Naira Hovakimyan received her MS degree in Applied Mathematics from Yerevan State University in Armenia. She got her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She is currently W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at UIUC. She has co-authored two books, eleven patents and more than 450 refereed publications. She is the 2011 recipient of AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, the 2015 recipient of SWE Achievement Award, the 2017 recipient of IEEE CSS Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Controls, and the 2019 recipient of the AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award. In 2014 she was awarded the Humboldt prize for her lifetime achievements. She is a Fellow of AIAA and IEEE. She is co-founder and chief scientist of Intelinair. Her work was featured in the New York Times, on Fox TV, and on CNBC.

Professor Alexander Seifalian CEO and Professor Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine Commercialisation Centre (Ltd) London BioScience Innovation Centre, London, United Kingdom lexander Seifalian, Professor of Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine worked at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London for over 26 years, during this time he spent a year at Harvard Medical School looking at caused of cardiovascular diseases and a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School looking at the treatment of liver cancer. He published more than 647 peer-reviewed research papers and registered 14 UK and International patents. On editorial boards of 41 journals. He supervised 121 PhD students, all successfully completed. He is currently CEO of NanoRegMed Ltd, working on the commercialisation of his research. During his career, Prof Seifalian has led and managed many large projects with successful outcomes in terms of commercialisation and translation to patients. In 2007 he was awarded the top prize in the field for the development of nanomaterials and technologies for cardiovascular implants by Medical Future Innovation, and in 2009 he received a Business Innovation Award from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). He was the European Life Science Awards’ Winner of Most Innovative New Product 2012 for the “synthetic trachea”. Prof Seifalian won the Nanosmat Prize in 2013 and in 2016 he received the Distinguish Research Award in recognition of his outstanding work in regenerative medicine from Heals Healthy Life Extension Society. His achievements include the development of the world first synthetic trachea, lacrimal drainage conduit, and vascular bypass graft using nanocomposite materials, bioactive molecules and stem cell technology. Currently, he is working on the development and commercialisation of human organs using graphene-based nanocomposite materials and stem cells technology. Recently he has commercialised a novel functionalised graphene oxide for medical and other industrial applications and synthetic graphene-based nanocomposite materials for surgical and medical devices application. He is currently working on the development of facial organs, heart valves and tendons.

Joachim Holtz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany, in 1967 and 1969, respectively.,He became an Associate Professor in 1969 and a Full Professor in 1971 at the IIT Madras, Chennai, India. In 1972, he joined the Siemens Research Laboratories, Erlangen, Germany. From 1976 to 1998, he was a Professor with the Machines and Drives Laboratory, Wuppertal University, Wuppertal, Germany, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus and a Consultant. He is a coauthor of seven books. He holds 33 patents.,Dr. Holtz was a recipient of 17 prize paper awards, including the IEEE IES Dr. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award, the IEEE IAS Outstanding Achievement Award, the IEEE PELS William E. Newell Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, and the IEEE Lamme Gold Medal.

David J. Moss is Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, since 2016. He was with RMIT University in Melbourne, 2014-16, the University of Sydney 2004 - 14 and was a senior manager and scientist with JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. From 1994-98 he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Optical Fiber Technology Centre at Sydney University prior to which he was a visiting Scientist with Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan,1992-94. From 1988-92 was with the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He won the 2011 Australian Museum Eureka Science Prize and Google Australia Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Photonics Society, the OSA (now the Optica Society) and the SPIE (International Photonics Society). His research interests include optical microcombs, integrated nonlinear optics, quantum optics, microwave photonics, optical neural networks, optical networks and transmission, 2D materials including graphene oxide for nonlinear optics, optical signal processing, nanophotonics, biomedical photonics for cancer diagnosis and therapy, and other areas.

Yuli D. Chashechkin graduated from the full course in 1964 and completed his postgraduate course at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1967 with a degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics and started to work at the All-Union Institute for Physics- and Radiotechniques Measurements as an engineer, research scientist, head of the laboratory. At the same time, he taught at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute from 1967 to 1971 and at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 1973 to 1981. He defended his thesis for the degree of candidate in 1973, and the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1981 and was invited to the Institute for Problems of Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to organize the laboratory of fluid mechanics. From 1987 to 2017, he worked part-time as a professor at the Physics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The range of scientific interests includes theoretical and experimental studies of flows, wakes, vortices, waves, and ligaments - high-gradient interfaced and filaments in inhomogeneous fluids; interaction of obstacles with the flow; generation; propagation and scattering of sound. He develops methods of optical and acoustic visualization of flows. He is the author of over 400 articles, preprints, and reports. He was invited to perform scientific work and lecture at universities in the USA, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Slovenia and India.

Brian Fildes, PhD is a Research Professor at the Monash University Accident Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia and a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University in the UK. Up until 2010, he was the Foundation Director of MUARC Europe, based at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology and qualifications in Engineering and his specialty is Human Factors research. He has particular interests in occupant protection, driver perception, autonomous vehicles, and injuries to older people, both on the road and in the home. Brian started his career as an industrial engineer and worked in Australia and Canada with several manufacturing companies. After obtaining his PhD, he joined the Centre soon after it was established in 1987 and developed and managed a team of researchers and graduate students working on a number of road safety research projects. He was the Foundation Director of MUARC in Europe based in Prato, Italy between 2008 and 2011 and worked on various European, middle East and other Asian countries. He has been instrumental in helping government agencies implement a number of new injury prevention countermeasures and programs as well as evaluating real world crash performance for the automotive industry., Dr Fildes is a Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), is an editor for several international journals, and has an extensive publication record.

Dr. Cheng-Zhong Xu, IEEE Fellow, is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China and a Chair Professor of Computer Science of UM. He was a Chief Scientist of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Director of Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering. Prior to these, he was in the faculty of Wayne State University, USA for 18 years. Dr. Xu's research interest is mainly in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, cloud and edge computing, and data-driven intelligent applications. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers on these topics and awarded more than 120 patents. His research spun off a company “Beiduo Applied Technology” with dedication to smart city business. Dr. Xu was the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Distributed Processing. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University and his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 1993.

