Scientific Board
Biography
Prof. Dr. Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek received Bsc and PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Msc degree from University of Beograd, Serbia. In 1995 she joined Institute INAOE, Department for Electronics, Puebla, Mexico, where she works as a full professor. She was a visiting researcher with UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA in 2001-2002, and 2006,with SDSU San Diego, USA in 2008-2009,and with UCLA, Los Angeles, USA in 2015-2016. She is author/coauthor of more than 70 journals and 400conferences papers. She is author of the book: “Random Signals and Processes Primer with MATLAB,” Springer NY: 2013 and editor of books: ”Advances in Multirate Systems”, Springer, NY, 2017, and “Multirate Systems: Design and Applications,” IGP, Hershey, USA, 2001. Actually she is member of IEEE CAS DSP committee and RCM of IEEE ISCAS conference. She is a member of Mexican Academy of Sciences and SNI of Mexico. She is the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Brief, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine and IET Signal Processing.Her research interest includes digital signal processing, digital communications, and MLand applied mathematics in digital signal processing and digital communications.
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Prof. Dr. Wenjun Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Design from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1994. He is currently a full professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His current research area is network systems, design, manufacturing, and operation management. He has published over 400 refereed technical publications, among which over 329 papers appear in refereed journals and over 190 papers in refereed conference proceedings, in a broad scope of fields, including design and mechatronics, manufacturing, robotics, informatics, and human-machine systems. He holds dozens of patents, including three US patents and many China patents. His paper received the best journal paper award for 2012 by the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. His papers received top 25 hottest articles by Mechatronics in 2006 &2005, by Expert Systems with Applications in 2011, by Microelectronics Journal. He has the google scholar H-index (57) and the web of science H-index (47). He was highly cited authors by Elsevier (China) from 2015 to 2018 (inclusive). He was included in the top 2% world scientists by Stanford in 2020. Dr. graduated over 35 PhD students and over 100 MS (thesis) students. He received 2012 Distinguished Graduate Supervisor Award by the University of Saskatchewan. He has served as a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Associate Editor for several reputed journals including IEEE SMC – System, IEEE System Journal and IEEE system journal. He is an elected Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Senior member of IEEE.
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Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang is a Kaneff Professor and Tier 1 York Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at York University. Dr. Zhang was a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Automation, was a founding Chair of the Department of Automotive, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at Ontario Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada, in June 2000. Dr. Zhang's research interests include synthesis and optimization of parallel and hybrid mechanisms; generalized parallel mechanisms research; reconfigurable robots; innovation design of parallel robots: parallelization of serial robots; micro/nano manipulation and mems devices (e.g., sensors); rescue robots; smart biomedical instruments (e.g., exoskeleton robots and rehabilitation robotics); AI/robotics/autonomous systems; Aerial and Underwater Robotics; Artificial Intelligence for Robotics; intelligent reconfigurable adaptive landing gear and manipulator (manipulander). Dr. Zhang’s contributions to and leadership within the field of robotic and automation have been recognized with several prestigious awards, within his own university (Kaneff Professorship, Tier 1 York Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Research Excellence Award both from university level and faculty level), the Province of Ontario (Early Researcher Award), the professional societies (Fellow of CAE, Fellow of the ASME, Fellow of the EIC and Fellow of the CSME), and federal funding agencies (Canada Research Chair in January 2009 and renewed in January 2014). Besides, he was awarded the Inaugural Teaching Excellence by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science of Ontario Tech University in 2006 and the Best Professor Award by Ontario Tech University Engineering Students' Society in 2012. Dr. Zhang has published 217 journal papers and 182 conference papers, 12 books, 9 book chapters and numerous other technical publications. Dr. Zhang has served as a General Chair for 51 International Conferences and delivered 94 keynote speeches. Dr. Zhang is listed as the World’s Top Two Percent Researchers by Stanford’s Standardized Citation Indicators in 2020. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of SME.
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Prof. Dr. Hongwei Wu is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, and Leader of the Research Group in Monitoring Climate and its Impact (MCI) – C3R at UH. He is a visiting professor at East Kazakhstan State Technical University (EKSTU), Kazakhstan. He received his PhD degree (2004, with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) in Thermo fluids from Beihang University. He has an academic/research profile previously developed at Northumbria University, University of the West of Scotland, Birmingham University and Brunel University London in UK, and University of British Columbia & University of Alberta in Canada. His research interests include Advanced Cooling Technology, Energy Conversion and Storage System, Renewable Energy and Energy System, Two Phase and Multiphase Flow, Modelling/Simulation methods (CFD)-DNS, LES and AI-machine learning (ML) Approach. He has published over 130 papers with over 90 peer-reviewed journal publications in his academic career, including top journals such as Applied Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, Fuel, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer etc. He has been a regular reviewer of many leading journals and serves as Editor/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals. He also serves as general Chair and session Chairs/co-Chairs, OCM and TPC members at a number of International Conferences. He is currently an EPSRC Peer Review Full College Member and regular reviewer for EPSRC, Newton Fund proposals.
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Dr. 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 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. His most recent awards are 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 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.
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Prof. Dr. Parames Chutima received a Bachelor of Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, a Master’s degree from Chulalongkorn University and Asian Institute of Technology, and a PhD in ManufacturingEngineering and Operations Management from the University of Nottingham, UK. Currently, he is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Chulalong korn University, Thailand, and the director of the Regional Centre for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His research interests include multi-objective optimisation in operations management, production planning and control of assembly lines, just-in-time production systems and simulation modelling. He is the author of several books as well as international publications in conference proceedings and referred journals.
