Editorial Board
Editor(s)

Sun Yat-sen University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of Calvin Yu-Chian Chen
![]() 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. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of Hong Qiao
![]() 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). |

Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Qingdao
China
Biography of Caifeng Ding
![]() 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. |

Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of Dongqing Wei
![]() 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. |


Hainan University
Haikou
China
Biography of Qian Han
![]() 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. |

Shenzhen University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy
![]() 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. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of Ying Tan
![]() 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 |

Shaoxing University
Shaoxing
China
Biography of Jun Ye
![]() Dr. Jun Ye is a professor in Shaoxing University, P.R. China. He has more than 30 years of experience 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 journals, written a few books related to his research work, and finished a few projects sponsored by the government of P.R. China. He is editorial board members for “Current Chinese 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). |

Tongren University
Tongren
China
Biography of Lei Guo
![]() 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. |

Central South University
Changsha
China
Biography of Yunping Li
![]() 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. |

Xidian University
Xi’an
China
Biography of Zhiwu Li
![]() 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. |

Hefei University of Technology
Hefei
China
Biography of Lei Chen
![]() 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. |

Zhaoqing University
Zhaoqing
China
Biography of Changsheng Peng
![]() 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). |

Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Nanjing
China
Biography of Wuyang Huang
![]() 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. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
China
Biography of Tao Huang
![]() 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. |

Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of Xian Sun
![]() 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. |

Nanjing Agricultural University
Nanjing
China
Biography of Zhen Fang
![]() 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). |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of Shengchun Qu
![]() 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. |

Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu
China
Biography of Salvatore Grasso
![]() Dr. Salvatore Grasso is a Professor in Ceramics at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. His doctoral work (2008-2011) at the University of Tsukuba-NIMS (National Institute for Material Science) Japan was focused on Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) and other Electric Current Assisted Sintering Techniques. While at Queen Mary University of London (2011-2017), he worked on the development of Flash Spark Plasma Sintering techniques. His current research involves the use of intense Electric and Magnetic fields (e.g. current up to 0.5 mega Amps and magnetic field strength up to 15 T) to develop novel processing techniques to design unprecedented materials properties. Environmental sustainability is a key aspect of driving research on intelligent manufacturing. He is currently an editor of the European Ceramic Society. He has published 160 peer-reviewed articles and 10 patents in distinguished journals. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chongqing
China
Biography of Xiao Wang
![]() 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. |

Jilin University
Changchun
China
Biography of Bai Yang
![]() 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. |

BGI Academy of Marine Sciences
Shenzhen
China
Biography of Qiong Shi
![]() 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. |

Ocean University of China
Qingdao
China
Biography of Zhen-Ming Chi
![]() 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. |

Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Tianyu Zhang
![]() 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. |

Jinan University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Zaizhu Lou
![]() 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. |

Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
Changsha
China
Biography of Wei Wang
![]() Prof. Dr. Wei Wang is 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 ethnic medicine, design of new analytical chemistry methodology and innovation on targeting and increasing efficiency of bioactive products of Traditional Medicine. He has more than 130 SCI publications and 8 patents. |

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography of Bo-Hui Tang
![]() 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.”. |
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Nanjing
China
Section: Remote Sensing

Sichuan University
Chengdu
China
Biography of Xiaoxiao Cai
![]() 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. |

Southeast University
Nanjing
China
Biography of Renjie Chai
![]() 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. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of Decheng Wan
![]() 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. |

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nanjing
China
Biography of Xiande Fang
![]() 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. |

Jilin University
Changchun
China
Biography of Yong-Lai Zhang
![]() 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. |

Soochow University
Suzhou
China
Biography of Changqing Shen
![]() 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. |

Guangxi Normal University
Guilin
China
Biography of Ying-Ming Pan
![]() 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. |
Editorial Board Member(s)

Sichuan University
Chengdu
China
Biography of R. Deng
![]() 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. |

Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore
India
Biography of P. Ghosh
![]() 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. |

UKA Tarsadia University
Bardoli
India
Biography of A.H. Gore
![]() 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. |


Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences
Allahabad
India
Biography of D.K. Patel
![]() 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. |

United Arab Emirates University
Al Sin
United Arab Emirates
Biography of N. Saleh
![]() 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. |

Universidad de los Andes
Bogota
Colombia
Biography of J.A.P. Salinas
![]() 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. |

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Beijing
China
Biography of Y. Song
![]() 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. |

Ocean University of China
Qingdao
China
Biography of G. Wang
![]() 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. |

USDA ARS Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
Beltsville
USA
Biography of X. Wu
![]() Dr. Xianli Wu is a chemist at USDA-ARS Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center. His current research focuses on the influential factors of nutrients and dietary bioactive compounds and their impact on human health. Dr. Wu obtained his doctoral degree majoring in Natural Medicinal Chemistry from China Pharmaceutical University. He has authored and co-authored 85 peer-reviewed papers and 10 book chapters, and has presented his research findings at many professional conferences. He was listed as one of the world’s most cited scientists in Agricultural Sciences by Thomson Reuters (World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014, 2015). |

Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University
Nanchang
China
Biography of W. Zhu
![]() 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. |

Universiti Putra Malaysia
Selangor
Malaysia
Biography of S.N.A. Abdullah
![]() 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. |

Qingdao University
Qingdao
China
Biography of L.H.H. Aung
![]() 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. |

South China University of Technology
Guangzhou
China
Biography of H. Cai
![]() 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. |

Ain Shams University
Cairo
Egypt
Biography of M.S.A. Gaber
![]() Dr. M. S. Attia is the head of the scientific research group of the diagnosis of diseases by nano optical sensors in Ain Shams University. He received the professor position in analytical chemistry in 2017. M. S. Attia has About 85 research publications and 6 books have been published in international journals and conferences in the last ten years. |

Shaoyang University
Shaoyang
China
Biography of G. Huang
![]() Dr. Guohua Huang is currently a Full Professor at the Provincial Key Laboratory of Informational Service for Rural Area of Southwestern Hunan, Shaoyang University. He received his Ph.D. in informatics and system biology from Shanghai University. Prof. Huang’s research interest focuses mainly on application of machine learning to molecular biology, drug design and drug repositioning. He has recently published more than 50 scientific papers, served as a board member of the journal Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, Current Bioinformatics, edited 4 special issues as guest editor, and reviewed more than 50 manuscripts for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals. |

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
Al Jubail
Saudia Arabia
Biography of B. Kamaraj
![]() 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. |

University of Nizwa
Nizwa
Oman
Biography of A. Khan
![]() 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. |

Central South University
Changsha
China
Biography of H. Li
![]() 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. |

Shandong University
Weihai
China
Biography of X. Liu
![]() 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. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of J. Meng
![]() 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. |



University of Guelph
Guelph
Canada
Biography of S. Ratnasingham
![]() 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. |


National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
Little Rock
USA
Biography of S.D. Sakkiah
![]() 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. |


Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv
Israel
Biography of Y. Shoenfeld
![]() 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. |

Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of J. Tan
![]() 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. |

Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan
Pakistan
Biography of A. Wadood
![]() 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. |

Anhui University of Technology
Ma'anshan
China
Biography of B. Wang
![]() 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. |

Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Biography of C.C.S. William
![]() Dr William Cho is a Chartered Scientist (UK), Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner, and Fellow Member of several institutes, including the Institute of Biomedical Science (UK), Hong Kong Institute of Biomedical Science and Hong Kong Society for Molecular Diagnostic Sciences. Dr Cho devotes in cancer research in the aspects of cancer biomarkers, non-coding RNA, genomics, proteomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics as well as evidence- based Chinese medicine, diabetes, meta-analysis, etc. Dr Cho has published about 300 SCI peer-reviewed papers with a total citations about 10,000 times, e.g. Lancet Oncology, Nature Communications, PNAS, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical Chemistry, Annals of Oncology, Theranostics; over dozen of books including "MicroRNAs in cancer translational research", "An omics perspective on cancer research", "Supportive cancer care with Chinese medicine", and over two dozen of book chapters. |

Xiangtan University
Hunan
China
Biography of Z-G. Yu
![]() 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. |

Huazhong Agricultural University
Wuhan
China
Biography of Y-M. Zhang
![]() 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. |

Huazhong Agricultural University
Wuhan
China
Biography of W. Zhang
![]() 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. |

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
Chengdu
China
Biography of P. Zhou
![]() Dr. Peng Zhou is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He received his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, P.R.China in 2011. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as a Post Doctor in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals. His publications have been cited over 2,000 times with H-index of 30 in Google Scholar. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of H. Zhu
![]() 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. |


Soochow University
Suzhou
China
Biography of G. Li
![]() 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. |

Tiangong University
Tianjin
China
Biography of Y. Liu
![]() 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. |


University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
Biography of Y. Wan
![]() 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. |

Xi'an University of Technology
Xi'an
China
Biography of W. Wei
![]() 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. |

Jiangnan University
Wuxi
China
Biography of Q. Wei
![]() 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. |

Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of F. Yanqiong
![]() 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. |

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Shanghai
China
Biography of D-G. Yu
![]() 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. |

Bingol University
Bingol
Turkey
Biography of C. Caglayan
![]() 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. |

Centre for Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Lethbridge
Canada
Biography of V.M. Dembitsky
![]() Dr. Valery Dembitsky's active scientific career began in the Soviet Union. He was the director of the laboratory of natural products (Institute of Ecology, Togliatti) and lectured at Samara State University from 1989 to 1993 as associate professor at the department of organic chemistry and biochemistry from 1989-1993. During 1991-1992, he had professorship at the Melbourne University (Australia), and from 1993, he started in Hebrew University (Jerusalem). He was also a researcher at the laboratory of natural products (Department of Organic Chemistry) from 1993 to 1996 and an associate professor at the department of biotechnology (Lomonosov State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, Moscow) from 1996 to 1997 where he obtained his second doctoral degree (D.Sc.) From 2000 to 2013, Dr. Dembitsky was a research professor at the Institute of Drug Research (Hebrew University), and from 2014 to 2017, he served as a director at the Institute of Drug Discovery (Jerusalem). Since 2019, he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology (Lethbridge College, Canada). |

University of South Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Biography of M.S. Dhlamini
![]() 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. |

Islamic Azad University
Mazandaran
Iran
Biography of A. Farajtabar
![]() 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. |

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton
USA
Biography of S.P. Roche
![]() 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. |


Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
Wuhan
China
Biography of J. Tu
![]() 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. |


Assiut University
Assiut
Egypt
Biography of H.N. Abdelhamid
![]() The research interest of Hani N. Abdelhamid is focused broadly on science and technology at the nanoscale and material science to push scientific boundaries in diverse areas of materials science, chemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, catalysis, and laser-based analytical methods. The main thrusts are concentrated on the topics as below: Nanotechnology: synthesis, characterization, and applications. Material Chemistry, synthesis, characterization, and applications. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), synthesis, characterization, and applications. Inorganic and structural chemistry. |

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin
China
Biography of G. Chen
![]() 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. |

Shenzhen University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of J. Qu
![]() 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. |

South China Normal University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Q. Zhan
![]() 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. |

King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
Biography of N.H. Abu-Hamdeh
![]() 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. |

Istanbul Gelisim University
Istanbul
Turkey
Biography of M. Bayram
![]() 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. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of Z. Chen
![]() 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. |

Civil Aviation University of China
Tianjin
China
Biography of W. Deng
![]() 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. |

RMIT University
Melbourne
Australia
Biography of H. Dong
![]() 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. |

The University of Sydney
Sydney
Australia
Biography of D. Feng
![]() 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. |


National Taipei University of Technology
Taipei
Taiwan
Biography of Y-P. Huang
![]() 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. |

Shahid Beheshti University
Tehran
Iran
Biography of G. Jafari
![]() 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. |

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Nanjing
China
Biography of S.K. Jha
![]() 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. |

China University of Geosciences
Wuhan
China
Biography of L. Jiang
![]() 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. |

Hunan Normal University
Changsha
China
Biography of S. Liu
![]() 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. |

Shaoguan University
Shaoguan
China
Biography of X. Peng
![]() 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. |

Nandalal Ghosh B.T. College
Panpur
India
Biography of S. Pramanik
![]() 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. |

Mazandaran University of Science and Technology
Babol
Iran
Biography of Javad Rezaeian
![]() 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. |

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nanjing
China
Biography of Z. Shen
![]() 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. |

University of Belgrade
Bor
Serbia
Biography of D. Stanujkic
![]() 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. |

Shanghai Polytechnic University
Shanghai
China
Biography of W. Tan
![]() 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. |

Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
Nanchang
China
Biography of S. Wan
![]() 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. |

Xidian University
Xian
China
Biography of J. Wu
![]() 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. |

Southwest University
Chongqing
China
Biography of F. Xiao
![]() 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. |

Ningbo University
Ningbo
China
Biography of S. Zeng
![]() 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. |

Xiamen University
Zhangzhou
China
Biography of Y-Q. Zhang
![]() 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. |

Shaanxi University of Science and Technology
Xi'an
China
Biography of X. Zhang
![]() 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. |

Chaoyang University of Technology
Taichung City
Taiwan
Biography of C-L. Chen
![]() 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. |

Research Center in Semiconductors Technology for Energetic (CRTSE)
Algiers
Algeria
Biography of A. Djelloul
![]() 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. |


Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an
China
Biography of Z. Huang
![]() 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. |

Sejong University
Seoul
South Korea
Biography of M. Kaseem
![]() Dr. Mosab Kaseem is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering at Sejong University, South Korea. He received his Ph. D degree in polymer science from Damascus University, Syria in 2012. He was a research professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea from 2013 to 2017. His research interests include: improvement of the electrochemical response of light metals using the plasma electrolysis method, surface modification of metallic biomaterials, synthesis, properties, and applications of biodegradable polymer blends. |

Chongqing University
Chongqing
China
Biography of W. Li
![]() 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. |

Southwest Petroleum University
Chengdu
China
Biography of A. Singh
![]() 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). |

Chongqing University
Chongqing
China
Biography of D. Sun
![]() 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). |

East China Jiaotong University
Nanchang
China
Biography of R. Zhang
![]() 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. |

Sichuan University of Science and Engineering
Zigong
China
Biography of Z. Zheng
![]() 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. |

Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
Turkey
Biography of C. Hajiyev
![]() 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. |

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Taoyuan
Taiwan
Biography of Y. Ting
![]() 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. |

Nanyang Technological University
Singapore City
Singapore
Biography of H. Wang
![]() 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. |

Central South University
Changsha
China
Biography of Z. Yu
![]() 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. |

Qatar University
Doha
Qatar
Biography of Z. Ahmad
![]() 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. |

University of Education
Lahore
Pakistan
Biography of F.K. Butt
![]() 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. |

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chengdu
China
Biography of Y. Chen
![]() 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. |

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
China
Biography of H. Chen
![]() 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. |

Qingdao University
Qingdao
China
Biography of Z. Du
![]() 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. |

Nankai University
Tianjin
China
Biography of Y-P. Du
![]() 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. |

Northwest University
Xi’an
China
Biography of C. Guo
![]() 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. |

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Bhopal
India
Biography of F.Z. Haque
![]() 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. |

Benha university
Cairo
Egypt
Biography of A.S. Hassanien
![]() 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. |

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin
USA
Biography of J. He
![]() 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. |

City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Biography of J. Hu
![]() 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. |

Shanghai JiaoTong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of C. Jiang
![]() 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. |

Universiti Sains Malaysia
George Town
Malaysia
Biography of Q.H. Jin
![]() 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. |


Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University
Kahramanmaraş
Turkey
Biography of S. Karatas
![]() Dr. Şükrü Karataş obtained his master degree in Solid State Physics from Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, 1994–1996, PhD from Solid State Physics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, 1998–2003. He was an Associate Professor of Solid State Physics at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, 2010. His main achievements are—(A) semiconductors (polymers, monomers, organic compounds): (i) electrical, dielectrical, thermal and optical properties; (ii) electronic devices applications such as Schottky diode, P–N heterojunction diode, metal–insulator–semiconductor junctions, solar cells, photodiode, optical sensor; (iii) current injection in solids, (high-field conduction, spacecharge limited current, Poole-Frenkel and Schottky conductivity mechanisms). (B) Optical materials: (i) determination of the optical constants; (ii) refractive index dispersion. (C) Liquid crystals and electro-optical properties. His current research interests include organic thin films, SAM-LB films, thin-film interfaces, and their application to electronic devices such as organic photovoltaics, OLEDs, OTFTs, nano-wires and sensors. Dr. Şükrü KARATAŞ is working as a Professor in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University in Kahramanmaraş. He is working as a researcher and a teacher in this university. |

University of Malakand
Chakdara
Pakistan
Biography of E. Khan
![]() Dr. Ezzat Khan Completed his PhD degree in the field of Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry in 2009 under the Supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernd Wrackmeyer (late), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. He joined University of Malakand as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor on Feb. 12, 2018 and to the rank of Professor since January 10, 2020. He is well versed in arranging funds for his research group. He has been awarded Research Productivity Award (RPA) Five times by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology. His research group comprises PhD, MPhil/MS and BS students. The main focus of his research is Synthesis of Organometallic/Coordination compounds and their potential applications in the field of Bio-inorganic chemistry. He has also contributed to environmental chemistry and has produced several publications focusing the modern environmental challenges. Besides research, he is involved in teaching at master and MPhil/PhD level and has accepted and performed various administrative responsibilities. |

University School of Basic and Applied Sciences
New Delhi
India
Biography of R. Kumar
![]() Dr. Rajesh Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. He received his PhD in Applied Physics from the Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India in 2003. His research interests include Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanotechnology, Ion Beam Engineering of Nanostructure Materials, Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Synthesis of Nanomaterials/Nano Templates/ Graphene Oxide/RGO/ Nanocomposites/ Polymers/Nanocomposite Polymers, Oxide Based Thin Films (ZrO2, TiO2, SnO2, WO3, MoS2 CeO2 etc.) using RF Sputtering, E-Beam, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), PLD, Template-Based Electro Deposition of Metal and Semiconductor Nanowires, Energy Storage Devices (Lithium-ion battery and Supercapacitor), Gas Sensors/Nano Filters for Gas Purification, and Nuclear Spectroscopy (PALS & DBS, HPGe, NaI etc.). He has published around 120 research papers in well-reputed international journals. Besides, he has also presented in different conferences on a national and international level. |