Professor. Lee received his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech. U.S. in 1991. He finished M.S. and B.S in Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Currently, he is a Professor and Director, Konkuk Aerospace Design∙Airworthiness Research Institute, KADA, a Center of Excellence, Ministry of Education, Korea. He served as the president of the Korean Society of Aeronautics and Space Sciences, KSAS, a major academic society in Aerospace in Korea, and served/serving as a vice president or president of several academic societies including the Innovative Defense Acquisition Society-Korea, IDEAS-K, KSAA, and KOSSE, KSCM. He is the corresponding author or co-author of over 600 publications including 13 patents and 74 top international journal papers. His research interests are Urban Air Mobility, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, MDO, Aerodynamic Design and Optimization, Aerospace Vehicle Design for Aircraft, Space Launcher, UAV/Drones, Digital Twin/Flight simulation, and Artificial Intelligence Applications for Aerospace Vehicles. He received several honors and awards in his academic career. He has been serving as the Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, General Chair of International Conferences, the technical program chair, and the symposium chair for various international conferences including APISAT, ACSMO, KSAS, KSAA. He served as a Specialized Member at Defense Acquisition Committee, Ministry of National Defense, Korea, and at Policy Planning Committee / Business Committee, DAPA, MND, Korea.

Prof Eric Cheng obtained his BSc and PhD degrees both from the University of Bath in 1987 and 1990 respectively. Before he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997, he was with Lucas Aerospace, United Kingdom as a Principal Engineer and led a number of power electronics projects. He is the electrical designer for the Hong Kong 1st commercial electric vehicle in Hong Kong. He is also the designer for the 1st charging network in Hong Kong. He received the numerous awards related to electrical engineering, energy and automotive. He has published over 500 papers and 7 books. He has over 100 interviews by media on his research and development. He is now the professor and director of Power Electronics Research Centre of the university. His research interests are all aspects of power electronics, Power Quality, Renewable energy, Motor drives, Energy Saving, EMI, high speed rail, Electric Vessel, Electric Vehicle and Automotive advanced components. He is the recipient of the international award in Seoul International Invention Fair 2015 Gold prize for his contribution in super-capacitor to electric vehicles, 2016 iCAN Gold Medal for his contribution in active suspension, and Gold Award of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology in 2017 and Geneva’s Invention Expo Silver Award for his contribution in antilock braking system, in 2021. Prof. Cheng is a fellow of IEEE and IET.

Bin Jiang received a Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He had ever been a postdoctoral fellow, research fellow, invited professor, and visiting professor in Singapore, France, USA, and Canada, respectively. Now he is a Chair Professor of the Cheung Kong Scholar Program in the Ministry of Education and Vice President in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He has served as Subject Editor of Int. J. Control. Automation and Systems, Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for a number of journals such as IEEE Trans. On Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. On Neural Network and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. On Control Systems Technology, etc. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Chair of Control Systems Chapter in IEEE Nanjing Section, a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes. His research interests include intelligent fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control and their applications to helicopters, satellites, and high-speed trains. He is the author of 8 books and over 100 referred international journal papers. He won the National Natural Science Award in China.

Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on air-conditioning, refrigeration, and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modeling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. These include dehumidification, cooling, heat pumping, compact heat exchangers, and refined temperature/humidity control. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling, and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters, and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426 He was highlighted to be among the top 2% of global energy scientists based on Elsevier’s database,1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, top 0.3% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society and Fellow of Energy Institute. His works have garnered more than 11,400 citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 15 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.

Prof. Tounsi Abdelouahed is currently working in the Department of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Technology) at University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria. His specialization is in Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical behavior of Composite Structures. Moreover, his research interests lie in the areas of Non-local Elasticity, FEM, Composite Structures, Functionally graded Materials, Nanostructures and Nano-Biology. Prof. Abdelouahed is the editorial board member of 7 renowned scientific journals. He, as an author/co-author, has published more than 200 articles in various journals

Prof. Chuanbao Jia, Tang Scholar, Deputy Director of the Institute of Materials Joining(IMJ) in Shandong University, Council member of China Welding Society (CWS), Senior member of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES). He has been devoted to research on high-efficiency/special arc welding and additive manufacturing process sensing, control and numerical simulation. As the PI, Prof. Jia has been granted 3 NSFC projects and 1 National Cooperative projects, etc. He published more than 40 research papers and was authorized 16 patents. Also, Prof. Jia contributes as areviewer of more than 20 journals, including Welding Journal, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Materials Design, etc.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics” for environmental improvements of “Geotechnology”, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design, and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high-power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed and a new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Dr Wei Min Huang has over 20 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 200 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 290 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

Full Professor of Machine Design and Head of Department of Engineering Science at G. Marconi University (Rome, Italy). Chairman of Interuniversity Research Center “StEering” (Statistics for Engineering) promoted by University of Florence, Marconi University, and the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. Board Member of Machine Design Italian Scientific Society (ANVUR recognized) and of the Working Group Design for Additive and Lean Manufacturing. President of Leanprove Foundation, a non-profit organization created, as founding members, by Nestle Group, Janssen of the Johnson & Johnson Group, Leonardo Group, Santander Consumer Bank, ANIA (National Association of Insurance Companies), and Il Sole 24 Ore. M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (1993) at the University of Florence (Italy) and Ph.D. in “Machine Design” (1998). Visiting Professor (1998) and Guest Researcher (2000) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA. Official teachings and research assignments abroad (MIT Boston-USA, Wayne State University Detroit-USA, Kiev National University, University of Business and Technology (UBT) in Jeddah-Saudi Arabia). He developed and implemented the first Six Sigma program in Italy (General Electric, 1996), and thereafter he has been leading this program in over 300 companies (such as Toyota, FCA, Ferrari, Nestlè, BASF, Johnson&Johnson, Santander, Unicredit, Honda Motor, Piaggio, Pfizer, MSD, Roche, Abbott, Electrolux, Technogym, Leroy Merlin, Poste Italiane), in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Invited to disseminate the evolution of the Lean Six Sigma methodology, he has given speeches on all six continents. Member of Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma. Member of Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology. Member of Editorial Board of “Design Engineering and Science”, Nam P. Suh et al., (Springer). Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Mechanical Characterization of Parts Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing”, 2020, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (SAGE). Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Automotive Reliability”, Volume 20 (2) 2004, Quality and Reliability Engineering International (John Wiley & Sons). Research topics: Lean Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma 4.0, Design for Six Sigma, Axiomatic Design, Design of Experiments. Author of 140+ scientific papers and 12 books, including Lean Six Sigma: Kaizen Leader and Green Belt Handbook (co-author Kai Yang) the most widely used book in Italy by industry experts (15,000 copies sold) and Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare system (coauthor Daniel T. Jones), presented in presence of the Italian Health Minister.

