deposition technique and (ii) Hybrid Microwave Sintering technique, an energy efficient solid‐state processing method to synthesize alloys/micro/nanocomposites. He has published over 500 peer reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents. His current h‐index is 59, RG index is 46 and citations are greater than 22500. He has also co‐authored six books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF ‐ USA. He is Editor‐in‐chief/Editor of twelve international peer reviewed journals. In 2018 he was announced World Academy Championship Winner in the area of Biomedical Sciences by International Agency for Standards and Ratings. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India.

Dr. José Miguel Molina Jordá graduated in Chemistry from the University of Alicante (Spain), where he completed his PhD in the area of composite materials. He did a postdoctoral stay in Switzerland, at the ÉcolePolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He is Associate Professor at Alicante University and the leader of a group devoted to manufacture and characterize new composite and foam materials for various applications, including materials used for heat exchange. He has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and patented various materials and manufacturing processes for applications related to thermal management in electronics.

Dr. Pal carried out his research work at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and got Ph.D. degree in 1997 from Jadavpur University. He started his Post-Doctoral venture with a short term assignment at University of Roma, Italy under the framework of an Indo-Italy exchange project. He successfully completed the prestigious Science and Technology Association (STA) fellowship of Govt. of Japan during 1998-2000. He also made a short term visit to Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics, MOSCOW under an Indo-Russian exchange project. Dr. Pal joined as a Lecturer in Physics at The University of Burdwan in May 2002 in Solid State Physics group. He moved to CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), a premier research institute, in 2010 as Principal Scientist. Presently, he is a Senior Principal Scientist (Professor) at CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI) and fully involved in synthesis of materials and fabrication of devices in the area of nanomaterials based semiconductor gas sensors prepared by chemical route for monitoring environment and human health. He has published more than 110 research articles in the International Journals of high repute. Dr. Pal has supervised 7 Ph.D.’s, 2 candidates are in the pipelines. He completed 7 Major Research Projects and 3 are ongoing sanctioned by different funding agencies. He contributed 5 Chapters in the different important books including Encyclopaedia on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has also delivered several Plenary talks in the conferences, acted as a Chairman for various technical sessions and also organised many conferences in various capacities. He has been serving as one of the potential Referees to various International Leading Journals of ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Springer-verlag, Wiley and many Indian journals. He is also serving /served as key members in various research bodies. To mention few, he has served as an Advisory Board member of South African Nanoscience Initiative (SANi). Also, he is Executive committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. Dr. Pal served as Member in Apex body (Court) of The University of Burdwan, Planning committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. He received Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal in 2016. Dr. Pal became a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology in 2018.

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 about 450 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. Last 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 and Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Professor Cheah Kok Wai is Chair Professor of the Department of Physics and Director of the Institute of Advanced Materials at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research on the luminescence property of porous silicon helped the University gain its first patent, and based on this work the silicon-based ultra-violet LED was developed. His notable ArmoGlass stood out from 1,000 projects from 40 countries and won the Grand Prix Award, a Gold Medal and a Special Award at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the world’s largest event of its kind, in 2016. Professor Cheah possesses 39 patents and has secured over 49 research grants. His papers and publications are frequently referred to by scholars. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK.

Ching-Ting Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Electrical Engineering Department of the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department from the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1982. He joined on National Cheng Kung University as the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2003 to 2009, and was the chair professor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering of the National Cheng Kung University. Now, he is the chair professor and vice president in Yuan Ze University. Among the awards and honors, he has received are Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IET, the Outstanding Research Professor Fellowship from the National Science Council (NSC), Republic of China, distinguish service award from Institute of Electrical Engineering Society, the Optical Engineering Medal from Optical Engineering Society, Distinguish Electrical Engineering professor award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering Society, and Distinguish Engineering professor award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers. He received the ASIA’s Education Excellence Awards from Le Meridien Singapore and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) Fellow from Sweden. His research activities have also investigated III-V semiconductor lasers, photodetectors and high-speed electronic devices, and their associated integration for electrooptical integrated circuits.

