Mário F. S. Ferreira graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modeling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is actually the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N – Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books, namely: “Optics and Photonics” (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), “Topics of Mathematical Physics” (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2018, Brazil, in Portuguese), “Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances” (Ed., NOVA Science Publishers, 2017), and “Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers” (John Wiley & Sons, OSA, 2011). He was the Guest Editor of two Special Issues of “Fiber and Integrated Optics” (Taylor & Francis): “Fiber Optics in Portugal” (2005) and “Nonlinear Fiber Optics” (2015), and a Special Issue of “Fibers” (MDPI): “Optical Fiber Communications” (2018). Actually, he is Guest Editor of a Special Issue of “Applied Optics” and “Optics Express” (Optical Society of America): “Optical Sensors and Sensing 2019” (2019). He is a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the European Optical Society (EOS), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Portuguese Physical Society. He served in various committees of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and of SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics, having been also a member of the Telecommunications Committee of the “International Association of Science and Technology for Development” (IASTED). He served also in the technical committees of various international conferences. He served as a reviewer of several scientific journals in the area of optics and optoelectronics. He is presently an Associate Editor of “Optical Fiber Technology- Materials, Devices, and Systems” (Elsevier) and a member of the Advisory Board of “Fiber and Integrated Optics” (Taylor & Francis), “Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics” (Old City Publishing, Inc.), and “International Journal of Optics” (Hindawi Publishing Corporation).

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has already been working as professor. He published over 60 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), web: http://saise.org/, Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), web: http://www.sciei.org, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, web: http://www.iacsit.org/, Scientific Federation, web: https://scientificfederation.com/, IASED, web: http://www.iased.org/ , The Academic World Education and Research Center (AWER-Center), web: http://www.awer-center.org/, and other institutes and companies. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Smain FEMMAM is Director of research at the University of Haute-Alsace France and responsible of the Research team on Signals & Safety Systems of Polytechnic Engineers School Sceaux France. He received the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Signal Processing and Computers from Versailles University, France in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since 2013 he is promoted to a rank of senior director of research (HDR). After that, he joined the CMU Carnegie Mellon University & West Virginia University as Postdoc Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor. His main research area is signal processing, safety systems, communication and embedded systems. He has a strong interest in perception and characterization of signals, optimal filtering, spectral analysis, wavelets and perception haptics. Dr. Femmam is a senior member of IEEE, SEE and GDR ISIS. Member of IEEE C.A. committee France section. Board of Director of the Institute for Engineering and Technology Innovations in the World. He has guided numerous thesis projects, including some doctoral theses. He is active reviewer for several scientific academic journals and committee member of international conferences. He is the (Academic, Chief) Editor-in-Chief, Editor, Editorial Board, Guest Editor & Advisory Board members of more than 20 International Journals. He has authored and co-authored more than 90 papers, four Chapters, one edited Book, seven Books published by Wiley & Elsevier.

Armen S. Kuzanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1950. He received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the Yerevan State University in 1973 and Ph.D. degrees in physics and mathematics from the Institute for Physical Research (IPR) Armenian National Academy of Sciences in 1988. From 2000 to 2015 he was a head of the HTSC Lab. of IPR. Since 2015, he has been a leading researcher of Materials Science lab of IPR. The main focus of his research is the synthesis and investigation of superconducting and the molecule materials. His current research topics are modeling and simulation of problems for single-photon detection.

Alexander Bagaturyants received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Institute of Organoelement Chemistry of USSR Academy of Sciences in 1968, and his Dr. Sci. in Physical Chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Physics of USSR Academy of Sciences in 1988. He joined Photochemistry Center of Russian Academy of Sciences from its foundation in 1998, and since then and currently he is head of laboratory of quantum chemistry and molecular simulations. Since 2009, he holds the position of a professor at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”. His main research interests deal with first-principles DFT calculations of clusters, thin films, semiconductor surfaces, defects, and impurities; molecular simulations of molecular assemblies, supramolecular systems; and molecular aggregates; ab initio calculations of electronic spectra of organic molecules and metal organic complexes, molecular aggregates, and supramolecular systems using wave function and DFT methods; multiscale atomistic (molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry) simulations of organic and inorganic nanostructured materials for applications in sensing, light-emitting and photovoltaic devices.

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Nanotechnology Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU). He is Head of Department of Theory of Complex Systems Dynamic Properties at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonIPE).He received PhD in Theoretical Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Condensed Matter Physics (2007) from DonIPE. Prof. Rumyantsev has authored/co-authored 4 books, 2 chapters in books and more than 270 scientific publications. He is a member of the American Physical Society's well as Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP, Italy) and Editor-in-Chiff of Journal of Photonic Materials and Technology(Science PG, USA).

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 400+ 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. This 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.

Dr Rami Al-Hadeethi is an international, award winning Associate Professor of Industrial Technology & Operations Management with M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Industrial Technology and Operations Management; both degrees were obtained from United Kingdom institutions. His solid understanding of business administration in an engineering context, passion for learning, and consultative leadership style are the driving forces behind a progressively successful 28+ year career. He is the Industrial Engineering Thematic Leader, Education Society Chapter, IEEE United Kingdom & Ireland Section and Formal representation of Europe Business Assembly (EBA) in Middle East and Arabic Speaking Countries. Dr Rami is an Internationally-recognised consultant with a unique prospective on mixing engineering knowledge and administrative abilities in the design, development, organizing and delivery of several worldwide short training courses that covers an extensive range of engineering disciplines and business-related topics. He is also certified in instruction and e-learning systems and experienced in teaching e-learning, distance learning and blended-learning courses; he has taught many distance learning courses on a self-employed basis Dr Rami is a member of many unions, societies around the world and has chaired world-wide international conferences. He is also an editorial board member of many international journals. Hehas published extensively in his field of specialization, fifty-four papers and three published books in international journals and conferences on the subject of industrial technology and engineering management.