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Dr. Xiande Fang is a distinguished professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, serving as a Vice Chairman of Academic Committee, MIIT Key Laboratory of Aircraft Environment Control and Life Support (AECLS), and Chairman of Professional Committee, AECLS and Building Environment and Energy Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China, M. Sci. from Tsinghua University, and B. Eng. from NUAA. His is an Associate Editor, Aerospace Science and Technology, and the Editor- in-Chief, International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology. His research area is thermofluids and its applications to various industrial sectors. He has published over 200 papers and 4 books/book chapters.

方贤德博士是南京航空航天大学（NUAA）教授，江苏省“333”跨世纪学术、 技术带头人，NUAA飞行器环境与生命保障工程、建筑环境与能源利用工程专业委员 会主任，NUAA飞行器环境控制与生命保障工程工信部重点实验室学术委员会副主任 。1982年、1984年和1990年分别获得NUAA学士学位、清华大学硕士学位，以及中国 科学技术大学博士学位。担任国际期刊《International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology》主编，国际期刊《Aerospace Science and Technology》副主编。研究领域是热流体科学技术及其在航空航天、空调制冷、能 源动力等工业领域中的应用。发表了学术论文200多篇，出版专著/教材 4部。

Dr. Tian Liu is a professor at Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. He received his Bachelor and PhD from DUT in 2003 and 2009, respectively. His research interest is focused on the insect cuticle. He studies the component and formation process of insect cuticle to find new targets and technologies for pest control, to find new inspiration to design biomaterials, and to develop new biocatalysts for the utilization of biological resources. His has published more than 40 papers in reputed international journals.

Dr. Caifeng Ding is currently a Professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China and also the chief director of Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science (Ministry of Education), Head of Innovation Team of Biochemical Analysis (Ministry of Education), and Member of Pharmaceutical Analysis Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. She received her PhD in the biological functional materials from Nanjing Tech University in 2006. She was awarded the distinguished young investigator grant of Shandong in 2010, and published more than 60 research papers in top-class and core magazines. Her general research interests lie in photoelectric analysis of tumor markers, drug delivery strategy via multifunctional materials and organic fluorescent probes.

Prof. Calvin Yu-Chian Chen is the Director of Intelligent Medical Center and a professor of school of intelligent systems engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. He also serves as an advisor and researcher in China Medical University, Asia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a guest professor in Peking University, University of Pittsburgh, and adjunct professor in Zhejiang University. He had built the world’s largest traditional Chinese medicine database (http://tcm.cmu.edu.tw/) and the world’s first cloud-computing CADD system (http://iScreen.cmu.edu.tw/). He also built the world first integrated TCM and combine docking, molecular dynamics cloud-computing systems, iSMART (http://iSmart.cmu.edu.tw/). Prof. Chen’s laboratory focuses on interdisciplinary issues, such as artificial intelligent technology application in medicine, bioinformatics, systems biology, chemoinformatics, and pharmainformatics. Now his research focuses on building an expert system to help doctors for clinical medical treatment by using deep learning and big data technology from all the databases and new artificial algorithms that he had built.

Dr. Hong Qiao is currently the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree from De Montfort University Leicester in 1995. She is an internationally-recognized and highly-cited pioneer researcher in high-precision robotic manipulation and biologically-inspired robotic cognition and manipulation. Her theory of “Attractive Region in Environment (ARIE)” —reported as “Qiao’s Concept” —has been widely applied in industrial robots in China. She has been selected as the Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEERobotics and Automation Society. She also serves as AEs of 6 IEEE Transactions and Editor-in-chief of Assembly Automation (SCI).

Dr Shen Yin received his doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany in 2012. He is currently a Full Professor at School of Astronautics and also the Director of Lab on Advanced Learning Aided Diagnosis and Control, Harbin Institute of Technology. His interest majorly focuses on Data-driven control/diagnosis and system identification, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Safety, reliability, the security of complicated systems, Big data and intelligent human healthy diagnosis, Nonlinear system and theory and Applications in cyber-physical systems and autonomous systems. He was honoured with Highly Cited Researcher award in 2019 as well as Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2015. He has three patents and more than 100 international publications. He is also an Associate Editor or Editorial member of IE Technology News and Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems.

Dr. Aiqun Jia obtained his Ph.D from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China in 2004. He is currently working as a professor in the Department of Pharmacy, Hainan University, China. His research interests include Quorum sensing based novel antibiotic drug candidates R and D Extraction, isolation, identification and bio-active evaluation of natural products, Total synthesis and semi-synthesis of natural products. He has won several awards including the Xibu Scholar Award of CAS and Di’Ao Traditional Chinese Medicine Award of CAS in 2003.

Qian Han is currently a Full Professor in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry, Vector Biology) at the Hainan University, Haikou, China. He received a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. His field of expertise/area of interest include Anopheles, Aedes, Enzyme Activity, Proteins, Enzymes, Enzymology, Protein Characterization, Protein Expression, Protein Purification, Enzyme Kinetics, Mosquitoes, Protein Crystallography, Molecular Biology, Anopheles gambiae, Veterinary Medicine, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Protein Structure, Parasitology, PCR, Cell Culture, Aedes aegypti, Substrate Specificity, Eimeria tenella, Eimeria, Parasitic Diseases, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Recombinant Protein Expression, Affinity Chromatography, Protein Engineering, Protein Biochemistry, Recombinant Proteins Production & Purification, Size Exclusion Chromatography, Ion Exchange Chromatography, SDS-PAGE, Protein Crystallization, Protein Chromatography, and Enzymatic Catalysis. However, Dr Han has published more than 20 research/review articles in well-reputed journals.

韩谦，博士，海南大学生命科学与药学院教授、博士生导师、副 院长，海南大学学术委员会委员。现任学术兼职有《Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences》Associate Editor、《中国媒介生物学及 控制杂志》编委、《寄生虫与医学昆虫学报》编委、《中国兽医科 学》编委、《中国兽医学报》编委等职 从事病媒生物和寄生虫防控相关的研究工作。在基础研究方面， 以芳香族氨基酸代谢为切入点，研究色氨酸代谢与蚊虫传播病原能 力的关系和酪氨酸代谢在蚊虫先天免疫中的作用。在应用研究方面 ，从事大环内酯类抗寄生虫药的制剂及应用研究，制定了我国规模 化猪场寄生虫防控程序，并纳入了国家标准。获得第六届中国农学 会青年科技奖、中国畜牧兽医学会奖、北京市优秀教师称号、中国 畜牧兽医学会兽医寄生虫分会杰出贡献奖等奖励。共发表论文160余 篇，其中包括90余篇SCI收录论文。 主译、参译、参编专著、教材 及国家标准共计12部；获授权国家专利5项。

Dr. Dong-Qing Wei is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, College of Life Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He received his PhD degree in 1987 from the University of Puerto Rico. Over the past three decades he has made many grand breaking contributions to the development of bioinformatics techniques and their interdisciplinary applications to systems of ever-increasing complexity. Prof. Wei has published more than 300 journal papers, 9 monographs with around 7000 SCI citations. He was invited to give invited and plenary talks in more than 100 conferences, he also organized 10 international conferences, for example, Theory and Computational Chemistry (ACC2008), AI and Precision Medicine (2017-2018) and International Conference on Computational and System Biology (ICCSB)(2009-2015), among others. Dr. Dong-Qing does research in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, protein-protein interactions and networks, molecular machines, proteins-drug interactions and drug designs, membrane protein dynamics, deep learning and precise medicine, CYP450 and personalized medicine.

魏冬青 男，1962年生，长聘教授，博士生导师。就职于上海交通大学生命学 院及微生物代谢国家重点实验室，Nature-Springer期刊“Interdisciplinary Sciences-Computational Life Sciences”主编(科学院2区)。长期从事生物信息 学，生物体系的分子模拟，药物代谢与个性化药物， 疾病与生物标志的精准模 型，计算机辅助药物设计，蛋白质相互作用与识别， 蛋白机器等领域的研究工 作。主持国家重点研究领域项目，自然科学基金重点项目和多项国家自然科学 基金面上项目。发表SCI文章400篇，主编专著9部，引用超过9000次，H因子 55。中国交叉科学学会副理事长，中国卫生信息学会大数据应用评估与保障专 业委员会副主委，中国运筹学会计算系统生物学常务理事。获得横山亮次奖、 中华医学二等奖、计算机协会自然科学二等奖，上海市科学技术一等奖和上海 市优博导师称号。

Dr. Feng is currently an Associate Professor at the Central South University. He works as Chief Editor and Editorial Board Member of many international journals, such as Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanoscience and Nanometrology, etc. He also works as invited reviewer for more than 40 international journals. He has published more than 60 papers and obtained 30 patent declaration and authorization. Among these papers, more than 55 papers are indexed by SCI. He also published 5 monographs written in English. He won one First Prize of Achievements in Medical Science and Technology issued by Hunan Province, one Second Prize at the provincial or ministerial level. His research interests include Materials Science, Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Biofabrication, 3D Printing.

Ji-Huan He is an expert on nonlinear science, nanotechnology, surface chemistry and biomechanics, he is the owner of some famous analytical methods, such as the semi-inverse method, the variational iteration method, the homotopy perturbation method, the exp-function method, and He’s frequency formulation. The coupled method of the homotopy perturbation method and Laplace transform is called as He-Laplace method in literature. Dr. He is also the owner of the bubble electrospinning, which is the potential technology for mass-production of various functional nanofibers. The macromolecular electrospinning proposed by Ji-Huan He and his student can well control the macromolecular orientation in a nanofiber. His geometric potential theory can explain well many boundary-induced phenomena, e.g., super-hydrophobicity and selective absorption. His two-scale thermodynamics and two scale mathematics (fractal calculus) view any a phenomenon in two different scales, in a large scale the continuum assumption works, while in a smaller scale, saying a molecule size, discontinuous phenomena occur, and the fractal calculus has to be adopted. He has published more than 400 articles with an h-index of 67, and he has been listed as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier for many years, and was also one of the World's Hottest Researchers.

何吉欢是非线性科学、纳米技术、表面化学和生物力学方面的专家，提出了半反推法、变分迭代法、同伦摄动法、exp函数法等著名的解析方法和频率公式。同伦摄动法与拉普拉斯变换的耦合方法在文献中称为He-Laplace方法。何博士还是提出了气泡静电纺丝新方法，可以制备各种功能纳米纤维。何吉欢和他的学生提出的大分子静电纺丝方法可以很好地控制纳米纤维中大分子的取向。他的几何势理论可以很好地解释许多边界诱发的现象，如超疏水性和选择性吸收。他提出的双尺度热力学和双尺度数学(分形微积分)用不同的尺度来分析同一物理问题，大尺度下可以得到连续介质力学的基本规律，而在小尺度上，连续假设不再成立，可以分形微积分来描述必须被采用。他发表了400多篇的文章，H-index达67。多年来一直被科睿唯安(Clarivate Analytics)和爱思唯尔(Elsevier)列为高度引用的研究人员，也是全球最热门的研究人员之一。

Dr. Tymish Y.Ohulchanskyy is a distinguished professor at the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Optics and Laser Physics in 2001, he joined the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB) at the State University of New York, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. Dr. Ohulchanskyy’s research broadly involves photophysics of organic and inorganic materials in conjunction with their applications in biophotonics. The main focus is on the development of molecular and nanoparticular photoactive agents for targeted optical/multimodal bioimaging and light induced therapy. Dr.Ohulchanskyy has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA. He has one U.S. patent granted and licensed.

Tymish Y.Ohulchanskyy博士是中国深圳大学物理与光电子工程学院的杰出教授。 获得博士学位后 他于2001年获得光学和激光物理学博士学位，并加入了纽约州立大学，美国纽约州布法罗大学的激光，光子学和生物光子学研究所（ILPB）。 Ohulchanskyy博士的研究广泛涉及有机和无机材料的光物理及其在生物光子学中的应用。 主要焦点是用于靶向光学/多峰生物成像和光诱导疗法的分子和纳米颗粒光敏剂的开发。 Ohulchanskyy博士在科学期刊上发表了140多篇同行评审文章，包括《自然光子学》，《自然通讯》和美国国家科学院院刊。 他拥有一项已授予和许可的美国专利。

Dr Jianguo Fang is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University. He has received his Doctorate in Organic Chemistry. From 2003 to 2008, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Northwestern University, Evanston and the Burnham Institute, USA. His main research fields are chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. His current interest focuses on Mechanisms of biological redox regulation and small molecules targeting cellular redox network as therapeutic agents and tools. He is a key member of the organic chemistry innovation group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2006, he won the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Gansu Province. He has more than 90 publications in academic journals.

Xiao-Jiang Hao obtained a Master’s Degree of Science from Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1985, and a Doctor’s Degree in Pharmacy from Kyoto University, in 1990. He was promoted to a full professor at KIB in 1994 and served as the Deputy Director/Director of KIB from 1997 to 2005. His research studies aim towards natural product chemistry and bioactivity. He has published more than 600 peer-reviewed SCI papers.

Ying Tan is a full professor at Peking University, director of Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Peking University, and the inventor of Fireworks Algorithm (FWA). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IASEI Transactions on Swarm Intelligence, and International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (IJCIPR), the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System (NNLS), International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), etc. His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, deep neural networks, machine learning, data mining, intelligent information processing for information security and financial prediction, etc. He has published more than 340+ papers in refereed journals and conferences in these areas and authored/co-authored 12 books, including “Fireworks Algorithm” by Springer-Nature in 2015

Jun Ye is a professor at the Ningbo University, P.R. China. He has more than 30 years of expe- rience in teaching and research. His research interests include soft computing, neutrosophic theory and applications, fuzzy decision making theory and methods, intelligent control, robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis, and rock mechanics. He has published more than 260 papers in various journals, written a few books related to his research work, and finished a few pro- jects sponsored by the government of P.R. China. He is the editorial board member of “Current Chi- nese Computer Science Journal” (Co-Editor in Chief), “Neutrosophic Sets and Systems” (Editor), “Journal of New Theory” (Area Editor), and “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence” (Area Editor). He was selected as “Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers” in 2019.