Dr. Farid Menaa is an inter- and multi-disciplinary professional with worldwide reputation. He has three international post-doctoral terms in Oncology, Dermatology, and Hematology; MBA Entrepreneurship and MD candidate. During his ongoing career, he has mainly contributed to the identification and functions of new human disease-causing genes and variants, formulated natural products for anti-aging and developed innovative theranostic strategies against cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and infectious diseases. He has more than 10 years’ experiences either in the academic, hospitals or industrial sectors. As Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President R&D at Fluorotronics, Inc. he actively participated in the development of the disruptive “Carbon-Fluorine Spectroscopy”. Dr. Menaa collaborates with various organizations worldwide. He is a member of several prestigious medical and scientific organizations and editorial boards in the field of medicine, science, technology and business, including in the nano-segment. He has authored more than 100 articles including research and review articles, books, book chapters, textbooks, proceedings, and has participated to over 200 scientific international events including as co-organizer, keynote speaker, chairman. Dr. Menaa’s worldwide collaborations, holistic point of view and strong expertise in various fields led him to prevent, implement early diagnosis, and develop efficient and safer therapy.

Prof. Yunya Liu received his PhD.D.degree from Xiangtan University in 2010 and is currently a professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering of Xiangtan University.Hisresearchinterestfocuses on themechanics of materials, scanning probe microscopy, andthe correlations between microstructures and macroscopic behaviors of multifunctional and energy materials. He has published more than 60 SCI papers, includingScience Advances, Advanced Materials, National Science Review, ACS Nano, Nano Energy, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids、Acta Materialia, and so on, which have been cited more than 1800 times. Prof. Liu also serve as an reviewer for more than 30 journals and funder.

Professor Ir. Dr. Sevia Mahdaliza Idrus is the Deputy Dean (Development & Alumni), Faculty of Engineering, UTM and Head of iKohzaOdesy of Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, UTM. She received her Bachelor in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and Master in Engineering Management in 1999, both from UTM. She obtained her Ph.D in 2004 from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in optical communication engineering. She has served UTM since 1998 as an academic and administrative staff. Her main research interests are optical communication system and network, optoelectronic design, and engineering management. Her research output have been translated into a number of publications (H-indexed-22) and IPR including a high-end reference books, ‘Optical Wireless Communication: IR Connectivity’ published by Taylor and Francis, 49 book chapters and monographs, over 200 refereed research papers, 5patents granted, 36 patent filings and holds 36 UTM copyrights. To date, she has secured and been involved in 38 research and consultation projects with a total value of RM10.2M. She is the founder and Director of a UTM spin-off company, iSmartUrusSdnBhd (1057063A) successfully commercialized her invention, a novel airtime based mobile micropayment solution and application-centric IoT based mobile enforcement device. She is actively involved in a number industrial and international research collaboration projects, delivered keynote and invited speeches to many international conferences and seminars. She led a four years G2G project on ‘Radar over Fiber Foreign Object Debris Detection System’ field trial at Kuala Lumpur International Airport a collaboration project between UTM, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Japan and Malaysia Airport (Sepang) under financial support from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Japan. She is Senior Member of IEEE and OSA, and member of Editorial Board of few refereed international journals. She has been appointed as Guest Professor at Osaka Prefecture University and Tokai University, Japan in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

Prof. Samy El-Shall is Mary Eugenia Kapp Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Commonwealth Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA El-Shall received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cairo University, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He did postdoctoral research in nucleation and clusters at UCLA. His research interests include nanostructured materials, graphene and nanocatalysis for energy and environmental applications, gas phase clusters and nucleation. He has published over 270 refereed papers and review chapters, and he holds ten US patents on the synthesis of nanomaterials, nanoparticle catalysts, graphene, and graphene-supported catalysts. (Google Scholar h-index = 55, citations >11,800) Dr. El-Shall received the Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), Virginia's highest faculty honor in 1999; the Distinguished Research Award from the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society in 2009; the VCU Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2011, and the VCU Award of Excellence in 2016. He was selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow and worked as a Senior Science Advisor at the U.S. Department of State in 2012-2013. Dr. El-Shall received the Virginia Outstanding Scientist in 2018 awarded by the Governor of Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of both the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Tan is a Singaporean, and he received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1992. He has 10 years of working experiences in reliability in electronic industry before joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as faculty member in 1996 till 2014. He joined Chang Gung University, Taiwan and set up a research Center on Reliability Sciences and Technologies in Taiwan and acts as Center Director. He is Professor in Electronic Department of Chang Gung University, Honorary Chair Professor in Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, and Researcher in the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou. He has published 400+ International Journal and Conference papers, and giving 10+ keynote talks and 50+ invited talks in International Conferences and several tutorials in International Conferences. He holds 14 patents and 1 copyright on reliability software. He has written 5 books and 3 book chapters in the field of reliability. He is an Editor of Scientific Report, Nature Publishing Group, an Editor of IEEE Transaction on Materials and Devices Reliability, Series Editor of SpringerBrief in Reliability, Editor of Thin Films, Frontier Journal, Editor of MDPI Journal, and Associate editor of Microelectronic Reliability. He is a member of the advisory panel of Elsevier Publishing Group. He is a past chair of IEEE Singapore Section in 2006, senior member of IEEE and ASQ, Distinguish Lecturer of IEEE Electronic Device Society on reliability, Founding Chair and current Chair of IEEE Nanotechnology Chapter - Singapore Section, Fellow of Institute of Engineers, Singapore, and Fellow of Singapore Quality Institute. He is the Founding Chair of IEEE International Conference on Nanoelectronics, General Chair of ANQ Congress 2014. He is a recipient of IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2011. He was Guest Editor of International J. of Nanotechnology, Nano-research letter and Microelectronic Reliability. He is in the reviewer board of several International Journals such as Thin Solid Film, Microelectronic Reliability, various IEEE Transactions, Reliability Engineering and System Safety etc. He is the first individual recipient of Ishikawa-Kano Quality Award in Singapore in 2014. He is active in providing consultation to multi-national corporations on reliability. He is also in the working group committee of IEEE reliability standards 1413 and IEEE 1624. He is in the IEEE EDS Reliability Physics committee. He is also in the selection committee of IEEE EDS Ph.D and Master fellowship. His research interests include reliability and failure physics modeling of electronic components and systems, finite element modeling of materials degradation, statistical modeling of engineering systems, nano-materials and devices reliability, and prognosis & health management of engineering system. For more detail, please visit www,crest.cgu.edu.tw