Shanghai University
Shanghai
China
Biography of F. Lei
![]() Dr. Fang Lei received his Ph.D. degree from Tongji University in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, she has been a postdoctoral in Shanghai Current Chinese Science (Electronic and Crystal structures) Jiaotong University. Then, she joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, China. Currently, she is an Associate Researcher in Shanghai University. Her current research interests focus on rare-earth phosphors, phosphor-in-Glass, carbon dots, perovskite nanomaterial for WLEDs. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of G. Li
![]() Dr. Guobao Li has graduated from Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Technology and Science of China in 1990.7 and the Doctorate degree in lithium ion battery under the supervisor of Prof. Liquan Chen in 1995.7. He became a faculty of Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University after 1995.7. His study is focused on the functional oxides: synthesis, structure, magnetism, and superconductivity. He has published more than 120 articles in reputed journals. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fuzhou
China
Biography of H. Lin
![]() Dr. Hang Lin received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Fuzhou University, and PhD degree from FJIRSM, CAS, in the years of 2005, 2008, 2011, respectively. His research interest focuses on the oriented preparation of luminescent glass ceramic for opto-functional application, and aims to understand the fundamental issues of glass crystallization kinetics, controllable crystal growth of specific nanocrystals in glass, distribution of doping activators, and microstructure-property relationship in glass ceramic. He has published more than 60 articles in reputed journals. |

Chung Yuan Christian University
Chung Li
Taiwan
Biography of W-R. Liu
![]() Dr. Wei-Ren Liu is a Director of Center of Resource Development in Chung Yuan Christian University and an Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. His expertise deals with inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry and nano-technology, applied to the fields of Li-ion batteries, Ni-ion batteries, Graphene, carbon quantum dots, in collaboration with several industrial companies. Recently, he won outstanding professor in Chung Yuan Christian University in 2016 and outstanding professor prize of LCY’s Group in 2017. He is co-inventor of >30 patents and co-author of more than 99 articles. |

Jilin University
Changchun
China
Biography of H. Liu
![]() Dr. Hanyu Liu is a Professor at the International Center for Computational Method & Software, College of Physics, Jilin University, China. After completing his PhD studies in Jilin University, he joined University of Saskatchewan and Carnegie Institution of Washington as a postdoctoral associate (2013-2018). His research focuses on crystal structures and physical properties of materials at high pressure, e.g. designed some compressed hydrides with superconducting temperature exceeding 200 K, encouragingly, some of which were confirmed by later experiments, over 140 peer-review papers followed, including 1 Nature, 1 Nat. Chem., 3 Nat. Commun., 1 Sci. Adv., 10 PRL, 4 PNAS, 18 PRB. |

Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Shanghai
China
Biography of J. Lu
![]() Dr. Jie Lu received a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering from Tianjin University, China. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences, the Director at the Institute of Modern Separation Engineering & Technology and Subjects of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Chemical Research and Application, a Reviewer of Chinese and International Journals, including JMCB, Crystal Growth & Design, Journal of Crystal Growth, Journal of Chemical Engineering Data, etc. and Member of ACS. His research interests include Crystallization of protein and pharmaceutical molecules, Environmental resources technology, and Functional nanomaterials for medical, separation, synthesis applications. Moreover, he has published more than 50 scientific papers in well-reputed peer-reviewed journals. |

Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of S. Ma
![]() Dr. Shulan Ma is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University. She received her PhD degree from Beijing normal university in 2000-2003. She has worked as a visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University from 2012 to 2014. She has published many top papers such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; ACS Appl. Mater. Interface; Chem. Commun.; J. Mater. Chem. A; J. Mater. Chem. C; Inorg. Chem. Her field of interest focuses on nanotechnology. |


Minia University
Minia
Egypt
Biography of H.F.M. Mohamed
![]() Prof. Dr. Hamdy F. M. Mohamed is a Professor of Applied Physics and Renewable Energy. He graduated from Minia University, and received MSc and PhD from the same university. He has worked as a senior researcher in Japan (Tokyo University and AIST), USA (Wayne State University), and South Korea (KAERI). He received several awards, including the best researcher from Minia University for many years. He has published more than 100 publications and has reviewed a lot of international publications on many Journals. He is a member in many national and international associations. He is studying polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells as a bulk and thin films using many techniques. |

Cairo University
Cairo
Egypt
Biography of Ahmad M. Mohammad Al-Akraa
![]() Ahmad M. Mohammad received his B.Sc. in 1995 from the Faculty of Science at Cairo University (Chemistry major). He was awarded his M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry-Surface Chemistry) and Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry-Nanotechnology) from Cairo University, respectively in 1999 and 2004. In 2001, he joined the Pennsylvania State University as a research assistant for two years. In 2005, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology as a research fellow and collaborated over there with Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd for two years. He worked (in a sabbatical leave) for the British University in Egypt (Egypt/ Associate Professor/ 2011-2015), American University in Cairo (Egypt/Professor/2019) and Higher Technological Institute (Egypt/Professor/2019). Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cairo University. His main research deals with the fabrication of hybrid nanomaterials for water treatment and energy conversions. He published so far 72 articles in reputable international journals, participated in 94 conferences and owned several recognitions and awards. |

Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak
India
Biography of A. Ohlan
![]() Presently, Dr. Anil Ohlan is employed as an Assistant Professor of Physics at M.D. University Rohtak. He is working in the field of Material Science exploring nanostructured materials for potential applications such as supercapacitors, electromagnetic shielding, microwave absorption, magneto-electric coupling. Dr. Ohlan received his Ph.D. on electromagnetic shielding properties in conjugated polymer ferromagnetic nanocomposites in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and University of Delhi, Delhi. During the course of his research Dr. Ohlan has been involved in the designing and development of conjugated polymer nanocomposites, multiferroic composites, mesoporous composites, 2D materials especially graphene for different applications. His research credentials are reflected in 3 book chapters, over 30 peer-review articles in reputed journals and one US patent in the area of nanostructured materials. |

Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science
Madanapalle
India
Biography of S. Sahoo
![]() Dr. Sumanta Sahoo is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the department of Chemistry at Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his PhD in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in the year of 2013. His research interests include materials chemistry, graphene materials for supercapacitor application, binary and ternary metal oxide-based nanocomposites for energy-related applications including Li-ion batteries, synthesis and characterization of mixed transition metal oxides etc. He has published around 50 research papers in reputed international journals. Apart from these, Dr. Sahoo also recently edited a book entitled “Surface Engineering of Graphene” with Springer Nature publishers. Moreover, Dr. Sahoo is an active reviewer for a range of journals and serves as consulting editor of a journal. |

Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Russian Federation
Biography of V.Y. Shevchenko
![]() Dr Vladimir Shevchenko graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Moscow University (1963). He received a PhD degree in Physics Science in 1969. Dr Shevchenko is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (1987). Currently, he is the President of Russian Ceramic Society, the President of National Commission on Glass RAS, a member of the Council of the International Commission on Glass, and a member of the Permanent Executive Committee of the European Ceramic Society. Also, he is a member of the Presidium of St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS, Chairman of the Scientific Council on ceramics and other non-metallic materials of RAS, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Glass Physics and Chemistry,’ and Editorial Board Member of the journal, ‘Ceramic Science and Technology.’ |

Jilin University
Changchun
China
Biography of H. Song
![]() Dr. Hongwei Song is a professor at the Jilin University, China. He has published more than 340 papers in international journals and two book chapters. His current research interests focus on rare earth doped upconversion nanophosphors, its local field modulation and application; photo/electric luminescence of perovskite nanocrystals; perovskite solar cells and perovskite photoelectric detectors. |

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University
Gorakhpur
India
Biography of A.K. Srivastava
![]() Dr. Ambrish Kumar Srivastava is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics in D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Lucknow, India and subsequently, worked as National Postdoctoral Fellow at D.D.U. Gorakhpur University. His broad research areas include Computational Materials Science and Computational Biophysics, with a special emphasis on Atomic, Superatomic and Nano Clusters. He has published over 100 research papers in various journals of international repute. Dr. Srivastava is an active reviewer for various journals and serves on the editorial board of a few as well. |

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin
China
Biography of J. Sui
![]() Dr. Jiehe Sui is a Full Professor at the Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He received his PH.D in 2006 from Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests include Thermoelectric Materials, Shape Memory Materials, Nano-functional Materials, Martensite Transformation, Surface Modification. He has more than 170 publications in reputed journals. He was awarded "The First Prize for Natural Science Award of Heilongjiang Province" in 2007. |

Shanghai University
Shanghai
China
Biography of L. Sun
![]() Dr. Lining Sun is a professor of Chemistry and Material Science at Shanghai University. She received her B.S. degree from Shandong Normal University in 2002 and Ph.D. degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in the end of 2007. Then, from 2008 to 2009, she has been an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research focuses on rare-earth doped upconversion luminescent nanomaterials for sensing, bioimaging, and therapy applications. |

National University of Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Taiwan
Biography of T-L. Wang
![]() Dr. Tzong-Liu Wang currently is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and has served as Dean of the College of Engineering at National University of Kaohsiung. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Tsing- Hua University and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Utah. Dr. Wang joined National University of Kaohsiung in 2004. Dr. Wang’s current research interests include polymer solar cells, organic/inorganic nanohybrids, organic & inorganic optoelectronic materials, functional polyurethanes, and synthesis and characterization of functional polymers. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of C-R. Wang
![]() Dr. Chunru Wang is a Professor at ICCAS. He received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemistry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992. His research interests include fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes, mainly focusing on their industrialization and applications. He discovered the metal carbide fullerenes for the first time, researched on high-efficiency MRI contrast agents and developed a novel tumour vascular-targeting therapy technique using gadofullerenes. He has collected a couple of prizes and awards, such as the “CAS hundred Talents”, “National Distinguished Scholars in the New Century” etc. He is the author of more than 240 papers published in international refereed journals, 6 book chapters, and co-edited 1 book which was published by World Scientific Press. |

Lanzhou University
Lanzhou
China
Biography of Y. Wang
![]() Professor Yuhua Wang has been a full-time professor at Lanzhou University from 2004, and he has received the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has authored more than 300 original research papers and 20 patents. The research interests of Prof. Yuhua Wang are engaged to the discovery, development and application of novel functional materials based on rare earth ions doped oxides, nitrides and oxynitrides, which include long-afterglow luminescent materials, LED phosphor, quantum dot, up- conversion luminescent nano-materials, photocatalysis materials and flame-resistant materials. |

Lanzhou University
Lanzhou
China
Biography of X. Wang
![]() Dr Xicheng Wang is a Lecturer at the School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University. He received his B.S. degree from the Lanzhou University in 2011 and completed his PhD degree from the Lanzhou University in 2017. His main research interests are focused on the synthesis, performance tuning of inorganic luminescent materials for solid-state lighting and displays. |

University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei
China
Biography of C. Wangsheng
![]() Dr. Wangsheng is currently an Associate Professor of National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D from the Department of Physics of USTC in the year of 2001 and 2007, respectively. In June 2012, he joined USTC as an associate professor, working on synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy on energy related materials. He has more than 160 publications. |

Henan University of Science and Technology
Luoyang
China
Biography of S. Wei
![]() Professor Shizhong Wei works at Henan University of Science and Technology as the vice president. His interests mainly focus on the synthesis, structural analysis and properties of wear- resistant alloys, and structural and functional materials. The research findings have been widely published in international journals, such as Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Materials Science and Engineering A, and Tribology International. Based on the extensive industrial applications of his findings, he was awarded twice as the first contributor by the the government of China, namely National Science and Technology Prize (the second-class prize). |

South China University of Technology
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Z. Xia
![]() Professor Zhiguo Xia focuses on the luminescent inorganic solids with a multi- disciplinary background covering luminescent materials, solid-state chemistry, crystal chemistry, X-ray diffraction, optics, and optoelectronic device. He is currently a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology. He complleted his PHD n 2008 from Tsinghua University.Within his group two lines of research can be distinguished: (1) Rare earth doped luminescent materials. This research focuses on structural design, discovery and understanding the structure/luminescence correlation of inorganic phosphors for white LEDs. (2) Optical properties of perovskite materials (nanocrystals and single crystals), where he focuses on the discovery of the new perovskite-type materials (especially the 0 D and 2D semiconductors and lead-free double perovskites), understanding the intrinsic optical properties and doping-induced luminescence behaviour. He has published more than 300 articles. |

Tohoku University
Sendai
Japan
Biography of S. Yin
![]() Dr. Shu YIN received a Ph.D. degree in applied chemistry from Tohoku University in 1999. He has been a research assistant at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Science (ICRS) in 1999, then a lecture and associate professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University in 2005. He became a full-time professor in 2016. His research interests include morphological control of nanostructured oxides / nitrides, photocatalytic materials, UV/IR-shielding materials, gas sensing materials, hydrothermal / solvothermal process, soft chemical synthesis etc. |

Shanghai University
Shanghai
China
Biography of Z-J. Zhang
![]() Dr. Zhi-Jun Zhang completed his Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) in 2009. He was an associate professor in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2012 to 2014. Presently, he is a full-time professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University. His main research interests include the preparation and application of inorganic optical functional materials including scintillation luminescent materials, spectral conversion materials, luminescent materials for high-power laser lighting and display, stress-induced emitting materials and related devices. He has published almost one hundred and thirty five research papers and his documents have citations over more than 1840. |

City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Biography of S. Zhao
![]() Dr Shijun Zhao received PhD in Engineering from the Peking University, China in 2013. He did his Bachelor in Physics from Peking University, China in 2008. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, China. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA and Peking University, China in 2018 and 2015 respectively. He has published more than 50 articles in well-reputed journals. |

Changshu Institute of Technology
Changshu
China
Biography of W. Zhao
![]() Dr. Zhao Wei has been engaged in the preparation, characterization and application of environmental functional materials. He has won many honors including “Hong Kong Scholars”program, “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province”, and “Excellent Master's Degree Thesis of Anhui Province”. In recent years, he has been engaged in the preparation of silver series and bismuth based environmental functional materials and the research in the field of environmental pollutants treatment. Dr. Wei has published more than 30 SCI papers in international journals such as applied catalysis B: environmental, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of hazardous materials, etc. |

Henan University
Kaifeng
China
Biography of H. Zheng
![]() Dr. Haiwu Zheng received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2006. Then, he joined the School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University. Currently, he is a full-time professor at School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University. He also honored as a distinguished professor of Henan Province since Feb. 2020. His current research interests mainly include nanogenerators, hybrid energy-harvesting devices, smart sensors systems and polarization-tuned photovoltaic effects of novel ferroelectric/piezoelectric heterojunctions. |

University of Science and Technology Beijing
Beijing
China
Biography of L-F. Zhu
![]() Dr Li-Feng Zhu is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He received his PhD degree from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His research interests include energy storage capacitors, piezoelectric ceramics, and Ferroelectric photovoltaic. He has published more than 30 research papers. |

National Technical University of Athens
Athens
Greece
Biography of E. Baltas
![]() Dr. Evangelos Baltas is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He co-established the Center of Hydrology and Informatics (CHI). He has more than 25 years experience in the areas of water resources management, water resources systems planning and operation, hydrometeorology, hydrological modeling, climate change and land use change at the catchment scale, flood forecasting, risk assessment and mapping analysis. He has written three books and has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in national and international conferences. He has a large academic and nonacademic administrative experience. He has also offered engineering consultant services in the fields of his expertise to the EU, Greek Ministries, public organizations and private companies. He has been the Principal investigator or researcher in numerous competitive EU (more than 30) and national funded programs related to the integrated water resources management: NDBHMI, HYDROMET, EUROTAS, RIPARIUS, MEDDMAN, ENRICH, EUROHARP, CHESS, ETC. |

Elitte College of Engineering
Kolkata
India
Biography of S. Basack
![]() Dr. Sudip Basack, PhD, FIE, FIGS, CEng, M.ASCE is a civil engineering professional with vast academic experience at responsible senior positions in India and abroad. He published more than 100 technical papers in reputed journals and conferences and is recipient of several research awards at national and international levels. He is an active reviewer of numerous top-class international journals. He has supervised more than 10 research students at postgraduate (Masters and PhD) levels and executed sponsored research projects in different Universities. He has undertaken several academic visits in many countries including USA, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, etc. |

Split University
Split
Croatia
Biography of O. Bonacci
![]() Dr. Ognjen Bonacci is a Professor Emeritus of hydrology, ecohydrology, and karst hydrology at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Split (Croatia). He has authored the following books: Karst Hydrology with Special Reference to the Dinaric Karst (Springer Verlag, 1987); Rainfall Main Input into Hydrological Cycle (in Croatian, 1994); Ecohydrology of Water Resources and Open Streamflows (in Croatian, 2003); Ecologically acceptable open stream flow management (in Croatian, 2019). He has also contributed to the many leading scientific journals (with more than 60 papers), as for example in: Nature, Science, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Environmental Geology, Engineering Geology, Ground Water, Regulated Rivers: Research and Management, Journal of Hydrology, Ecohydrology, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Water Resources Management, Environmental Earth Sciences etc. |

Shantou University
Shantou
China
Biography of K-L. Cheong
![]() Dr Kit-Leong Cheong received his PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Macau, China. He is now serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Shantou University, China. His research interests focus on isolation, purification, structural characterization, biological activities, and prebiotics activities of marine algae polysaccharides and oligosaccharides. He has more than 40 publications in distinguished journals. |

Sichuan Agricultural University
Ya'an
China
Biography of M.U. Farooq
![]() Dr. Muhammad Umer Farooq has done his doctorate at Sichuan Agricultural University, China. As a PhD student (2016-2019), he has focused to improve the photosynthetic performance, secondary metabolites (antioxidants and fatty acids) and nutritional aspects (trace elements) of rice to improve the biofortification and remove malnutrition. Currently, he is focusing to know the mysteries in the crop's behaviour and response towards specific stress conditions. |

National University of Food Technologies
Kyiv
Ukraine
Biography of V. Ivanov
![]() Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov is an expert with more than 32 years of teaching and research experience in biotechnology and microbiology in the universities of Singapore, USA, South Korea, Thailand, and Ukraine. Currently, he is Person-in-Charge of International Biotechnological Research Programs, National University of Food Technologies, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is an editor/author of 15 books published by Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis Group, Woodhead Publishers and 230 papers. His textbook “Environmental Microbiology for Engineers” CRC Press, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, was adopted for the related courses in several universities. |