Professional preparation: Degrees in Structural Engineering (Bucharest Institute of Civil Engineering), Mathematics (University of Bucharest), and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (MIT) Authors of over 200 technical papers and four books on Random Vibration of Mechanical and Structural Systems (with T.T. Soong), Prentice-Hall, 1992, Applied Non-Gaussian Processes, Prentice-Hall, 1995, Stochastic Calculus. Applications in Science and Engineering, Birkhu¨aser, 2002, and Stochastic Systems. Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation, Springer, 2012. Awards: The 1993 IASSAR Research Prize, the 1998 SAE Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Education Award, the election to the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences (2004), the 2002 Alfred Freudenthal Medal, the Daniel M. Lazar’29 Excellence in Teaching Award (2003), the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania (2004), the 2005 Norman Medal of ASCE, the grade of EMI Fellow, 2014, and the 2016 Newmark Medal. Also, he is on the editorial board of numerous technical journals.

Elias C. Aifantis is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Michigan Technological University/USA, as well as a Mercator fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University/Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture/China. Formerly, he has also been a Distinguished Faculty Advisor at King Abdulaziz University/Saudi Arabia, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/Russia and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as MegaGrant Director at Togliatti State University /Russia. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has coined the terms dislocation patterning, material instabilities, gradient plasticity/elasticity, chemo/nanomechanics, and pioneered internal length gradient (ILG) theories in these fields. Currently, he is extending the ILG framework to revisit electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations, as well as gravitation and Newton’s Law. He has published over 350 articles and received about 13,402 citations with a 59 h-index (Scopus); 12,450 citations with a 55 h-index (Web of Science); 20,580 citations with a 70 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering.

Dr. Ahmed Abdelwahab Elmarady received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in communication and electronics engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007 and 2015, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, majoring in cybersecurity in aviation generally, and in air navigation systems in particular. He has been a Senior Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) Safety Oversight Inspector—Air Navigation Engineer with the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority, since 2012. He is a member of both the ICAO Secretariat Study Group on Cybersecurity (SSGC)—working group on air navigation systems, Montreal, Canada, and the ICAO MID—working group on cybersecurity in air navigation, Cairo, Egypt. Furthermore, he is the chair of the cybersecurity working group at the Arab Civil Aviation Organization (ACAO) He has published many journals and conference research papers, such as: - Studying Cybersecurity in Civil Aviation, Including Developing and Applying Aviation Cybersecurity Risk Assessment, published in IEEE Access journal, October 2021 - Actual TDoA-based augmentation system for enhancing cybersecurity in ADS-B, Published in Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, June 2020. His research interests include the cybersecurity and cyber resilience frameworks in the various aviation systems (aerodromes, air navigation, flight operations, and airworthiness). Furthermore, his research interests also include new technologies in aeronautical communication, radio navigation aids, aeronautical surveillance, and system-wide information management (SWIM).

Dr. Ahmed Abdelbary (A. Abdelbary) currently serves as a chief engineer and tribology consultant at the Egyptian government. He holds a B.Sc.(Eng.) from Military Technical College in 1994. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in polymer tribology from Alexandria University in 2003 and 2011 respectively. Working with Prof. M.N. Abouelwafa, from 1999 to 2011, he explored the tribological behavior of polymers under typical loading conditions and found many promising results. Much of this work obtained a better understanding of the fatigue wear mechanism of polymers. He is a full member of the Egyptian Society of Tribology EGTRIB and received the title of "Engineering Consultant" from Egypt Syndicate for Engineers in 2016. His areas of technical and on-field expertise extend to the design and manufacture of many mechanical and tribo-systems. His biography has been included in Who's Who in the World® in 2015 (32nd Edition), and he lastly received the 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of two books Wear of Polymers and Composites, Woodhead Publishing, Oxford, 2014, and Extreme Tribology, CRC Press, 2020. He is the author of several research papers on the tribology of polymers, in well-reputed engineering journals. He has been appointed as one of the editorial board members in the International Journal of Materials Science and Applications and Advances in Materials and a reviewer for many international journals.

Anastasia A. Shamina - Assistant Professor of the Department of Gas and Wave Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow M.V.LomonosovState University, Junior Researcher in the Federal Science Center “Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences”. Anastasia A. Shaminahas a Ph.D. in physiques and mathematics. She was awarded the Sagomonyan medal (2014) for achievements in mechanics, the Rakhmatulin medal (2022) of the National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the rector's diploma of Moscow M.V.LomonosovState University for the best presentation in the "Mathematics and Mechanics" section of the Lomonosov 2022 conference. Author of more than 20 scientific papers and 1 book.

Li Zixuan has completed his Ph.D. from Ningbo University, China. He is now doing postdoctoral studies at Taiyuan University of Technology, China. He has published more than 20 papers.

SkrylevaEvgeniya has been working as a researcher at theM.V.LomonosovMoscow State University since 2014. In addition she has been working in the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2015. She has been amember of IAF(International Astronautical Federation) Microgravity Sciences and Processes Committee since 2021. SkrylevaEvgeniya has participated in more than 10 grants for research. She obtained one patent and four certificates of registration of software rights. 4 training courses at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University are taught by EvgeniyaSkryleva. She has published 2 books and more than 30 papers in journals and more than 50 communications to scientific meetings in the fields of Space Physical Sciences, Mathematical modeling, Wave Dynamics. H-index = 5 (Scopus), 3 (Web of Science). Awards: • Lomonosov Moscow State University scholarship for young employees, graduate students and students who have achieved significant results in teaching and research activities (2021), • Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation for students and Ph.D. students (2018-2019), • A.Ya. Sagomonyan Commemorative Medal(april 2019), • Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and Ph.D. students engaged in advanced research and development in priority areas of modernization of the Russian economy (2019-2021) • Winner of the "UMNIK" program for the project "Development of models of the process of displacement of viscous liquids from a porous medium and research of methods for enhanced oil recovery" (2015).

Pedro L. Kaled Da Cás, Major in Mechanical Engineering and Mastering in Mechanical Sciences by the University of Brasilia specialized in Multidisciplinary System Optimization, System Engineering, and Space Systems. Has conducted experimental research on the field of Hybrid Propellant Rocket Propulsion, has acted as Chief Mechanical Architect of SERPENS-1 and as Mechanical and ADCS annalist on SGDC satellite. Pedro has worked at the Brazilian Space Agency from 2013 to 2018 during with has participated in several projects from SGDC’s Technology Absorption Plan to CDPEB a high-level committee for space policy in Brazil. Pedro is a promoter of PocketQube Standard as an lower-cost alternative for developing countries and is a Co-author of the PocketQube Standard. Currently, Pedro is a working partner in µplug, Doc88 Technology Solutions, and Idea Space a space company focused on Educational PocketQubes, and is working on two interesting spaces mission from the scientific CubeSat WORMSAIL and the Artistic PocketQube Book of Life.