Dr. Liu Hong He obtained his M. Eng and PhD from the Dept of Mechanical Engineering of National University of Singapore. He has joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore since 2003. His research interest is mainly focused on the development of advanced nanopatterning technologies for super resolution imaging and focusing, metamaterials and nanoplasmonics, optical nanolithography and etc. Dr. Liu Hong holds 7 patents and published more than 50 research papers on nanophotonics and metamaterials. Currently Dr Liu Hong is heading the Nanofabrication Dept in IMRE to advance the science and engineering of structuring materials at micro and nanoscale and offer nanofabrication R&D services.

Dr. Kamisetti Venkataramaniah is a senior professor of Physics at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam, India heading the Laboratories for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research and is collaborating with FDA, USA working on nanoparticle based diagnostic platforms for highly sensitive point of care detection of infectious deceases. He has published more than fifty research articles in high impact factor journals during the last five years.. Prof. Kamisetti has been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow since 1981 and spends about three months in a year at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany every year.

Prof. Dr Hidayah Ariffin is a Professor at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, and a Deputy Director at the Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Her research interests include biopolymers, biomass valorization, and utilization of lignocellulosic materials. At present, her research focuses on the production and applications of nanocellulosic materials. To date she has published more than 90 high impact journal articles, 1 edited book,8 chapters in book and more than 30 conference papers.Prof. Hidayah Ariffin has also invented multiple research products, 8 of them with intellectual property (IP) protection. At present, she is the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Renewable Materials, Academy of Science Malaysia (ASM) Science Journal, and Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) Newsletters. She is also a member of Research Committee, TAPPI Nano Division.

Prof. Gerardo Byk B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. (suma cum laude) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his PhD work he developed a new generation of peptidomimetic molecules by the introduction of the new concept of backbone cyclization. This approach was extensively published and protected by patents, and was further exploited by industries. Since August 1992 he has been in the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (AVENTIS), where he was part of the academic- industrial joint unit RPR/CNRS UMR-133. He was involved in the development of novel anti-cancer peptide-mimetics and in the development of novel non-viral gene delivery complexes for gene therapy. He joined the Department of Chemistry of Bar Ilan University/Israel in 1999 as a Senior Lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002, where he is currently associated with the Marcus Center of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Main scientific interests: peptide, peptidomimetics, combinatorial chemistry and gene therapy. Lastly, his group entered the field of nanotechnology with the design and development of biocompatible nanoparticles suited both for peptide synthesis, and for in vivo applications.

Prof. Yang obtained his bachelor degree from Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2001 and PhD degree from Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ, US) in 2007. He is currently a professor in the department of mechanical engineering and department of materials science and engineering at City University of Hong Kong. His research area includes development of advanced alloys (including high entropy alloys and metallic glasses), mechanical behavior of structural materials, corrosion of metals, micro- and nano-fabrication, computational and experimental mechanics. His recent research focus is the synthesis, properties and applications of 2D metallic and ceramic nanosheets as well as other forms of materials and structures derived from these 2D nanosheets, such as 0D nanoparticles, 1D scrolls and 3D origami structures.