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Prof. Dr. Alexander L. Kalamkarov is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada since 1993, and Director of Smart Materials Centre since 1995. He was awarded PhD degree from the Moscow Lomonosov State University in 1979 and the Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1990. His academic career spans over 44 years in Research and University teaching. He has taught in the Universities in the USA, England, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil and visited numerous Universities and Research Institutes around the world. Prof. Kalamkarov is awarded the CANCAM Gold Medal for the “outstanding contribution in the area of Applied Mechanics” in 2011. He is awarded the Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2002; the Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) in 2001; and the Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2007. Prof. Kalamkarov is a Member of numerous prestigious International Editorial and Advisory boards and the International Conference Organizing Committees in the area of advanced composite materials and smart structures. Research performed by Prof. Kalamkarov in the areas of advanced composite materials and smart materials and structures is internationally recognized. He has authored more than 350 research publications, including over 170 refereed journal papers, 8 Research Monographs and 2 US patents. Prof. Kalamkarov has made major contribution to the fundamental analysis, design and optimization of composite materials and smart composite structures, composite reinforced shells and plates.
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Prof. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon is Professor of Production and Operations Management in Department of Production and Operations Management at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He has a PhD in Manufacturing, which he obtained from the Universite de La Rochelle, France. He studied Business Administration major in Quality Management at the master’s level in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for which he was awarded the MBA. He’s bachelor degree and diploma in Mechanical Engineering which his obtained from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received his postgraduate certificate in Mechatronics and Robotics from Carlisle, United Kingdom. He is Director of Teaching Factory since 1 September 2016. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has had over 33 years experiences of teaching in higher learning education. In UTHM, he teaches Industrial Engineering and Project Management at the under-graduate and postgraduate level. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has multidisciplinary research interests that encompass industrial engineering, forecasting and Green Supply Chain management. His completed 25 research grant projects as project leader and research member. He has supervised more than 120 undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. He has served as a reviewer for a number of industrial engineering, engineering management and computer science conferences and journals as part of his expertise sharing initiatives. He had published more than 400 Journals and Proceeding Scopus Indexed and 10 books. He is also Fellow and President of Industrial Engineering and Operation Management Society (IEOMS, Malaysia), Global Council member of Industrial Engineering and Operation Management Society (IEOMS Global), member of Management Science and Operation Research Society of Malaysia (MSORSM), member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), member of Institute of Industrial Engineer (IIE), USA, and member of International Institute of Forecasters (IIF).
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Prof. Dr. Rongwu Zhu (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in energy technology from the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2015.,From 2011 to 2012, he was a Guest Researcher with Aalborg University, and from 2015 to 2020, he was a Senior Researcher with the Chair of Power Electronics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. He is currently a Full Professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Prof. Dr. Piotr Kulczycki currently holds the professor positions at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he is the head of the Centre of Information Technology for Data Analysis Methods, as well as the AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, where he is the head of the Division for Information Technology and Systems Research. He has also held the position of visiting professor at the Aalborg University, and closely cooperated with the Technical University of Budapest, the Helsinki University of Technology, the University Catholique de Louvain, and the Tampere University of Technology. Professor Piotr Kulczycki has published 11 books and more than 200 scientific works in reputable journals, edited volumes, and international conference proceedings. The field of his scientific activity to date is the applicational aspects of information technology and data analysis and mining, mostly connected with the use of modern statistical methods and fuzzy logic in diverse issues of contemporary systems research and control engineering.
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Prof. Sabah Khan is from Delhi, the capital of India. She is working in her alma mater, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi, India as a full Professor, since last 24 years. She did herB.Tech(Mechanical) from JMI in1992, ME (Polymer) from Delhi University 1997 and PhD (Mechanical) from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2008. She also holds a PG Diploma in Computer Applications.She did two foreign assignments, teaching in BITS International Centre, Bahrain and AMA University Bahrain from 2008-2010. She teaches both undergraduate and post graduate students, subjects like Machine Design, Multiphase Materials and Tribology. She is an active researcher and 7 of her students have been awarded their PhD degrees while 4 are working on topics related to composites, tribologyy and nano additive lubricants. Her research areas are bio and nano-composites, nanofibers, tribology and machine design. She has published about have about 80 research papers in her field if expertise, about 10 of which are conference papers. Her research group is currently working on synthesis and tribological characterisation of fatigue and tribological characterization of biodegradable composites, manufacturing techniques of Functionally Graded Materials and Hybrid Composites. Two of her research findings are under different stages of patent verifications. She has published two books and has contributed about 10 chapters in Scopus indexed books. She has been guest editor and reviewer with various publications.
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Dr. Manoj Khandelwal is a Program Coordinator of mining engineering at Federation University and is an Australian Endeavour Fellow. Dr Khandelwal has more than a decade of research and academic teaching experience in Australia and India. Dr Khandelwal has been recognized as a leading expert in ‘Mining Geomechanics’ and ‘Rock Blasting’. So far, Dr Khandelwal has published more than 130 research papers in different reputed journals and conference proceedings. His total citations are more than 2800 (Scopus) and current h index is 31. He is also the author of a technical book. He has successfully completed several research and consultancy research projects in his area of interest. He has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, in which some of them are Young Scientist Award at the hands of the President of India during 93rd Indian Science Congress, Young Engineers Award by Institution of Engineers’ India, Young Mining Engineer of the Year and SRG Information Technology award from Mining Engineers’ Association of India, Endeavour Research and Executive Fellowship from Govt of Australia, etc. Dr Khandelwal is a member of the editorial board of several international journals published from various continents.