叶军现为宁波大学土木与环境工程学院特聘教授、岩石力学研究 所副所长。2015年至目前兼任印度巴拉蒂尔大学（Bharathiar University）、巴基斯坦国际伊斯兰大学（International Islamic University）博士学位考试团成员；2020年以来担任土 耳其安卡拉大学（Ankara University）博士生导师（现带博士 生1人）。目前主要研究方向为中智理论与应用、软计算、模糊 决策理论与方法、机器人智能控制、模式识别与故障诊断、智能 医学诊断、岩石力学与工程建模。在国内外发表学术论文260余 篇，其中，SCI/SSCI/EI收录论文共计171篇（其中SCI/SSCI收录 论文121篇，EI收录论文50篇，进入ESI高被引用论文11篇,进入 Web of Science 数据库总引频次5560余次、h-index 论文40篇 ）；获得国家发明专利10余项。叶军建立的“欠驱动多指节机器 人手的运动分析与设计方法”、“复合正交神经网络与控制”与 “工程中智理论与应用为主要原创性贡献”。现担任国际期刊《Current Chinese Computer Science》主编，8家国际期刊编委/编辑。2019年荣获浙江省留联会“最美留学 报国之星”称号。依据斯坦福大学John P. A. Ioannidis教授团队2018年发布的全球高被 引学者排行榜中，叶军教授在全球10万科学家中排名为17030位，其中，全球人工智能科学 家排名第248位，中国人工智能科学家排名第18位。叶军教授入选爱思唯尔(Elsevier)2019 中国高被引学者(Chinese Most Cited Researchers)榜单（计算机科学）。现担任国际中 智科学学会（NSIA）中国分会副理事长。

Professor Lei Guo received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Chongqing University, China in 2015. He is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, China. He has conducted a series of studies in various areas of the field of physical chemistry: electrochemistry, corrosion science, density functional theory, as well as molecular dynamic simulation. He recently focuses on metal-air batteries, organic corrosion inhibitors, and the first principle calculation. He has authored over 100 papers published in international journals, 2 book chapters and 50 patents.He is also a member of the editorial board of 5 international journals.

郭雷，男，1987年6月生，铜仁学院教授，西南石油大学博士后， 2015年博士毕业于重庆大学，贵州省“千”层次创新型人才，四川轻 化工大学兼职硕导，主要深耕材料腐蚀与防护、化学电源、电化学 分析方法、分子模拟计算、表界面材料等领域的研究。目前担任 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces，Corrosion Science、International Journal of Energy Research、Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 等100多个期刊杂志评审专家，担任 Journal of Materials and Environmental Science、Colloid and Surface Science等多个杂志编委，主持国家自然科学基金、贵州省 科技厅项目、贵州省教育厅拔尖人才计划、四川省材料腐蚀与防护 重点实验室开放基金以及企业委托研发项目等共计10余项，已发表 SCI收录论文100余篇，获授权国家专利50余件（其中美国发明专利 1项），参编学术专著2部。

Dr. Yunping Li is currently a Professor at the Powder Metallurgy Research Institute, Central South University, China. He completed his PhD from the Department of Materials Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2007. He was also a Specially Appointed Professor of Shonan Scholar at Chunan University His research interests include Metallic Materials; Corrosion, Plastic deformation. He has over 140 publications and has publications in Nature: NGP Asia Mater, Acta Mater, Electrochimica Acta, Corros Sci, etc.

Zhiwu Li is currently a Professor at the School of Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He obtained a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from the School of Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has published more than 100 articles in Automatica and IEEE Transactions and 24 patents in several US and Australian publications. His research interests focus on Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems, Scheduling and Control of Production Systems, Petri Net Theory and Applications, Production Process Optimization, and Granular Computing.

李志武，博士，西安电子科技大学机电工程学院的教授。在Automatica和IEEE Transactions发表学术论文150多篇，拥有24项美国和澳大利亚项专利。 研究领域有离散事件系统的监督控制，生产系统的调度和控制，Petri网理论和应用，生产过程优化以及颗粒计算。当选2016年度IEEE Fellow。

Dr. Lei Chen is professor at Hefei University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 with major in Nuclear Science and Applications. He was engaged in postdoctoral research at National Taiwan University in Taiwan and took visiting-professor at University of Alberta in Canada. His research interests focus on condensed-mater physics, solid- state inorganic chemistry, solid-state luminescence, crystal and electronic structures, synchrotron radiation technology and application, phosphors for light-emitting diodes (LED), and quantum dots display. He has published 65 peer-reviewed papers.

陈雷，合肥工业大学教授、博导。2007年6月于中国科学技术大学获得核科 学与技术专业博士学位，曾在台湾大学从事博士后研究、在加拿大阿尔伯特大 学从事国家公派访问学者研究。主要从事半导体照明与量子点显示研究，精通 发光材料与发光物理，掌握核心技术，拥有自主知识产权，具备在国际一流期 刊发表高水平论文的研究能力，已在 Materials Today、Advanced Science、Chemistry of Materials、Chemical Engineering Journal、Nano Energy等期刊发表SCI论文65篇，总被引用2045次(Google Scholar)，单篇最高 引用439次，h指数20；申请发明专利23件、PCT专利4件、实用新型2件，获发明 专利授权8件。主持国家自然科学基金青年、面上与大科学装置联合基金项目， 以项目组副组长(总26人排名第二)与子课题负责人承担国家863计划1项，承担 安徽省科技攻关、安徽省重点研发计划、广东省协同创新等项目。研究论文分 别被ACS Combinatorl Science 和Luminescecne刊登为期刊封面，被 Luminescecne期刊选为Featured article，被Advanced Science期刊选为 Frontispiece。积极开展产学研合作、产业技术转移与成果转化，并取得良好 经济效果。以排名第一分别荣获2020中国轻工业联合会科技进步一等奖和2018 安徽省科技进步二等奖，以排名第六荣获2019广东省科技进步二等奖。

Dr. Zhen Fang is currently a Professor, Leader (PI) of biomass group, College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University. He obtained his PhDs from China Agricultural University (Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Beijing) and McGill University (Materials Engineering, Montreal) as well as received further postdoc training in Chemical Engineering in Spain (Marie Curie Fellowship, Universidad de Zaragoza). He is the inventor of “fast hydrolysis” process. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Book Series – Biofuels and Biorefineries. He has made major contributions to the fields of hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, biodiesel synthesis and liquid biofuel production, supercritical fluid processes, catalyst synthesis and nanomaterials. He is listed in the “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” in energy in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (Elsevier-Scopus).

Dr. Yanqing Niu is a researcher at Xi’an Jiaotong University and was a visiting scholar at CRF in Sandia National Laboratories. His research is mainly focused on Clean and Efficient Combustion and Solid Waste Melting Utilization, including ash related problems during combustion and gasification (slagging, agglomeration, corrosion, and utilization) with experiment and modeling, reaction kinetics of fuel particle, pollution (NOx, SOx, and PM) formation and control during combustion, as well as D#x0026;R of low-NOx industrial burner (coal, gas, and dual fuel) and resource utilization of MSW and its incineration fly ash, etc.

Dr. Shengchun Qu is currently a Full Professor at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Department of Physics, Jilin University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. His research interests include the crystallization dynamics mechanism of materials, optimization of materials stability, plasmon-enhanced light absorption, organic solar cell, perovskite solar cell, flexible device and encapsulation technologies, and so on. Currently, he has published more than 100 SCI papers in Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Energy Mater., Small, Nano Energy and other journals. He has more than 30 patents.

Dr. Yinglong Wang is a Professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology and has been selected as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Chemical Engineering). He is the associate editor of the special issue of multi criteria decision making (special section of frontiers in sustainability). He received his PhD from Ocean University of China in 2006. His research focuses on green and sustainable process intensification, environmental pollution control and waste recycling, energy- saving process optimization, etc. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and been cited more than 2600 times with the H-index of 29.

Currently, Dr. Yu Wenbin is a Full Professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University. Before that, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at National University of Singapore for 7 years. He mainly focuses on Combustion in engines, Electronic control for engines, Fluid dynamics and CFD modeling, Spray, etc. He has published more than 70 articles and more than 15 patents. He is now the editorial board member of several International journals. As a reviewer of more than 20 world top journals, he obtained the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award in many top journals.

于文斌博士现为山东大学能源与动力工程学院教授。 在此之前，他曾在新加坡国立大学担任高级研究员7年。 他发表了70多篇文章和15多项专利。 现在，他是几本国际期刊的编辑委员会成员。 作为20多种世界顶级期刊的审稿人，他获得了许多SCI顶级期刊的“杰出评论贡献奖”。

Dr Xuibin He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China. He obtained PhD in Soil Science in 1998 from the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China. He received an award entitled, ‘Pioneer for migration settlement in TGR’ from the State Council (2012). Besides, he has published 25 articles and 8 patents in several well-reputed journals. His research areas revolve around Watershed management, Soil-water conservation, Water pollution control, Ecological, restoration, and Global Change.

Dr. Peng Changsheng is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Zhaoqing University, China. He received his PHD from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in March 2003. His research interests include Restoration of soil and groundwater pollution, seawater desalination and resource utilization of seawater (salt water), new environmental (environmental) materials and environmental protection equipment. He has published more than 170 articles and has more than 100 articles by SCI. He has obtained 11 patents. He is a Member of Chinese Society of Mechanics, Member of American Chemical Society, Member of Water Treatment and Recycling Committee of China Environmental Science Society, Member of Shandong Environmental Science Society, Mexican Researcher (Level I).

Dr. El-Sayed Salama obtained his BSc in Science from Benha University and received his MSc, PhD degrees, and Post-Doc from Hanyang University (South Korea) under “BK21 plus” in the area of “Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering”. Currently, he is working as a Professor in Public Health School, Lanzhou University under “High-Level Foreign Talents” and he is considered a Distinguished Expert of Science and Technology in the Ecological Industry of Gansu Province (China). He has published 70-SCI papers (with avg. IF=7.66) and most of his papers are appeared in high-reputed journals such as “Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (IF=29.394)”, “Trends in Plant Science (IF=18.313)”, and “Trends in Microbiology (IF=17.079)”. He also serves as an editorial board member for several international journals.

Dr. Haifeng Zhao is currently a Professor at the School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University with Major in Microbial Fermentation Engineering in 2008. His research interests involves food biotechnology, brewing science and technology, protein chemistry and bioactive peptide, and natural products chemistry. He has a Strong background in GC, HPLC, LC-MS, GC-MS, NMR for extraction, isolation,purification, structure identification and quantitative analyses of phenolic compounds. He has published more than 80 articles and has received First Prize of Guangdong province Science & Technology Progress: Key Technologies of fermentation and metabolic regulation for soy sauce, beer and threonine production in 2011.

赵海锋，男，博士，研究员，博士生指导教师。2008年3月毕业于江南大学 发酵工程专业，获工学博士学位；2008年5月任职于华南理工大学轻工与食品学 院，2009年被聘为广东省省部企业科技特派员，2012年9月晋升为副研究员，2013年7月被遴选为硕士生指导教师，2014年7月入选广东省高等学校“千百 十人才培养工程”校级培养对象，2015年7月被破格遴选为博士生指导教师，2015年8月作为访问学者被国家公派至丹麦哥本哈根大学进行为期一年的访问 学习，2017年9月晋升为研究员，2018年11月入选盐城市创新创业领军人才。主要从事食品生物技术、食品风味化学与稳定性等领域的研究与教学工作，具体涉及食品发酵与代谢调控技术、食品风味评价及其稳定化技术、蛋白质 化学与生物活性肽、食品质量安全评价与控制技术、天然产物活性因子分离、鉴定与活性评价技术等方面。

Wuyang Huang is currently a Professor at the Institute of Farm Product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. He received his PhD, Major in School of Biological Sciences from Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong. He has published several articles and conference abstracts in various well-reputed journals. However, his research interests include Food function, Phenolic Compounds, and Antioxidant Effects.

黄午阳，研究员，博士，2008年毕业于香港大学，2008-2009在加拿大阿尔伯塔大学开展博士后 研究，2019-2020曾在美国哈佛大学医学院做访问学者一年，现在江苏省农业科学院农产品加工 研究所营养与健康研究室工作，2017年聘为研究员。主要从事果蔬营养与功能研究，包括功能成 分快速检测与结构鉴定、生物活性评价，及其在加工过程中的稳定性调控。已发表学术论文80余 篇，H指数24。

Dr. Tao Huang is an Associate Professor and Director of Bioinformatics Core Facility at Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2014. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, systems genetics and big data research. He has published over 150 articles which have been cited for 6221 times with an h-index of 35 and an i10-index of 123.

黄涛，中国科学院上海营养与健康研究所青年研究员，曾在美国纽约西奈山伊坎医学院遗传与基因组科学系从事博士后研究。研究方向为机器学习和网络分析在精准医学中的应用。累计引用超过8618次，H指数43。担任超过25份杂志的编委或客座编辑，担任超过130份杂志的审稿人，主编了Methods in Molecular Biology丛书Computational Systems Biology - Methods and Protocols和Precision Medicine分册。

In recent 5 years, as the first/ communication author, Prof. Lin has published 34 papers indexed by SCI. Wherein, 2 papers were included in the ESI top 1‰ hot papers, 8 papers were selected as the ESI top 1% high cited papers, and 4 papers were considered as the top academic papers of Chinese high-quality science and technology journals. Besides, Prof. Lin was appointed as the subeditor/editor of the international SCI journals of Front Earth Sci, Adv Civ Eng and Geofluids, as well as the editor-in-chief of 2 academic monographs, one of which is the approximations of China Water and Hydropower Press. In addition, Prof. Lin has also won the National Xu Zhilun Outstanding Teacher Award in Mechanics, the Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talent Award in the Fields of Mining, Petroleum and Safety Engineering, the second prize of Natural Science Award of Hunan Province, the second prize of the Natural Science of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, the Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Institute of Geomechanics and Engineering, and the outstanding advisor of master's degree thesis of Hunan Province. The project aims to explore the evolution mechanism and regulation mechanism of anti-shear resistance of the structure surface under non-uniform load through the large-scale structural surface direct shear tests, so as to lay a theoretical foundation for the local regulation technique of rock joints.