Dr LI Li is Associate Professor in Institute of Textiles & Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She teaches subjects from undergraduate to doctoral level relating to functional textile design. She is currently supervising 4 PhD students. Dr. Li has many years industry experience in knitwear design industry with positions from senior design to design director before join PolyU. Now her main research interests are thinking creativity multidiscipline in research study with advanced manufacturing. Dr. Li's research outcome is recognized by both the academia and the industry and generates a great impact on textile business. She has published over 80 research articles. Most of them are world-leading and top-tier textile journals, including The Design Journal, Advanced Materials and Textile Research Journal. Over the past 10 years, she obtained over 20 prestigious international awards, including the golden award of the 46th and 47th international exhibition of inventions of Geneva for two consecutive years, faculty award for outstanding achievement 2019/20 – research and scholarly activities (the highest individual award) in 2020, GRF/ECS grant awards for three consecutive years, and overall champion &french federation couture award of the Arts of Fashion Foundation etc. Rated as ‘Excellent’ on annual appraisal performance in research from 2014-2020. On the basis of her research track record, she has always been invited as keynote and invited speaker, committee member, and track judge of several international fashion competitions. Her academic research deliverables have also been patented and successfully licensed to the industry for commercial use. Dr. Li Li has successfully collaborated with various local and international brands and apparel companies in a number of research projects. She has also served as consultant for several textile based manufacturing companies.

Khalid Ferji is associate professor at Lorraine University. He received his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry in 2013 at University of Lorraine. In 2014, he joined the IMMM (University of Maine) as postdoctoral fellow working on colloid science and light scattering technique. Then, he moved to the LCPO (University of Bordeaux) as postdoctoral fellow where he worked on self-assembly of copolymers/lipids to produce biomimetic vesicles for drug/gene delivery. His research interests are currently focused at the polymer chemistry and colloidal assemblies of amphiphilic copolymers using photo-induced PISA for biomedical applications.

David J. Lewis (Google Scholar Link) is Deputy Head of Department & Reader in Materials Chemistry at the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester. DJL currently leads a research group that is actively researching soft processing and applications of nanostructured metal chalcogenide and hybrid perovskite materials for energy generation. DJL’s research has led to over 80 publications. His academic research has received recognition by The Royal Society of Chemistry: he was named in the top 10% of highly cited authors in their ‘General Chemistry’ portfolio of journals (2016). His industrial collaboration with BP plc via ICAM in advanced materials for anti-wear and lubrication in automotive engines have made him an IChemE Oil and Gas category global award finalist (2017). He is currently publicly funded on EPSRC grants EP/R022518/1 (‘Soft Processing to Enable Manufacture of Inorganic Materials Semiconductor Composites’) and EP/R020590/1 (Towards Self-scrubbing Stable and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells) and is the Principal Investigator on a African Capacity Building award regarding renewable energy using metal chalcogenide materials (Royal Society – UK DFID). He has also received significant funding from industry for inorganic coatings research.

Prof. Chintakindi Sanjay, is a certified Corporate Director of World Council for Corporate Governance, UK and visited South and South East Asian Countries for research and presenting papers in International Conferences. At present working as a Full Professor in Industrial Engineering department at Gulf region. He has more than 27 years of experience and worked as a Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Department at Government University in Malaysia. He was a Keynote Speaker for 55 International and National Conference and Chair & Co-Chair for 15 International Conferences held in Asia and a Member of Advisory and Technical Committee for more than 77 International Conferences across the world. He is a Member, Editorial Board/ Reviewer for more than 14 international journals and evaluated 23 Doctoral thesis in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials and Management. He has successfully completed 5 research projects at International level. He has to his credit 2 books published by reputed publishers and authored more than 70 Research Papers in Peer Reviewed, Indexed Journals and Conference Proceedings.

Dr. Wang Qingguo, a Professor of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China, is interested in research of biodegradable polymer, and has published more than 100 papers and 12 authorized invention patents.

Vakhtang Barbakadze has his expertise in isolation and structure elucidation of a new series of plant polyethers, which are endowed with pharmacological properties as anti-cancer agents. Besides, he interested in enantioselective synthesis and biological activities of basic monomeric moiety of these biopolyethers, synthesis of enantiomerically pure epoxides as chiral building blocks for the production of synthetic analogues of natural polyethers. He has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci. in 1978 and 1999, respectively. He is the head of Department of Plant Biopolymers and Chemical Modification of Natural Compounds at the Tbilisi State Medical University I.Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry. In 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. In 2004 he was Georgian State Prize Winner in Science and Technology.