Hakim NACEUR is currently Professor at the Polytechnical University of Hauts-de-France and the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department of the Engineering School INSA Hauts-de-France. Prof. NACEUR is the Head of the Research team on Computational Structural Mechanics & Energetic Processes at the laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation control, Mechanical engineering and Computer Science (LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201) which is a joint research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.He received his M.S. degree from University Pierre and Marie Curie in 1994 and his Ph.D. from the University of Technology of Compiegne in 1998.
He started as Assistant Professor (2000-2007), then Associate Professor(2007-2009) at the University of Technology of Compiegne. In September 2009, he moved to the Polytechnical University of Hauts-de-Franceas a full Professor. Prof. NACEUR is a member of the European Society of Biomechanics; he is an expert member for the European Union for the Cooperation in Science and Technology, a referee for several international journals, an invited speaker and a committee member for a number of international conferences and workshops in Computational Mechanics.Prof. NACEUR research activities concern Computational Structural Mechanics and Computational Biomechanics Modeling of hard tissues with porosity for energy dissipation in shocks and impacts using homogenization techniques and multi-scale approaches. To date, he authored more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 international conference papers and book chapters dealing Computational Mechanics. Other works include the modeling of composites and multi-material structures using Meshless Methods, Crashworthiness and Optimization Algorithms.

Prof. Jan Kazmierczak, D.Sc. born on 4th April 1950 in Katowice, Poland In 1974 he graduated from the silesian university of technology .In 1981 he obtained a doctoral degree and in 1989 a postdoctoral degree based on the dissertation application of linear models of random processes to forecasting in machine diagnostics . In 1997 he was awarded the title of professor of technical sciences. He specializes in the theory of machines and mechanisms. Professionally associated with the silesian university of technology, he headed the department of fundamentals of technical systems at the faculty of organization and management . From 2007 to 2015 he is the Member of the Sejm (Parliament) of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Science and Higher Education, Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Innovation and New Technologies. In 2019, he became the dean of the faculty of organization and management of the silesian university of technology in zabrze. He also became the director of the institute of production engineering of the silesian university of technology and the deputy chairman of the production engineering committee at the polish academy of sciences . His Areas of Scientific Interests are Production Engineering, Innovation Management, Assessment of Social Impact of New Technologies and Products (Technology Assessment - TA), Maintenance Management, Engineering of Acoustical Environment, Computer-Aided Engineering, Smart city, Industry 4.0 His Areas of Research Projects are expertise in the area of implementing and assessing innovations, management of data from maintenance od technical systems, implementations of tools of CMMs class (Computerized Maintenance Management systems) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in industrial practice, development of acoustic maps using GIS technology, implementation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm in MSME’s (Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises), practical aspects of the SMART CITY concept.

Professor Aleksandra Kuzior, Dr. h. c. - is a habilitated doctor of the humanities, Professor of the Silesian University of Technology, honored with Doctoris Honoris Causa. Scientifically deals with the issues of sustainable development, business ethics, applied ethics, Smart City and safety management, technology assessment and issues of artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies. At the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Silesian University of Technology, she is the Vice-Dean for Cooperation and Development and the Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences. She is the President of Silesian Center of Business Ethics and Sustainable Development, Vice-president of the Polish Association for Technology Assessment. manager of 6 completed projects financed by the European Social Fund. In cooperation with foreign partners, it implements research projects, the results of which are scientific publications.

Bartłomiej Knosala, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Silesian University of Technology. Author of a monograph showing Marshall McLuhan's thought from the perspective of the classical trivium and philosophy of Giambattista Vico, entitled The new Marshall McLuhan science project. Philosophical consequences of changes in forms of communication. In 2019, he participated in the preparation for printing of the first Polish translation of the Buckminster Fuller Manual Operating for Spaceship Earth

Dr. Gela is an internationally recognized electric utility expert with a doctoral degree in electrical engineering and an extensive background in research, testing, teaching, training, and consulting. He is the President and Owner of the Berkshire Electric Transmission Consulting (BETC) company in Massachusetts, USA. During his 45+ carrier, he authored/co-authored 20+ technical peer-reviewed papers, 100+ major research reports, and 30+ technical conference papers, delivered 90+ technical seminars/presentations/training sessions worldwide, and organized/participated in 80+ technical panel discussions worldwide. Dr. Gela served for 21 years as International Chair and subsequently 5 years as Vice-Chair of IEC TC 78 “Live working” and now serves as the Technical Advisor for the US National Committee to IEC TC78 Technical Advisory Group. He worked for 24 years at the EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) High-Voltage Laboratory in Lenox, MA, USA, performing research in live line maintenance including helicopter-based live work, AC and DC high voltage phenomena, arc flash issues, underground cable failures, and manhole explosions, substation grounding, control room, and switching procedures, and many other topics. He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and recipient of the IEEE/PES best Working Group Technical Report, he reviewed 110+ IEEE peer-reviewed papers, contributed to and voted on 80+ IEEE standards, and is a long-time contributor to IEEE ESMOL conferences. He is a member of CIGRE and the recipient of the Attwood Associate Award from the US National Committee of CIGRE. He is a long-time contributor to the ICOLiM(International Conference on Line Maintenance) Conferences, was named International Fellow of the Live Working Association (LWA), and received the Special Award from LWA. Dr. Gela is a member of ASTM and ANSI and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the “ip Incident Prevention” Journal. Dr. Gela graduated from the University of Toronto (UofT) with B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering specializing in high voltage and is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario, Canada. Upon graduation from UofT, he joined the Trench Electric Company (now part of the Trench Group) under the Industrial Research Fellowship and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Canada. He lectured at The Ohio State University, Western New England University, and the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute.

Katarzyna Postrzednik-Lotko, PhD, assistant professor, SUT, studied German at the University of Opole and at the University of Heidelberg, certified translator of German, many time grant holder of DAAD, defended her doctoral dissertation regarding Polish-German relations of the interwar period in 2007 at the University of Opole, obtaining the PhD’s degree. 2007–2014 Dean of the Opole Department of the Bogdan Jański Higher Education School. 2015-2019 Subject Matter Expert at Teleperformance Germany Sp. z o. o., responsible for Quality Assurance on the Amazon project. Her scientific interests focus on social communication, communication flow in modern global enterprises, as well as technology assessment.