Xing-Hai Liu is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, China. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Nankai University, Tianjin, China. His current research interests mainly focus on Design and synthesis of Bioactive Heterocyclic Compounds, new synthetic method of Heterocycles, and computer Aid Drug Design (High Throughput Receptor-Based Virtual Screening, Docking and QSAR). However, he has published 140 peer-review and research papers in different well-reputed journals. Besides, he is the Region Editor of Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, an Editorial Broad Member of Heteroatom Chemistry, Current Organic Chemistry, and Letters in Organic Chemistry. Also, he is a Reviewer of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Heterocyclic Communications and so on.

Professor Qiong Shi has been working as the director of BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, VP & Chief Scientist of BGI Marine Group, and a PhD supervisor at BGI Education Center under University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.Receiving his PhD degree from Sun Yat-Sen University. His research interests focuses on aquatic genomics, marine medicine, and fish molecular endocrinology. By far, he has published over 150 academic papers and 13 monographs, has been awarded with 13 Chinese patents, and acquired 2 certificates of new aquatic breeds from China Ministry of Agriculture.

石琼教授现任深圳市华大海洋研究院院长、华大海洋集团首席科学家、中国科学院大学华大教育中心博士生导师。1997年获中山大学博士学位。研究方向涉及水产基因组学、海洋药物、鱼类分子内分泌学。到目前为止，已在国内外学术刊物发表论文160余篇，出版专注13部，获批25项中美欧专利，获得农业部认定的水产新品种证书2件。兼任老挝华大水产公司法人和深圳大学生命与海洋科学学院访问教授。

Dr. Xiao Wang is an Associate Professor in Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD degree from Loughborough University, UK. His main research interests include nanomaterials, polymer composites, carbon materials and membrane materials. He is currently a PI of several research projects on materials science, in national and international level. He has published numerous international research and review papers in reputed journals. He is a regular reviewer of several international journals. He won the “Light of West China” award in 2015.

王啸，博士，副研究员，就职于中国科学院重庆绿色智能技术研究院微纳制造 与系统集成研究中心。中国科学院“西部之光”人才计划入选者；主持国家自然 基金委、中国科学院、重庆市科技局以及企业横向项目10余项；发表SCI论文30 余篇。主要从事高分子纳米复合功能材料的研发与应用工作，在碳纳米光学涂 层材料、高分子纳米复合纤维、高性能树脂复合材料、膜分离材料等方面取得 了突破，部分成果已实现商业应用。

Dr. Bai Yang is a professor at the State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, the College of Chemistry at Jilin University. He received his PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 1991 at Jilin University. His research interests related with polymeric nanostructured building blocks such as Carbonized Polymer Dots and Polymer Composite with Quantum Dots and its related functional materials including optical, photonic, photo-electric and photo-responsive materials. He has co authored over 600 papers published with more than 26000 sum cited times.

Dr Changqing Shen received the B.S. and PhD degrees in Instrument Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He also holds another PhD degree in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management from the City University of Hong Kong, in 2014. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, China. His research interests include machinery data mining and intelligent fault diagnosis and Signal Processing. Among many, one of his research projects is 'Machinery signal deep transfer learning and health status recognition under variable working conditions'. He has been awarded the honour of Outstanding Young Scholar of Soochow University in 2018 and Six Talent Peaks of Jiangsu Province in 2019. He has more than 60 publications.

Dr Zhen-Ming Chi holds a PhD degree in Microbiology and serves as a PhD guider for several students. Currently, he is working as a Professor of Microbiology at the Ocean University of China. His main interests are Microbiology and Marine yeasts. He has been contributing in the field of science since 2006 and has published more than 50 articles in well-reputed journals.

Prof. Zongxin Ling, focused on the research of microbial ecology for nearly 16 years, is the principal investigator of Zhejiang University. He has authored or co-authored over 90 peer reviewed publications with the total IF more than 255 and participated in editing three books. His research work has been published in Hepatology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, EbioMedicine, Microbial Ecology, BMC Genomics, Frontiers in Immunology, and has been cited for more than 4500. His H-index is 28 excluding the self-citations. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of PLoS One, EC microbiology and Chinese Journal of Microecology, associate editor of Frontiers in Immunology. He is also awarded with “Xinglin Academic Star of Zhejiang University” and “Taishan scholar”.

Dr. Zhang is mainly engaged in Mycobacteria and super drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. There are five directions of his research fields: 1) Establishment of new drug screening and evaluation model and study on mechanism of action of drugs. 2) Development of rapid clinical diagnosis of live mycobacterial infection technology and drug sensitivity testing technology. 3)Development of new therapeutic vaccines and new therapeutic vaccines/strategies. 4) Synthetic biology related to diagnosis and treatment of pathogenic bacteria. 5) Invention of relevant scientific research instruments and equipment.

Dr. J. ZHANG received her M.Sc. degree in Organic Chemistry in 2013 from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and her Ph.D. in the Department of Biology and Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong, in 2017. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Her research interests mainly focus on the design and fabrication of multifunctional nanomaterials for drug delivery, bioimaging and treatment of various diseases. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers with an H-index of 20.

Dr. Zaizhu Lou is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Nanophotonic Material Lab at Jinan University, China. He completed his PhD from Sate Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University in 2014. He was a Fellow Researcher at Osaka University, Japan from 2015-2017. He has received an "Outstanding Youth Fund of Guangdong Province" in 2018. His research interests include Nanophotonic, Crystal Materials. He has more than 20 publications and has received many other awards too.

娄在祝，男，暨南大学纳米光子学研究院教授，博士生导师，纳米材料光子学实验室主任 。曾获日本学术振兴会（JSPS）资助。2018年获广东省杰出青年基金、广东省青年珠江 学者。以第一/通讯作者在PNAS，ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Chem. Mater., JPCL, Appl. Catal.B-Environ. Nanoscale Horizon等国际知名学术期刊发表论文24篇。主持国家 自然科学基金-面上、青年、广东省杰出青年基金、青年珠江学者等科研项目。研究课题为 金属及非金属表面等离子体共振效应及其在太阳能转化中的利用，人工光合作用，纳米材 料光子学等。

Prof. Dr. Wei Wang is National Talent Program Candidates of China, Furong Distinguished Professor of Hunan Province, China, director of TCM and Ethnomedicine Innovation & Development International Laboratory of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Executive Editor of Current Traditional Medicine (Bentham Science). He received his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2006. He had worked in National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi from 2007 to 2012. He and his group focus on the isolation and discovery of novel bioactive natural products from Chinese medicine or other ethnomedicine, design of new analytical chemistry methodology and innovation on targeting and increasing efficiency of bioactive products of Traditional Medicine. He has more than 150 SCI publications and 10 patents.

王炜教授，湖南中医药大学药学院副院长、中药民族药物创新发展国际实 验室主任，国家级人才计划入选者，湖南省芙蓉学者特聘教授。主要从事中药 天然药物药效物质基础与活性分析研究。主持国家级、省部级及国际合作课题 30余项，制定国家标准、行业标准及企业标准6项，获授权专利10项，撰写中药 专著1部。共发表论文200多篇，SCI论文150篇。担任国际期刊 Current Traditional Medicine执行主编，Current Chinese Science (Natural Products Section) 主编。担任中国民族医药协会民族医药教育专业委员会副会长、湖南中医药学 会民族医药专业委员会副主任委员等；多所国内外高校客座教授。

Prof. Decheng Wan received his Ph.D from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China in 1994. After successively working as a research fellow of the Royal Society at University College London, UK, a senior research fellow at National University of Singapore, and a Wissenschaftliche Angestellter at Dortmund University, Germany from 1997 to 2005, he returned to Shanghai and was appointed as a full professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. Currently, Prof. Wan is Director of Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Lab (CMHL) at SJTU. His research interest is mainly on computational marine and coastal hydrodynamics, numerical marine basin, nonlinear wave theory, wave loads on structures, numerical analysis of riser vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and platform vortex-induced motion (VIM), etc. In these areas, he has published over 500 papers and carried out more than 50 projects on marine hydrodynamics and computational hydrodynamics. His remarkable work of development of numerical solvers in ship and ocean engineering have been recognized by the world-wide researchers in the field of marine hydrodynamics. He is awarded the most cited researchers in 2018 by Elsevier.Prof. Wan has developed more than 20 in-house CFD solvers on marine hydrodynamics, risers VIV, floating offshore wind turbine.

Dr. Ying-Ming Pan is a Professor at the Guangxi Normal University. He was born in 1972, in jiangxi, China. He received his BSc degree from Gannan Normal University and Msc degree from Guangxi University (China). He obtained his PhD degree at the Xianmen University in 2010. He was awarded Mingde Teacher Award in 2018. His present research interests focus on electrochemical synthesis and heterogeneous catalysis, Study on the modern organic synthesis methodology guided by bioactive molecules, Research and application of electrochemical organic reaction, Design, synthesis and application of porous organic polymers, Study and application of photochemical organic reaction. He has more than 190 publications.

Dr. Jinyong Peng is currently working as the dean of the College of Pharmacy, Dalian Medical University. He received his PhD from The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China during the period of 2003-2006, and last received his post-doctoral degree in Analytical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China. As the corresponding author, he has published some papers in Theranostics, Redox Biology, Chemical Communications, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Archives of Toxicology, British Journal of Pharmacology, and Pharmacological Research. His research interests include investigating the activities, drug targets on proteins or peptide, Toxicology and mechanisms of natural products or functional foods associated with oxidative stress against organ damage and metabolic disease. He is serving as an Associate Editor or Editorial Member of more than ten reputed journals including British Journal of Pharmacology

Dr Xiaoxiao Cai is a Full Professor of West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University. She also serves as the Vice-director of Dental Implant Center, West China School of Stomatology. She received her PhD from Sichuan University in 2010. Dr Cai’s research focuses on adipose stem cells differentiation and vascularization of craniofacial regeneration, such as bone, cartilage, tooth, fat et al. She has published over 50 papers, reviews and book chapters, and made several seminal contributions to the stem cells fields. She has served as the Associate Editor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters (SCI) and Editorial Board of Cell Proliferation (SCI). Besides, she received an Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Sichuan Province and Nomination of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China.

Dr. Renjie Chai received his Bachelor degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China in 2004. He received his PhD degree from the Baylor University in Texas, U.S.A in 2009. After that, he went to Stanford University for his postdoctoral training from 2009 to 2013. He moved back to China and was appointed as Professor in School of Life Sciences and Technology, Southeast University in 2013, and is serving as an Associate Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Technology at present. His current research focus on the regeneration of sensory hair cell and spiral ganglion neuron from inner ear stem cells and neural stem cells, respectively.

柴人杰，1982年11月出生，东南大学生命科学与技术学院二级教授，博士生导师，副 院长，支部书记；教育部长江学者特聘教授，青年千人，国家优青。2004年本科毕业于中 国科学技术大学，生物科学专业，导师施蕴渝院士。2009年博士毕业于美国Baylor大学， 生物医学专业，导师丁家桓教授，博士期间获贝勒大学第六届学生研究成果讨论会优秀研 究成果奖。2009年至2013年于Stanford大学医学院从事博士后工作，博士后期间作为项目 负责人主持的课题获美国斯坦福大学医学院院长奖励基金和美国听觉健康基金会资助。 2013年8月开始在东南大学生命科学研究院任教授，博士生导师。

Dr Bo-Hui Tang received his PhD degree in Quantitative Remote Sensing in 2007 from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Currently, he is a Researcher at IGSNRR. His research interests include quantitative estimation of land surface variables from satellite data, hyperspectral thermal infrared data analysis, parameterization of land surface processes at large scale with parameters directly/indirectly accessible from space measurements, and radiative transfer modelling. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He was honoured by the Chinese government in 2019 with “the Second Prize of the State Natural Science Award.”.

Dr. Yuanzhi Zhang is currently working as a Professor at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He received his Doctor of Science from the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland in 2005. His research interests include marine remote sensing and coastal studies, hyperspectral remote sensing of water and minerals, environmental remote sensing and applications, optical and microwave remote sensing of earth observation. Moreover, due to his contribution in his relevant field, he received several awards and has published some articles in well-reputed journals.

Xian Sun is a Professor at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the B.Eng. degree from BeiHang University, Beijing, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. His research interests include machine learning in vision, image/video analysis and remote sensing image understanding. He has published more than 120 papers in these areas, and won several National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards. He serves as Associate Editor, Guest editor and reviewer for more than 30 international journals.

Dr. Theodoros A. Tsiftsis received the BSc degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1993, the MSc degree in digital systems engineering from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K in 1995, the MSc degree in decision sciences from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in 2000, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2006. He is currently a Professor in the School of Intelligent Systems Science \& Engineering at Jinan University, Zhuhai, China, and also Honorary Professor at Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan, China. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory and wireless communications with emphasis on energy efficient communications, smart surfaces, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication, and physical layer security. He has served as a senior or Associate Editor in different international journals.

获理学学士学位，1995年在英国赫瑞·瓦特大学获数字系统工程硕士学位，2000年在希腊 雅典经济与商业大学获决策科学硕士学位，2006年在希腊帕特雷大学获电子工程博士学 位。现为暨南大学智能科学与工程学院全职教授，同时也是山东交通学院名誉教授。其 研究领域包括认知无线电、通信理论、无线携能通信、节能通信，智能表面，超可靠 和低延迟通信以及物理层安全。 Theodoros Tsiftsis博士曾担任IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Letter, IET Communications和IEICE Transactions on Communications 等编 辑委员会的高级或副编辑。目前是IEEE Transactions on Communications的Wireless Communications II区域编辑和IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 的副编辑。Tsiftsis教 授连续两年（2018-2019）被IEEE车载技术协会聘为杰出讲师（IEEE VTS DL）。

Dr. Yong-Lai Zhang received his BSc (2004) and PhD (2009) from Jilin University, China. He joined Jilin University in 2010 and is currently a full professor in the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University. In 2011, he was awarded a “Hong Kong Scholar” postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include smart materials and devices, laser fabrication of graphene-based microdevices, biomimetic surfaces and Lab-on-a-Chip systems.