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology
Aberdeen
Hong Kong
Biography of W.-F. Lai
![]() Dr. Wing-Fu Lai obtained his M.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from the City University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on the synthesis and engineering of polymeric materials for food and pharmaceutical applications. |

Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Guanajuato
Mexico
Biography of O. Paredes-López
![]() Dr. Octavio Paredes-López obtained his PhD, in Plant Biotechnology, from the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture, Winnipeg, Canada, MSc, in Food Science, from the National Polytechnic Institute, School of Biological Sciences, Mexico City, MSc, in Biochemical Engineering, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Microbiology, Prague, and BSc (Hons), in Biochemical Engineering, from the National Polytechnic Inst., School of Biological Sciences, Mexico City. His publications include: 250 scientific papers in refereed international journals, 60 scientific reviews and chapters plus 180 popular articles as an Author/coauthor. His awards include: Institute of Food Technologists-USA Fellow. IFT-Kellogg's Award. Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (Trieste, Italy) - Award. |

2nd Clinical Medical College of Jinan University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of X. Zeng
![]() Dr. Xiaobin Zeng is an Associate Researcher in the Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Wuhan University. He has published over 70 scientific papers in Advanced Science, Nature Communications, Biochemical Pharmacology, Food and Chemical Toxicology, and other journals. He has also applied 18 patents in China and 7 patents have already been authorized. Dr. Zeng’s research program is focused on Chinese Herbs, cancer, the occurrence and development mechanism of cancer, the effects of functional foods/nutraceuticals on cancer, and bioactive compounds in natural products and herbal remedies for cancer. |

Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Kunming
China
Biography of Y. Zeng
![]() Professor Yawen Zeng obtained his PhD. degree in crop genetic and breeding from Yunnan Agricultural University and became a professor in Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China in 2001. He is a post scientist of China Agriculture Research System, vice-chairman of the Barley Professional Committee of the China Crop Society. His research focuses on his own invention of functional food crops to combat human chronic diseases. Professor Zeng have published 350 scientific papers, 7 eLetters of Science and BMJ; He have bred 34 cultivars, have won 13 national and provincial awards as well as 10 new functional food products. |

Tongji University
Shanghai
China
Biography of C. Chen
![]() Dr. Chang Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, a Tongji University professor is long involved in thoracic oncology and translational research. To further establish the world's largest minimally invasive center for thoracic surgery, innovate the ultimate minimally invasive technology for early-stage lung cancer and promote it internationally. He has published 65 SCI papers as corresponding authors, with a total impact factor of 262, including TOP journals such as J Clin Oncol, J Thorac Oncol and JAMA Surg, with 12 invention patents and 8 provincial and ministerial awards. is research interests include Thoracic oncology and translational research. |


University of Camerino
Camerino
Italy
Biography of V. Napolioni
![]() Prof. Napolioni received his PhD in Genetics in 2011, working on complex trait genetics. His interest in neuropsychiatric traits led him to continue working on Autism genetics, both at University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome (Italy), and at TGen, Phoenix (U.S.A). In 2013 he became the technical director of the Next-Gen Sequencing Core at University of Perugia (Italy). From 2015 to 2020 he joined the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University (U.S.A) as Instructor. In 2020 he became Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Camerino (Italy), where he is pursuing his strong research interest in the genetics of complex human traits. |

Geneis Beijing Co.
Beijing
China
Biography of J. Yang
![]() Dr. Jialiang Yang, Ph.D., is Vice President of Geneis Beijing Co., Ltd., and an adjunct professor in College of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology. Dr. Yang was train in both mathematics and biomedical science. His main research interests include cancer early diagnosis, gene testing and gene therapy, as well as methodology development for analyzing single cell RNA sequencing data and integrating diverse data (e.g. genetic, genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data). Dr. Yang has published more than100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. |

The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an
China
Biography of J. Zhang
![]() Dr. Jia Zhang is a Doctor Of Medicine, Associate Chief Physician, Associate researcher, Master's Supervisor and Ph.D.'s Cooperative Supervisor. Studied at the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center for one year from 2010 to 2011. Now is vice chairman of the Youth Committee of the Clinical Oncology Cooperation Committee of Shaanxi Anti-Cancer Association. He has presided over or participate in 5 national scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Zhang has published dozens of papers in academic journals at home and abroad. |

Xi'an Medical University
Xi'an
China
Biography of M. Zhang
![]() Mingxin Zhang is a Director at the Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, China. His research interests include molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis in gastroenterology and hepatology cancer, diagnosis and screening of colorectal cancer, and the role of non-coding RNA in cancer. Besides, he is an Editorial Board Member of various Chinese journals and a reviewer of the Journal of International Medical Research, Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biochimie, Cell Proliferation, Cancer Medicine, etc. |

University of South Carolina
Columbia
USA
Biography of M. Bayat
![]() Dr. Mahmoud Bayat received a Ph.D. degree in Earthquake and Structural engineering. Dr. Bayat has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers on these topics (H-index: 25). He was selected as an Extraordinary Ability researcher in the United States. For the past ten years, Dr. Bayat was extensively involved in research related to : Resilience-Based Design of Structures; Bayesian Statistics (Railway Systems, Structures, Bridges); Multi-Hazard Reliability/Risk Analysis of Bridges and Structures; Health Monitoring of Bridges/Structures; Analytical and Semi-Analytical Methods in Nonlinear Vibrations. He has been serving as an editorial board member of reputable Structural engineering journals. |

University College London
London
United Kingdom
Biography of H.Y.P. Cheng
![]() Dr CHENG is an associate professor at University College London UCL. Dr. Helen graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and received her PhD from the Cambridge University. She was then elected by the Pembroke College Cambridge as the Maudslay research fellow before moving to UCL. She has served in the advisory board of the international journals of Getechnique, Geotechnique Letters, and as guest editor for Computers and Geotechnics. She is currently a member of the ISSMGE International Committee TC105 Geo-mechanics from Micro to Macro. |

Purdue University
West Lafayette
United States
Biography of P. Hou
![]() Dr. Peng Hou is currently a research associate of Purdue University. He received his PhD degree from China University of Mining and Technology in 2018. He has majored in Engineering Mechanics and his research areas include deep rock mechanics and multi-scale fluid transport in porous media. He has contributed 27 scientific peering-reviewed papers. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of S. Ji
![]() Dr. Shunying Ji obtained his bachelor, master and doctor degrees from the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Dalian University of Technology in 1995, 1998 and 2001, respectively. Recently, he worked on the discrete element method (DEM) and its applications in cold region offshore engineering and soil mechanics. Since 2011, he has served as a full professor in the state Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Department of Engineering Mechanics of Dalian University of Technology. He serves as Dean of the DUT- BSU joint Institute of Dalian University of Technology recently. His research interests are mainly concentrated in areas of computational granular mechanics and its engineering applications in polar ship and offshore engineering, ballast dynamics of railway, landing process of lander and return capsule. He published over 150 journal papers, three academic books titled as Numerical Modelling of Engineering Ice and its applications (2011), Computational Granular Mechanics and its Engineering Applications (2018 in Chinese version and 2020 in English version). |

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)
Daejeon
South Korea
Biography of G.Y. Kim
![]() Dr. G.Y. Kim, Ph.D. in marine geology (Pukyong National University, 1998), is currently principal researcher at Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). He has already published over 90 scientific papers in domestic and international journals. He has been researched the geotechnical field of marine sediments during past 30 years. He was awarded the Best Paper Award (Geological Field) from the Korean Society of Oceanography. As a representative of IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) Korea, he is collaborating with 26 international IODP member countries. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of H. Pei
![]() Prof. Huafu Pei is currently a Professor at the Dalian University of Technology. He has researched the geotechnical disaster monitoring and prevention in the past fifteen years. He has published more than 30 academic journal papers. He was awarded as “Xingliao Talent” program of Liaoning Province, youth technology star of Dalian City, and “Xinghai” one thousand youth talents program of Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He has won the Best Paper Award of the 6th International Forum on Opto-electronic Sensor-based Monitoring in Geo-engineering (6th OSMG), and the first teaching achievement prize in Liaoning Province as a member. He is the member of the field monitoring technical committee (TC220) of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the member of International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR), the editorial board member of Geoenvironmental Disasters, and the guest editor-in-chief for the special issue of an SCI-indexed journal. |

Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
Zhuhai
China
Biography of H.D. Ruan
![]() Dr. Huada Daniel Ruan is a Professor and a Founding Head of the Department of Environmental Science, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). Prof. Ruan earned his first PhD in Mineralogy from The University of Western Australia, and second PhD in Chemistry from Queensland University of Technology. He has a background in chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science, biological science, and published more than 140 articles. Prof. Ruan is the pioneer researcher established water eutrophication index and innovative techniques in bauxite refinery in Australia, and advanced bio-chemical remediation of contaminated soils in the U.S.A. He is the Adjunct Professor at the Griffith University, Australia; Visiting Professor at the South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Research Institute of Ecology and Soil Science. |


Tongji University
Shanghai
China
Biography of Y. Tan
![]() Dr. Tan is currently a Full Professor at Tongji University. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (2005). Dr. Tan is the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Journal Paper Award of 2014 from ASCE Forensic Engineering Division for his integrated research on spatial corner stiffening behaviors of subway excavations in Shanghai soft clay.Dr. Tan's areas of specializations include deep excavation and tunnelling, forensic investigation and foundation engineering. He has already published over 40 technical papers as the first or corresponding authors on these topics in leading professional journals, most of which were published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. |

Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of G. Ye
![]() Dr. Ye He is currently a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He received his BE from SJTU, Master degree from Tongji University, and PhD from Japan’s Gifu University. He started his academic career at SJTU from 2007, after working in Geo-Research Institute in Japan for 3 years. So that he always likes to link theory and engineering practice in his research. Dr. Ye has broad research interests, including: soil mechanics (laboratory testing and constitutive modelling), numerical analysis on geotechnical engineering (static and dynamic, THMA coupled), geo-centrifuge modelling and shield tunnelling. He has published over 50 SCI journal papers. He is also an associated editor of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and editorial board member of two other scientific journals. |

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Biography of Z.-Y. Yin
![]() Dr. Yin is currently an Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained MSc and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France in 2003 and 2006. After PhD, he worked as a research and teaching fellow mainly at Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of Strathclyde (UK), University of Massachusetts (Umass-Amherst, USA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University and Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include Constitutive modelling of geomaterials (elasticity, plasticity, viscoplasticity), Artificial intelligence in geotechnics (optimization, Bayesian updating), Microstructure and micromechanics of soils (from discrete to continuum), Numerical analysis of geotechnical structures (FEM, FDM, SPH, MPM), Multi-scale and multiphysics modelling in geotechnics (water, temperature, etc.), Laboratory testing for soil properties and behaviours, SSI (Soil-Structure Interaction) and macro-element model. He has more than 150 publications. |

Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of J. Zhang
![]() Zhang Jinliang, born in Shouguang City, Shandong Province in November 1962, is a BNU Professor and a Supervisor of Ph.D. candidates. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in July 1983 from East China Petroleum Institute (China University of Petroleum (East China), majoring in petroleum geology. He then graduated from the Beijing Graduate School of East China Petroleum University (China University of Petroleum (Beijing), majoring in petroleum geology, in June 1986, with a Master's degree. In June 1990, Mr. Zhang graduated from the Department of Petroleum of Chengdu Geology Institute (Chengdu University of Technology) with a Ph.D. He has been the Laboratory Director, Director of the Teaching and Research Room, Vice President, Director of the Research Institute, member of the CNPC Education Steering Committee, and Deputy Director of the Shandong Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Engineering Research Center. He is currently a professor at the College of Resources Science and Technology at Beijing Normal University and a supervisor of Ph.D. candidates researching oil and gas resources who are majoring in natural resources-related work. He also serves as deputy director of the Institute of Resource Exploration and Surveying Engineering and head of the Department of Resources Technology. Concurrently he also supervises Ph.D. candidates majoring in marine geophysics at Ocean University of China, and he is the supervisor of Ph.D. candidates majoring in mineral resource prospecting and exploration at Shandong University of Science and Technology. Over more than twenty years, Professor Zhang Jinliang has been engaged in the teaching and research of major oil and gas exploration and development, has initiated many courses -- including "Petroleum Geology," "Reservoir Sedimentology," "Oil Field Development Geology," "Geostatistics," "Reservoir Engineering," and "Oilfield Modeling and simulation Technology". |

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan
China
Biography of B. Zhou
![]() Dr. Bo Zhou is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received his PhD-exchange in Geotechnical Engineering in 2013. His Major Research Interests include Multi-scale characterization and reconstruction of microstructures of granular soils Advanced Discrete element method (DEM) incorporating particle morphology and particle crushing effects. He has received 2 research grants and has more than 20 publications. He is also a reviewer of Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Computers and Geotechnics and others. |

East China Normal University
Shanghai
China
Biography of J. Ding
![]() Dr. Jun Ding was born in Jiangsu Province, China. He received the B.S. degree from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2004, the M.S. degree from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA. Since 2017, He is currently an Associate Professor at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include antennas, microwave and millimeter-wave devices, and signal processing. |

Inner Mongolia University of Technology
Hohhot
China
Biography of P. Huang
![]() Dr. Pingping Huang is currently a Professor at College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was awarded the State Candidate of Millions of Talents Project, Expert of Outstanding Contribution in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Grassland Outstanding Talent, Inner Mongolia Outstanding Youth of Natural Science, Young Science and Technology Talents of Inner Mongolia Colleges and Universities, etc. He has published more than 100 academic papers and more than 30 Chinese invention patents. He has won the First prize of Inner Mongolia Natural Science Award, First prize of Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress Award, Inner Mongolia May First Labor Medal and several Excellent Paper Prizes. Prof. Pingping Huang is the academic leader of Inner Mongolian Key Laboratory of Radar Technology and Application and the vice president of the College of Information Engineering of Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He is a committee member of Signal Processing Branch of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and a committee member of Graduate Student Education Branch of China Education Society of Electronics (CESE). His research interests include radar processing and remote sensing application technology related to ecological safety, production safety and defense safety. He serves as Associate Editor, Guest editor and reviewer for more than 10 journals. |

Beihang University
Beijing
China
Biography of C. Jie
![]() Dr. Jun Ding was born in Jiangsu Province, China. He received the B.S. degree from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2004, the M.S. degree from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA. Since 2017, He is currently an Associate Professor at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include antennas, microwave and millimeter-wave devices, and signal processing. |

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Shah Alam
Malaysia
Biography of M.H. Mamat
![]() Dr Mohamad Hafiz Mamat holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Electronic Engineering Studies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He is also the Head of NANO-ElecTronic Centre (NET), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. His research interests include Nanoelectronics (Fabrication of sensors, solar cells, etc. using nanomaterials), Nano-characterization (Electrical, structural, and optical characterizations), Nanomaterials (ZnO, TiO2, etc). He has published more than 200 articles in distinguished well-reputed international journals. |

Alagappa University
Karaikudi
India
Biography of K. Shankar
![]() Dr. K. SHANKAR (Member, IEEE) is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Computer Applications, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He has authored/co authored over more than 65 ISI journal articles (with total Impact Factor 200+) and more than 100 Scopus indexed articles. He has authored/edited conference proceedings, book chapters, and three books published by an international journal. He has been a part of various seminars, paper presentations, research paper reviews, and convener and a session chair of the several conferences. His current research interests include healthcare applications, secret image sharing scheme, digital image security, cryptography, the Internet of things, and optimization algorithms. He has guest-edited several special issues at many journals published by SAGE, TechScience, Inderscience, and MDPI. He has served as a Guest Editor and an Associate Editor in SCI, Scopus indexed journals, such as Elsevier, Springer, IGI, Wiley, & MDPI. He has served as a chair (program, publications, technical committee, and track) on several international conferences. |

Inner Mongolia University of Technology
Hohhot
China
Biography of W. Tan
![]() Dr. Weixian Tan is currently a Professor at the College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and Excellence Award of President of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2009 to 2014, he was an associate researcher with the National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2015, he has been introduced to work in Inner Mongolia University of Technology and awarded Inner Mongolia Grassland Outstanding Talent. He has published more than 80 academic papers and more than 40 Chinese invention patents. He has won the First prize of Inner Mongolia Natural Science Award, First prize of Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress Award, and several Excellent Paper Prizes. His research interests include airborne/ spaceborne microwave imaging radar, 3D millimeter wave imaging radar, ground-based micro deformation monitoring radar, radar signal processing and microwave remote sensing. He serves as reviewer for more than 10 international journals. |


Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of F. Zhang
![]() Dr. received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China, in 2002, the M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2008. He is currently a full Professor of electronic and information engineering at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests are synthetic aperture radar signal processing, image processing, and high performance computing.Dr. Zhang has been an associate editor for the IEEE Access, and a Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. |

Zhengzhou University
Zhengzhou
China
Biography of M.A. Alam
![]() Dr Md. Asraful Alam is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China. He previously served as a Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is a prolific writer on promoting the use of green energy through new platforms and has authored over 60 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Dr Alam edited two springer books titled “Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment” and “Microalgae Biotechnology for Food, Health and High-Value Products”. Besides, he has participated in several national/international projects promoting biofuel and other high-value commodity applications of microalgae & other biomass. |

Penn State University
State College
USA
Biography of S. Asadi
![]() Dr. Somayeh Asadi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University. Her research interest cuts across the following themes: Building energy Automated Design, Critical Infrastructure Systems, Food-Water-Energy Nexus, Design of High Performance Buildings, and Environmental sustainability. To date, her research efforts have resulted in more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, one book, more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 20 journal articles in review. her research efforts include 12 externally funded projects as a PI and Co-PI, including 3 from the National Science Foundation, and 3 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 3 from the US Department of Energy and 3 from Qatar National Research Foundation resulting in more than $5 million in research project funding in total. She specializes in sustainable building and built environment, integrated building design systems, energy management, renewable energy systems, and smart grids. Her research efforts range from the scale of a single building to the network of built infrastructures that characterize a city. Her work focus on how buildings and ecosystems are connected, how to optimize the interactions between different building systems, and how humans use and impact building operations. This includes projects that combine the fields of building science and building technology with the use of smart grid-connected technologies, with the goal of building operating and maintaining buildings and communities that are smarter, more energy-efficient, and that reduce the peak demands on the electric grid. Her research benefits from multi- disciplinary collaboration, including Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture, and Meteorology, and also would contribute to interdisciplinary research efforts. |