1986, PhD (Optics), Kazan State University, Russia 2000, DoctSc (Optics and Laser Physics), Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine. Full-time professor of Department of Correlation optics of Chernivtsi University. Author/coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications (mainly in singular optics, statistical optics and holography). Medal named after D.S.Rozhdestvenskogoof the Russian Optical Society. Vice President of The Ukraine Society of Pure and Applied Optics, Ukrainian Branch of EOS Senior Member of OSA since 2017. 8 PhD dissertations were performed under my scientific governing.
Areas of Technical Specialization: Singular optics,optical tweezers,statistical optics,holography, optical data processing.

Professor Dr Sahrim Ahmad is an expert in the field of polymer, composites, nanocomposites magnetic and advanced materials. He has completed more than 50 research projects and consultancy work as a leader and co-researcher. His work on novel radar absorbing materials (RAM) subjected to transverse electromagnetic (TEM) and magnetic nanocomposites has been successfully developed. His team managed to produce products that offered proper characteristics for handling, flexibility and lightweight, meeting requirement for various applications. A paper he co-wrote on this subject has received about 500 citations. The total citation received is more than 4000 and his h-index is 32 in Google-Scholar. He has published almost 250 papers in high impact journal as well referred many papers in various journal of composites, physics and materials science. Professor Dr Sahrim has been actively involved in the administration and management of UKM and other committees. Since 1998, he has been appointed to several administrative posts at the Faculty of Science and Technology namely as Industrial Training Coordinator in 1996-1999, Head of Materials Science Program (2002-2009), Deputy Dean (2009-2010) and Dean (2010-2017). He is current Editor in Chief of Sains Malaysiana
Awards and recognition:
Japanese Society for Promotion of Science and Technology (JSPS) Award as Visiting Scientist to Kyoto University, 1992, Best Innovation Awards - Invention and Innovation Competition, FRIM, 2012, Young Researcher Award and Best Publication Award, UKM, 1999 and Education Leadership Award 2017. He is also visiting professor at Kassel Universitat, Germany.

Prof. Mahmoud Abdel-Aty completed his doctorate in Quantum Optics at Max-Plank Institute of Quantum Optics, Munch, Germany in 1999. After his analytical study of quantum phenomena in Flensburg University, Germany, 2001-2003, as a post doctorate visitor, he joined the Quantum Information Group in Egypt. He received the D. Sc. (Doctor of Science), in 2007 for his seminal contributions to theories of quantum measurement, nanomechanical modeling, highly non-classical light, practical information security, and optical implementations of quantum information tasks. His current research interests include quantum resources, optical and atomic implementations of quantum information tasks and protocols. He has published more than 230 papers in international refereed journals, 13 book chapters and 2 books. He has awarded several prizes i.e. Amin Lotfy Award in Mathematics in 2003, the Mathematics State Award for Encouragement in 2003, the Shoman Award for Arab Physicists in 2005, the Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Physics in 2005, Fayza Al-Khorafy award in 2006, the State Award for Excellence in Basic Science in 2009 etc. In 2014 he has been elected as a Vice-President of the African Academy of Science, in 2016 he has been elected as a member of governor council of Egyptian Mathematical Society.

Dr. Qing Yang, associate Professor (born in 1960) received his PhD in physics from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and precision machinery, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2009. After one year of postdoc in Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), he was promoted an associate Professor at XJTU in 2010. In September 2018, he went to City University of Hong Kong as a visiting scholar for one year. Dr. Qing Yang has rich research experiences in femtosecond laser micromachining. At present, he has published more than 50 academic papers in well-known International Journals and Letters like Optics Letters, Optics Express, plasma, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, etc.