张永来教授毕业于吉林大学，获无机化学博士学位，2010年在吉林大学电子科 学与工程学院任教，2015年被评为教授。2011年入选首届“香江学者”计划 ，2015年获得国家优秀青年基金资助，研究领域为智能材料与器件，具体包括 激光微纳加工石墨烯智能器件、仿生表面和微流控芯片系统。

Professor Yu-Fei Wu is currently a Distinguished Professor at the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. He obtained his BSc in 1983 and MSc in 1986 from Zhejiang University, China. He received MEng from National University of Singapore in 1994 and completed his PhD in 2002 at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has more than ten years of industry working experience in structural engineering as a professional engineer in consulting firms in China, Singapore and Australia and is a chartered professional engineer of New Zealand and Australia (FIEAust, CPEng, NER, MIPENZ). His research interests lie in the broad field of structural engineering. Professor Wu has published more than 250 technical works, including 150 SCI indexed journal papers. Professor Wu is the inventor of numerous new structural theories and technologies and has received prestigious research awards including the Moisseiff Medal from American Society of Civil Engineers and State Scientific and Technological Progress Award of China. Professor Wu is the sole or 1st named inventor of six US patented technologies and numerous new structural theories and technologies, such as (1) the theorems for flexural design of reinforced concrete, (2) the experimental method that can directly measure shear strength components in RC member tests, (3) the compression yielding structural design approach to increase the ductility of RC members and others.

吴宇飞，深圳大学土木与交通工程学院特聘教授，博导。1983年毕业于浙江大学土木工程学系、86年于同校获硕士学位，1994年获新加坡国立大学土木工程硕士学位，2002年获澳大利亚阿德莱德大学博士学位。吴教授在中国、新加坡、新西兰和澳大利亚从事职业结构工程设计、管理工作超过10年，为澳大利亚和新西兰注册结构工程师。1989-1992任教于上海交通大学，2004-2015为香港城市大学建筑及土木工程系副教授（终身教职），2015-2019为澳大利亚皇家墨尔本理工大学工程学院教授(Metro Chair)。主要教学和研究领域包括：钢筋混凝土结构、结构设计、复合结构、FRP结构、结构加固等。吴教授发表超过250篇学术论文，其中SCI论文近160篇，Google Scholar-H指数为46。吴教授发明了若干结构新技术并被授权美国发明专利，2018年被美国土木工程师学会ASCE授予Moisseiff 奖章，两次获中国国家科技进步二等奖。

Dr. Wenjian Liu was a Cheung Kong Professor at Peking University between 2001 and 2018 and is a Chair Professor at Shandong University since 2018. He is an elected member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, and International Association of Advanced Materials. He is the winner of five prestigious international awards. His research focuses on fundamental theories and methodologies for computational molecular science, including quantum electrodynamics, relativistic molecular quantum mechanics, many-body theories for strongly correlated electrons, relativistic theories of electric and magnetic properties, as well as relativistic energy band theory, etc.

Dr. Yihua Cao is a Professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. In 1995, he was selected as DAAD-K.C. Wong Research Fellow. He studied from 1996 to 1997 at the Institute of Flight Mechanics of Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. From July 2007 to Oct 2007, in July and Aug of 2008, and from June 2012 to Aug 2012 he worked in the Faculty of Engineering as a special visiting professor of Monash University, Australia. From July 2010 to Nov 2010, he was a senior visiting fellow of University of California at Davis, USA. His research interests include fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, fluid/solid coupling, aeroelasticity, flight dynamics and flight control, aircraft airworthiness. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in many leading journals.

Dr. Shu Chang has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore since 2006. He completed his Bachelors in Engineering from the Department of Aerodynamics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, Masters from the Department of Aerodynamics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China and a Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, U.K in 1988. Dr. Chang's research interests include Development of efficient numerical methods to solve partial differential equations, Computational fluid dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann method and its applications, Lattice Boltzmann flux solvers and gas kinetic flux solvers and their applications, numerical study of moving boundary flows and multiphase flows. He also made efforts to develop some efficient models for simulation of multiphase flows and flows around moving boundaries. So far, he has authored 4 monographs and published more than 350 articles in the international refereed journals.

Dr. Tongbeum Kim is a Professor in the College of Aerospace Engineering at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, PR China whose research focuses on the growing concerns over sustainability, primarily through the thermal management of various energy systems including high pressure gas-turbines and sustainable/renewable energy generation and storage systems. Specific research interests cover (a) aerodynamics & heat transfer in turbomachinery, (b) convection & conduction in porous media, (c) thermal management of sustainable/renewable energy generation and storage systems, and (c) thermal management of Li-Ion batteries for long range electric vehicles. Dr. Kim obtained a PhD in Aerothermal Engineering from Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK after an MSc in Aerodynamics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and received numerous awards and recognition including a HTFS Best Paper Award from the 8 th UK National Heat Transfer Conference (2003), an Outstanding Reviewer by the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2013), and a University Research Commercialization Support Initiative Award from the Innovation Hub, Gauteng Province of South Africa (2015).

Lei Qiu, PhD, Humboldt Research Fellow, is currently a professor at the State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree from NUAA. From 2012 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures of NUAA, and then in 2014, he became an associate professor. In 2017, he was promoted to professor as an exception in NUAA. In 2015, he was elected a Hong Kong Scholars Research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. His current research interests include structural prognosis and health management, structural health monitoring (SHM), signal processing, aircraft smart skin, smart sensor and system integration. He has published over 110 journal papers (more than 60 papers are included by SCI) and over 50 international conference papers.

Prof. Qijun Zhao is a professor and vice-chairman at the College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include Helicopter Rotors; Rotary Wing Aircraft; Fuselages, Blade-Vortex Interaction; Aeroacoustics; Noise Prediction, compound helicopters, airfoils. Dr. Zhao's main subject areas are Engineering Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Astronomy Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Dr. Aocheng Cao is a professor at The Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He received his Master's from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in 2000 and PhD from the China Agricultural University, in 2006. His research interests include Fumigants, IPM of soil-borne diseases, Application technology of pesticides. Dr. Cao is a chief scientist for the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS and The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFD0201600). He is also the chair member of the Branch of Soil Disinfestation, Chinese Society of Agro-Ecological Environment Protection. Dr. Cao has published 40 national patents and more than 100 papers in various journals of repute.

Dr. Rafaqat Ali Gill currently works at the Department of Genomics and Molecular Biology, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China. Dr. Gill is working in field of genomics (including the genome wide association studies), whole genome duplication and polyploids in oil rich crop Brassica napus. Previously, he did research in the areas of plant stress physiology and functional genomics.

Dr. Zhiqiang Lu obtained his Ph.D in Entomology with focus on insect prophenoloxidase pathway activation and regulation from Oklahoma State University 2007, and joined Dr. Michael Strand’s group in University of Georgia as a postdoctoral scientist working on immune interaction between parasitoid wasp and host insect. In 2009, Dr. Lu settled in Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in China studying silkworm, aphid and wasp physiology and immunology. His current research interests include nutrition immunology, interaction between immunity and development of insects.

Prof. Gyana R. Rout is working as Prof. & Head at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India and is focusing his research on plant stress physiology and biotechnology. He has identified the ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter gene family in Indica rice genotypes for aluminum tolerance a limiting factor for rice productivity in acid soils. He has published over 220 research papers and 22 book chapters in International and National Journals of reputes. He edited two books i.e. "Molecular Stress Physiology of Plant" and and "Genetic Engineering of Horticultural Crops". Currently, he is working as Principal Investigator and Coordinator on Indo-UK project entitled “An integrated genomics/genetics approach for development of mungbean varieties with improved disease resistance” in the area of “Pulses and Oilseeds Research Initiative”.

Dr Shri Kant Tripathi received Doctor of Philosophy from the Banaras Hindu University (1992). He is currently a Professor at the Department of Forestry, MZU. His research interests include Ecosystem Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Carbon Sequestration, Soil-Microbe-Plant Interaction, Soil Fertility & Crop Productivity, and Ecosystem Sustainability. He has published 114 (Book 2; Book Chapters 20, Review Papers 13, Papers in conference Proceedings 6; Research Papers published 59, Articles/reports/book reviews) in distinguished journals.

Dr. Ruijie Deng has been a Professor at Sichuan University since July 2017. He received his B.Sc. from Central South University in 2012, and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2017. His current research interests include single cell and single molecule analysis, DNA nanotechnology, fluorescence imaging, isothermal amplification development and biosensors.

Dr. Prosenjit Ghosh received PhD in Physics from the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. During his PhD, he conducted an experiment on mass spectrometric analysis of natural carbonates to unravel their environmental condition for deposition. Subsequently, he was IAEA- WMO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and then moved to Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher. His contribution to the development of air CO2 standards and its acceptance to the global community is an important contribution to be mentioned. While at Caltech's work on clumped isotope thermometry is highly cited and an important milestone in Paleoclimate research. He spent a relatively short span of time at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan working as an Assistant Professor prior to joining IISc as the first faculty in the Centre for Earth Sciences in the year 2007. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and serves as adjunct faculty in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Divecha Centre for Climate Change and Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research.

Dr Anil & his co-researcher currently working on sustainable nanotechnology & hybrid nanomaterial viz, synthesis/preparation of carbonaceous nanomaterial (CNMs-AC, GO, G, GOQDs, CNDs etc.) through utilizing sustainable/green/waste based sources & related applications (sensing, detection, wastewater treatment, environmental remediation, optical, optoelectronic devices, tissue engineering, agriculture etc.). More specifically they are designing the polymer@CNMs hybrid (nanofiber membrane, hydrogel, transparent thin film etc.) for multifaceted applications. His group also engaged in synthesis & photophysical study of functional/fluorescent/plasmonic/photonics nanomaterial (QDs/MNPs/CDs), development of nanomaterial based fluorescent/optical sensor for detection/sensing of analytes (Turn-on/Turn-off/FRET/SET Probe), solvatochromism & spectroscopic analysis of binding interaction between protein/biomolecule-drug/dye/nanomaterial.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Patel obtained PhD in Pharmaceutical Science from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He is presently serving as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Health Sciences, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India. His research interests are focused on importance of Natural products especially Plant secondary metabolite in Human health, Diabetes and its secondary complication, Flavonoids, Antioxidant and Phytopharmaceuticals. He is co-author of 80 papers published in international journals and many book chapters to his credit and has a good citation index. He is reviewer for various international scientific journals and Travel grantee of various International Conferences.

Dr. Syed Rizwan received his PhD degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2011 in the field of condensed matter physics, focusing on magnetism and spintronics. He then joined the department of physics, COMSATS university Islamabad followed by a postdoc fellowship at Peking University from 2013-2014. During his Postdoc, his research was focused on nanodevices for data storage applications at nanoscale. He joined the department of physics, national university of sciences and technology (NUST), Islamabad in 2015, where he has been working in a multidisciplinary research domain including magnetism & superconductivity, photocatalysis, energy storage, etc.

Dr. Na’il Saleh received his PhD in Photochemistry from University of Missouri, USA in 2002. He worked as an Assistant Professor of physical chemistry at Yarmouk university, Jordan from 2002-2009. He was also appointed from 2006 to 2008 as a Research Scientist at Jacob university Bremen in Germany. In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor by United Arab Emirates University (joined 2009). With more than 48 publications, his research has been focusing on designing and creating new smart constitutional materials with inherent reversibility and responsiveness to chemical and thermal stimuli that have potential applications in biology, energy and environment using a non-classical approach.

Dr. Jaime Portilla was born in Cali (Colombia), is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Universidad de los Andes of Bogotá (Colombia) and Director of Bioorganic Compounds Research Group, Laboratory Q- 304. After obtaining his PhD in Organic Synthesis (Universidad del Valle, Cali – 2007) under the supervision of Prof. J. Quiroga, Dr. Portilla began his academic career at the Universidad de los Andes. His current research interests involve the areas of supramolecular chemistry and molecular recognition. Portilla's group research focuses on eco-compatible organic synthesis strategies, with a particular interest in aza-heterocyclic compounds of biological and photophysical potential.

Dr. Yuelin Song currently serves as a professor in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. His research interests mainly focus on the chemome clarification of traditional Chinese medicine, pharmacokinetics, and metabolomics. He has authored 100+ peer reviewed publications in the reputed journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, etc.

Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University in Chemistry in 2013. Afterwards, he undertook research positions at University of California, Riverside and then RIKEN from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a Professor at Ocean University of China, and a visiting research scientist at RIKEN. Dr. Wang is also the recipient of JSPS Research Fellowship and RIKEN Research Incentive Award. His research interests include synthesis and analytical applications of plasmonic nanostructures.

Ph.D Wufu Zhu is a Professor and Master's Supervisor of Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University. He is the deputy dean of the School of Pharmacy of this university, and is also the deputy director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Molecular Design and Evaluation. He is an editorial board member of the the journal of Drug Clinical and Evaluation. Dr. Zhu is Mainly engaged in the design, synthesis and anti- tumor activity of small molecule targeted anti-tumor inhibitors, as well as the development of generic drugs and computer-aided drug design. Currently, Dr. Zhu hosted more than 15 research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and published more than 60 SCI-indexed papers, and applied for 25 US and Chinese invention patents.

Dr. Detao Liu obtained his Ph.D. in Pulp and Papermaking Engineering at South China University of Technology in 2008. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Light Industry and Engineering, South China University of Technology. With over 40 research grants, 30 contracts and 60 technical publications on Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced materials etc. Dr. Detao Liu is an active teacher and researcher in eco-friendly biocomposites, flexible electronics and clean energy device impact, he is also focusing on the design and preparation of wood-derived functional biocomposites, flexible electronics and energy & environment devices from nanometer to micrometer, with an emphasis on understanding acoustic, optical, electric, and thermal nanostructures by manipulating structures of wood by nanotechnology. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Dr. Detao Liu has also worked academically for organizations such as Chinese Composite Materials Society, American Chemical Society (ACS), Tappi, Fellow of Vebleo, where he served as senior member.

Dr Zhike Liu received a PhD in the Department of Applied Physics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014. Currently, he is a Professor at the Shaanxi Normal University, China. His research interests include (1) Perovskite solar cells; (2) Organic solar cell; and (3) Graphene. Moreover, he has published more than 30 scientific papers in well-reputed journals.