Feng Chia University
Taichung
Taiwan
Biography of H-C. Chen
![]() Dr. Hsieh-Chih Chen is a Director at the Precision Instrument Supporting Center, and an associate professor at the Department of Fiber and Composite Materials at Feng Chia University. He received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University in 2009. His current research interests are in the field of electrochemistry and key materials for electrochemical energy storage devices; interface materials and device engineering with an emphasis on improving the sustainability of highly efficient small-molecule solar cells, polymer solar cells and perovskite solar cells. |

Harbin Institute of Technology
Weihai
China
Biography of W. Fuqiang
![]() Dr. Fuqiang Wang obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering Thermo-physics from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2012. He received his Masters in Thermal Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Previously, he graduated in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China). Currently, he is a Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He has published more than 30 articles in various scientific journals. |

University of Regina
Regina
Canada
Biography of R. Idem
![]() Raphael Idem received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, the University of Saskatchewan in 1995 and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Ife, Nigeria in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Regina, Canada. His research interests revolve around Clean Energy Research Technologies, Carbon capture, utilization & storage (CCUS) and Gas Processing, Hydrogen and Syngas Production from Hydrocarbons, Biomass Materials & Alcohols, PEM Fuel Cell Modelling, Production of Synthetic Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Oxygenated and Non-oxygenated Hydrocarbons by Thermal and Catalytic Methods, Biomass Waste Treatment, Hydrocarbon/Petroleum Processing, Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 ) Separation from Flue Gas Streams, Catalyst Development and Characterization for Various Reactions, Reaction Kinetics & Reactor Design, Asphaltene Precipitation Studies, Mass Transfer Processes, Pilot plant technology development, and pre-commercial plant demonstration. He has published several articles and book chapters in well-reputed journals. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou
China
Biography of L. Jiang
![]() Liqun Jiang received her PhD in Botany from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Kunming. She is an Associate Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Guangzhou. She is mainly engaged in Biomass pretreatment for the value-added and comprehensive utilization, Catalytic fast pyrolysis to biofuels and bio-based products, Levoglucosan hydrolysis and separation from bio-oil, Microbial fermentation of biomass pyrolysate and as published more than 30 articles. |

Nanjing Agricultural University
Nanjing
China
Biography of H. Li
![]() Dr. Hu Li is a Professor of College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. Dr. Li stayed as a visiting student researcher at Technical University of Denmark, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences prior to obtaining his Ph.D. from Guizhou University. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Nanjing Agricultural University, and Tohoku University. His research focuses on the catalytic conversion of renewable and waste resources into chemicals and biofuels with functional materials. Dr. Li has published 2 books, more than 10 patents, and over 100 peer-reviewed papers on sustainable catalysis and green chemistry. He is Editorial Board Member of several international journals. |


Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of T. Ma
![]() Dr. Ma got now works in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has already published 40+ peer-reviewed papers with high impact. His current h-index is 17, with total 2000+ citations. In particular, his 2 hot papers and 8 highly cited papers. Dr Ma received a number of awards during his early career stage, such as “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award”, and ‘Highly Cited Researcher’. Now he is the editorial member of several journals including Applied Energy (IF: 8.426). He is also an active reviewer for 20+ journals. |

University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Canada
Biography of S. Nanda
![]() Dr. Sonil Nanda is a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from York University, Canada. His research areas are in biofuels, biochemical, biomaterials, gasification, pyrolysis, carbonization, torrefaction and fermentation. His parallel interests are in hydrothermal flames for hazardous waste remediation, waste-to- energy conversion, green catalysis, biochar functionalization, bioremediation and carbon sequestration. Dr. Nanda leads many interdisciplinary research projects on clean energy, multifunctional materials, sustainable environment and public health. He is the Editor of books entitled “Fuel Processing and Energy Utilization” by CRC Press as well as “Recent Advancements in Biofuels and Bioenergy Utilization” and “Biorefinery of Alternative Resources: Targeting Green Fuels and Platform Chemicals” by Springer Nature. |

Government College University
Lahore
Pakistan
Biography of A-S. Nizami
![]() Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a Master's degree from Sweden and a PhD from Ireland. He has a Postdoctoral Fellow from Canada. He served as an Assistant Professor and senior scientist at the King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Recently, he has joined Government College University, Lahore as an Associate Professor. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, waste-to-energy, and resource recovery. He has delivered over 26 invited talks. His work is cited over 4200 times in the peer-reviewed press, with a total impact factor of over 400 and H-index of 36. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews with Impact Factor of 10.6. He has also been involved in consultation services to UNEP, World Bank, National Research Agency of France, and Government Agency of Science Poland. |

The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
USA
Biography of S. Pan
![]() Professor Pan earned his Ph.D. (2006) under the supervision of Professor Lewis Rothberg at the University of Rochester, NY. He was an ACS Irving S. Sigal postdoctoral fellow with Professor Allen J. Bard at the University of Texas at Austin, TX. Dr. Pan’s research efforts primarily focus on developing electrocatalytic materials for efficient light energy absorption, charge separation, charge transport, and solar fuel conversion. Dr. Pan is a Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore Endowed Professor, The College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellow, and recipient of the President’s 2018 Faculty Research Award at The University of Alabama. |

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Victoria
Australia
Biography of Z. Ren
![]() Dr Zhengen Ren is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Energy division where he manages the development of decision support tools to simulate total energy and water consumption for residential building and building stock, and is a key player in further development of the Chenath engine used for Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) in Australia. He has got more than 30 years work experience on building energy efficient and renewable energy use in buildings, and published over 100 peer reviewed journal and conference papers on his research work. |

Xiangtan University
Xiangtan
China
Biography of X. Wang
![]() Dr. Xianyou Wang, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), has been engaged in the studies of electrochemistry and energy storage for 40 years. As an electrochemistry professor, in the fields of electrochemical energy storage and conversion as well as advanced energy materials, Dr. Xianyou Wang has published more than a lot of papers and holds a lot of China invention patents. |

Lanzhou Jiaotong University
Lanzhou
China
Biography of L. Wang
![]() Dr. Liangbi Wang is the Director of Key Laboratory of Railway Vehicle Thermal Engineering, Ministry of Education of China and Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Thermophysics from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996. His main research interests include computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, heat transfer enhancement and compact heat exchangers. |

Beihang University
Beijing
China
Biography of C. Wang
![]() Dr. Cong Wang is a Professor of Physics at the School of Microelectronics, Beihang University. His research interests are in the fields of condensed matter physics, spintronics and solar energy materials, He completed his Ph. D in 1995 at the Institute of Physics, CAS, China, and worked as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellow at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany from 1998 to1999. He also began to work as associate Professor in Beihang University in 1999, and got his permanent Professor position in the department of Physics, Beihang University in 2003. He has published 240 papers, 13 national patents and has given more than 30 invited speeches in International Conferences. |

East China University of Science and Technology
Shanghai
China
Biography of S. Yang
![]() Dr Shuang Yang received his Bachelor degree from Tsingtao University of Science & Technology in 2011 and completed his PhD in 2016 at East China University of Science & Technology. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang and Technological University, University of Nesbraka–Lincoln. Currently he is a professor at East China University of Science and Technology. His research focus on the chemistry and physics of semiconducting materials and opto-electrical devices. |

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa
Israel
Biography of H. Abramovich
![]() Dr. Haim Abramovich Obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, in 1975, 1979 and 1983, respectively. His main fields of interest are: static and dynamic stability of thin walled structures, piezoelectric materials, laminated composite structures, dynamic buckling of thin walled structures, smart structures technologies, structural mechanics and energy harvesting using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials . He has published more than 107 papers in well-known international journals on these quoted subjects. He is the author of 10 patents on piezoelectric harvesting devices. He is also the author of two new books with another one in progress: 1. H. Abramovich, Intelligent Materials and Structures, © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 386 p. 2. H. Abramovich, Stability and Vibrations of Thin Walled Composite Structures, © 2017 Woodhead Publishing Limited, 540 p. 3. H. Abramovich, Advanced Aerospace Materials – Aluminum-based and Composite Materials © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 308 p. |

Aliah University
Kolkata
India
Biography of S.F. Ahmed
![]() Dr. Sk Faruque Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Aliah University, Kolkata, India. Presently, he is also Controller of Examinations (Acting), Aliah University. He has served as the Head of the Department of Physics, Aliah University (2017-2019). He is a life member of different societies such as, Indian Physical Society (IPS), Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Semiconductor Society India (SSI), The Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). He is an Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Nano Research and Applications (NANO). Dr. Ahmed has been selected for Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award - 2018. He is basically working in the field ofNanoscience and Nanotechnology. His current field of research interest is synthesis and characterization of different nanostructure semiconductor thin films as well as carbon nanostructure. He has published several international journal papers, book chapters and patents including the first and corresponding author. |


Goa University
Goa
India
Biography of S.V. Bhosale
![]() Professor Sheshanath V. Bhosale completed his M.Sc. in chemistry from the Maharashtra Udayagiri Mahavidyalaya, Udgir (S.R.T.M.U.Nanded) in 1999. He received his Ph.D. (Magna Cum Lauda) in supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof. J. H. Fuhrhop in 2004 at the Freie University Berlin, Germany. Dr. Bhosale pursued his postdoctoral studies with Prof. S. Matile at University of Geneva, Switzerland, under the auspices of a Roche Foundation Fellowship. He worked as an ARC-APD Fellow at Monash University, Australia, for five years and also as an ARC-Future Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne for 6 years. Prof. Bhosale has been working at the School of Chemical Sciences, Goa University, India as a UGC-FRP Professor since 2018. His research interests include in design and synthesis of π-functional materials, especially small molecules, for sensing, biomaterials and supramolecular chemistry applications. |


Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research
Xi'an
China
Biography of L.L. Dong
![]() L.L. Dong, born 1990, inaugurated in Advanced Materials Research Central, Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research. His research focuses on graphene metal matrix composites, high-performance contact materials and industrial preparation of large batch graphene in chemical. He is elected member of China Non- Ferrous Metals Industry Association, Forums of Graphene International Materials, Reviewer of 6 international journals, including Carbon, Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Applied Materials Interface, and Journal of Alloy and Compounds. He published more than 30 articles since 2015, including the impact factor of 13 papers over 3.0. |

V.M. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials, National Academy of Sciences
Kiev
Ukraine
Biography of S. Dub
![]() Dr. Sergey Dub graduated from Kiev State University in 1977 and completed his PhD from the Institute for Superhard Materials, Kiev in 1983. Currently he is a leading research scientist at the Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. His scientific interests include hardness of diamond and cBN, nanoindentation, mechanical properties of protective coatings and thin films, onset of plasticity in nano deformation of solids, nanoindentation studies of pressure–induced phase transformation during hardness tests. |

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Safat
Kuwait
Biography of M.S. El-Eskandarany
![]() Dr. M. Sherif El-Eskandarany is a full Professor of materials science and nanotechnology. He gained his Master and Doctor Degrees from Tohoku University, Japan in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He worked as a Professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, Professor of the Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Egypt. Until 2007, he worked as First-Under-Secretary of Egyptian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the was the former Vice-President of The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt. He joined Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to work as Senior Research Scientist in 2007. Since 2007, he has worked as Senior Research Scientist and Program Manager of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. In 2018 he was promoted to Principal Research Scientist. He has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers in high-cited international scientific journals in the field of materials science, nanoscience, and nanotechnology and more than 200 papers in the proceedings of several international conferences. He is the author of six scientific books and received many national and international awards, one of them given by the Former Egyptian President. He was awarded 6 patents from the USA Patent and TradeMark Office. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of E. Fu
![]() Prof. Fu received the PhDdegree in Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University in2009. He is currently a professor in the School of Physics at PekingUniversity. His research is interested in the ion solid interactions, ion beam analysis and modification of materials and plasma facing materials in fusion system. |

Merzhanov Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences
Chernogolovka
Russia
Biography of E. Grigoryev
![]() Dr. Evgeny Grigoryev obtained his Ph.D from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia. He is Head Laboratory of High-Energy Methods for Synthesis of Ultrahigh-Temperature Ceramic Materials in Merzhanov Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science Russian Academy of Sciences . His current research focuses on Field Assisted sintering technologies: High-voltage electric discharge consolidation, Low-voltage electric discharge consolidation (spark plasma sintering), Flash sintering, Microwave sintering, Magnetic pulse compaction, etc. He is the co-author of more than 190 publications in refereed international journals, 23 patents. His research contributions are recognized with prestigious awards, Lenin’s Komsomol Prize Laureate of Physics and Technical Sciences, 1979. |


Cranfield University
Cranfield
United Kingdom
Biography of F. Gucci
![]() Dr. Francesco Gucci received a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2011 and a Master in Materials Science and Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 2014. He obtained a PhD in Materials Science in 2019 from Queen Mary University of London as a Marie Curie fellow. Currently, he is a research fellow in precision device manufacturing at Cranfield University. |

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Douliou
Taiwan
Biography of P-H. Huang
![]() Dr. Pei-Hsing Huang received his Ph.D in molecular simulation and laser sintering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Cheng Kung University in 2008. He is currently a full Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. As the advisor of Micro/Nanomechanics and Molecular Simulation Lab, he presided over more than 40 national and industrial scientific research projects. He conducts research focusing on nano-materials, interfacial science, laser/casting processing, and molecular fluid separation/purification. He published over 50 research papers in cut-edge international journals and has awarded the special talents rewards from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. |

CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute
Karaikudi
India
Section: Materials Science

National University of Singapore
Singapore City
Singapore
Biography of D. Ji
![]() Dongxiao Ji is a research fellow in department of mechanical engineering at National University of Singapore. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in textile science and engineering from Donghua University in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Ji is experienced in experimental and analytical research work on heterogeneous catalysis, functional nanofibers, and large-scale electrospinng. His research interests include smart/electronic textiles, functional electrospinning membranes, heterogeneous catalysis, and surface modification for environmental and energy applications. |

INHA University
Incheon
South Korea
Biography of T.J. Kang
![]() Tae June Kang received the Ph.D. degree in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University in 2009. He had worked as postdoctoral researcher for Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, the University of Texas at Dallas from 2010 to 2011, as an assistant professor for College of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Pusan National University from 2012 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been with Inha University, as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include functional nanocomposites for energy & environmental applications, and energy harvesting systems. |

Southeast University
Nanjing
China
Biography of H. Liao
![]() Hengcheng Liao received his Ph.D. in Solidification and Control of Alloys from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, 2000. Before, he completed his M. S. in Composite Materials from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 1991. He has published more than 150 papers, 10 Invention Patents certified, and 8 Utility Model Patents certificated. His research area revolves around the Solidification process and control of metals and alloys; advanced metallic materials, especially Aluminum alloys; and High-Entropy Alloy and its Additive Manufacture. |

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Petaling Jaya
Malaysia
Biography of P.Y. Ling
![]() Dr. Pang Yean Ling is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). She completed her Bachelor and Doctoral Degree in Chemical Engineering in 2009 and 2013, respectively from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). After a year of post-doctoral research in University of Malaya (UM), I joined UTAR in December 2014 until now. Currently, she has published 36 journal articles indexed in the Web of Science, 18 research papers have also been presented in various international and national conferences and 2 book chapters. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
P.R. China
Biography of W. Liu
![]() Wencai Liu received a doctor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. He has been engaged in the development and application technology research of high-Performance magnesium/aluminum alloys for a long time. As the project leader, he presided over more than 18 national and provincial scientific research projects. He was selected as a Young Star Scholar of Science and Technology in Shanghai and a Young Star Scholar of Morningstar in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and won one first prize of technology invention in Shanghai. He has published 105 academic papers, applied for 69 national invention patents, 36 of which have been authorized. |

Northeastern University
Shenyang
P.R. China
Biography of Z. Liu
![]() Dr. Zhongqiu Liu, Associate Professor from Northeastern University, China. He conducts research focusing on steel cleanliness, continuous casting, and CFD application in metallurgy. He is working on different projects concerning numerical modeling of metallurgical processes, such as continuous casting of steel, ingot casting, electro-slag-remelting, etc. In addition, he is doing basic research on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, such as large eddy simulation (LES), population balance approach (PBA), electromagnetic braking (EMBr), electromagnetic stirring (EMS), etc. Beside research activities he is giving different courses, lectures and exercises for students on fundamentals of numerical modeling, application of simulation in steel production. |

University of Northwestern – St. Paul
Saint Paul
USA
Biography of T. Pan
![]() Dr. Pan has interests in general Materials Science and Engineering including metallic, ceramics, organic and composite materials. His research is focused on the area of multiscale and multi-physics modeling of materials. Dr. Pan has led and participated in over 30 research projects in the broad areas of steel corrosion, aging of polymers, and degradation of cementitious materials. Dr. Pan has published more than 100 peer- reviewed publications and taught the subject of Materials Science and Engineering for ten years. Dr. Pan is a member of several professional organizations including US Transportation Research Board (TRB) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). |

Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
Thailand
Biography of V. Parasuk
![]() Dr. Vudhichai Parasuk obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 1991.Currently, he is director of Nanoscience and Technology program and Petrochemistry and Polymer Science Program at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok ,Thailand. His research field includes quantum mechanical calculations with the application in kinetics and mechanistic studies of catalysts and catalysis and novel nanomaterials such as graphene and graphene quantum dots. He has published almost 58 research papers and his publications have citations of over more than 1180. |

Sharif University of Technology
Tehran
Iran
Biography of A. Ramazani S.A
![]() Prof. Ahmad Ramazani S.A graduated from the chemical engineering department of Laval University in 1999, Canada. He has worked as university professor in Sharif University of Technology in Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering since 1999. His research works are in interdisciplinary subjects mostly relating to experimental and theoretical investigation of polymer related processes and polymer properties and flow of polymeric and non-Newtonian fluids in different engineering fields including polymer, biomedical and petroleum engineering. He has been theses director of more than 220 students in master and Ph.D. levels. He published more than 180 papers in international journals and presented more than 200 more in international congresses. He published several books and chapter books and also several national and international patents including four US patents. |

CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST)
Trivandrum
India
Biography of P.P. Rao
![]() Dr. P. Prabhakar Rao obtained his Ph.D from University of Kerala, Trivandrum. He is presently working as Emeritus Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Technology Division. Current research is focused on functional energy materials of complex ceramic oxide systems with particular emphasis towards photoluminescent materials for white light emitting diode applications, eco-friendly IR reflecting pigments as energy saving products, solid oxide electrolyte materials for low temperature SOFC applications. He is co-author of 120 scientific papers in refereed international journals and eight international patents. He published 200 powder diffraction structural data of novel ceramic oxides in the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), USA database for future references. His research contributions are recognized with several prestigious awards, the most notable are the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal, International Recognition Certificate from ICDD, USA and elected as a Fellow of Electron Microscope Society of India. |

Indian Institute of Technology
Patna
India
Biography of S.J. Ray
![]() Dr. Ray has completed his undergraduate studies from IIT Kanpur, India and PhD from University of St. Andrews, UK. He worked at CEA Grenoble, France and TU Darmstadt, Germany before joining his current position as an Assistant Professor at IIT Patna, India. His current research team includes 9 PhD students and 2 Masters students, working in various areas in condensed matter and nanoscale physics using various experimental and computational methodologies. He has received several research grants/awards from India, UK, France and Germany. |

La Plata National University
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Biography of N.M. Rendtorff
![]() Dr. Nicolás M. Rendtorff is a Vicedirector of the Mineral Resources and Ceramics Technology Center (CETMIC: CONICET-CIC-UNLP), Argentina. He received his MSc (2004) and PHD (2009) in Materials Chemistry, UNLP- La Plata National University - Argentina; Postdoc: Nano Ceramic Center, NIMS Japan (2010). CONICET Tenure Researcher since 2010 CETMIC. He has been an Adjunct Professor at UNLP Since 2017. He is also a Vice President of the Argentinean Technical Ceramic Association (ATAC) since 2018. Ceramic science and technology specialist. He is working on advanced and traditional ceramic materials design, processing and characterization. |

Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority
Giza
Egypt
Biography of H.M. Saleh
![]() Dr. Hosam Saleh is a Professor of radioactive waste management at the Radioisotope Department, Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. He was awarded the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry at Cairo University. Dr. Saleh has more than 23 years of experience in hazardous waste management with an emphasis on treatment and developing new matrices for immobilization of these wastes. He is also interested in studying innovative economic and environment-friendly techniques for the management of hazardous and radioactive wastes. He has authored many peer-reviewed scientific papers, book chapters, and served as a Book Editor of several books related to international publishers. |

King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok
Bangkok
Thailand
Biography of M.R. Sanjay
![]() Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa, is currently working as Research Scientist at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand. He has received the B.E (Mechanical Engineering) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India in the year 2010, M.Tech (Computational Analysis in Mechanical Sciences) from VTU Extension Centre, GEC, Hassan, in the year 2013, Ph.D (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Science) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India in the year 2017 and Post Doctorate from King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand, in the year 2019. He is a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Associate Member of Institute of Engineers (India). He is a reviewer for more than 50+ international Journals and international conferences (for Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Wiley). In addition, he has published more than 100 articles in high quality international peer reviewed journals, 30+ book Chapters, one book, 15 books (Editor), 3 Editorial Corner and also presented research papers at national/international conferences. His current research areas include Natural fiber composites, Polymer Composites and Advanced Material Technology. He is a recipient of DAAD Academic exchange- PPP Programme (Project- related Personnel Exchange) between Thailand and Germany to Institute of Composite Materials, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has received a Top Peer Reviewer 2019 award, Global Peer Review Awards, Powered by Publons, Web of Science Group. |

Northeastern University
Shenyang
China
Biography of Y. Shen
![]() Dr Shen is currently a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering Northeastern University. His Interest mainly focuses on the nanostructures strengthened advanced high strength steels, mechanical performances of high entropy alloys (HEAs) with complex structures, and heterogeneous microstructures strengthened metallic materials. He has more than 90 original journal publications (including top ranking journals such as Acta Materials, Scientific Reports, Scripta Materials, Bioresource Technology ,etc.). He has received awards including 44th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva- Gold & Silver medals (2016); The first prize of Liaoning Province Natural Science (2014); The first prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress (2012). |

Northeast Normal University
Changchun
China
Biography of H. Sun
![]() Dr. Haizhu Sun is currently a Professor of the College of Chemistry at Northeast Normal University. She received her PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 2008 from Jilin University. Her research interests are related with design, synthesis, and properties of new energy materials that can find applications in photo-electric conversion, energy storage and photocatalysis, . |

Netaji Nagar College for Women
Kolkata
India
Biography of P. Thakur
![]() Dr. Pradip Thakur is an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Department of Physics at Netaji Nagar College for Women, Kolkata, India. He acquired his Ph.D. in 2016 from Jadavpur University, India. Before that he completed his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics in 2012 and 2010 respectively from the same university. His current research interests include the development of advanced multifunctional materials, piezo-, pyro- and ferro-electric polymers, synthesis and characterization of ceramic and metallic nanomaterials, designing of self-charging polymeric photo-power cells, fabrication of smart integrated devices for clean energy harvesting from living system and storage. |

National Research Council Canada
Boucherville
Canada
Biography of M.T. Ton-That
![]() Dr Ton-That received his PhD in Chemistry from Innsbruck University (Austria) in 1996 and completed his postdoc in Polymer Physics at Technical University of Darmstadt - Germany Plastic Institute (Germany) in 1998 to complete his education in both field of chemistry and physic of polymer. He joined the NRC Canada since 1998. He has over 20 years of experience in synthesis, formulation and surface treatment of polymers as well as polymer composites and nanocomposites for industrial applications from eco-responsible to functional materials. He has been granted 15 patents and also has 4 patent pendings and 4 inventions in this field. In addition he has published over 70 articles in international journals, written 180 technical reports and presented more than 150 papers at different international conferences (with more than 10 invited speakers/keynotes). He has been a thrust leader and project leader for multiple national and international collaborating projects, including fundamental, industrial and technology transfer projects and technical consortiums, in the polymer field to resolve the challenges of industry. He has also organized and co-organized a number of conference, symposium and workshop in the polymer field. A number of his technologies has been implemented in pilot scale and commercial productions. |

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin
China
Biography of L. Wan
![]() Dr. Long Wan is currently a professor and doctor supervisor in Harbin Institute of Technology. He has published more than 40 patents and 40 science citation index papers. He has won more than 30 honors including National Special Support Program for High-level Personnel Recruitment and Science & Technology Nova Program. Some academic outcomes have been commercialized, and reported by various mass media, such as China Daily. His current research interests focus on friction stir processing machine and technology, microstructure characterization and the evaluation of joint performance. |

South China Normal University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Y. Wang
![]() Dr Yao Wang is currently a Professor at South China Normal University. He has received his PhD degree in major Polymer Chemistry and Physics in June 2005. He has been awarded "Outstanding Young Talents" by SCNU on June 2017. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed SCI papers in the fields of graphene-based gas sensor materials, supramolecular assembly and gas, photo, temperature and electricity responsive functional polymer materials on JACS, ACS Nano, Chem. Mater. etc, and 3 chapters in one book. His research interests include Graphene-based gas sensor material; Gas, photo, temperature and electricity responsive functional polymer materials; supramolecular assembly. |

East China University of Technology
Nanchang
China
Biography of K. Wang
![]() Currently, Prof. Ke Wang is heading the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in East China University of Technology (ECUT). He had been working in the UK for several years. Before that, he received Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research award to carry out his work in RWTH-Aachen. Prof. Wang serves as Editorial Board Member for over ten scientific journals and as the Editor for publishing several international conference proceedings. He has published more than 70 peer reviewed papers and holds several patents. |

Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin
China
Biography of C. Wang
![]() Dr. Chunqing Wang received his B.Sc. degree in Welding, the M.Sc. degree in Materials Processing, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics packaging technology from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 1982, 1984, and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Materials Science and Technology in HIT. He set up the Department of Electronics Packaging Technology, HIT, in 2007, where he has supervised about 30 Ph.D. and 100 M.Sc. students in Electronics Packaging. He has authored or co-authored over 300 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 90 international conference papers in the area of micro joining method, failure analysis, thermal management, reliability, and joining materials for electronics packaging. |

Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of H. Wang
![]() Dr. Wang Haibin, Associate Professor, is a member of Nanomaterials and Computational Materials Science team of Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). He joined BJUT in 2013 and has worked as an academic visitor in the National Physical Laboratory of the UK from Oct. 2018 to Oct. 2019. He has published more than 60 SCI papers on international major journals and over 30 China invention patents. He was awarded "The Second Prize of Beijing Technological Invention Award" by the Science and Technology Commission of Beijing in 2016. His research is mainly focused on high-performance cemented carbides materials. |

Shaanxi University of Science & Technology
Xi'an
China
Biography of C. Wang
![]() Dr. Chuanyi Wang is a distinguished professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, China. He also serves as an associate editor or an editorial board member for number of international journals. Dr. Wang’s research interest covers catalysis and photo-/electro-catalysis at nanostructured materials including material design, synthesis, functionality evaluation and in situ surface studies with focus on applications in energy conversion and environmental remediation. By far, he has published over 190 papers in peer reviewed journals with H- index of 46. In addition, he edited one English monograph and have been granted more than 50 Chinese invention patents. |

National Institute of Technology Srinagar
Kashmir
India
Biography of M.F. Wani
![]() Prof M F Wani, is professor and Dean at NIT Srinagar Kashmir. He has 35 years of teaching and research experience in the file of Nanotribology, Tribology of high temperature ceramics, Life cycle design, sustainability of mechanical systems, design for LCD etc. He is presently looking after central research facility centre at NIT Srinagar. He is also in charge of a high temperature Tribology laboratory at NIT . He has published more than 150 research papers in reputed international journals. He is serving as EBM in many international journals.He has already supervised 12 PhD research successfully and has also guided more than 50 Master thesis related to Nanotribology, Tribology of materials. |

National Institute for Materials Science
Tsukuba
Japan
Biography of X. Xu
![]() Dr. Xu is now an postdoctoral researcher under supervision of Prof. Yusuke Yamauchi. He has published more than 60 authored papers with a citation over 2600 times and H-index of 31. His interest focused on nanoarchitectured materials for energy storage, electrocatalysis, water desalination and groundwater remediation. |

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute
Shanghai
China
Biography of Y. Yang
![]() Yingguo Yang obtained the Ph. D. in Optics from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He subsequently joined the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS) as an advanced beam scientist of X-ray diffraction station (BL14B1). His current research is focused on interface physics of perovskites solar cells, perovskites light emitting diode, spin- optoelectronic devices, and the development of Synchrotron-based in-situ techniques. Dr Yang is the author and coauthor of more than 90 scientific papers, including Science, nature photonics, JACS, Advanced Materials, Nature Communication, Nano Energy, etc. |

Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi’an
China
Biography of W.C. Yang
![]() Dr Wenchao Yang is currently working as an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, China. His research fields include a) Solidification and creep behaviour at a high temperature of Ni-based single crystal superalloy, b) Development and application of automotive lightweight Al alloy, c) Heterogeneous Nucleation and grain growth during solidification, and d) Microstructure of metal materials using by HRTEM and 3DAPT. So far, he has published 49 SCI academic papers at international journals including Scripta Materialia, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Materials Characterization and Philosophical Magazine Letters et al., and also served as these Journal’s reviewer. Besides, he has taken part in many international conferences in solidification and metal materials and made the oral and poster presentation. |

Qingdao University
Qingdao
China
Biography of W. Ye
![]() Dr. Wanneng Ye received his PhD in material science from Qingdao University in 2014, then he was appointed as a faculty member of Qingdao University, and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor. He has expertise in X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. His current research interests mainly focus on synthesis, characterization and application of nanostructured catalysts in environmental remediation and transmission electron microscopy. He has published more than 40 papers on various aspects of environmental technology and ferroelectric materials. |

Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of W. Zhan
![]() Zhan Wang is a professor, doctoral tutor. Chief expert of Chines water technology of the 45 th World Skills Competition. He graduated from East China Institute of Chemical Technology and obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1987. He was selected as a student for studying abroad during the post-graduate in Department of chemical engineering in Tsinghua University in 1990, He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Russian St. Petersburg Technological University. He joined Beijing University of Technology since September 1995, promoted to professor in 2005, awarded the title of young and middle-aged backbone teachers of Beijing municipal education commission in 2006 and qualified as a doctoral supervisor in 2007. As a visiting research professor, he was studied at George Belfort group in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from March 2009 to March 2010. He hosted many scientific research projects, such as national fund, municipal fund, municipal education commission project, international cooperation projects of ministry of science and technology, and the national fund project between China and Russia. He also worked as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chemical Engineering Research Updates and editor of a series Chinese journals, such as Technology of Water Treatment (2013.09- ), Membrane Science and Technology (2003.09-2007.09), guest editor of Environment Science and Technology (2009.1-2010.12) etc. |

Yangzhou University
Yangzhou
China
Biography of C. Zhang
![]() Dr Chao Zhang is currently a Vice Dean and Full Professor at Yangzhou University, College of Mechanical Engineering, China where he is leading a research group on thermal spray coatings and gas sensors. He acquired his joint PhD degree in 2009 from Technology University of Belfort-Montbeliard, France and Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher, and then a Senior Researcher in the Materials Science Department of Engineering School of the University of Mons (Belgium) in 2014. His research interests focus on materials science, especially thermal-sprayed coatings for wear-resistant and gas-sensitive applications. He has authorized more than 100 academic papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals. |

Sichuan University
Chengdu
China
Biography of W. Zhang
![]() Dr. Wei Zhang received his BEng (2005) and MEng (2008) and PhD (2012) degrees from Sichuan University, China. During 2009-2011, he studied in Georgia Institute of Technology as a visiting student. He has published 70+ SCI paper, which have received 2400+ citations excluding self-citations with an H-index of 32 according to the Web of Science Core Collection. His research work has been highlighted by Science and Technology Daily (in Chinese), C&EN, MaterialsToday, etc. He is an editor/editorial broad member for 9 international journals, and has served as referee for 60+ SCI journals including Advanced Materials and ACS Nano. |

Jinling Institute of Technology (JIT)
Nanjing
China
Biography of W. Zhang
![]() Dr. Wenyan Zhang is an associate Professor of Jinling Institute of Technology, China. She focus on themultidiciplinary researchfields of photo/electronic catalysis, new energy resources generation and conversion (especially hydrogen energy generation and solar energy conversion),nano materials design, electrons transfer in organic/bio molecules or nano-materials, chirality transfer and spin selectivity(CISS effect), bio- sensor, persistent photoluminescent materials, as well as self-assembled monolayers. Because of he excellent work, she was awarded with Young Scientist fellow funding from Jiangsu Provincial government. |

Shanghai University
Shanghai
China
Biography of A. Zhang
![]() Afang Zhang received a PhD from Peking University. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University. His research interests focus on dendritic polymers, helical polymers; Stimuli-responsive polymers, and supramolecular polymers. He has published more than 50 research papers in several distinguished journals. Also, Dr Zhang has contributed a few patents. Besides, he has won several awards such as Henan Outstanding Scholarship for Youth Scientists (1997), Shanghai Outstanding Scholar (2011), A 1000-plan Scholar affiliated to Shanghai Government (2011), Pujiang Shanghai Scholar (2011) and many more. |

Qingdao University of Technology
Qingdao
China
Biography of C. Zhang
![]() Dr. Chunwei Zhang, male, born in September 1977 in Heilongjiang Province, China, currently works at Qingdao University of Technology (QUT). He is the Chair Professor, PhD Supervisor, and Discipline Leader of Civil Engineering at QUT. He is the Foundation Director of Structural Vibration Control group, Chair Professor of “first- class discipline: Civil Engineering” for Shandong Province. He received the PhD degree in 2005 from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), which is one of the top nine universities in China. His research interest includes structural vibration control, structural health monitoring, prefabricated structures, structural anti-blast and protective structures etc. He is the author or co-author of 136 Journal publications (majority in SCI or EI indexed journals) and more than 80 conference publications. He is the owner of 25 patents. He is also a regular reviewer for a number of high impact international journals, including Engineering Structures, Mechanical System and Signal Processing, Structural Control and Health Monitoring etc. He is co-editor for two international conferences proceedings. |

Tongji University
Shanghai
China
Biography of W. Zhu
![]() Dr. Wenjun ZHU is an Associate Professor at the college of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University. His research interests mainly focus on the durability of the reinforced concrete in chloride environment, the initiation and propagation of the cracking of the concrete in the condition of chloride ions and the train loads, the influence of cracking on the performance of the track structures. |


Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladivostok
Russia
Biography of A.S. Astakhov
![]() Dr. Anatolii S. Astakhov (born in Pskov Region, Russia, June 8, 1949). After his education on geological faculty Saint-Petersburg Mining University and post- graduate school (Ph.D. degree), from 1975 to present time he work in V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, FEB RAS (Vladivostok, Russia) on different position up to Deputy director. Current position - Head of the Laboratory of marine sedimentary geochemistry. Dr.Sc. degree was received in Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS (Moscow, Russia) in 2001. Professional interests in marine geology, marine chemistry, geochemistry, marine sedimentology, paleoclimatology. Author 4 books and more 80 articles. |

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Fuzhou
China
Biography of X. Chen
![]() Dr. Chen obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Sun-Yat Sen University of China in 2001. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Oceanology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. His research focuses on fish immunology and utility of marine microbial resources. Dr Chen has published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers on the international major journals such as PLoS Genetics, Communications Biology, Frontiers in Immunology, Journal of Proteome Research, and Fish & Shellfish Immunology, etc. He has been invited as a member of the editorial board of Fish & Shellfish Immunology and Journal of Applied Oceanography. |

University of Almeria
Almeria
Spain
Biography of J.J. Gallardo-Rodriguez
![]() My main research interest is the microalgal bioactives production. Although, microalgae compounds are already used as cosmetic additives, anti-obesity compounds, bio-stimulants or aquafeed additives, actual microalgae wealth goes much beyond. Unique bioactive compounds with significant potential for medical and pharmacological application remain undiscovered and, therefore, unexploited. Besides, I have some experience in other biotechnological fields such as bioremediation ornutrient abatement using both microalgae and bacteria. |