Anurag Srivastava have started his career at IIITM as Assistant Professor in October 2006, became Associate Professor through Direct Selection in June 2010 and through direct selection only as Professor in Feb, 2019. This almost 14 years journey so far at IIITM Gwalior has made me a multidimensional experience in R & D, Product development, Startup nurturing, Promoting Hindi, Introducing sports as main course for Engineering students in 2012(first time in India). Research focus is mainly on Nano Materials and based Electronic Device Modeling for Enironmental Pollution Detection, Water pollution, Energy Devices (Supercapacitors, Batteries) and Interconnects, Single Electron devices and applications. Besides this in IT enabled product development and marketing. Two biggest contributions at IIITM Gwalior are Technology Innovcation and Incubation Centre in IIITM, Gwalior in 2010 through a project grant under TIDE schemes of MeiTy in 2009 and recently in 2019 under TIDE-2.0. During this period 22+ startups have been nurtured and 40+ entreprenbures and 60+ interns. Earlier to my joining a IIITM Gwalior, he have worked as a faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology (CSIT) department of G. G. University (a central university), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh from 2002-2006. At CSIT, GGU, he have established various laboratories and also worked with various academic cum administrative positions. During my stay at G. G. University, he have successfully completed a mega project (Rs. 100 Lakh) of Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India, on Content creation and IT Localization Network as Chief Investigator of the project. Where lot of activities have been performed on IT Localization and Content Digitization with various IT enabled product development. After completing my PhD in 1998 I have generated experience as post doctoral fellow in India and Abroad (Sweden, Italy, Japan and USA) with different research groups. This experience in different domains of Materials Science has produced 190+ International Publications, includes the regular refreed papers in journals, conference, seminars. Besides my expertise in computational Materials Science and Electronics, he have also contributed to Information Technology area, since my joining as Lecturer IT in 2002 at G. G. U. Bilaspur. I have successfully written five e-books in Hindi (Unicode) on different subjects of Information Technology and guided number of software development projects. This has resulted into three significant awards in consecutive years; Excellence award in e-governance by M.P. Govt. in 2009, TGMC award as Best in state category in 2010 by IBM and Finalist for NASSCOM ICT Honours 2011 by NASSCOM Foundation, GOI.

Professor Shehdeh Jodeh get his Ph.D from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan USA and M.Sc in Physical chemistry from Sam Houston State University in Texas, USA and B.C.E in chemical Engineering from University of Mississippi, USA. He also, did his postdoctorate at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico USA. He worked more than 15 years at General Motors R&D in Detroit Michigan in fuel cell technology. He is professor at Najah National University in Nablus, State of Palestine. He published more than 200 scientific articles in corrosion and adsorption chemistry using nanomaterials.

Dr. Kovács is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Technology of the ÓbudaUniversity, Hungary. Member of the editorial board of the Acta Materialia Transylvania, Safety and Security Sciences Review and Security Engineering of Anthropogenic Objects,author and co-author of 150 publications, h-index 8 in Google Scholar. Her research interests are in the field of the materials science and engineering, special welding processes (ultrasonic and explosive welding). Her researches focus on the welding caused effects in the microstructure and the movement of the dislocations. Investigation on the dependence of the mechanical properties on the welded microstructure.

Hoshang Kolivand is Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics. He received his MS degree in applied mathematics and computer from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 1999, and his PhD from Media and Games Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGIC-X) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2013. He has completed a Post-Doctoral in Augmented Reality in UTM. Previously he worked as a lecturer in Shahid Beheshti University, Iran and then as a Senior Lecturer in UTM. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Liverpool John Moores University. He has published numerous articles in international journals, conference proceedings and technical papers, including chapters in books. He is an active member of many international conferences and journals. He has also published many books in object-oriented programming and mathematics. His research interests include Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

Dr. Mahdokht Shaibani is an energy storage researcher, inventor, and solution provider. She has expertise in materials synthesis, engineering, and scale-up for next-generation energy storage systems, including lithium metal batteries, silicon anodes, flow batteries, supercapacitors, and lithium-ion capacitors. Mahdokht has conducted pioneering research in developing practical graphene-based protection technologies and expansion-tolerant architectures for stabilizing lithium-sulfur batteries. She explores the applications of Li-S batteries and Graphene supercapacitors in transportation, grid storage, and wireless sensor networks. Mahdokht has a passion for writing and communicating stories of a scientific nature and has authored several opinion and analysis pieces on critical energy-related topics suitably simplified for raising the awareness in general public. Mahdokht has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on energy storage from Monash University, Australia.

Filippo Giubileo is a researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since 2003. He has got the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. His research activity is focused on fabrication and characterization of superconducting- and graphene-based devices. He developed large experience in low temperature STM/AFM/MFM. He is expert in the characterization of 1D and 2D nanodevices as field effect transistors, field emitters, etc. He is author of more than 100 articles in international refereed scientific journals. He is Member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. He was Chair for several international conferences. He was member of the scientific evaluation panel for FLAG-ERA Joint transnazional call 2019.