Dr Baoliang Lv received PhD in Material Sciences from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He obtained BS in Applied Chemistry from the China University of Mining and Technology in 2004. Currently, he is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include Synthesis and growth behaviours of single-crystalline nanoparticles, Catalytic properties of various nanomaterials, Relationships between the properties and microstructures of nanomaterials, Synthesis and application of nanocomposites, and Computational and theoretical research in nanoscience. Due to his outstanding contribution, he received several awards and has published more than 50 articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Kinjal J. Shah is currently working as an Associate Professor in College of Urban Construction, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Science from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He has 10 years of research experience in the field of applied science and material science to achieve sustainability in the environment. In that aspect he has received the Leading Young Scientist award from The Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) and Mayor award from Taiwan. During his last 10 years of research career, he has published more than 30 SCI papers and 5 book chapters to International accredited journals.

Dr Aiwei Tang received PhD and MS from the Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University in 2009 and 2006 respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing. His research interests include Optoelectronic devices based on cadmium-free semiconductor nanocrystals and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of novel functional nanocrystals. He has published 15 scientific papers in distinguished journals. Besides, he has won several awards such as Youth Five Four Medal, Excellent annual evaluation, Joseph Wang Award 2015, Cognizure Press, etc from Beijing JiaoTong University.

Dr Fuzhi Wang received a PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from the Peking University in 2008. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, North China Electric Power University. His research interests include Quantum Dot/ Carbon Quantum Dot /Perovskite Light-Emitting Materials and Devices, and Organic / Perovskite Photovoltaic Materials and Devices. He has published more than 30 SCI papers in distinguished journals.

Dr Erjing Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of School of Materials Science and Technology, Hubei University. He received PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research of interests include (i) Organic field-effect transistors; (ii) Organic light-emitting diodes; (iii) Aggregation-induced emission; and (iv) thermally activated delayed fluorescence. He has published several papers in SCI journals.

Dr Kun Wang is currently working as an Associate Professor at the College of Material Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, China. Dr Wang likes to explore new integration pretreatment processes for improving bioconversion efficiency (enzymatic hydrolysis and yeast fermentation), as well as biocompatible materials from lignocellulosic carbohydrates and woody polysaccharide. Moreover, he has published several articles in distinguished journals.

Dr. Ying Wang received his PhD in Physics Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Currently, he is a Professor at the Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the design and synthesis of organic semiconductors, Organic devices physics, surface and interface of the organic film, and Photophysical and photochemical process of organic semiconductors. Moreover, he has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr Bai Yiming received a PhD Degree from the Key Laboratory of Materials, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Renewable Energy School, North China Electric Power University, China. His research interests include Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Solar Cell Materials & Solar Cells Nanomaterials and Their Application in Photo-electronic Devices Novel Photo-electronic Materials and Devices. Besides, he has published 15 research papers in distinguished journals and has granted 5 patents as well.

Dr. Jun Zhu has been working as a Professor at the Academy of Opto-Electric Technology, Hefei University of Technology, China since 2017. He received his PhD degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005. In present, his research interests focus on the new generation solar cells and perovskite/quantum dot light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in well-reputed peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Ricardo Machado received a Chemical Engineering degree in 1994 and M. Sc. degree in 1996 from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. He further completed his Ph. D. in Chemical Eng. in 2000 from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has an industrial postdoctoral (2007-2008) and work experience in optimization, control and polymerization systems. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a visiting scientist at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has been working at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina since 1996 and a header of Control System Group and Nanosystems Laboratory.

Dr. Manuel Aureliano is an Associate Professor (with Habilitation) of Biochemistry and he was the Director (1998-2013) of the Biochemistry degree at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. Till now, he also served as a supervisor and/or co-supervisor of several post-doc, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students (over 110), and has published about 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews and book chapters. Dr. Aureliano is a TOP 1% reviewer for Publons and a TOP10 reviewer in Metallomics. He was the editor of the book “Vanadium Biochemistry”, ResearchSignPost, 2007, Kerala, India. His research topics include the role of decavanadate in biology; Biological effects and applications of polyoxometalates.

Prof. Yaroslav Blume is the Director of the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics (from 2008), and Head of Department of Genomics and Molecular Biotechnology. Completed his M.S. (Biochemistry) from Kyiv State University (1978), Ph.D. (1982), and Dr. Sci. (Dr. Hab.) (1988). Full Member of the Natl. Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006). His scientific career started from Kyiv University, then he worked in the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering (1989-2008). He was a visiting scientist at the University of Freiburg (1997), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa (1998), John Innes Center, Norwich (1998-2003), and Antwerpen University (2005-2006). He was an invited professor at Schiller University, Jena (2001). His research activity is aimed at cell biology, genomics of plant cytoskeleton and cell signaling as well as a development of new tools for molecular biotechnology, creation of plants with novel traits, especially for biofuel production. Prof. Blume authored and co-authored more than 290 research publications, 15 patent inventions and 9 plant varieties. State Prize of Ukraine (2011), and Prizes of Natl. Academy of Sci. (2002, 2019).

Dr. Cüneyt Çağlayan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Veterinary Medicine Faculty in the Department of Biochemistry at Bingol University in Turkey. Çağlayan has broad interests in the area of oxidative stress, inflammation, apoptosis, autophagy, carbonic anhydrase, enzyme kinetics, and natural products. He has published more than 40 articles in reputable journals and has more than 950 citations. He is currently working as a Scientist at Bingol University, Veterinary Faculty. He is also a recipient of several awards and scholarships and has served as an invited reviewer for many reputable journals.

Dr. Mokhotjwa Simon Dhlamini is a Professor of Physics at the University of South Africa, in South Africa. His main research interests include the development of novel materials for various technological applications and the world’s drive to transition to sustainable energy systems, effective medical treatment and other advanced technologies. His research requires new smart materials with special properties and new novel materials which can be produced to make renewable energy and medical technologies more efficient. Currently he is working on the development of various materials for application in renewable energy, biological imaging and lighting technologies.

Dr. Ali Farajtabar is currently an associate professor at Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University (2008) at the age of 29 years. His research interests mainly focus on solvent effect, solvatochromism, preferential solvation and study on thermodynamic of chemical equilibria in different media. He has completed several research projects and published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

Zhongjie Liang is currently working as an Associate Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University, China. He obtained Doctor of Science, Drug Design and Discovery Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include Computational Biology (Molecular modeling, Molecular dynamics simulations, Elastic network model, Protein structure network model, Structural systems biology) and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Structure-based drug design). He has published several scientific papers in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Donghai Lin obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1993. Currently, he is working on Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy and its applications, as a Minjiang scholars Distinguished Professor, in the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, and in the field NMR Center of Xiamen University, China. He has published about 171 academic papers on SCI-cited journals such as Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communication, Mol. Cell. Dr. Lin got Wang Tianjuan Spectroscopy Prize in 2006. His research interests include Structure Biology and Metabonomics.

Dr. Marwa Matboli serves as an Assistant Professor in the Medical Biochemistry Department and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. She is also the head of biochemistry department, Faculty of Medicine, at the Modern university for technology and information,Cairo, Egypt from 2019 till present. She has more than 47 international publications in pubmed cited journals and shares as principal investigator and CO-PI for more than 12 funded scientific projects. She has collaborated in molecular research with many institutes e.g. Zweil institute and Medical Ain Shams Research center.

Dr.Stéphane P. Roche was born in Thiers (France) in 1979. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Blaise Pascal University under the supervision of Professor D. J. Aitken. Afterwards, he joined the group of Professor K. C. Nicolaou at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES, @Star) in Singapore to work on the total synthesis of haplophytine (2006-2008). As a second Postdoctoral position, Stéphane worked with Professor John Porco Jr. at Boston University on the synthesis of rocaglates (2008-2011). He started his independent career at Florida Atlantic University and his research interests include the development of novel synthetic methodologies and ‘bio-inspired’ dearomatization strategies for the synthesis of unnatural a-amino acids, peptides and peptidomimetics, and biologically active natural products.

Dr. Mendes Soares is an associate professor and researcher at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. His research focuses on oxidative stress, diabetes, exercise, and metabolic disorders for more than 20 years. He has published many articles on the subject in high impact periodicals and works in different disciplines of biology and biomedical sciences as a reviewer for several journals.

Dr. J.C Tu is a Professor and a Program Chairman at the Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China. His research interests include: (1) molecular mechanism and diagnosis of tumor, especially in liver and lung cancer (2) functional role of Homer and its family members in cardiovascular and cancer related diseases. He has published more than 180 articles in reputed journals with more than 6000 citations. He has also participated in writing and publishing more than 30 book chapters, mostly textbooks for graduate/undergraduate students of either clinical laboratory medicine or clinical medicine. He has served as an invited reviewer for a few reputed journals.

Dr. Siti Nor Akmar Abdullah is a Professor in Plant Molecular Biology in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Her research focuses on plant functional genomics, genetic manipulation and biomarker technology. She served as the Director of the Institute of Plantation Studies (2016 – 2019) and Head of Laboratory of Plantation Crops (2007-2016) in UPM. She led several research projects at the national level and secured research grants from industry members. To date she has published about 100 papers. Her publications can be found in top ranking journals including Plant Biotechnology Journal, BMC Plant Biology, Planta, Plant Cell Reports and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.

Dr. Lynn Htet Htet Aung received her MD-PhD in Cardiology from Guangxi Medical University and Master degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently the director of the Center for Molecular Genetics, Institute for Translational Medicine, Qingdao University. She has published 46 SCI papers in the field of population genetics, apoptosis, mitochondrial dynamics, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Her research interests are genetics, epigenetics, oxigenetics, and aging.

Dr. Wenzheng Bao received his master degree in computer science from the University of Jinan in 2015 and Ph.D in the same discipline from Tongji University in 2018. He currently works at the school of information and electrical engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China. His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning, computational biology and proteomics. He has served as a reviewer for multiple well-renowned journals including Neurocomputing, Neural Network, Oncotarget, Plos One etc.

Dr. Hongmin Cai has received a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He got Ph.D from University of Hong Kong in 2007. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Center of Bioinformatics at Harvard University, and Section for Biomedical Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University and Kyoto University. In 2012, he was associate Professor of School of Computer Science and Technology, South China University of Technology. In 2014, he was awarded Outstanding Youth Teacher in Guangdong Province. He was promoted to full professor in 2016. He was Guest Professor at Kyoto University. He has principled and co-principled more than 10 fundings from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Guangdong Province and other sources. He has published around 60 papers in top journals and conferences. His research interests include biomedical image processing and bioinformatics, in particular omics data integration and radiomics for precision medicine.

Dr. Balu Kamaraj is an Assistant Professor at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (CAMSJ), Saudi Arabia. Previously, he served as a Scientific Manager at Excelra Knowledge solution, India, and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Also, Dr. Kamaraj served as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain. Dr. Balu Kamaraj has nearly 7 years of experience in academic and industrial research in the area of computational structural biology. His scientific interests focus on a range of issues related to structural Bioinformatics. By adopting the multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of biological systems such as 3-D Modelling of protein structures, protein-ligand complex, protein-protein complex, and protein-DNA complex. He would like to observe how certain mutations alter the dynamic behavior of proteins and their interaction with other molecules. He is very much interested in molecular folding, evolution, and binding interactions, and structure/function relationships of experimentally solved structures and from computational models. Notably, Dr. Balu Kamaraj has published several original, review articles and book chapters, including the first and corresponding author.

Dr. Khan received his B.Sc degree from the University of Malakand and M.Sc degree in distinction from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. In 2007 Dr. Khan got scholarship from HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry for Ph.D. and completed his Ph.D. in the field of enzymology in 2013. During his PhD, he received split PhD scholarship from OAED Austria, and worked as visiting scientist in University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. DDDDr. h.c. Bernd Michael Rode (Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry University of Innsbruck, Austria). Dr. Khan has expertise in Medicinal Chemistry, enzyme inhibition, Enzyme kinetics studies, STD NMR studies for protein-ligand interaction and Computational Chemistry. He has published more than 200 articles in international peer review journals with impact factor of more than 450 and citation more than 2000. Beside this, he has four US patents, two of them published and the other two are filed up. He got five times Research Productivity Award from Pakistan Council of Science and Technology and two time best poster award in international symposiums.

Hongdong Li is an Associate Professor (tenure track) in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University. He received the Bachelor (Pharmaceutical Engineering) and PhD (Analytical Chemistry) degree from College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He did postdoctoral training in computational medicine in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Then he joined Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle) as a Research Scientist studying systems biology of diseases. His interest include bioinformatics, functional genomics and machine learning.

Professor Ming Li has studied genetics and molecular biology of human diseases, specifically addictive disorders for more than 20 years. During those years, Dr. Li has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has trained approximately 70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. His publications are very diverse, ranging from molecular pharmacology, neuropsychopharmacology, molecular biology, statistical genetics, computational biology, to bioinformatics. Dr. Li has served as a regular and ad-hoc member of many study panels and sections in the US and other countries. In addition, he has served as an advisor for a dozen research centers/programs and ad-hoc reviewers or board members for more than 30 scientific journals. He has been invited to give more than 100 seminars or oral presentations by various national and international conferences and institutions throughout the world.

Dr. Liang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University. She received her MD and PhD degrees in 2010 and 2015 from Hunan University. From 2012 to 2014, she studied at Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto and was also awarded an Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Hunan University in 2016. Her current research interests include bioinformatics and machine learning.

Dr. Xiaoping Liu is currently a Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University, China. He completed his PhD in Informatics and Systems Biology, from the Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University in 2012. His research interests mainly focus on Computational biology, Bioinformatics, System biology, Machine learning. He has more than 30 articles published in reputed journals.

Dr. Jun Meng is currently a professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology. She received the PhD degree from the Dalian University of Technology in 2012. Her research interests include data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. She has published more than 100 research papers in various journals and conferences. Her research projects are funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Dr Beifang Niu received his PhD in Computer Software and Theory from the Super Computing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Currently, he is a Research Professor at the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is interested in developing high-performance bioinformatics and computational biology methods and applying them in cancer genomics and metagenomics to help understand the origins and progression of cancer. He has more than 15 years of experiences in bioinformatics, genomics and computational biology. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Sujeevan Ratnasingham received the BS degree from the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in 2000. He is the director of informatics at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph. He is interested in biodiversity knowledge discovery, phylogenetics, machine learning, high performance computing, and the integration of biological data from the molecular scale to the ecological scale.