University of São Paulo
São Paulo
Brazil
Biography of F. Gómez
![]() Dr. Fernando Gómez has dedicated his research career to unravelling phytoplankton diversity and community structure in several oceans. His favorite research topic is the taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of marine protists such as diatoms and ciliates, with an especial focus on the dinoflagellates; the study of the symbioses and parasitism in plankton organisms, harmful algae blooms and invasive species. He has published more than 100 articles as first author. |

Guangdong Ocean University
Zhangjiang
China
Biography of Y. Lu
![]() Dr Yishan Lu received his PhD in Fish Immunology and Parasitology from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Professor at the Guangdong Ocean University, China. His research interests include Fish pathogenic microbiology and Fish Immunology. He has more than 30 articles in well-reputed international journals. |

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Biography of P.E. Penchaszadeh
![]() Pablo Enrique Penchaszadeh is a Full Professor at Carrera del Investigador Científico, CONICET, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “B. Rivadavia” Jefe de Área Ecología MACN. He is also a Director at the Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Costeros, Plataforma y Mar Profundo. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “B. Rivadavia.” He received PhD from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (1975). His area of knowledge and scope of expertise include Marine Invertebrate reproduction (molluks, echinoderms, celenterates), Deep-Sea biology, and Coastal Ecology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in distinguished journals. |

Shandong University
Qingdao
China
Biography of D. Shi
![]() Dr. Dayong Shi is a professor of state key laboratory of microbial technology, Shandong University. He is mainly engaged in the research of halogenated marine drugs and medical biological products. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in famous pharmaceutical journals such as Br J Pharmacol, J Med Chem and Eur J Med Chem and authorized 1 international PCT patent and 22 invention patents. |

Jimei university
Xiamen
China
Biography of Y-Z. Sun
![]() Dr. Yun-Zhang Sun is a Professor and a PhD supervisor in the Fisheries College, Jimei University, China. He has been leading the aquatic animals' intestinal microbes’ research group since 2007 and has been the Head of animal nutrition, feed teaching and research department since 2015. He has led more than ten government-funded projects, all involving aquatic animals’ intestinal microbes and nutritional modulation. His expertise is in intestinal microbes of aquatic animals and published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He is the reviewer of more than 20 well-known international journals. |

Hasanuddin University
Makassar
Indonesia
Biography of A. Tahir
![]() Akbar Tahir is currently a Professor in Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology at the Department of Marine Science, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia. He received PhD in Fish Immunotoxicology and Diseases in 1995 from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His current research interests are marine debris, microplastics and sediment quality and remediation, and risks of emerging chemicals in the marine environment. He is also a member of several scientific associations, such as International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Asian Fisheries Society (AFS), Indonesian Oceanologist Association (ISOI), Association of Indonesian Fisheries Graduates (Ispikani) and Indonesian Biology Association (PBI). |

Dalian Ocean University
Dalian
China
Biography of L. Wang
![]() Dr. Lingling Wang is currently a Professor and Director at the Dalian Ocean University. She received her PhD in 2005 in Marine biology from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are in molecular immunology, neuroendocrine immunology, prevention and control of diseases in mariculture animals, development and utilization of genetic resources. She has published more than 220 papers in SCI-indexed journals, mostly in Frontiers in immunology, Developmental and comparative immunology, Fish and shellfish immunology, Scientific Reports, and Plos One. |

Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of T. Xu
![]() Tongren Xu obtained Doctor of Philosophy from Department of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China under the supervision of Xiaowen Li & Shaomin Liu in June 2011. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Dr Xu’s research interests focus on Data Assimilation, Land Surface Modeling, Remote Sensing and Applications, Big Data and Machine Learning, Hydrometeorology. He has published several articles in well-reputed journals. |

Shenzhen BGI Academy of Marine Sciences
Shenzhen
China
Biography of X. You
![]() Dr. Xinxin You currently a Vice Dean at Shenzhen BGI Academy of Marine Sciences. His research involves decoding the whole genome and understanding the genetic basis of complex traits in aquaculture animals. He is particularly interested in the application of modern genomic tools (molecular marker-assisted, MAS; genome selection, GS) to understand the genetic basis of growth, stress tolerance, and disease resistance. His research group undertake research projects in a variety of aquaculture animals, including grouper, shrimp and Chinese mitten crab. Results from his research are applied in aquaculture breeding programmes to speed up the cultivation of new aquatic varieties. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of J. Zhao
![]() Dr. Jiafei Zhao is a Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of natural gas hydrates: (1) Crystal hydrate growth and CO 2 capture; (2) Heat and mass transfer during hydrate formation and dissociation; (3) Marine Natural gas hydrate Mining technology; (4) Flow assurance of gas hydrates. |

Xiamen University
Xiamen
China
Biography of T. Zhou
![]() Dr. Tao Zhou is an Associate Professor at the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University. He received his PhD degree and Postdoctoral training on fish genomics and genetics in Auburn University, US, during 2013 and 2019. Then he moved to Xiamen University in 2019. His research focus on fish genetics, genetic breeding and developmental biology. He has published 34 peer-reviewed papers on PNAS, Molecular Genetic and Genomics, etc. |

Tsinghua University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of X. Zhu
![]() Dr. Xiaoshan Zhu holds degree in Environmental Science, from the Central South University of Forestry and Technology (2000); Master of Science in Marine Environmental Science, from the Ocean University of China (2003); PhD in Ecotoxicology, from Nankai University, China (2007), and postdoctoral studies at the Arizona State University, USA (2007-2009). Currently is an associate professor at Division of Ocean Science and Technology, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China. Has extensive experiences in the area of Marine Environmental Science and Ecotoxicology, with emphasis on Marine ecotoxicology of emerging chemicals, esp. the fate, transport, transformation, bioaccumulation and toxicity of manufactured nanomaterials, plastic particles, POPs and heavy metals etc. in aquatic environments. |

Shandong University
Qingdao
China
Biography of S. Bi
![]() Dr Shuangyu Bi received her PhD in 2013 from Peking University with a major in Quantitative Biology. She is currently a Professor at Shandong University, China. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial. Her main research interests are Discovery of novel chemo effectors and signal transduction mechanisms of bacterial networks, Design of novel biosensors, Dynamics of metabolic networks on single-cell level Microbiology. She has published more than 15 scientific papers in distinguished journals. |

Ocean University of China
Qingdao
China
Biography of Z. Chi
![]() Dr. Zhe Chi is an Associate Professor at the College of Marine Life, Ocean University of China. His research interests include Fungal secondary metabolites; Biomacromolecules. He has more than 113 articles published in this field. He has also worked in a project which investigates the abundance of Marine Yeast in mangrove ecosystem and species richness. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yantai
China
Biography of X. Hu
![]() Dr. Xiaoke Hu, professor of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology. She is associate dean of the coastal biology and biological resources conservation laboratory, the member of the institute's academic committee and academic degrees committee. She is also the member of chinese society of microbiology and marine biological resources committee, editors of frontiers in microbiology, scientific reports, etc. She had undertaken more than 20 research projects including NSFC, "973"project and “the foreword key priority research program of Chinese Academy of Sciences” funding. She has published more than 90 research papers, four monographs in important academic journals and 5 patents granted. She received Marine Science and Technology Award, Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Award, Shandong Science and Technology Award, National Ocean Innovation Achievement Award and Yantai Science and Technology Award. etc. |

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Fuzhou
China
Biography of S. Wang
![]() Prof. Shihua Wang has received his PhD in Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences during the period of 2001-2004. Currently, he is working as a professor in Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. His research field is microbiology. Based on this research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honors, such as “New Century Excellent Talents in University of China”. He has authored 100 research articles and 2 books. He is a member of the Chinese Society for Microbiology. |

Shandong University
Qingdao
China
Biography of H. Wang
![]() Dr Hailong Wang is a Professor of Microbiology at the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University in China. He received his B.S. degree in Biology in 2006 and his PhD degree in Molecular Microbiology in 2012 from Hunan Normal University. His research interests include developing gene-editing tools to engineer biological systems for chemical production, Synthetic biology of secondary metabolites, Metabolic engineering, Plant growth-promoting bacteria and nitrogen fixation. Dr Wang has published more than 20 articles. He has been awarded The Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province in 2019. He is also a holder of two Patents. |

Jiangsu Ocean University
Lianyungang
China
Biography of S. Wang
![]() Dr. Shujun Wang is currently a Professor, supervisor of Master, director of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Environment, president of Jiangsu Institute of Marine Resources, and president of School of Marine Resources and Environment at Jiangsu Ocean University. Professor Wang is also as PhD. supervisor of Shanghai Ocean University. She obtained her B.S. from Jiangsu Agricultural College for Hygienic Inspection in 1985 and M.S. from Anhui Agricultural College and Beijing Agricultural College for Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1988. Since 1988, she has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in Huaihai Institute of Technology. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Waterloo from Aug. 2004 to Aug. 2005 and Cape Breton University from Oct. 2015 to Jan. 2016, respectively. Professor Wang completed her PhD from Nanjing Agricultural University for Food Science in 2008. |


Southwest University
Chongqing
China
Biography of X. Zou
![]() Dr Xiang Zou received his PhD degree in Biochemical Engineering from East China of Science and Technology (ECUST) in 2009. Currently, he is a Professor at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University. His research interests include bioprocess engineering, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and bio health and biomedical engineering and have more than 40 publications. |

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City
Mexico
Biography of V.M. Castaño
![]() Prof. Víctor M. Castaño is a recognized international leader in several areas of applied science and technology . He holds a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He spent 2 years at IBM´s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Faculties of Chemistry, Sciences, Engineering, Accounting and Administration and Dentistry), Universidad Autonoma de Querétaro (Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Accounting and Administration, Psychology and Law), the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Faculty of Physico-Mathematical Sciences), the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro, etc. He was the founding Director of the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology of the UNAM in Juriquilla, Querétaro. Prof. Castaño has published more than 750 articles in international refereed and indexed journals, 242 articles in conferences proceedings, 22 book chapters, 5 books and 25 patents. It has 678 papers presented at conferences and 51 technical reports to various industries. He has been advisor to over 190 B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, the USA, Canada, Spain and Germany. His work has received over 14,000 citations, especially in the last few years, when some of his pioneering contributions have begun to have great repercussion and have led him to receive international awards and recognitions. In this respect, it is important to emphasize the fact that Víctor Castaño is an engineer and scientist of great originality, who dares not only to explore subjects that do not represent the fashion of international science, but also has the capacity of having his proposals receiving worldwide attention. He is Associate Editor of several prestigious international journals and Editor-in-Chief of Recent Patents in nanoMedicine. He is Treasurer, by election, of the International Council for Materials Education and has been a member of several evaluation commissions in Mexico and abroad (United States, Canada, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, etc.). Probably the areas where Prof. Castaño is best known in materials science and biomedicine, where he invented a very extensive line of new materials and technologies for various applications. |

Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)
Bandar Seri Begawan
Brunei Darussalam
Biography of Y-F.C. Chau
![]() Yuan-Fong Chou Chau received his PhD degree from Department of Electrophysics, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 2004. From 2012, he is a professor at Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. In 2015, he joined the Centre for Advanced Material and Energy Sciences (CAMES), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Brunei, where he was appointed as an associated professor in 2015 and he was promoted to a professor position in 2018. His dominant research is focusing on physics related material and energy sciences, including novel nanofabrications for advanced nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices, and in characteristics and applications of localized and propagating plasmons at nanometal structure. During his academic career, he has published more than 110 Scopus index papers and 18 patents. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of X. Cheng
![]() Dr. Cheng’s research focuses on the upconversion nanoparticles and nano rare earth additives for materials surface and alloying behavior modification. He and his co-workers have published more than 220 papers, which have been cited for thousands of times. He has also acquired more than 70 patents, most of which have been applied in the industry. |

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Hefei
China
Biography of X. Cheng
![]() Xudong Cheng is Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His research interests include thermal safety protection material, aerogel preparation and application in safety area and fire dynamics in long-narrow enclosure space. He is the Editorial Board Member of Fire Technology, Member of CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science, etc. He has published 95 SCI indexed journal papers, and the total number of SCI citation is over 1200. |

Shandong Normal University
Jinan
China
Biography of Y. Cheng
![]() Dr. Cheng Yang is presently serving as a School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, China. He completed his M.S. in Physics from College of Physics and Electronics,Shandong Normal University(SDNU), China in 2007. He further obtained PhD from SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea in 2011. His research interest includes Optical and electrical properties of the nano-scale low-dimensional materials, including carbon nanotubes(CNTs), graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenides, Fabrication and application of the DNA-FET sensors, et.al. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

Tsinghua University
Beijing
China
Biography of Z.-M. Dang
![]() Dr. Zhi-Min Dang is presently serving as a Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He completed his MS from Xian Modern Chemistry Institute, China in 1997. He further obtained PhD Xian Jiaotong University in Electrical Engineering, China in2001. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Tabriz
Iran
Biography of M. Hasanzadeh
![]() Dr. Mohammad Hasanzadeh is an assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUOMS) at Drug Applied Research Center. He studied Electrochemistry at K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) and gained his M.S.c in 2008. In 2010, he founded Drug Applied Research Center and worked at that center as the PhD candidate for 4 years. Dr. Hasanzadeh has also received the International Razi Award for excellence in research in basic sciences in 2010 and 2020. He has published more than 250 original research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has been the PI of more than 10 national research projects funded by the Ministry of Health of Iran, Recently, he has focused on the immunosensing methods based on advanced nanomaterials towards early stage diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. Also, he has some of important approach on the science and engineering of nanomaterials and nano-devices used in health such as: a) IFIA (The International Federal of Inventors Associations) CUP for the best invention of the 3 rd International Olympiad of inventors, Originators and innovators, 2012; b) Gold Medal Cup in 2 th , 3 rd , and 4 th International Invention Festival in 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively; c) Distinguished in Nanotechnology, Business Plan Group, 2011 (7 th National Sheikh Bahaei Technology Festival. |

King Saud University
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Biography of M.A. Ibrahim
![]() Dr. Mohamed Abbas Ibrahim is a professor of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Al Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt. Currently, he is a professor of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, KSA. He earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in collaboration with Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include biomaterials as drug delivery systems, pelletization, nanotechnology and tablet technology. He supervised more than 10 master and Ph.D. students in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ibrahim has a good experience in the tablet and pelletization technology, biomaterials, nanotechnology and polymeric drug delivery systems. He published more than 90 research and review articles in these areas. |

RTU-MIREA-Russian Technological University
Moscow
Russia
Biography of A.A. Ischenko
![]() Dr. Anatoly A. Ischenko is a Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the RTU-MIREA-Russian Technological University, M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies, Moscow, Russian Federation. Ultrafast processes in free molecules and condensed matter and instrumental methods of analysis represent his main area of research. Anatoly Ischenko received his Ph.D in 1974 and Dr. Sci. degree in 1990 from the Moscow Lomonosov State University and worked there as a researcher and professor of physical chemistry until 1998. In 1998 he was invited to Moscow Lomonosov University of Fine Chemical Technology for a position of the Head of Department of Analytical Chemistry. He spent one year (1976-1977) as scholar and in 1979 as a research associate at the electron diffraction laboratory at Oslo University, Norway and has had a long period of collaboration with electron diffraction group, since 1992 at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, USA as an invited professor. |


Qilu University of Technology
Jinan
China
Biography of H. Liu
![]() Dr. Haixia Liu received her Successive Postgraduate and Doctoral Program from the Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, China. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Qilu University of Technology, China. She is mainly engaged in the research work of solar photodecomposition water, hydrogen production, photocatalytic degradation and solar cells, involving new energy micro-nano materials, semiconductor photocatalytic materials, semiconductor luminescent materials and so on. Moreover, she has contributed her valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

Hunan University
Changsha
China
Biography of Q. Liu
![]() Dr. Qiaoling Liu received her PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2010 at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Her research interests focused on Chemical Biology, Artificial cells and the cell membrane-based vesicle for biomedical applications. As the first author or corresponding author, she has published 20 papers in the high impact journals, including Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, ect. |

Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of S. Ma
![]() She got Bachelor's degree in Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology (Now Qingdao University of Science and Technology) in 1987-1991, Master's degree in Chemical engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 1993- 1996, PhD degree from Beijing normal university in 2000-2003. Since 1996, she has been working in Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University. In 2012-2014, worked as a visiting professor in Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She has published many top papers such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; ACS Appl. Mater. Interface; Chem. Commun.; J. Mater. Chem. A; J. Mater. Chem. C; Inorg. Chem. |

Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata
India
Biography of S.K. Maiti
![]() Dr. Santanu K. Maiti is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He obtained his phD degree from Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India in 2008. His research interests mainly focus on Quantum Transport in Meso-scale and Nano-scale Systems. He has also been working as Associate Editor, Section Editor as well as Editorial Board Member in several International Journals over the past many years. He has also published many Reviews, co-edited a Book in Springer Series and contributed a chapter to a Book. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed International Journals, out of which more than sixty five papers he published independently and did almost over hundred presentations in National and International Conferences. |

Cairo University
Giza
Egypt
Biography of G.G. Mohamed
![]() Dr. Gehad Genidy Mohamed obtained Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1996, 1993 and 1990 respectively. He is working as a Professor at Cairo University since 2007. He was the Associate Editor of J. of Advanced Research, Cairo University (2008 to 2012) and the Deputy Director of Chemistry laboratory, Chemical Environmental Hazard Mitigation Center (CEHM) at Cairo University, from September 2011 till May 2013. He has published more than 100 articles, several book chapters, and some patents in various well-reputed journals. |

Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics
Novosibirsk
Russia
Biography of M.P. Moshkin
![]() Dr. Mikhail Moshkin is a head of the Department of Genetic Resources of Laboratory Animals, Institute of Cytology & Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia. His research interests encompass a broad set of interdisciplinary problems in the fields of physiology, reproductive biology, immunity, ecology, and so on. He is one of the leading experts in Russia in mouse and rodent biology; and since 2007 he has been appointed to supervise the construction and scientific development of the first in Russia Centre of Genetic Resources of Laboratory Animals (CGR). CGR is now fully functional facility providing a top-notch platform for interdisciplinary biomedical and pharmaceutical research on animal models. CGR Resources aims to close the gap between basic biological research and developing biomedical industry in Russian Federation, which has been listed as one of the prominent infrastructure projects developed in Russian Federation. |