Gadhadar Reddy is an inventor, entrepreneur and visionary working towards a long-term goal of enabling humanity to be a space faring species. He was born in Bangalore in 1987. He excelled in academics throughout and understood the need to master Advanced Materials especially Carbon Nanotubes due to their immense applications. He is a Chevening Scholar (University of Oxford), 35 under 35 in Space, India-France Young Leader, Singularity University Alumnus. He Studied Electronics Engineering on scholarship at BMS College of Engineering (Bangalore). A Nanotech club was created in the college with regular interactions with faculty from IISc and Enterprises. To enhance knowledge of Carbon Nanotubes, he pursued a master’s degree in molecular sciences and Nanotechnology from Louisiana Tech University (USA). He studied various methods of producing Carbon Nanotubes and decided to pursue the extremely difficult and promising HiPCO® process. In 2011, he founded NoPo Nanotechnologies in Bangalore along with Dr.Robert Kelley Bradley (co-inventor of HiPCO® with the Nobel Laureate Dr.Richard Smalley). The project was funded with a small seed money from Family and Friends. NoPo stood for “Not Possible” since everyone he met said that it was impossible to produce Advanced Materials at scale particularly in India. He took it as a challenge and did not reveal the reasoning behind the name until after they produced their first Nanotubes. He worked hands-on to build the first reactors which are a technology marvel capable of operating in extreme temperature and pressure. In 2019, NoPo’s HiPCO Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes were ranked No.1 in Quality by Prof.Kataura (AIST, Japan) at the prestigious NT-19 conference held in Germany. Soon thereafter a peer reviewed publication from Rice University (USA) and Swansea University (UK) funded by the US Navy confirmed the same. NoPo has won numerous awards for their HiPCO technology including an MOU with Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense manufacturer. NoPo is actively showcasing applications of Nanotubes in various domains such as Water, Electronics, Space and Defense where the material provides an order of magnitude performance improvement.

Dr. Salem Humaidan received his master degree in business administration (MBA) from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at King Abdelaziz University and has obtained his PhD in knowledge management from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King Abdelaziz University in Jeddah KSA. Dr. Humaidan collaborates with various organizations worldwide; He is a fellow of the American Research Foundation and a certified International academic Arbitrator and Scientific Assessor. Besides, he has become a member of the Strategic Research Society. Moreover, he got an Honorary membership of the Middle East Research Center. Lately, He became a certified facilitator by Leadership Management International (LMI). His research interests include business improvement, knowledge management, risk management, organizational culture, and change management. He is a founder of the “Business Remedy center” where he has associated with different parties as a business improvement consultant in KSA. He has been invited to participate in many international conferences in Egypt, Tunisia, Slovakia, Italy, Czech Republic,Turkey, Philippines, Thailand and China. He has published Numerals of scientific papers.

Patrick is currently a Senior Lecturer at Monash University Malaysia. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Nottingham. His research interests focus on nano/micro delivery systems of natural products and self-healing polymer nanocomposites. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at University of Tunku Abdul Rahman from 2012-2014. He then joined Monash University Malaysia and continue to be professionally active in both teaching and research. Patrick is an active author, with 4 book chapters and several ISI-indexed publications. He is currently supervising four full-time PhD students and acting as an associate supervisor for another two. Because of his outstanding research achievements in bio-nano engineering, Patrick was awarded The Young Chemical Engineer at prestigious IChemE Malaysia Awards 2014. In Jan 2019, he received a visiting fellowship from Chulalongkorn University to undertake collaborative research at Center of Excellence in Particle Technology. Additionally, he was involved in collaborative industry-driven projects on functional coating and smart rubber product developments.

Ali received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the department of Bionanosystem Engineering, Chonbuk National University, South Korea in 2013. Ali has international expertise as he has gained vast training in different labs, South Korea, Egypt, China, South America, and Australia. His research focuses on the development of advanced and smart biomaterials with multifunctional characteristics meeting the essential requirements for biomedical transactions. Ali focuses his efforts on the development of functional biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Additive Manufacturing, and biodegradable metallic implants.

Dr. Sambasivam Sangaraju working as a Research Scientist in United Arab Emirates University, UAE. He is a Materials Scientist & Experimental Condensed Matter Physicist whose research interests are driven by current experimental observations that challenge the standard paradigms of Energy conversion & Storage Materials, NLO Optical Materials, Phosphors White LEDs, Magnetic Semiconductor Nanomaterials.