Dr. Eugeniusz Piechoczek has 44 years of experience in the aviation industry. He lectured at The Silesian University of Technology. The current holder of Air Traffic Pilot Licence (Airplane) and Commercial Pilot Licence (Helicopter). Service creator for national gas and energy system by helicopters, in co-operation with EUROSENSE aerial photo for Microsoft. Co-author of method “ constructing power lines by helicopter over forest”, Co-author of diagnostic methods of power line system by helicopter. Head of Training Aviation Training Organizations. Flight Examiner of European Aviation Safety Agency. Author and co-author of papers presented on interniationalconferecesICOLiM included. Owner of B+R company AIRPAS EP Ltd

Dr. Haroldo F. de Campos Velho is a senior researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He was Associate Director for Space and Environment of the INPE (2008-2010). His research interests include inverse problems, turbulence parameterization, data assimilation, and scientific computing. He received his BS degree (1982) in Chemical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; D.Sc. (1992) and M.Sc. (1988) degrees in Mechanical Engineering on computational fluid dynamics and nuclear reactor physics, respectively, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He was a visiting scientist for the Istituto di Cosmo-Geofisica (Turim, Italy) – 1997, and Dept. of Atmospheric Science of the Colorado State University (USA) – 1998. He and other colleagues, under leadership of the Prof. Orestes Llanes-Santiago, were awarded by the Cuban Academy of Science at 2016 (“Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining Applications to Fault Diagnosis and Parameter Estimation”) and 2021 (“New Paradigms in Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Systems”).

Manyu Xiao has completed her PhD and post-doctoral study in Advanced Mechanics from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) in France. Since 2012, she works as an associated professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, P.R. China. She is a member of the joint French-Chinese research group " Virtual Prototyping and Design". Her interest in research includes model reduction, POD, multi-fidelity co-kriging, Machine Learning, Large scale topology optimization. Until now, she has herself authored/co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, and book chapters.

Prof., Dr.Sc. habilitat NickolayN.Smirnov is currently a full professor in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Head of Wave Processes Laboratory, and deputy director of the Gas and Wave Dynamics Department. Currently, he is holding half the position of head of strategic information technologies in the Federal Science Center “Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences”. Prof. N.N. Smirnov was elected the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Technological Sciences in 1992. He received Shuvalov'sprise (1993) for the book "Heterogeneous Combustion". Since 1992 he is a member of the Combustion Institute (Int.), and since 2007 President of the Combustion Institute Russian Section. Full member of the Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences on Combustion and Explosion since 1995, in the period 1999-2015 – Vice President of the Council. Member of the Microgravity Science Committee of the International Astronautical Federation since 1995, from 2015 till 2018 – Committee Chair. Member of the Scientific Council on Ecology of the Russian Space Agency from 1994-1998. Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 1998, academician since 2007. Corresponding Member of International Academy of Astronautics since 2005, Academician – since 2008, Commission 1 Space Physical Sciences Chair (2013-2018). Elected a member of the National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2005. He was awarded the Kapitsa Gold Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences for the scientific discovery (2007), S.P. Korolev (2007), M.V. Keldysh (2008), G.A.Tyulin (2014), and Yu.A.Gagarin (2015) medals of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics, V.G. Grabin medal of the Russian Academy for Rocket and Artillery Sciences (2009), Kh.A. Rakhmatulin medal of National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2010), Ministry of Emergency medal (2011), M.T.Kalashnikov medal (2013), A.Ya.Sagomonyan medal (2014), B.E.Gelfand medal of the Combustion Institute Russian Section (2013). Awarded the honor title “Distinguished professor of Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University” in 2017. Distinguished Service Award from the International Astronautical Federation in 2019 for its outstanding contribution to the Microgravity Science and Process Committee for more than 20 years. Published 11 books and more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and 200 communications to scientific meetings in the fields of Mathematical modeling, Information technologies, Physical Chemistry, Wave Dynamics, Combustion and Explosion, and Space Physical Sciences. H-index = 33 (Scopus), 29 (Web of Science). Under the supervision of Prof. Smirnov N.N. more than 100 students defended their master's diploma thesis, 17 Ph.D. students defended their Ph.D. thesis, and 2 Professors Ph.D. defended habilitation dissertations.

Dr. Suhail Hyder Vattathurvalappil is an assistant professor in the department of aerospace engineering at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals. He joined KFUPM from Michigan state university, where he focused on structural joining’s, additive manufacturing and green composites applied to automotive and aerospace vehicles. Dr. Suhail completed his PhD from michigan state university and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research associate at composite vehicle research center, michigan. He obtained his master’s degree in aerospace structures from Institut Superieur del’aeronautique et de l’espace (ISAE) and bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Anna university. His current funded research at KFUPM focuses on renewable materials and sustainable manufacturing techniques for smart and eco-friendly structures.

Kalugina Maria Denisovna - graduate student, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Dynamics and Flight Control of Rockets and Spacecraft. Research interests: aerodynamics of aircraft, separated flow theory, control surfaces.

Ahmad Mahdian Parrany received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran, in 2010. He also received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012. He is currently a Ph.D. of Mechanical Engineering in Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His fields of research are dynamic systems, control systems, and swarm robotics.

Dr. Toufik Boushaki is currently Associate Professor at the University of Orleans in the Mechanical Engineering field. His research activity is done in the ICARE laboratory of the CNRS in the combustion area. He received his Ph.D in Energetics (2007) and DEA (postgraduate degree) in Combustion (2003) from the INSA of Rouen in France. Dr. Boushaki obtained his engineering degree (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering from Blida University in Algeria (1999). His research topics concern the turbulent combustion, control of flames, burners and pollutant emissions. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and a lot communications in the fields of combustion and fluid mechanics.

Prof. Seiki Chiba is the CEO and Professor, Chiba Science Institute. He was an Executive Director for Advanced R&D Project Development,?Stanford?Research Institute (SRI International) till Jan. 2011. He served on SRI for 20 years. Dr. Chiba was supervising advanced R&D programs including Japanese Government projects. Before joining SRI, he worked at Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, as visiting scientist for three years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 377 publications in the various areas including artificial muscle actuators & generators, hydrogen safety, and high temperature membranes for hydrogen production. He also wrote 29 books, as the author and co-authors, for computer simulation, micromachine, catalysis, fuel cells, conductive materials, R&D Management, artificial muscle actuators, high temperature membranes for hydrogen production, hydrogen safety, renewable energy, wave power generation, etc. He has a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Material Science from the University of Wales (Britain). He jumped to the Ph.D. course without doing M.Sc. He received lots of prizes including “IAAM medal for outstanding contribution in the field of Advanced Material Science and Technology in 2016”, and “the best paper award from the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Conscious Design in 2007”.