Dr. Suguna Devi Sakkiah currently works as a staff fellow at the National Center for Toxicological Research, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Gyeongsang National University, South Korea and her master’s degree from Bharathiar University, India. In 2010, she received a Young Pioneer Research Scientist award while pursuing her Ph.D. After receiving her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. During her research career, Dr. Sakkiah has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles and review papers, and two book chapters.

Professor Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, at the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University, in Israel. Professor Shoenfeld is also the Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases at Tel-Aviv University. Professor Shoenfeld’s clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has published more than 2000 papers in journals. Professor Shoenfeld is on the editorial boards of 43 journals in the field of rheumatology and autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal) the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel, and also is the founder and Editor of Autoimmunity Reviews (Elsevier) (Impact factor 8.9) and co-Editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity (Impact factor 8). For the past twenty years Yehuda has been the Editor of “Harefuah” – The Israel journal in medicine (Hebrew). He was recently awarded a Life Contribution Prize in Internal Medicine in Israel, 2012 as well as the ACR Master Award in 2013.In 2018 he was elected to the Israeli Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Jianjun Tan is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Environment and Life in Beijing University of Technology. His group has got and completed more than 17 scientific research projects, including the National Key Basic Research Program of China, Chinese Natural Science Foundation project and others, in which 1 project is underway. He accumulated abundant experience in molecular design and drug design. He has published more than 100 papers.

Dr. Abdul Wadood is currently a Tenured Associate Professor at the department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He received his PhD degree from HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan in 2010. His research interest includes molecular modelling, computational medicinal chemistry, bioinformatics and machine learning. He has published more than 200 research articles in various prestigious journals.

Dr. Wang serves as a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Dean of School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University. Dr.Wang obtained a PHD degree in 2002 from the Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy, BA and MA degree in 1984 and 1991 from Tianjin University, under the supervision of Prof. Zhongshan Wei. Dr. Wang then joined Shandong Normal University in February (1991), where served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Postdoctoral Station in 2009. Current research interests include machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics and social computing.

Dr. Bing Wang received the B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2006, respectively. He is a full professor and Dean in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, China. His research interests mainly focus on Bioinformatics, computer vision, machine learning, and Chemo informatics, with more than 140 journals and conferences papers and H-index of 23. He is a senior member of IEEE from 2014.

Chuan-Le Xiao obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Bioinformatics from Hunan Agricultural University, China. Currently he is a principal investigator at State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center of Sun Yat-sen University. He dedicated to studying the computational algorithms and application in the field of high-throughput sequencing and has developed a series of widely used software to solve the computational problems in the three-generation sequencing studies. He authored more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including several high impact journals, such as Nature Methods, Molecular Cell, Nature Communications.

Dr. Dharmendra Kumar Yadav completed his Ph.D in Biological Science from CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Lucknow India, postdoctoral studies from Hanyang University, Korea and University of Delhi, India. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor and a Principal Investigator for NRF project (Korea Government) in College of Pharmacy at Gachon University Korea. He received the Young Scientist award from the Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi in 2014. Dr. Yadav has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals, 03 Book Chapters and a Patent. His research interests are in atomic level molecular simulation of Plasma Medicine, Computer-Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modelling of Biological networks etc. He is also a member of several scientific societies and academic bodies.

Prof. Zu-Guo Yu received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1997. He is currently a distinguished professor at Xiangtan University and an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology. His research interests include fractals, complex network analysis, biological and environmental data processing. He has published more than 120 research papers in journals including Mol. Biol. Evol., Bioinformatics, Mol. Ecol. Res., Environ. Modell. Softw., Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., Scientific Reports, BMC Evol. Biol., BMC Bioinformatics, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, J. Chem. Phys., Phys. Rev. E, J. Stat. Mech., Chaos, J. Geophys. Res.

Yuan-Ming Zhang is a quantitative geneticist. He obtained his PhD from Nanjing Agricultural University in 2001. He worked at Southwest University, Rongchang (1986-1999) and Nanjing Agricultural University (1999-2014), and moved to Crop Information Center of Huazhong Agricultural University in 2014. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside during 2003-2005. His current interests are in the development and application of statistical approaches to mine novel genes of complex traits, e.g., multi-locus GWAS (mrMLM) and QTL mapping (GCIM) methodologies, crop genome variants and complex trait, linkage map construction, and mixed major-genes plus polygenes inheritance. He is also the Associate Editor of Heredity.

Dr. Wen Zhang obtained the Bachelor's degree and the Masters degree in Computational Mathematics from Wuhan University in 2003, 2006, and got the doctoral degree in computer science from Wuhan University in 2009. He has worked at Wuhan University from 2009 to 2018. He is currently a Professor at College of Informatics,Huazhong Agricultural University, People’s Republic of China. His research interests include machine learning, data mining and bioinformatics. He has published more than 60 papers on reputed journals or conferences, such as Nucleic acids research, Bioinformatics, PLos Computational biology, IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, Information Science,etc.

Dr. Qi Zhao received his Bachelor degree and PhD from Wuhan University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Since 2011, he has been a faculty member as a lecturer and associate professor in Liaoning University, China. Now he is a full professor in the University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China. His research interests include bioinformatics, big data, machine learning and network analysis. Dr. Zhao has been a part of several well-known research journals including Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Genetics and many more and has published 56 SCI journal papers in the fields of bioinformatics.

Prof. Huaiqiu Zhu is a tenured professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Peking University. His research interests include bioinformatics methods based on genomic sequences, protein sequences and structures. Dr. Zhu's lab has addressed the bioinformatics methods of genome analysis and annotation, and developed a series of methods of microbial gene prediction, genome comparison, and protein molecular dynamics. His lab now focuses on metagenomics issues driven by human health and environments, and data mining in medicine informatics. He has developed tools such as sequence assembly, gene prediction and microbial community comparison for metagenomic sequences produced by NGS.

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Dr Hai-Tao-Li is currently a Professor and Director of International Research Center for Bio-composite Building Materials and Structures (IRCBBMS) and Joint International Research Laboratory of Bio-composite Building Materials and Structures (JIRLBBMS) at Nanjing Forestry University. He is also a Professor and Vice-dean of College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University. Besides, he is a reviewer, an editorial board member and an advisor of several international journals. His research fields include Concrete Structure; Retrofit of concrete and timber (bamboo) structures; Composite structures; Sustainable structure (including bamboo, wood structure and other Biomass material structure). Dr Li has published more than 50 papers in distinguished journals.

Dr. B.T.P.Madhav got his Ph.D degree in the field of antennas from K L University, India .Currently he is working as Professor and Associate Dean at KLU. His research interests include antennas, liquid crystals applications and wireless communications. Dr. Madhav has received several awards like Outstanding reviewer from Elsevier, best researcher and distinguished researcher from K L University.He is reviewer for several international journals including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Taylor and Francis and served as reviewer for several international conferences. He has published more than 452 papers in International, National journals and his total citations are more than 3138.

Prof. GangLi is currently a full professor at Soochow University, China. Dr. Li is the 15th high level talent of “Top six talent peaks” and selected talent of “Double Creative Plan" in Jiangsu province. Dr. Li received his MEng. from Donghua University, and obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical textiles and Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to his current academic position, Dr. Li has been served at DuPont China Holding Co., Ltd. for several years. Dr. Li published over 80 academic articles and issued 20 patents between 2006 and 2019, including Biomaterials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, etc. Dr. Li presented talks,organized symposia and workshops at various international scientific conferences, etc.

Dr. Yong Liu is currently a professor at Tiangong University, China. He has received his PhD degree in 2008 from Donghua University, Shanghai, China. His research interests focus on nanofibers and their applications, electrospinning, advanced fiber materials, membrane, bionics, biomaterials. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings. He has also published 4 books withco-authors and holds 20 Chinese patents. Recently, Dr. Liu works in characterizing, understanding and modeling structural, physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials and their processes. He has received over 10 research fundings from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Education of China,the Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation, and several companies.

Dr.Yuqin Wan is a Research Scientist at the University of British Columbia with more than 15 years experience in the field of fibrous materials. She received her PhD degree from Donghua University, China and completed her postdoctoral work in the University of British Columbia during 2007-2010. She has contributed more than 50 papers/chapters in the area of functional fibers, electrospinning and composite fabrics. Her research work has been founded by many organizations such as the Canadian National Science and Engineering Council, the Canadian Composite Innovation centre, the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Canadian national particle Accelerator Center, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Key Laboratory of Eco-Textiles, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University and the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, DongHua University.

Dr Wei Wei is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and the Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, CCF. He received his PhD and M.S. degrees from Xian Jiaotong University in 2011 and 2005, respectively. His research interest is in the area of wireless networks, wireless sensor networks application, image processing, mobile computing, distributed computing, and pervasive computing, internet of things, sensor data clouds, etc. He has published around one hundred research papers in international conferences and journals. He is an Editorial Board Member of FGCS, IEEE Access, AHSWN, IEICE, KSII, etc. Besides, he is a TPC member of many conferences and a regular reviewer of IEEE TPDS, TIP, TMC, TWC, JNCA and many other Elsevier journals.

Dr. Qufu Wei is a professor of Textile Science and Engineering in the School of Textiles and Clothing at Jiangnan University. He earned his Ph.D. in Textiles Science and Engineering from Heriot-Watt University in the UK. He has authored two books, which have been published by Woodhead Publishing. He has also authored more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has 57 patent applications or issued. He is a recipient of the 2006 Award for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities from the Chinese Ministry of Education. He currently serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Eco-textiles within the Ministry of Education of P.R. China at Jiangnan University. He is also Director of the International Joint Laboratory for Functional Textile Materials. He was an Area Editor of Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics.

Dr. Yanqiong Fei received the M. Eng. Degree from the Southeast University, China, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, in 2002. She is currently a Professor at the Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. From Sept. 2010 to Sept. 2011, she was a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT. Her research interests include robotics, self- reconfigurable modular robots, soft robots, rehabilitation robotics. She published over 100 papers, 3 books’ chapters, 25 patents in these areas. She received the Shanghai scientific and technological progress second prize in 2009. She also received the Best Paper Awards of M2VIP (2012) and Candlelight Award Scheme（2016）. She received 863 high technology project advanced group awards in 2000.

Dr Deng-Guang Yu is a professor in the School of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. His research interests include electrohydrodynamic atomization (electrospinning, Electrospraying and e-jet printing), biomaterials, advanced drug delivery systems, and environment friendly materials. He has developed a series of new electrospinning processes for creating nanostructures from multiple working fluids. Dr Yu has authored over 210 peer- reviewed journal papers and has been awarded several national competitive research grants.

Dr. Guanying Chen has been a full professor since 2013 at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. His interests include lanthanide luminescence, upconversion, biophotonics, and nanomedicine. He published more than 100 peer- reviewed papers and served as editorial board member or guest editor for Scientific Reports, Nanomaterials, Crystals, Chinese Journal of Luminescence, and Theranostics, etc.

Dr. Junle Qu is a Professor in the Center for Biomedical Photonics and the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering at Shenzhen University. His current research interests include nonlinear optical imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, super-resolution optical imaging and their applications in biomedicine, imaging guided optical therapy. He has published more than 270 papers in peer reviewed journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Chem, Nano Letter, Optics Letters etc. He is the Fellow of SPIE and the director of Biomedical Photonics Committee of Chinese Optical Society. He serves in the editorial boards of JIOHS, Frontiers of Optoelectronics etc.

Dr. Qiuqiang Zhan is currently a Professor of optics at the South China Normal University, China. He received a B.S. in Optics from Shandong University, China, and performed his doctoral research in the Optical Engineering department at Zhejiang University, China. He had visiting research in Lund University, Sweden and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. His research interests mainly include upconversion nanoparticle bio-/nano- photonics and optical imaging. He has co- authored over 50 international journal publications and 15 patents. He has won some awards for his creative work, including Young Innovation Award and Distinguished Young Scholars.

Dr. Jianqiang Xu is active as an Associate Professor in Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, China. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Qing Yang. From Jan. 2009 to Sept. 2014, he received his postdoctoral research training with Professor Elias S.J. Arnér at MBB of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2015, Dr. Xu started his independent research career. Currently, he mainly focuses on selenium biology and chemical biology, e.g. selenoproteins in relation to human health and small molecule drugs to cure human disease.

Dr. Lei Zhang is an Associate Professor at School of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, China. He obtained a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. From 2019 to 2020, he studied at the University of Michigan as a visiting scholar. His research focused on the molecular simulation, synthesis and activity assay of novel HDAC, APN and PARP inhibitors. His research work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Foundation of Shandong Province, and Science and technology support plan for youth innovation in universities of Shandong Province.

Professor NIDAL H. ABU-HAMDEH received his PhD degree from Ohio State University with the honor degree, Columbus-Ohio, USA in 1996. Currently, he is serving as a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. During his integrated experience, he has authored/co-authored hundreds of scientific articles that were published in ISI journals and as conference papers that cover these topics. In addition, he has been a Reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences. For this reason, he is very highly qualified scientist and known internationally. He was awarded the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Engineering Sciences for Young Arab Researchers, and he also was awarded the Hisham Hijawi Award for Applied Sciences in the Field of Engineering.

Mustafa BAYRAM obtained his PhD degree (Applied mathematics and Computer Sciences) from Bath University (England) in 1993, and He is a full professor of computer engineering at Istanbul Gelisim University. He was previously dean of the faculty of engineering and architecture at Istanbul Gelis ̧im University between 2016-2018. Now, he is director of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Istanbul Gelisim University. He was already served as dean of the faculty of chemical and metallurgical engineering at Yildiz Technical University between 2010-2014. He organizes at least two or three international conferences each year, one of them has been going on for 9 years. His research interests include computer algebra, application of algebra techniques to various subjects, applied mathematics, solutions of differential equations, enzyme kinetics and mathematical biology. He raised many masters(30) and Ph.D. students(18) and is the author of many efficient research articles at prestigious research journals. He is the chief and founder editor of new trends in mathematical sciences and Communication in Mathematical Modeling and Applications journals. He also serves as an editor and reviewer for many outstanding journals.