Dr. Dipak Maity is currently working as an Asst. Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai), ICT-IOC Odisha Campus, India. He has obtained his M. Tech. in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Hehas pursued his postdoctoral research from NUS, Singapore and Regional Centre of Advanced Technology & Materials (RCPTM), Czech Republic.He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed research papers in the reputable scientific journals like Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Chemical Communication, Journal of Colloidal Interface Science, and several others with total citations above 2000. He has also authored/co-authored in 6 books/book chapters and one patent.He has participated in several international scientific conferences worldwide in USA, UK, Australia, Czech Republic, UAE, Singapore and India and received numerous Honors and Awards like Gold Medal in Chemistry, UGC Faculty Recharge Award, Young Scientist Research Award, Bharat Vikas Award, Young Innovator Award, many Best Paper/Poster Awards, several Merit Scholarships and Fellowships. He has been awarded for a prestigious Nano Mission research grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. His main research interest lies in “Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine”, especially in synthesizing superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) with different robust surfactants and their co-encapsulation with chemotherapeutic drugs (CHDs) inside biodegradable and/or stimuli-responsive (pH-/temp. sensitive) polymers based drug delivery systems to study their effects in MRI imaging, and magnetic hyperthermia therapy combined with other imaging and treatment modalities for multi-modal cancer diagnosis and therapy (theranostics).

He has more than 30 years of experience in different fields of mathematics, physics, and engineering sciences in colleges and universities, He has more than 40 scientific articles, and also He is a corporative member of the Institute of physics (IOP), London, UK, also a member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). I have been chosen as a member of scientific committee and a member of the reviewers of many international conferences.

Dr. Adi Azriff Bin Basri is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He received his Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) from UPM in the area of blood flow behaviour of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with the computational application of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI). During his PhD, he also collaborated with National Heart Institute (IJN), Malaysia and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan for numerical and experimental studies. Previously, he received more than 10 awards of gold and silvers from university and national levels related to the project on multi-purpose safety syringe, PUTRA UAV biodegradable natural fiber composite and innovatory pineapple leaves fiber extraction bladefor extraction machine. His project of multi-purpose safety syringe acknowledged by other countries such as Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, India, Japan, United Arab Emirates and United States of America since 2011 and until now. His current research interest is leading him to the wide research applications such medical device development, FSI associated to bio-medical engineering including paravalvular leakage (PVL), transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), stenosed renal artery, and CVD effects at high altitude flight condition. He is also active in aerodynamics research by implementing the CFD and FSI approach in aerospace field such as in aerodynamics loading lifting line theory, propeller blade, aerodynamics morphing wing and tesla microturbine performance. Moreover, he is also active in experimental and simulation study of structural analysis and material composite. Till date, he has several publications in reputed international and national journals/conferences. He is also a member of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) in 2010.

Dr. Abdeen Mustafa Omer (BSc, MSc, PhD) is an Associate Researcher at Energy Research Institute (ERI). He obtained both his PhD degree in the Built Environment and Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham. He is qualified Mechanical Engineer with a proven track record within the water industry and renewable energy technologies. He has been graduated from University of El Menoufia, Egypt, BSc in Mechanical Engineering. His previous experience involved being a member of the research team at the National Council for Research/Energy Research Institute in Sudan and working director of research and development for National Water Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Sudan. He has been listed in the book WHO’S WHO in the World 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 200 review articles, 17 books and 150 chapters in books.

Tengku Arisyah TengkuYasim-Anuar completed her Ph.D and undergraduate studies at Universiti Putra Malaysia. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and now she joins NextGreen Pulp & Paper SdnBhd as a Researcher. Her research interests lie in the area of nanocellulose, biomaterial and bionanocomposite.

Dr. Praveen Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Association for Cultivation of Sciences (IACS), Kolkata, and also a Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Indian Chapter funded by the European Commission. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) and also an Editorial Board Member of the Materials Letter, published by Elsevier. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2011, followed by postdoctoral studies at ISOM, UPM Madrid, Spain. He is a recipient of several recognized awards and fellowships, a few of them are, MCAA Social Impact Award (2020), DAE Young Achiever Award (2019), Quarterly Franklin Membership by London Journals Press (2019), International Reviewer, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) (2019), Micro Internal Travel Grants (MITG), European Commission (Oct 2018), BRICS Young Scientist Award (2017), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012), INSPIRE Faculty Award (2013), 11 Best oral/poster award in various international conferences and Gold Medal in M. Sc. (Physics) (2003). He is elected as a sectional committee member for Materials Science in the Indian National Science Congress Association for the year 2019-20. Dr. Kumar’s research contribution covers a broad spectrum of Materials Science and Engineering including III-V semiconductors, 2D-Materials, MXenes, Carbon Nanostructures, etc, for various energy harvesting (PEC water splitting, CO2 reduction, Broadband photodetectors)& storage (Supercapacitors) applications. He has authored 85 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 01 patent, more than 75 in conference proceedings, 11 books/chapter, and delivered around 52 invited/oral talks around the globe.