Pr. Fayssal BENKHALDOUN is a Full Professor of outstanding classes in Applied Mathematics at USPN (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord). PI of several Industrial projects and former head of the Modeling and Scientific Computing team within the mathematical laboratory LAGA. He is the project leader of the international office at IUTV/USPN. His teachings have covered all academic levels from L1 to Ph.D. through INSA Rouen, several DEA, and Masters, in France, Maghreb other and international institutions. He successively obtained a doctoral thesis at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) (1988), a state thesis at the School Mohamedia d'Ingénieurs (Morocco) and an HDR at the University of Rouen (France). Author of more than 150 publications including 50 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Reviewer for more than 100 papers in international journals including JCP, Int J Nul. Meth, Comp & Fluids Fluids, CMAME, and others. Fayssal Benkhaldoun conceived and organized the first international FVCA symposium (1996, https://www.math.univparis13.fr/~fayssal/FVCAs/FVCA-1/), (Last FVCA9 2020 in Norway). His research interests include Digital Engineering Sciences, Computational Geometry, and Complex Data Structures, Hyperbolic Systems, and Adaptive Finite Volume Methods. He has supervised about thirty Ph.D. and HDR theses and a hundred master's and engineers projects. Moreover, Professor Benkhaldoun used to be an associate professor at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco) from 2017 to 2019, during which he structured the Complex Systems Engineering and Human Systems department, launched research programs, a Data Science Bachelor, a Master in Data Science, and a Master in Advanced Hybrid Modeling and Scientific Computing, both as initial training and as executive training.

Julia Claudia Mirza Rosca has completed her Ph.D. from La Laguna University, Spain, and postdoctoral studies from New York State University, USA. She is the director of Research and Protection against corrosion Group and the Head of Nanoscience and Nanomaterials Laboratory from University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She´s working in the field of Biomaterials for more than 20 years. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an adviser for more than 20 Spanish and foreign companies.

Dr. Shahneh joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cranfield University to research and lecture in airframe systems design in 2009. He lectures on topics including hydraulics, pneumatics, flight control actuation systems, and aerodynamics, as well as provides supervision on related student projects. He is also acting as project examiner and independent Academic Representative to monitor the progress of students. He has a record of published papers and contributes to journal and conference papers. He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is the Course Director for the Pre-Masters in engineering course. The course provides a professional grounding for engineers to further their studies in Aerospace, Power & Propulsion, Automotive, CFD, Offshore, Astronautics, and Renewable Energy. Current research interests include airframe systems technologies focusing on environmental approaches. He is also involved in projects relating to upgrading aircraft performance. He has years of experience in scientific and industrial activities, both experimental and theoretical. Following his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, he began his career in the industry as a design engineer working in mechanical systems, HVAC, and cleanroom design and management. He took part in many on-the-job training fellowships in different countries and is a highly skilled engineer. He joined Queen Mary University, London in 2002 to complete his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. The nature of his research was both experimental and computational - work was carried out in a supersonic wind tunnel to verify the effect of a novel vortex generator on the attenuation of shock-induced separation, and then verified by modeling the experimental facilities by a computational fluid dynamic code, STAR-CD. He started his teaching career in 2002 in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Mathematics and Aerodynamics.

Prof.-Dr. Andrey N. Dmitriev - noted scientist in the field of development of scientific bases of complex use of mineral raw material. Has Ended Metallurgical Faculty of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (nowadays Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia). The basic scientific direction - development, the perfection of mathematical models and their use for the analysis and optimization of processes of working of ores. For the first time has developed and has introduced a method of analytical research of blast furnace smelting on the basis of a complex of the two-dimensional mathematical models essentially supplementing experimental methods used in practice. Has developed scientific bases of application of computer methods for the analysis and perfection of pyrometallurgy processes. Has developed an original technique of the influence estimation of the iron ore raw materials and coke quality on indicators of the blast furnace smelting. Has developed an original technique – the monitoring system of the firebrick lining state of the blast furnace hearth intended for emergencies prevention. Scientific ideas and development are used at creation and perfection of technologies of processing of the titan-ferrous magnetite, chromic iron ores, silicate-nickel iron ores, siderite iron ores, leucoxene concentrate directed on the elimination of deficiency existing in the Ural of the steel-making iron-ore raw material, the raw material for the manufacture of pigment dioxide of the titan and scrap. The monitoring system of the firebrick lining state of the blast furnace hearth is developed and introduced on five blast furnaces of China (Silver Medal «Metal-Expo’2014», Russia; Award of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region, 2015, Russia). Implementation of the concept of commissioning of actually Kachkanarsky field of titanomagnetite ores along with the use of ores of the Gusevogorsky deposit is offered and begun. Experience of the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RUS) in the field of processing of titancontaining iron ores is generalized and the creative concept in Russia productions of pigmentary titanium dioxide on the basis of South Ural deposits and the Komi Republic is offered. In addition to the scheme of processing of titanomagnetite iron ores of the Tebinbulak deposit (Republic of Uzbekistan) offered earlier «metallization – electromelting» is offered the scheme «blast furnace – converter»; conditions of a choice and implementation of one of these schemes are formulated. Is the leader of investigations on experimental and mathematical modeling of pyrometallurgy processes, with the industrial enterprises, grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The author of 8 monographs, 13 inventions, and more than 380 articles. Participated as the lecturer (including invited lecturer) on many conferences including international. The head of post- graduate students. Andrey N. Dmitriev - Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Chief Research Officer of Institute of Metallurgy of UB RUS, Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN) (Mining - Metallurgical Section), Academician of Academy of Engineering Sciences of Russian Federation named A.M. Prokhorov (Branch of Information Science and Computer Technique).

Currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, J & K, India. I am also In-charge Incubation at Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneur Development (IIED) Centre, NIT Srinagar. I am Innovation Ambassador at Institute Innovation Council, NIT Srinagar. I have done B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad in 2011. I have earned M.Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. in the area of Friction Stir Welding from Jamia Millia Islamia (A central university), New Delhi in 2013 and 2017 respectively. My major area of research includes materials processing and characterization, friction stir welding/processing, machining. I have around Nine years of Teaching and Research experience. I have worked as Basic scientific research fellow in a project granted by University Grants Commission. I have published around Fifty research articles in International Journals and conferences (One in ASME journal) along with One book in CRC press, Two book chapters and Three patents (One Australian patent granted). I have presented research papers in various national and international conferences and delivered invited lectures in different colleges. I have guided several B.Tech. and M.Tech. projects. Currently I am supervising five doctoral students. Under my mentorship, NIT Srinagar team won Smart India Hackathon-2019. Also, one of my Ph.D. scholars got innovation grant of Rs. 15 lacs from MSME for making innovative machine.

Carmine Maletta is Professor of mechanical engineering at University of Calabria (Unical) - Italy. He got the degree in mechanical Engineering in 1999 and in 2006 he obtained the PhD in Structural Engineering. From 2000 to 2002 he was employed as a business consultant in the international consulting company Accenture. Since 2016 he is cooperation associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He is co-founder and CEO at 2SMArtEST S.r.l, that is an innovative start-up on SMA-based smart solutions and technologies established in 2019. He is scientific coordinator of the Material testing and mechanical design laboratory at Unical and he serves as a scientific coordinator of several national and EU R&D projects. The main research interests cover both numerical methods and experimental techniques in the fields of mechanical engineering and materials science. Special focuses were devoted to fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and to the thermo-mechanical analysis of shape memory alloys. So far Dr. Carmine Maletta authored more than 100 research papers.

In 1984 I graduated from the military engineering Academy named after A. F. Mozhaisky, Leningrad, Russia. https://vka.mil.ru/ specializing in "design of aircraft". From 1985 to 1993. I was engaged in the development and operation of the ground – based Energia-Buran complex (Deputy chief engineer of the launch complex). Energia-Buran is a space program of the Soviet reusable transport space system. (MTCS). It is one of the two MTCS systems implemented in the world. This program was a response to a similar multi-purpose US military-civilian program, the space Shuttle. After the closure of the Energia-Buran project in 1994, I worked in senior positions in companies that implemented aeronautical systems. Currently, as Deputy Director of the representative Office of the Russian state hydro meteorological University in Moscow, I work closely with the Russian company" Augur "on the development of the hybrid airship"Atlant". I am a member of ICAO working group on the development of the SWIM project/ head of the working groupon Hydrometeorology issues from Russia/UN. I am a member of the Polar Commission of the Russian geographical society( RGS), Member Of the Association of polar explorers (ASPOL), author of numerous scientific and journalistic articles on Economics, telecommunications, and Arctic development. Author of books on Russian history. I regularly speak at the scientific conferences.

Professional positions: 1. Sr. Scientist: CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratoires (March-2020 to till date) 2. Scientist: CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratoires (March 2016 to March-2020) 3. Research scholar: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (December 2014 to March 2020) 4. Assistant professor: Amrita University, Coimbatore (June-2014 to December 2014) Educational details: 1. Ph.D.: Aerospace propulsion, Pursuing from IIT Bombay (Jan-2020 to till date) 2. M.Tech: Aerospace Propulsion, Indian Institute of space science and technology, Thiruvananthapuram (2014) 3. B.Tech: Mechanical, Govt. Engineering College Rewa (2011) Research experience: Having 7 years of industry experience in research and development of turbomachinery and aircraft intakes. The academic experience of 1.5 years in teaching and laboratory work. I have also been a reviewer for the International journals and conferences in the field of gas- turbine engines and turbomachinery (ASME GT, IJRM, SAJE, IJTJE, etc.). Area of research: Axial flow compressor aerodynamics and it’s stability management, turbomachinery transition duct design and performance enhancement using active and passive flow control, High fidelity numerical techniques for rotating machinery, and shape optimization.

Jiawen Hu is an associate professor in the School of Astronautics and Aeronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2009, the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2017. He was a research fellow with the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2020. His research interests include maintenance optimization, degradation modeling. His work has appeared in journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IISE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and International Journal of Production Research.

Narasimha Sharma Narayanam -MSc CEng IET EngTech AMRAeS. Serial Entrepreneur, Technocrat, Influencer, philanthropist .Founder & CEO of NRN Aerospace Systems Pvt Ltd. Founder & CEO of C-Astra Technologies LLC, USA Delaware. . Co-Founder at C-Astra Solutions Pvt Ltd. . Co-Founder at Skyout technologies Pvt Ltd. . Chairperson for Scientific Federation -2019 (Aerospace) Germany. Plenary Speaker at Scientific Federation- 2020 (Aerospace) USA. . Extensive hands-on experience in developing the company's strategy for using technological resources. . A quick learner and does not hesitate to evaluate and implement new systems and infrastructure. Has worked for major players in Aerospace, IT, and Disruptive sectors. . Hands-on experience in setting up new business processes using various implementation models. . Internal Auditor for ISO 27K and AS 100. . Trained in Agile, Scrum, and Risk Management Methodologies. Successfully completed certification by Merlin simulator for Cessna 152 and Airbus 320 for Air crash accidents. He is an IET member- 1100283351. Associate of Royal Aeronautical Society London (UK). His interest in aerodynamics, Space dynamics, flight simulation, computational fluid dynamics, Aerospace materials technology and Reverse engineering, AI, ML, Data Sciences, Blockchain, and Disruptive Technology.

Dr. Faisal Talib is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, (U.P.), India. He holds Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee and Masters in Industrial Engineering from AMU. He has 24 years of teaching and research experience and has more than 100 publications to his credit in national/international journals and conferences. His work has been published and cited in various peer reviewed referred journals including Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Sustainability , International Journal of Sustainable Engineering , Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, The TQM Journal, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, International Journal of Quality Engineering, International Journal of Service Business, International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management, Benchmarking: An International Journal, International Journal of Productivity & Quality Management, and International Journal of Mobile Communications to name a few. His special interest includes Total Quality Management (TQM), Sustainability, Operations Management, Multi Criteria Decision Making techniques, and Quantitative research. Additionally, he is a member of various advisory boards/editorial boards of International Journals and serving as an expert reviewer in the review panel of several International Journals of repute including International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, International Journal of Productivity Management and Assessment Technologies, International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, and International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology. To conclude, he has more than 3050 citations (h-index= 27, i-10-index= 41) to his credit indexed by Google Scholar.