Chi-Hua Chen is a distinguished professor with the College of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fuzhou University and a chair professor with the Navigation College at Dalian Maritime University. He has published over 300 journal articles (e.g., IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, etc.), conference articles, and patents. He serves an editor for several international journals (e.g., IEEE Access, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Scientific Reports (Nature), Scientific Data (Nature), etc.). His recent research interests include Internet of things, machine learning, mobile networks, and intelligent transportation systems. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Zhikui Chen received his Bachelor of Science degree from Chongqing Normal University in June 1990, master's degree in engineering from Chongqing University in June 1993, doctor's degree in engineering from Chongqing University in June 1998. Now, he is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Dalian University of technology. He is the Director of Institute of big data, School of software, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include Big data computing, Artificial intelligence, Theory and application of Internet of things, Social network computing, Ubiquitous computing and Intelligent system. He published more than 100 scientific research papers, 4 books and more than 20 patents on above research fields.

Dr. Wu Deng (M’76), received the PH.D. degree in Computer Application Technology from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, in 2012. From 2019 to now, he was a Professor with the College of Electronic Information and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin China. His research interest includes artificial intelligence, optimization method, resource scheduling and fault diagnosis.

Dr. Hai Dong is a faculty member at School of Science in RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the coordinator of Sensors, Clouds, and Services Laboratory (SCSLab), the coordinator of Smart Sensing and Services Group, and the leader of Trust Management Stream in Cyberspace and Security Group. He published a monograph and over 80 research publications in international journals and conferences, including CACM, CCPE, Computing, FGCS, JCSS, JNCA, KBS, TIE, TII, TSC, WWWJ, FUZZ-IEEE, ICONIP, ICSOC, ICWS, WISE, etc. He received the Best Research Paper Award in ICSOC 2016.

Prof. Dagan Feng is a Director at the Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group, and a Funding Head at the School of Information Technology (renamed as Computer Science recently), the University of Sydney. He received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively, where he received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering. In conjunction with his team members and students, he has been responsible for more than 50 key research projects, published over 900 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, and made several landmark contributions in his field.

Dr Yo-Ping Huang received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Director of AIoT R&D Center, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, where he served as the Secretary-General. He was a Professor and the Dean of Research and Development, the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department Chair with Tatung University, Taipei. His current research interests include fuzzy systems design and modelling, deep learning modelling, intelligent control, medical data mining, and rehabilitation systems design. Prof. Huang serves as the IEEE SMCS BoG, Chair of the IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the Chair of the Taiwan SIGSPATIAL ACM Chapter. He was the President of the Taiwan Association of Systems Science and Engineering, the Chair of IEEE SMCS Taipei Chapter, the Chair of the IEEE CIS Taipei Chapter, and the CEO of the Joint Commission of Technological and Vocational College Admission Committee, Taiwan. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow and an International Association of Grey System and Uncertain Analysis Fellow.

Dr. Reza is a professor of physics at the department of Physics, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Shahid Beheshti University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Sharif University of Technology in 2005. He has done several projects and published many papers in the fields of social & financial networks and time series analysis. His research focuses on a system with a large number of interacting agents, whose aggregate behavior is nonlinear and data-driven approaches to study and infer the complex interaction network of the system agents, neglecting the cause and consequences of the macroscopic collective behavior of systems. He is interested in understanding and modeling modern society with respect to culture, market, business, and management with the tools of different disciplines; the Internet, especially social media, for playing a crucial role in interdisciplinary research.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Jha received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the VBS Purvanchal University, India, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, India, in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyushu University, Japan, and Hanyang University, Korea. From 2015 to 2016, he worked as Assistant Professor at University of Information Technology and Management, Poland. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor at School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. His research interests include chemo- informatics, nano‐informatics, agro-informatics, and health informatics, etc.

Dr. Liangxiao Jiang is currently a professor at the School of Computer Science of China University of Geosciences. His main research interests include machine learning and data mining and has also published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences in these research areas. He also serves as the EB/PC Member of several international journals and conferences.

Dr. Ming Liu is an Assistant Research Fellow at the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (known as CNCERT/CC), Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2018 from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in the field of Computer Software and Theory. His current research interests mainly focus on Multi-agent System, Cybernetics, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Control and Decision for various applications. He also serves as reviewer member of 2 IEEE Transactions series journals.

Shuai Liu, male, was born in Oct.27 1982. He received his BS, MS and PhD from Jilin University in 2002, 2004, and 2011. Now he acts as a full professor in College of Information Science and Technology, and Vice director of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University. He is now Director of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Hohhot branch, Senior member of China Computer Federation, Evaluation expert of China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education, Evaluation Expert of National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research area contains fractals analysis, big data processing, computer vision, and information processing.

Dr Peng is currently a lecturer at Shaoguan University, China. He received his MS degree in computer science from Northwest Normal University, China. He has authored over 40 publications and some of them are SCI-indexed publications and has also served as reviewer in some famous journals. His current research interests include decision making, pattern recognition and soft computing.

Dr. Surapati Pramanik received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Kalyani University, Kalyani, West Bengal, India, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in 2010. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor Nandalal Ghosh B.T. College, Panpur, India. His research interests include Operations research, soft computing, optimization, game theory, fuzzy and neutrosophic MCDM. He acts as a reviewer for more than thirty international peer-reviewed journals. He acts as a member of the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Javad Rezaeian is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Mazandaran University of Science and Technology. His research interests include Soft Computing, Artificial Neural Network and Optimization. He was awarded prominent author by Iranian student book festival in 2015 and also was awarded Top Researcher by Research Center of Mazandaran Universities in 2017. He has published more than 100 papers and several books.

Dr Zhiyuan Shen is an Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Vice Director of Department of Air Traffic at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He holds a certificate of aeronautic information and a certificate of flight procedure design both authorized by CAAC. His research interests include air traffic management, airport operation and optimization, digital signal processing and deep learning. He has published more than 30 papers, hold a few patents, and hosted several projects sponsored by the government of P.R. China, Boeing (China), air traffic management bureau CAAC and so on.

Dr. Stanujkic is currently an Associate Professor of Information Technology at the Technical Faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade. He has received his MSc degree in Information Science and a PhD in Organizational Sciences from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. His current research is focused on decision-making theory, expert systems and intelligent decision support systems. Hi is co-author of a WS PLP, ARCAS and PIPRECIA methods, as well as several extensions of MOORA, MULTIMOORA, ARAS, EDAS, WASPAS and SWARA methods. He has more than 35 publications in reputed journals.

Dr. Wenan Tan is the head of key academic discipline at CS&T of SSPU and also a Professor at NUAA and SSPU. He completed his PhD at BUAA in 2001 which received a Ph.D degree from Beihang University, China. He has taken charge over three Projects of the NSF-China on Service Computing and Cooperative Computing for BPI, the trusted service computing for cross-organizational workflow application systems, and the cross-organizational business process mining within complex social networks. He was awarded the third prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2019. He has also published more than 150 scientific papers on Applied Soft Computing Journal, IEEE-SJ, IEEE-TSMC, ISF, COR, CiI, etc.

Dr. Balakrushna Tripathy received M.Sc. (Mathematics), M.Tech (Computer Science), and Ph.D. (Mathematics). Currently, he is the Senior Professor and Dean at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has specialized in Matrix Transformations in Sequence Spaces, Theory of Petri nets, Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications, Rough set Theory and Knowledge Engineering, Multiset Theory and its Applications, List Theory and Applications, Social Networks Analysis, Granular Computing, Soft Computing, Data Clustering Techniques, and Database Anonymisation, Experimentation through Remote Laboratories, Content-Based Learning, Knowledge Representation, and Reasoning, Soft Set Theory and Applications, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Deep Neural Networks, Pattern Analysis, Outlier Detection, Computer Science and Mathematics. He has published more than 100 articles, books and conference papers in various well-reputed journals. Besides, he is an editorial board member in several international journals.

Prof. Dr. Shuping Wan was born in 1974. He received the PH. D. in control theory and control engineer from Nankai University in 2005, China. He is currently a professor in School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. He has contributed more than 190 journal articles to professional journals. His current research interests include decision analysis, fuzzy game theory, information fusion, and financial engineering. Email: shupingwan@163.com.

Jianshe Wu received his Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligence system in 2007 from the Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He currently works as a Professor at the International Research Center for Intelligent Perception and Computation, the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI), Xidian University, China. His main research interests lie in the areas of complex networks, machine learning, computational intelligence, and pattern recognition.

Dr Fuyuan Xiao received the D.E. degree in Computer Science and Communication Engineering from Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, in 2014. Since 2014, she has been with the School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, as an Associate Professor. Her current research interests include information fusion, intelligent information processing, complex event processing, and quantum decision. She has published over 40 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, including Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE T SYST MAN CY-S, Applied Soft Computing, etc. Dr Xiao also serves as a Reviewer in several prominent journals.

Dr. Shouzhen Zeng is a professor in Ningbo University, P.R. China. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching and research. His research interests include information fusion, soft computing, Neutrosophic theory and applications, fuzzy decision making theory and methods, etc. He has finished a few projects sponsored by the government of P.R. China, and published more than 100 papers in many journals, such as Information Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Group decision and Negotiation, Knowledge-Based Systems.

Dr, Zhang Ying-Qian, Ph.D, is a full professor, at the Tan Kah Kee college in Xiamen University. His research area includes information security, AI arts and chaotic encryptions. He was awarded the New Century Talent Scientist in Fujian Province, China. He published more than 40 papers, 4 ESI highly cited papers.

Dr. Zhang is currently a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (SUST). He is the director of China-Canada Research Center on Data Intelligence and Three-way Decision at SUST. He graduated from Northwest University of Technology in November 2005 with a Doctor of Engineering degree in Computer Software and Theory. He has published more than 160 international journals papers, including Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems et al. His current research interests include non-classical logic algebras, fuzzy sets, rough sets, neutrosophic sets, artificial intelligence, data Mining, and decision-making theory. He currently assumes a member of a council of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the associate director of Professional Committee on Artificial Intelligence Foundation of CAAI, and associate editor of Neutrosophic Sets and Systems.

Chin-Ling Chen received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Feng Cha University in 1991; the M.S. degree and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He is a member of the Chinese Association for Information Security and Taiwanese Association for Consumer Electronics. From 1979 to 2005, he was a senior engineer at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. He is currently a distinguished professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan. He also got the honor of Jilin Changbai Mountain Scholars (China) of Changchun Sci-Tech University and Fujian Minjiang Scholar (China) of Xiamen University of Technology. His research interests include Authentication Mechanism,Web Service, M-Commerce, E-Commerce, Digital Signature, Radio Frequency Identification,Wireless Sensor, Network,Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Home Network, Medical Safety Service and Digital Right Management security issues etc. Dr. Chen had published over 90 articles on the above research fields in SCI/SSCI international journals. And he also got 10 Taiwan patents. From 2006 to 2015, he got the reward of the distinguished researcher every year at Chaoyang University of Technology. From 2010 to 2020, he had been invited to review over 290 SCI/ SSI Journal articles.

Dr. A. Djelloul has completed his HDR (Doctor Habilitatus), PhD and Magister in physics from University of Oran (USTO-MB), Algeria. Currently he is working as a Research professor in Research Center in Semiconductors Technology for Energetic (CRTSE), Algiers, Algeria. He has wide experiences in both Research and Academia concerning "Material Characterization, Nanomaterials, Thin Films and Nanotechnology, Solar cells, Silicon, Laser, Deposition Methods (CBD, SILAR, Spray pyrolysis, Vacuum Evaporation,...)". He has published more than 15 articles and presented many papers in reputed national and international conferences (50 conference proceedings). He is a member in many scientific projects, several academic societies and organizations. He is the Principal Guest Editor of several Special Issues in International Journal of Current Materials Science. He is also an Associate Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of many international journals.

Dong Junhua is a professor at Shenyang National Lab of Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has expertise in studying and teaching the principle of electrochemical corrosion of metals. His interests focus on studying the electrochemical corrosion mechanism of metals in various corrosive environments, in-situ measurement and monitoring techniques, developing weathering and corrosion resistant steels, and selecting and designing corrosion resistant materials for geological disposal containers of highly radioactive nuclear waste. He has published more than 120 papers, and has taught courses in his organization for 18 years.

Prof. Zhifu Huang received his Ph.D. in Materials Processing Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Currently, he is a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests focus on toughening hard phases of metal wear-resistant materials, fabrication of metal matrix wear-resistant composites, designing and fabrication of corrosion and wear-resistant alloys and synthesis of advance cermets. Besides, he has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Savas Kaya obtained his PhD from University of Cumhuriyet, Faculty of Sciences. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Health Services Vocational School, Department of Pharmacy, Sivas, Turkey. His research areas include Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Materials Science, Corrosion Science, Physical Inorganic Chemistry and Coordination Chemistry. Dr. Savaş Kaya published more than 180 papers in international journals. Recently, he introduced the Kaya chemical reactivity approach and combined reactivity descriptor and proposed some electronic structure principles.

Dr. Wenpo Li is a professor at Chongqing University, China. He received his PhD in the field of metallurgy from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University in 2011. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Chongqing University in the years 2004 and 2007 respectively. Dr. Li's research interests are electrochemical corrosion and protection of metal materials. He has made several publications in highly reputed journals.

Dr. Ambrish Singh is working as Professor in School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, China. He is leading the Corrosion Research Group (CRG) with master students, Ph.D. students and postdoc researchers. His research interests are mainly focused on corrosion, electrochemistry, green chemistry, quantum chemistry, smart coatings, polymers, nano-materials, composites, and petroleum engineering. He got the prestigious Sichuan 1000 Talent Award from the Sichuan government, China for his outstanding research contributions as a faculty. He got the President’s Award for exceptional post doctoral research work. He also received the Young Scientist Award from UPCST, Lucknow, India. Before moving to China, Dr. Singh worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He has published more than 120 SCI peer-reviewed research papers in high impact journals. He is acting as reviewer for more than 40 high impact journals and editor for few journals. He is included as board member in several journals due to his contributions in the field of corrosion. Dr. Singh has been invited to present his work in several national and International conferences, seminars and workshops. He got the best oral presentation award in Sanya, China during CMSE international conference. He has drafted five patents and filed two patents based on his new and innovative findings in China. He has finished several state and provincial projects in China and India. He is also serving as a consultant for a project on a corrosion inhibitor for the CO 2 environment from Saudi Arabia. He is the member of NACE (National Association for Corrosion Engineers, Houston, USA), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and American Chemical Society (ACS).