Yasser M. Madany is a Doctor of Engineering at Air DefenseCollege, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. He is memberof the Association of Egyptian Engineers (AEE) [since 1994], Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [since 2001], European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) [since 2014], Asian Advanced Materials Congress (ASAMC) Advisory / Organizing Committee Member [since 2016], Arab Experts Network (AEN) [since 2020], International Union of Radio Science (URSI) [since 2021]. Dr. Madany is currently a senior member, IEEE, and URSI SeniorMember. Dr. Madany received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE), specialization in Antennas and Wave Propagation from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1994, 2002 and 2005, respectively. He has published more than 80 research papers regarding antennas (microstrip – fractal – bandgap – radar – wireless – active - nanowires), microstrip array antennas (planar – switched – phased – smart - MIMO), numerical methods in computational electromagnetics (MOM – FDTD – FEM), microstrip transmission lines and filters, waveguide and waveguide structures, RF pulse compression systems and technologies, smart communications technologies, smart guidance technologies, CRLH-TL and metamaterial technologies and applications, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) guidance and technologies, radar theory; design and analysis (monostatic – bistatic), microwave engineering (radar – communication) applications, navigation sensor applications, radio frequency identification (RFID) applications, smart communications network systems and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) design and technologies

Dr Dhiren Kumar Behera is currently working as Associate Professor due for Professor in CAS in Mechanical Engineering at state owned Government Engineering College named as Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Odisha, India and in addition he was the elected member of the board of governors of IGIT from 2016-18. He did his PhD in Engineering from prestigious University named as Jadavpur University, Kolkata and his master degree from University College of Engineering, Burla.He did his graduation from Visvesvarya Regional College of Engineering now National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in Mechanical Engineering. He had presented his paper in different parts of country as well as chaired many conferences. He had too presented and chaired in international conferences abroad. His paper has appeared in Springer-verlag, Inderscience, and Elsevier. He is working in the area of Industrial Engineering & Management, scheduling, Flexible manufacturing system, Reliability, Quality Engineering and soft computing & Powder Metallurgy. He has teaching experience of more than 22 years. He had delivered many keynote address/Resource Person across all parts of the Country. He did his schooling from Sainik School, Bhubaneswar. He is also editorial member as well reviewer of many Journals. He is also co-authors with many foreign Professors of reputed Institute/Universities outside India. He is the life member of many academics organisations such as ISTE, IE (India), Odisha Bigyan Congress and many others. Besides above he had also delivered an invited technical talk in various TV channels. He active member of many Government of India assignments such as Observer/Flying squad for different examinations conducted by NTA/CBSE/JEE.

Chuang Liu received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2013, 2015 and 2019 respectively. As a visiting student, he worked at York University between 2017 and 2018. Since July, 2019, he joined the School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include spacecraft dynamics and control, robust control and satellite swarm control.

Dr. Ghasemnejad joined Cranfield University in 2016 as a senior lecturer in structures in the centre for structures, assembly and automation; he is also the course director for the MSc Advanced Lightweight and Composite Structures course. He has supervised 10+ PhD and Post-Doctoral programs as the main supervisor to date and secured industrial research grants from Innovate UK, MoDs and SME partners on impact and crashworthiness analysis of advanced composite structures. He also acts as a Member of the Editorial Board of Journals and Scientific Committees of International Conferences.

Constantin SANDU- Aerospace Engineer, PhD - Project Manager at COMOTI-Bucharest; Participated in multiple R&D aerospace projects with: Airbus, SAFRAN, Rolls-Royce, Avio, DLR, NLR, Politechnico di Milano, MTU, ISVR, ONERA, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering -Bucharest The most important papers are related to: Electromagnetic-Gravitational Propulsion of spacecraft; Noise reduction at aircraft; Turbomachinery.

Dr. Sushanta Tripathy is currently working as a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. He has completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has over 30 years of teaching, research, and industry experience in India and abroad. He has published a number of papers in national and international conferences and journals. He is also an editorial member of six reputed international journals. His major areas of interest include production operations management, multivariate analysis, service operations management, supply chain management, and quality management. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India. His Research Interests Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, Service Operation Management, Productivity Management R&D Management. Awards & Honours Lifetime Research Excellent Award AETM- Bangkok, International Conference 2017. GREEN THINKERZ-Adroit Researcher Award IRSD-Chandigarh International Conference 2016, Outstanding Researcher Award - International Conference AETM-2015, Bangkok2015, Outstanding Contribution Award International Conference - IRTD-2014, Chandigarh, Editor in Chief (International) - International Journal of Research in Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJRMET) 2016, P.C.Panda Award -Best Research paper in Industrial Engineering Institute of Engineers India 2017, Brundaban Sahu Memorial Award - Best Research paper in Industrial Engineering Institute of Engineers India 2019 Memberships • Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) • Life Member (Indian Society of Technical Education, ISTE) • Life Member (The Institution of Engineering & Technology, IET).

Dr. Farooq Ahmad Khanday (M’15, SM’19) received M.Sc. (Gold Medalist), M. Phil., and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Kashmir in 2004 2010 and 2013 respectively. From June 2005 to Jan. 2009, he served as Assistant Professor on a contractual basis at the University of Kashmir, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology. In 2009, he joined to Department of Higher Education J&K and Department of Electronics and Vocational Studies, Islamia College of Science and Commerce Srinagar, as Assistant Professor. From May 2010, he is an Assistant Professor (Stage –III) in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir. His research interests include Low-power Multilevel Digital System Design, Stochastic Computing, Neuromorphic Computing, Quantum Computing, Fractional-order Circuits, Nano-Electronics, and Biomedical Circuit Design. He is the author or co-author of more than 110 publications in peer-reviewed indexed International and National journals/conferences of repute and eight book chapters. Besides he has authored a book on “Nanoscale Electronic Devices and Their Applications” in CRC Press (Taylor and Francis) and has edited three books on “Fractional-order Systems” in Elsevier. He is the Management Committee (MC) Observer of the COST Action CA15225 (Fractional-order systems - analysis, synthesis, and their importance for future design) of the European Union. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of several other professional societies. He is serving as a reviewer for many International and National scientific journals in Electronics. He has successfully guided the thesis of Six Ph. D, one M. Phil, and 18 M. Tech students. Five Ph. D. scholars and Six M. Tech. students are currently under his supervision. He has completed three research projects from UGC and DST, Govt. of INDIA. Under these projects, the start of the art facilities has been established in his Integrated Circuit design and Nanoelectronics (IC-Nano) Lab.