Dr.SUN is a professor in Chongqing University. He obtained his Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University in 2005. Before joining CQU in 2014, he worked as a department head in Seiko Epson, and a research scientist in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers, contributed to 2 published book chapters, and applied for 9 invention patents. Since 2014, He has hosted 8 research projects, including the NSFC. In addition, he has kept more than 10 memberships of professional institutions or societies, including the Board Member of National Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC57).

Associate Professor Renhui Zhang received his PhD in Chemical Physics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2015. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in East China Jiaotong University, China. He has conducted a series of studies in various areas such as corrosion science, electrochemistry, density functional theory, molecular dynamics as well as nanomaterial lubrication. He recently focuses on corrosion and lubrication. He has authored over 40 papers published in journals and 2 patents.

Professor Xingwen Zheng received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Chongqing University, China in 2015. He is currently working as a Professor in School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China. He has conducted a series of studies in various areas such as corrosion science, electrochemistry, density functional theory, as well as nanomaterial . He recently focuses on electrochemical corrosion, organic corrosion inhibitors, and electrochemical preparation. He has authored over 50 papers published in journals and 10 patents.

Dr. Kamel Barkaoui is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science of Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris). He received his PhD and HdR from Sorbonne Université in 1988 and 1998, respectively. His main research interests are in design, verification, control and performance evaluation of concurrent and real-time discrete-event systems. He is the author of more than 200 refereed publications and supervised 40 PhD theses. He received the Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE-SMC 1995 and has been receiving the Doctoral and Research Supervisor Award since 1998. Prof. K. Barkaoui has served as associate or guest editor of several international journals and is a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit al Hikma).

Prof. Bimal Bose is currently Emeritus Chair Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Prior to that, he was a Research Engineer of GE Global Research Center, Schenectady and Associate Professor of RPI, USA. He is seven times IEEE Awards winner and he is a member of US National Academy of Engineering.

Prof.Dr. Chingiz Hajiyev graduated from the Faculty of Automatic Control Systems of Flying Apparatus, Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow, Russia) with honors diploma in 1981. He received his PhD and DSc (Eng.) in Process Control in 1987 and 1993, respectively. Since 1996, he has been with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is currently a Professor and from 2016 he is the head of the Aeronautical Engineering Department. He has more than 500 scientific publications including 14 books, 18 book chapters and about 300 international journal and international conference papers. His research interests include fault detection and isolation, sensor fusion, fault tolerant control system design, satellite attitude determination and control, Kalman filtering and integrated navigation systems.

Mohamed Khalgui received M.S. degree in telecommunication and services from Henri Poincaré University, Nancy, France, in 2003, the Ph.D. degree in computer science from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, Nancy, in 2007, and the Habilitation Diploma degree in information technology (computer science) from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, in 2012. He was a researcher in computer science at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, with ITIA-CNR institute, Vigevano, Italy, and with Systems Control Laboratory, Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He was a Professor at the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Carthage, Tunisia, and he is currently a Professor with Jinan University, Zhuhai, China. He has been involved in various international projects and collaborations with industrial partners. He received the Humboldt grant in Germany for preparing the Habilitation diploma at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Prof. Khalgui is a member of different conferences and boards of journals.

Dr. Igor Kotenko is a Chief Scientist at the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a Professor at the Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University and the Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. He is the author of more than 600 refereed publications, including 14 books and monographs. Dr. Kotenko's main research interests are in artificial intelligence, telecommunication, and cyber security. He was a project leader in the research projects from EU FP7 and FP6 Projects, HP, Intel, F-Secure, Huawei, etc.

Dr. Wen-long Li is a professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include surface visual measuring and robotics machining. He has published 1 book and more than 50 papers, and authorized more than 30 invention patents. The published journals include IEEE T. Robotics/Cybernetic/Mechatronics/ ASE, PR and MST. He is awarded the Young Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, and the Outstanding Youth Fund of Hubei Province. His research achievements have been successfully applied to the precision inspection and robotic machining in aerospace, nuclear power and automobile.

GRIENGGRAI RAJCHAKIT received the B.S. (Mathematics), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2003. He received the M.S. (Applied Mathematics), Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand, in 2005. He was awarded Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, with specialized area of stability and control of neural networks. Currently, he is working as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Maejo University, Chiangmai, Thailand. He was the recipient of Thailand Frontier Author Award by Thomson Reuters Web of Science in the year 2016 and TRF-OHEC-Scopus Researcher Awards by The Thailand Research Fund (TRF), Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) and Scopus in the year 2016. His research interests are complex-valued NNs, complex dynamical networks, control theory, stability analysis, sampled-data control, multi-agent systems, T-S fuzzy theory, and cryptography, etc. Dr. Grienggrai Rajchakit serves as a reviewer for various SCI journals. He has authored and co-authored more than 140 research articles in various SCI journals.

Dr.Yung Ting is the Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Chung Yuan Christian University(CYCU), Taoyuan City, Taiwan. After receiving his B.S. degree in 1983 from CYCU, he worked with the CSIST until 1987. He then completed his M.S. degree from University of Virginia in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from University of Texas at Austin in 1993, both in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has worked in the industry for almost two years. He joined CYCU in 1996 and since then has been working there as Associate professor. He also served as the Department Chairman from the year 2011 to 2015. Aside from mechatronics, controls and robotics research, he focuses on the development of piezoelectric sensors and actuators as well as their applications. He has published a few technical papers and held numerous patents and have won international invention awards for a variety of topics on linear and rotary piezoelectric motors, piezoelectric ceramics and polymer sensors, piezo-driven high-precision positioning platforms, ultrasonic assisted machining system, energy harvesting system, and medical ultrasonic therapy devices.

Murat Uzam received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Electrical Engineering Department, Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Salford U.K., in 1998. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, at Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey. He has published more than 150 journals, magazines and conference papers and six books. His current research interests include design and implementation of discrete event control systems modeled by Petri nets and, in particular, deadlock prevention/liveness enforcing in flexible manufacturing systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), microcontrollers and design of microcontroller-based PLCs.

Prof WANG Han has been in the School of EEE since 1992. He received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute(China), and Ph.D. degree from the University of Leeds(UK) respectively. His research interests include Computer Vision, and Robotics. He has done significant research work in his research areas and published over 120 top quality international conference and journal papers. He has been invited as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal. Dr. Wang is a senior member of IEEE.

Tiao-Jian Xu received his Ph.D. in the Dept. of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology in 2014. Previously, he obtained a B.Sc in Dept. of Civil Engineering, Central South University in 2007. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of the Center for Deepwater Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. His research interests include Hydrodynamic Behavior of Offshore Fish Farm, Pneumatic Breakwater, Wave Dynamics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and Computational Fluid Dynamics of Photo-bioreactors. Dr. Xu has published 3 book chapters, 5 conference papers, and 21 articles in international journals.

Yu Zheng received the M.S. degree from National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2012. Since 2008 until now，he has worked in the Central South University, China for more than ten years. Currently he is a Professor of mechanical engineering. The interests of his current research are optoelectronic devices packaging theory, technology and equipment; coupling theory, algorithms and techniques between optical fibers and optical waveguide chip; error transfer, control theory and technology of Opto-mechanics. He has published more than 60 papers and holds 30 patents.

Dr. Zubair Ahmad is leading the “Materials for Energy and Sustainable Environment, MESE” research group at Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He received his M.S. degree (Engineering Sciences) in 2008 from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and PhD degree (Applied Physics) in 2011 from the same institute. He has over five years of research experience at Mechatronic Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland New Zealand, INHA University South Korea, and the University of Malaya before joining Qatar University. His area of research includes photovoltaic, sensors, and sustainable energy materials.

Dr Abul Kalam Azad, presently an Associate Professor in Chemical and Process Engineering, has completed his PhD from Goteborgs Universitet, Sweden in Materials Chemistry. Then he joined Uppsala University, Sweden, as a postdoctoral research fellow. Later, he moved to the University of St Andrews, UK to work with Professor John Irvine on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. His present research interest is on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Biomass Energy Conversion, Electrolysis and Photocatalyst. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed journal papers.

Dr. Faheem K. Butt is currently working as an Associate Professor of Physics at Division of Science and Technology, University of Education Lahore. Before joining University of Education, he was an AvH Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow) at Technical University Munich, Germany. It is pertinent to mention that it’s a prestigious fellowship and only won by 105 scientists/social scientists of Pakistan from 1955-2015. He was also associated with teaching at The University of Lahore. He completed his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Centre for Sustainable Nanomaterials (CSNano), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. studies from Beijing Institute of Technology, China. His interest lies in Optoelectronics devices, Energy storage/conversion in nanomaterials and theoretical studies of materials using various softwares. He has published more than 110 research articles/book chapters as an author/co-author in peer reviewed international SCI journals with an h-index of 26 with ~2500 citations.

Dr. Haohong Chen received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Science in 2013. After his Masters from Xiamen University, he joined Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science in 2003. Presently, he works as an associate professor in Transparent Ceramics Research Center. His main research includes crystallography, optoelectronic functional materials including laser materials, scintillators and phosphors for LD/LEDs. He has published four books and more than 100 SCI papers about novel compounds, interesting defect structures and important mechanisms on advanced material properties.

Prof. Dr. Yuanfu Chen obtained his PhD degree in Materials Science from Sichuan University, China in June 2001. Afterwards, he continued his research as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science from July 2001 to January 2005, and Taiwan Tsing Hua University from July 2003 to Jan 2005. He worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Leipzig, Germany during March 2005 to February 2007, and then worked as a guest scientist in IFW Dresden, Germany since March 2007. He has been serving as a Full Professor at the University of Electronic Science and technology of China (UESTC) since 2008. His scientific interests include design and synthesis of new nanostructured materials for applications in catalysis, energy storage and electronics. Prof. Chen has published over 180 papers in Energy Environ Sci, Adv Mater, Adv Energ Mater, ACS Nano, ACS Energ Lett, 2D Materials etc., including 4 and 18 ESI hot and highly cited papers.

Dr. Y.P. Du is currently a full professor at the school of material science and engineering, Nankai University. He is the Director of Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Deputy Director of Center for Rare Earth and Inorganic Functional Materials of Nankai University. His research interests include rare earth materials and their application in catalysts, biological imaging, energy conversion and storage. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and was a winner of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2015. He obtained his PhD degree from Peking University in 2009.

Dr Zhonglin Du is presently serving as an Associate Professor at the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University. He obtained a PhD degree from East China University of Science and Technology, China in 2017. His research interest includes (i) main field: Synthesis of semiconductor (alloyed, core-shell and doped quantum dots etc.), metallic (Au, Ag) nanocrystals; formation of nanocrystal-based micro- and nanostructures and study of optical phenomena therein; (ii) other fields: Application of the nanocrystals in energy conversion.

Dr. Chongfeng Guo is a Professor at the School of Physics, Northwest University. He received Ph.D degree in 2004 from Sun Yat-Sen University. He has been a Research Fellow, associate professor, research professor and visiting professor at the Hongkong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technoloy, Pukyong National University of Korea, Macquarie University in Australia. His research focused on the luminescent inorganic solids with a multi- disciplinary background covering phosphor, photo-catalyst, biological sensing/imaging/therapy materials, first-principle calculation and optoelectronic device. Within his group three lines of research can be distinguished: (1) Rare earth doped luminescent materials. This research focuses on the design of inorganic phosphors for white LEDs, especially for plant growth LEDs. (2) Semiconductor hetero- junction for photo-catalyst. (3) First principle calculation. He has published more than 150 articles.

Dr. Fozia Z. Haque received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from DDU Gorakhpur University in 2007. She has been a Junior Research Fellow at the, JMI New Delhi in 2004, then an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology MANIT (An Institute of National Importance), Bhopal, India. Her research interests include morphological control of nanostructured oxides, solar cell, photocatalytic, gas sensing, LED & UV-shielding materials, etc. She has published over 170 research papers in various journals of international repute and 1 book & 3 book chapters with reputed publishers. She has guided 10 PhD Thesis and 55 M.Tech.(Nanotechnology) dissertation thesis. She is a Fellow of Researchers Society of Chemical Science (FRSCS). She has been a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Optical Society of India, Society for Information Display, USA, Indian association of Physics Teacher, India etc. She has delivered 14 expert lectures at different National/International platforms.

Dr. Hassanien is a Professor at the Engineering Mathematics and Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering (Shoubra), Benha University, Egypt. His research interests are in the fields of structural, physical, optical,electrical, and thermal properties. Dr. Hassanien is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal Futuristic Research Evaluation in Engineering (IJFREE).He is an outstanding reviewer of many journals that are classified as Q1, Q2, and Q3.

Dr. Jiarui He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his B.E. (2012) and his PhD (2018) in electronic information materials and devices from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests are in the area of electrochemical conversion and storage materials.

Prof. Jinlian Hu is a renowned expert in shape memory textiles and has been leading a number of large scale research projects in related areas. She is a partner and consultant to a large number of companies and organizations including Procter & Gamble and INVISTA for consecutive projects. She achieved several awards. For examples, 1000- Person Scheme Award from China, Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic or Applied Fiber Science by The Fiber Society and First-Class Prize, Sang Ma Textile Science and Technology Award by the Hong Kong Sang Ma Trust Fund.

Dr. Chun Jiang received his MS and PhD degrees from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 till present, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow, an associate professor and professor in State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was a visiting scholar at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 2005-2006. His research topics focus on photonic materials & devices, optical fiber communication, nanophotonics and optical signal processing. He is the author/co-author of over 150 journal articles, and holds 10 issued Chinese patents.

Dr. Quah Hock Jin is currently working as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Nano Optoelectronics Research and Technology (INOR), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He received his BEng (Hons) in Materials Engineering from USM in 2008. He graduated with PhD (2014) and MSc (2010) in Electronics Materials from USM under the sponsorship of “The USM Vice Chancellor’s Award 2011” and “USM Fellowship”, respectively. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow in USM and Universiti Putra Malaysia. His research interest encompasses development of thin film technology and optimization of device performance based on high dielectric constant thin film materials as well as wide band gap semiconductors for potential applications in power electronics, solid-state lighting, and gas sensors.