Korea National University of Transportation
Chungju
South Korea
Biography of G. Murali
![]() Dr. G. Murali is presently serving as an Associate Research Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of IT Convergence (BK21 PLUS), Chemical Industry Institute, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Republic of Korea. He completed his M.Sc. from Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati, India. He further obtained PhD from Sri Venkateswara University(SVU), Tirupati, India in 2014. His research interest includes characterization and multiple applications of nanoscale materials. The major fields of science that are relevant to my research work are nanotechnology, up/down conversion photonic materials and polarization emission property, semiconductor nanostructures, diluted magnetic semiconductors, sensors, photocatalysis, and liquid crystals. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai
India
Biography of P.K. Nayak
![]() Pramoda Kumar Nayak is currently working as Adjunct Professor at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He received his doctoral degree in physics from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. After completion of his Ph.D, he worked as a post doctoral researcher and visiting scientist in several institutions around the globe including Institute for Plasma Research, India, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. His research interest is to explore intriguing physics in van der Waals materials and their heterostructures. He has published more than fifty international journals, five book chapters, one book and three edited volumes so far in his research carrier. |

Tiangong University
Tianjin
China
Biography of J. Pan
![]() Dr. Jie Pan received his BS degree from Northwest University in china, MS degree from Tianjin University in china and PhD degree from National University of Singapore. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Tiangong University in China. His research mainly focuses on the design and fabrication of polymeric particles and exploration of their applications in drug delivery. At present, he has published 24 articles in AFM, biomaterials, and so on. |

National Institute of Science and Technology (Autonomous)
Berhampur
India
Biography of D. Panda
![]() Dr. Debashis Panda completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur. After that he joined as a post doctoral fellow at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and University of Utah, USA. Prior to joining the National Institute of Science and Technology, India, Dr. Panda also served as a post doctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Dr. Panda awarded Indian academies SRF 2016, and INSA visiting scientists in 2017. His present research interest includes neuromorphic computing devices. Dr. Panda serves as a visiting scientist at NCTU, Taiwan, NPL New Delhi and IIT Kharagpur. |

Minzu University of China
Beijing
China
Biography of H.S. Peng
![]() Dr Hongshang Peng is presently working as a Professor in the School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing. In the year 2007, he obtained his PhD in Optics from Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. His research interests include (a) Luminescent nanosensors for 1O2, O2, pH, temperature, etc. (b) Phototherapy based on nanoparticles, and (c) Perovskite QDs. |

Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore
India
Biography of V.R. Prasad
![]() Prof. V. Ramachandra Prasad is currently working as a Professor in the Mathematics Department, School Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has 25 years of teaching experience and has authored more than 100 publications in the area of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Over the past decade he has worked in the areas of multi-physical fluid dynamics and numerical simulation. His work has investigated complex phenomena of interest in mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, and material processing. He has made fundamental contributions in magnetic fluid dynamics, thermal radiation heat transfer, fluid modeling, micro polar non-Newtonian hydrodynamics, magnetic induction flows, viscoelastic liquid flows, porous media, and boundary flows. He has authored over 150 journal articles in these areas and also numerous conference presentations. He has published six books on radiation heat transfer, thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on boundary layer flows, and Viscoelastic flows. More recent work has involved non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, fluid particle suspensions, and lid driven cavities. The numerical methods he has used are the finite difference method, finite element method, network simulation methods, and finite volume codes. He has worked in collaboration with US, Indian, Spanish, British, and Taiwanese researchers. He is presently working as a reviewer for over 100 national and international journals. His h-index is 25 and i-10 index is 50. |

University of Monastir
Monastir
Tunisia
Biography of A. Rebey
![]() Dr. Ahmed Rebey is a Full Professor in the Physics Department of Faculty of Sciences of Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia. Currently, He is a cooperating Professor in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. He guided many candidates in their project of Master and Ph. Degree. His research interest focuses on epitaxy and characterization of semiconductors and nanostructure materials. He has published about 100 papers in internationally renowned academic journals. He has authored 2 chapter books in the research field. He has participated in national and international conferences. |

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington
USA
Biography of S.C. Sharma
![]() Currently a Full Professor in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, Professor Suresh C Sharma graduated with PhD degree in Solid State Physics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Professor Sharma is known as an innovative experimental condensed matter physicist, who has made very significant contributions to several different areas of physics, surface plasmons resonance spectroscopy and sensor development, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, thin-films, carbon-based materials, applications of positron annihilation spectroscopy for the characterization of defects in materials, discovery of Positronium localization in spontaneous density fluctuations in high-density gases, polymer-dispersed liquid-crystals, and high-pressure physics. Professor Sharma has published in highly-rated journals, has obtained several patents, and presented invited lectures at international and national conferences. He has also organized several international and national conferences. Professor Sharma has served as Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials and Director of the Center for Positron Studies. |

Shenzhen University
Shenzhen
China
Biography of Z. Sun
![]() Dr. Zhenhua Sun completed his doctorate in applied physics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012. Then he worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the Laboratory of Physics and Material studies (LPEM) in Paris, which is a joint laboratory of ESPCI, CNRS and UPMC in France. In 2015, he joined the College of Optoelectronic Engineering in Shenzhen University as an assistant professor. Since 2016, he is an associate professor in the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering in Shenzhen University. |

Xian Jiaotong University
Xi’an
China
Biography of M. Tahir
![]() Dr. Muhammad Tahir obtained his PhD in Materials Science from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015 and is now working as an assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include the design and synthesis of nano-structure materials and their applications in electro-catalysis, photocatalysis and Super-capacitor. He has published more than 60 papers as an author/co-author in peer reviewed international SCI journals with various publishers including world premium scientific journals like, JACS, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, Nano Research, Applied Catalysis B, JMCA, ACS energy Letters, etc. He has also provided services as a reviewer for International journals such as ACS, RSC, Willey and Springer etc. Dr. Tahir has also won several International awards such as Dr. Abdus Slam award in the field of Physics and excellent student award from Beijing Institute of Technology during his PhD. |

Pingdingshan University
Pingdingshan
China
Biography of Z. Tian
![]() Zhengshan Tian earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Henan Normal University in 1997, his M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from Zhengzhou University in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University in 2015. From 2018, he served as an associate professor of School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Pingdingshan University. He has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed articles on basic and applied research topics, with a primary focus on materials chemistry, and is co-inventor in 10 patents. In 2016, he won the excellent doctoral dissertation award of jiangsu province. |

East China Normal University
Shanghai
China
Biography of W-K. Wang
![]() Dr. Wei-Kang Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Chemistry, USTC in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Han-Qing Yu. Then, he was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher and worked with Prof. Guohua Zhao in Department of Chemistry, Tongji University from 2017-2019. He is a professor now at the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional materials, investigation of their photoelectrocatalytic mechanism in energy harvesting and environmental pollutants degradation. He has published 30 research articles in international journals. He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals. |

University of Jinan
Jinan
China
Biography of J. Wang
![]() Dr Junpeng Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Jinan. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from Shandong University, China in 2013. His research is mainly focused on the photoelectrochemical properties of semiconductors and design and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures and nanocomposites aimed at energy and environmental applications. |

Jilin University
Changchun
China
Biography of G. Wang
![]() Dr. Guibin Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 in polymer chemistry and physics from Jilin University. In 2001, he became a full professor. Wang’s research interests are synthesis, modification and processing of high- performance polymers. He has published more than 170 SCI papers. There have been 64 China invention patents authorized. He has won a National Technical Invention Award in second place and 4 first prizes of other provincial and ministerial science and technology awards and had won 17 other provincial and municipal honors. |

Guangdong University of Technology
Guangzhou
China
Biography of M. Wen
![]() Dr Meicheng Wen received his PhD degree in Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science from the Osaka University. He was a specially appointed Assistant Professor in the Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science at Osaka University in 2016-2017. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, China. His research mainly focuses on the preparation of porous materials and their applications in energy conversion and environmental remediation. He has published 35 research articles in international journals, 1 book chapter, 13 patents, and has been involved in several industrial projects. He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals. |

Hangzhou Dianzi University
Hangzhou
China
Biography of S. Wu
![]() Dr Shiting Wu is a Lecturer at the Hangzhou Dianzi University. She received her PhD degree in Material Science and Engineering from Peking University, China in 2017. Her research interest focuses on the controlled assembly of 1D/2D nanomaterials and carbon nanomaterials for energy storage or conversion. Her research results have been published in Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nano Research, and other international journals. |

Tianjin University
Tianjin
China
Biography of Z. Xu
![]() Dr. Zongwei Xu is Associate Professor (Tenure track) from College of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, China. His principle research interests include Defect engineering in Wide Band Gap semiconductor, Micro/nanofabrication using Focused ion Beam. As Principal Investigator (PI), Four National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, one Newton Fund project, and three Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC) projects have been granted. He served as the Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, and the Editorial Board Member of five other International Journals. He has published more than 50 SCI Journal papers and 5 Book Chapters. |

Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of Q. Ye
![]() Dr. Qing Ye is presently serving as a Professor in Department of Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. She completed her Master from Harbin Normal University, China. She further obtained PhD from Tsinghua University, China in 2005. She has been doing research in various fields in catalysis and materials for 25 years with more than 100 publications and 10 patents. Research projects in our group involve most aspects of materials, catalysis, such as preparation, characterization, activation, deactivation and regeneration of novel and commercially applicable catalysts with an emphasis on understanding of catalysts and catalytic reactions, catalytic materials, and processes, especially those that have potential practical applications. |

Nanchang Hangkong University
Nanchang
China
Biography of Q. Yuancheng
![]() Dr Qin Yuancheng received his PhD degree from Sichuan University, China in 2010. He joined the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Nanchang Hangkong University as a Lecturer in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at Nanchang Hangkong University and has received Outstanding Youth Funds of Jiangxi Province in 2017. His current research interest focuses on the development of Organic functional materials including solar cells, covalent organic frameworks, and porous organic polymers for energy, and environmental-related applications. Dr Yuancheng has more than 90 publications in well-reputed journals. |

Shanghai University
Shanghai
China
Biography of P. Zhang
![]() Dr Peng Zhang received his PhD in Applied Chemistry from the Department of Engineering, Osaka University. He also obtained M.Phil in Physical Chemistry from the College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University and B.Sc. in Education of Chemistry, Biological and Chemistry Department, Changzhi University. Currently, he is an Associate professor at the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University. He has published more than 20 articles in well-reputed journals. His research interests include a) Fabrication and design of hierarchical porous nanomaterials for environment and energy applications, such as photocatalytic treatment of pollutants, hydrogen generation, b) Functionalization of a microfluidic chip for environmental remediation & enzymatic reaction, c) Visible light-activated photocatalysts for (anti-spore activity against bacteria, etc), d) The mechanisms of various chemical reactions at heterogeneous interfaces catalytic reactions via Single-molecule chemistry and Time-resolved laser flash photolysis, and e) Creation of efficient light conversion material starting from the topotactic transformation. |

Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Beijing
China
Biography of R. Zhang
![]() Dr. Runduo Zhang is presently serving as a Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He obtained PhD from Dalian University of Technology Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), South Korea in 2001. His research interest includes Environmental Catalysis and Surface Science focusing on synthesis and application of nanoscaled perovskites and mesoporous materials; Catalytic eliminate various gaseous pollutants (such as HCN, NO x, CO, VOCs, SO 2 , soot, carbonyl sulfide etc.); Material characterization and Mechanism study based on techniques of S/TEM, XRD, BET, TPD/R/O, TGA, XPS, in situ-DRIFT and FTIR. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

University of Jinan
Jinan
China
Biography of Y. Zhang
![]() Prof. Yuhai Zhang is currently the PI of the Lab for Advanced Luminescent Materials at the University of Jinan, Shandong, China. He received his Ph.D in chemistry from National University of Singapore in 2015, and then spent two years for his postdoc study in KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He. His research interest focuses on the emerging luminescent materials, including quantum dots, perovskite single crystals, and lanthanide-doped materials. As the first author or co-author, he has published more than 20 SCI-accepted papers in internationally renowned academic journals. |

Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi'an
China
Biography of T. Zhao
![]() Dr. ZHAO obtained his PhD degree from Materials Science and Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2005 and is currently working as a full professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China. As the vice-director of Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory for Graphene New Carbon Materials & Applications, his researcher topics are: the synthesis of graphene, carbon nanotubes (single-wall, multi-wall CNTs and amorphous CNTs), flexible graphite, 2D nanomaterials, the growth mechanism, and applications of carbon nanomaterials in composites, energy conversion (solar cell, supercapacitor and Li-ion batteries), smart device and biosensors. So far, he has published 2 English books, 10 patents more than 100 academic papers at international journals including Nanoscale, Journal of Power Sources, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Carbon, Scientific Reports and Applied Physics Letters et al., and also served as these Journals' reviewers. He was awarded the first prize of the science and technology of Shaanxi province (2013). |

Shandong University
Jinan
China
Biography of Z. Zheng
![]() Zhaoke Zheng is a Full Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2012 at Shandong University, and joined Osaka University as JSPS Fellow in 2015. He has published over 40 SCI- indexed papers on J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nano Energy et al., including 6 ESI Highly Cited Papers. These papers received 2559 SCI citations. A number of awards and fellowships have been awarded to him, such as Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowships of Germany, JSPS Researcher of Japan, the Young Scholar of Distinction from the Ministry of Education, the Second-class Award of Science and Technology from Shandong Province and the Second-class Award of the Excellent Achievement from the Ministry of Education, etc. Hi research interest focuses on Crystal Materials. |

Jinan University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of M. Zhu
![]() Prof. Mingshan Zhu is currently a Full Professor at Jinan University, China. He graduated with doctorate degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS). His research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional nanomaterials for various photocatalytic and electrocatalytic applications, such as water splitting, removing environmental pollutants, photoelectrocatalytic oxidation of small organic molecules (methanol, ethanol...), photoelectrochemical sensor and so on. Prof. Zhu has published 105 papers in peer-reviewed journals including 75 papers as first or corresponding author. |

Changsha
Changsha
China
Biography of X. Cai
![]() Dr. Xiong Cai graduated from Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (HUCM) in 1998 with a B.Sc. in Pharmacy of Chinese Medicine and earned his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology of Chinese Medicine from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in 2006 under the mentorship of Chinese Academy of Engineering’s member Prof. Liang Liu. Dr. Cai pursued his postdoctoral training in molecular biology and genetics at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2006 through 2010, and then became a senior Research Fellow with his research focused on translational medicine and research. In September 2012, Dr. Cai came back to HUCM and joined the Institute of Innovation and Applied Research in Chinese Medicine as the deputy director. Dr. Cai's research is now focusing on R & D of innovative botanical drugs for rheumatic and arthritic diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis). Dr. Cai has authored or co-authored more than 45 peer-reviewed papers including those published in Am J Respir Critic Care Med (IF16.494), Chest (IF9.657), Phytomedicine(IF4.18). Dr. Cai’s research contribution has been recognized by multiple awards, including the National Science & Technology Progress Award of China (2012) and the NHLBI’s “Orloff Science Award” (2016, 2012). Dr. Cai has also been honored by election to Hunan Furong Distinguished Professorship and Hunan Provincial 121 Training Project for Innovative Talents, as well as serving the Specialty Committees of Diagnostics and Immunology of TCM of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) as executive members. |


The University of Mississippi
Oxford
USA
Biography of A.G. Chittiboyina
![]() Dr. Amar Chittiboyina holds an appointment as Assistant Director at the National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi. He has a broad background in organic chemistry, with specific training and expertise in medicinal chemistry, natural products, and analytical chemistry. Dr. Chittiboyina holder of several national, international patents has contributed to book chapters on natural products, medicinal chemistry as well as quality and safety assessment of phytochemicals in various matrices. |

University of Karachi
Karachi
Pakistan
Biography of M.I. Choudhary
![]() Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary is a Distinguish National Meritorious, Director at International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research) and Coordinator General COMSTECH (Organization of Islamic Cooperation Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation). He is among the most prominent scientists of Pakistan, recognized for his original contributions in the fields of natural products and bioorganic chemistry. He has written and edited 76 books, most of which have been published in the USA and Europe. He is also the author of over 1,094 research papers and chapters in top international science journals of the West, as well as 55 US patents. The cumulative impact factor of his publications is over 2,270. This is by far the largest number of quality publications from any scientist in Pakistan. He has been among the most cited scientists of Pakistan in last five years with citations exceeding 27,200 (h-Index: 68). He is the Volume Editor of many international book series and journals. He has served as a visiting faculty in many prestigious universities of the world, including Cornell University (New York), Purdue University (Indiana), Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, California), The University Rhode Island (Rhode Island) and various top Universities of UK, China, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and Iran. |

University of Blida 1
Blida
Algeria
Biography of M. El Hattab
![]() Dr. Mohamed El Hattab prepared a doctoral thesis on natural marine products. Since then, his research work has been focused mainly on the chemistry of natural marine products in particular. His research work focused on the isolation and structural characterization of new secondary metabolites from marine algae, especially brown algae. He has also developed research on the volatile products of marine algae, these are oils characterized by a chemical composition different from those of the terrestrial environment. Currently, they are developing research on the use of microorganisms isolated from marine organisms (especially algae) in the production of extracts and volatile microbial compounds. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
China
Biography of D. Guo
![]() Prof. De-an Guo is a Professor at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology and Director of Shanghai Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has focused his research on modernization of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 30 years and established an research model for analysis of active components of TCM and constructed a holistic quality control system for TCM, which have been successfully applied in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, United States Pharmacopoeia and Europe Pharmacopoeia for the herbal standards. He has published over 450 papers in SCI cited journals with over 9000 SCI citations. |

Jinan University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of R-R. He
![]() Professor Rong-Rong He, also honored as the Distinguished Professor of Pearl River Scholar, the Distinguished Young Scholar of China, etc. The main research interest of her group has been focusing on the theory of “Emotion Causing Diseases” in TCM. Using the concept of "disease susceptibility", she has established and improved a series of emotional stress models to investigate the biological mechanisms of “Emotion Causing Diseases”. Besides, the models are used to evaluate the effect of Chinese medicinal formula and their active ingredients. She has contributed to over 140 SCI articles, 60 more of which are the first author or corresponding author. |

Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu
Nepal
Biography of N. Koirala
![]() Dr. Niranjan Koirala, Nepal born researcher earned his Ph.D. from South Korea (2016) and Postdoctoral fellowships from UNAM, Mexico (2018) and UM, Macau SAR (2020). His interest is in the field of biochemical and pharmaceutical engineering, pharmaceutical/medicinal/analytical chemistry, natural products drugs discovery, secondary metabolites, flavonoids and anti-infective agents. He is the recipient of Nepal Bidhya Bhushan “A” award from the honorable President of Nepal (2016), young scientist award (2016), best PhD thesis award (2016), several best oral and poster presentations, and several other research accolades. He has published above 40 original articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals and holds 4 issued South Korean patents. He is serving in several national and International indexed journals as the journal editor and editorial board member. He is the lifetime member of Biotechnology Society of Nepal, member of Phytochemical Society of Asia and International Association of Dietetic Nutrition and Safety. He has delivered 20+ invited lectures in 10 different countries and has h-index 14 as of 2020. |

China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China
Biography of H-J. Li
![]() Prof. Hui-Jun Li was born in 1975 in Hubei Province, China, and received his PhD in Pharmacognosy in 2003. Since then he started his research and teaching career at China Pharmaceutical University. His main research interest focuses on 1) discovering novel quality control methods and elaborating quality standards for Traditional Chinese Medicines and, 2) identifying toxic compounds from hepatotoxic herbs and disclosing the underlying mechanism. He is the author of more than 60 scientific publications. |


Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
Changsha
China
Biography of L. Qin
![]() Li Qin, M.D, Ph.D, Professor, Director of Division of Stem Cell Regulation and Application. Her research field is pharmacology of Chinese Medicine. To date, Prof Li has undertaken more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial projects including 4 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published more than 60 papers in domestic and foreign journals, including 24 papers cited in SCI as the first/corresponding author. Prof Li won the 19 th Sino- French Servier Young Pharmacologist Award and Hunan Youth Science and Technology Award, etc. |

Tasly Academy
Tianjin
China
Biography of Z. Shuiping
![]() Dr. Zhou Shuiping, Executive Director of the Tasly Academy, Professor-level Researcher/M.D. has organized more than 200 new drug product projects, as the project leader, obtained 6 new drug marketing approvals including Shaoma Zhijing Granules, Tadalafil, Danshen Capsules (EU traditional use registration), as well as 31 IND approvals. Selected as the first level of Tianjin "1 31 " innovative talents in 2011, Tianjin Outstanding Contribution Experts in 2015, and the Government special allowance expert of the State Council in 2018. Obtained 162 authorized patents (70 PCTs); published 143 scientific articles (25 SCIs) and 4 monographs. |

Hunan Agricultural University
Changsha
China
Biography of R. Wang
![]() Emphasis of my research is placed on new phytohormonal assay methodology and phytohormone action mechanisms. We are currently a) developing highly sensitive new assay based on biosensors for potential real time and in situ analysis of phytohormones. b) Revealing the phytohormonal action mechanisms of seed germination, especially the role of phytic acid and its interaction with phytohormones. c) Bioinformatics. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of Z. Xu
![]() Dr. Zhengren Xu obtained his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2011 working on the total synthesis of natural products. From 2011 to 2014, he joined Prof. Jieping Zhu’s group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) as a postdoctoral research associate, and continued working on natural product total synthesis. From 2014 to 2018, he moved to the Scripps Research Institute as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Ben Shen’s group, and worked on the natural product discovery and biosynthesis. In 2018, he took up an assistant professor position at Peking University with research interest in natural product synthesis using biocatalysis as an important tool. |

Utah State University
Logan
USA
Biography of J. Zhan
![]() Dr. Jixun Zhan is a full professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at Utah State University. He received his Ph.D. training from East China University of Science and Technology and Beijing University, and conducted postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona and the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research is focused on metabolic engineering and natural product biosynthesis. Dr. Zhan’s work has led to the publication of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as PNAS and JACS. |

The Second Military Medical University
Shanghai
China
Biography of W. Zhang
![]() Dr. Zhang Weidong, is a Vice Dean of School of Pharmacy and the Chief Director of the Department of Phytochemistry at the Second Military Medical University. His major achievements were made in the field of bioactive natural products discovery for therapeutic applications, chemical biology of natural products and innovative drug discovery from TCM. Honored with the National Outstanding Young Scientist Foundation of China, Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars program, Ten Thousand Talents Program, Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen Prize for Medical Pharmacy, Qiushi Outstanding Youth Scientist Award and the Government special allowance expert of the State Council. He gained the second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award three times and the first prize of Shanghai Scientific and Technological Progress Award twice. Obtained 47 authorized patents (2 PCTs); published 573 scientific articles (530 SCIs) and 2 monographs. |

Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of J. Cheng
![]() Dr. Jie Cheng, received the Ph.D. degree in cartography and remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2008. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, from 2008 to 2010, an Assistant Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2009 to 2010, and a Visiting Scientist with the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA, from 2017 to 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. His main research interests include estimation of land surface variables from satellite observations, radiative transfer modeling, and studies on surface energy balance. He published over 60 SCI indexed peer-reviewed papers, 7 book chapters, and 2 special issues of Remote Sensing. |

China Agricultural University
Beijing
China
Biography of J. Huang
![]() Prof. Jianxi Huang currently works at the Department of Geographical Information Engineering, China Agricultural University. His research interests include agricultural monitoring with remote sensing, data assimilation; deep learning; crop yield prediction; crop modeling. |

Fudan University
Shanghai
China
Biography of G-M. Jiang
![]() Dr. Jiang received the B.S. degree in photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan, China, in 1997, the M.S. degree in cartography and geographical information system from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, in 2007. Dr. Jiang is currently an Associate Professor at the Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai, China. His research interest mainly focuses on intercalibration of satellite instruments and quantitative remote sensing. |

Peking University
Beijing
China
Biography of H. Ren
![]() Dr. Huazhong REN is currently an Assistant Professor with the Institute of Remote and Geographic Information System, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, China. His research interests include land surface temperature/emissivity retrieval from thermal infrared remote-sensing images, such as Chinese Gaofen-5, Landsats, MODIS and Sentinel-3. Moreover, Dr. REN also conducts the modelling of directional thermal radiation over land surface and makes angular correction on land surface temperature. |

Capital Normal University
Beijing
China
Biography of R. Zhong
![]() Dr. Ruofei Zhong received the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Beijing, China, in 2005. He is currently a Professor at Key Lab of 3-Dimensional Information Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. His research interests include remote sensing satellite design and data preprocessing, multi-sensor LiDAR integration and post-processing, deep learning and computer vision. |

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan
China
Biography of Y. Sun
![]() Dr. Yu Sun is a Medical Doctor, Professor and Vice director in the Department of Otolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on Genetic Hearing Loss(Gjb2 related hearing loss), Cochlear Immune Response and Inflammation. |

Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Shanghai
China
Biography of T. Yuan
![]() Dr Tifei Yuan received a PhD in Neuroscience, University of Geneva (UNIGE) in 2013. He did his MPhil in Neuroscience from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and BSc in Biology from the Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU). Currently, he is a Professor at the Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong, University School of Medicine, Shanghai. He has published a few scientific papers in distinguished journals. |

Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Macheng
China
Biography of A. Cao
![]() 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. |

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Hangzhou
China
Biography of L. Chen
![]() Professor Liang Chen completed his PhD on Tea Science from Zhejiang University, China and postdoctoral studies from Cornell University, USA. He also visited Japan, Italy and The Netherlands as senior visiting professor. He has been a full professor in the TRICAAS since 2007, also has been appointed twice as Honorary Scientist of the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of Korea. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed international journals and books, and has been serving as several editorial board members of reputed committees. |

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Wuhan
China
Biography of R.A. Gill
![]() 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. |

Northwest A&F University
Xianyang
China
Biography of Z. Lu
![]() 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. |

Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology
Bhubaneswar
India
Biography of G.R. Rout
![]() 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”. |

Mizoram University
Aizawl
India
Biography of S.K. Tripathi
![]() 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. |

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Beijing
China
Biography of Y. Cao
![]() 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. |


Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nanjing
China
Biography of T. Kim
![]() 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). |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of J. Xu
![]() Dr. Jinyang Xu is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France, in 2016 and his M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2013. His current research interests concern composites machining, numerical modeling, and surface texturing. He is serving as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Coating Science and Technology, the Associate Editor of Simulation - Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCI), and the Editorial Board Members of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (SCI) and Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (SCI). |

Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Neiva
Colombia
Biography of D.R. Delgado
![]() Dr Daniel Ricardo Delgado is Biology and Chemistry graduate of Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia. He obtained his master's degree in Chemistry and his Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia and now is professor and researcher at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Dr Delgado has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Delgado’s primary research interests include drug solubility, cosolvency, pharmacology, and pharmacoeconomics. |

The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam
Hong Kong
Biography of G.P.H. Leung
![]() Dr. George P.H. Leung obtained his BPharm and PhD degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his post-doctoral training from the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the University of Hong Kong. He has published on 100 peer-review papers. His expertise is cardiovascular pharmacology, with special interest in nucleoside transporters and natural products. |

Yichun University
Yichun
China
Biography of C-M. Liu
![]() Dr. Chi-Ming Liu completed PhD from Kaohsiung Medical University in 2009. He is currently an associate professor in Yichun University, China. His research interests focus on evaluating and developing pharmacological actions of natural products and clinical drugs in prostate cancers and benign prostatic hyperplasia for clinical applications. He published 27 scientific papers and one book chapter. |

Qantu Therapeutics, Inc.
Lewisville
USA
Biography of D.J. Marciani
![]() Dante Marciani, President & Chief Scientific Officer of Qantu Therapeutics, Inc, holds a Sc.D. in Biology from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marco, Lima – Peru, where he was an Assistant Professor, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO. He was a scientist at NIH, Bethesda, MD. His work led to the first commercial rec. DNA based HIV serological test, a veterinary subunit vaccine against FeLV, and the development of novel immune agonists, like QS-21, GPI-0100 and QT-0101. His current research focuses on anti-inflammatory vaccine adjuvants for autoimmune conditions and proteopathies. |

Riyadh ELM University
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Biography of T.S. Mohamed Saleem
![]() Dr T.S. Mohamed Saleem completed his PhD (Faculty of Pharmacy) from JNTUK, Kakinada and M. Pharm, B. Pharm from Tamil Nadu Dr M G R Medical University, Chennai. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacology from the College of Pharmacy, Riyadh ELM University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has received a young investigator fellowship award from European Atherosclerosis Society, Sweden for his PhD research work. He has received an award in the year 2015, as a reviewer of the Elsevier European Journal of Integrative Medicine. He has published 80 research and review articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has also published 2 books. |

Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China
Biography of X. Tao
![]() Dr. Xufeng Tao is a Doctor of School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. He got his master’s degree from Dalian Medical University in 2015 and a bachelor’s degree from Qinghai Nationalities University in 2012. He has worked as an assistant laboratory technician in Dalian Medical University from 2015 to 2018. His previous studies have been focused on the pharmacodynamics of natural products of Traditional Chinese Medicine. His current study is focused on the transformation mechanism from pancreatitis to pancreatic cancer. He has published several SCI papers as the first author or co-first author in recent years. |

Wenzhou Medical University
Wenzhou
China
Biography of H. Xu
![]() Dr. Haiyun Xu graduated from Peking Union Medical College in 1996 with a doctorate in Medicine. He has vast experience of teaching medical students and supervising graduate students in the USA, Canada, and China. Currently, he is a full professor at the School of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Medical University, China. He has published over 90 academic articles that have been cited more than 3,300 times. His research fields include Biopsychiatry and Psychopharmacology. He has been serving for 16 journals as an associate editor or editorial board member. |

Anhui Medical University
Hefei
China
Biography of Y. Xu
![]() Dr. Xu Youzhi is an Associated professor and Master Supervisor of Anhui Medical University. He earned PhD degree of Pharmacology in Sichuan University. Visiting Scholar of University of Tasmania (2015) and Morehouse School of Medicine (2018); Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Scholar of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC, 2019) and University of Kentucky (2019-2020); Membership of Pathophysiology Society of China; Membership of Committee of Tumor Biomarker of CACA; Associate Membership of AACR. He has published 30 papers in FASEB J., Cell Death Discov., British J Pharmacol., et al. |

Mugla Sıtkı Koçman University
Muğla
Turkey
Biography of M. Özturk
![]() Dr. Mehmet Öztürk is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and the Assistant Manager of Food Analysis Application and Research Center at the same University. Dr. Öztürk received his Chemist degree from the Mediterranean University at 1998 and received his Ph.D. on Analytical Chemistry at Faculty of Pharmacy of Istanbul University at 2008. He is one of the leading research experts in the area of Natural Products Chemistry and Food Chemistry, as well as in vitro biological activities. He has published more 100 papers and 3 books chapter in the area of chemical ingredients of natural products related to Food and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Recently, he has been working on cytotoxic and immunomodulatory activity of Mushrooms. Nowadays, Dr. Öztürk also focusses on various types of honey origins and to solve their adulteration. Dr. Öztürk serves on various project review committees including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) projects, and also gives lectures on the preparation of both international and national projects. His recent h-index is over 28 (webometrics) and 22 (publons). |

Photochemistry Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Russia
Biography of V.A. Barachevsky
![]() Dr Valery Alexander Barachevsky graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 1960 and Post-graduated from the Institute Physics of St. Petersburg University in 1964. Currently, he is the Head of Lab for Photochromic Systems, Photochemistry Center of FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” at the Russian Academy of Sciences. His professional interests include photochemistry of organic compounds, including photochromic compounds and photochromic nanoparticles, interaction organic systems with laser radiation development and application non-silver organic reversible and irreversible light-sensitive media for recording, storage, processing, transformation, and display of optical information with using bit-by-bit and holographic. He has published 10 books, 455 scientific papers, and 117 Russian and foreign patents. |

Changzhou University
Jiangsu
China
Biography of B. Fang
![]() Dr. Bijun Fang is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Changzhou University. He received a Ph.D. degree in 2002 in Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2003 to 2005, he was a post-doctor in the Department of Applied Chemistry of Faculty of Engineering at Utsunomiya University. He has published more than 150 academic papers, 2 books, and holds over 20 patents. His research interest focuses on materials and devices of piezoelectric and ferroelectric ceramics and single crystals, crystal growth, nano functional materials and solvent hydrothermal synthesis. |

Tongji University
Shanghai
China
Biography of Y. Gao
![]() Dr Yukui Gao received a PhD in Material Science from the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment, China. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He did his Masters and Bachelors from Yanshan University in Materials Science and Metal Materials and Heat Treatment respectively. He has published several articles in journals of repute. |

Shri Shivaji Science College
Amravati
India
Biography of P.P. Khirade
![]() Dr. Pankaj P. Khirade (M.Sc. Physics, Ph.D., B.Ed.) recently completed his Doc-torate degree (Ph.D.) in Materials Physics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MS), India. His research is focused on the synthesis, characterizations and applications of nanoscale materials such as: Fer- rites, Perovskites, Composites, Glasses, Multiferroics etc. He had published a number of research articles in reputed International Journals. He is currently work- ing as an Assistant Professor in Physics, Department of Physics, Shri Shivaji Sci- ence College, Amravati (M.S.), 444603, India. |

Wenzhou Medical University
Wenzhou
China
Biography of Q-K. Lin
![]() Quan-Kui Lin obtained a PhD in Materials Science from Zhejiang University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Biomaterials, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou (China). His recent research interests are focused on Ocular biomaterials design and modification, including the surface modification of intraocular lens for anti-Posterior Capsule Opacification applications, and surface-mediated ocular drug delivery. He has published more than 20 articles in numerous distinguished journals. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of W. Liu
![]() Wencai Liu received a doctor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. He has been engaged in the development and application technology research of high-Performance magnesium/aluminum alloys for a long time. As the project leader, he presided over more than 18 national and provincial scientific research projects. He was selected as a Young Star Scholar of Science and Technology in Shanghai and a Young Star Scholar of Morningstar in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and won one first prize of technology invention in Shanghai. He has published 105 academic papers, applied for 69 national invention patents, 36 of which have been authorized. |

University of South Africa (Florida)
Roodepoort
South Africa
Biography of A.K. Mishra
![]() Ajay Kumar Mishra (MSc, MPhil, PhD, CSci, FRSC) is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa. Prof. Mishra is currently working for University of South Africa as “Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China. Prof Mishra recently recognised as “Fellow member” and “Chartered Scientist” by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Prof AK Mishra research interest involves in the broader areas of Nanoscience/Nanotechnology; Materials Science; Polymers; Composite/Nanocomposites; Photocatalysts and Water Research. He is also actively involved in the area of nanotechnology towards the development of smart materials for various applications in the field of materials science and water research. He supervises students involved in the nanotechnology and water treatment research in projects involving organic, inorganic pollutants from both synthetic and waste water solutions. His research focuses aims at developing a protocol which may lead to developing a technology which may be utilized for industrial purposes. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of international awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers and also reviewer of many international journals. He is serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops. |

North China Electric Power University
Beijing
China
Biography of Y. Wang
![]() Doctor Yinshun Wang, Professor, School of Electrical and Electric Engineering, - North China Electric Power University. Aug. 198, he obtained Ph.D in Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in major of applied superconductivity in electrical engineering. Oct. 1998-JJuly. 2000, he was postdoctor in MAYO Foundation and MIT, USA, respectively. Dec. 2004-Dec. 2005, he was visiting scientist in FZK, Germany. Jan., 2006-Jan. 2018, he was professor in Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From Jan. 2008 to now, he is full time professor of North China Electric Power University. He is Member of IEC/TC-90. In recent 5 years, he published 50 articles and applied 20 patents, published three books. His interesting research is Applied Superconductivity in power system such as HTS cable, transformer, fault current limiter, magnet, cryogenic insulation, HTS characteristics, etc. |

University of Guanajuato
Guanajuato
Mexico
Biography of J.M. Belman
![]() J.M. Belman-Flores is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Guanajuato. He received his Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1999, his Master degree in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University Jaume I in 2008. His current research interests focus on the thermal sciences as applied to HVAC&R systems. His international scientific production includes six book chapters and over 85 journal publications. He has been the tutor or co-tutor of seventeen Master and Doctoral students in Mechanical Engineering. He is a peer-Reviewer of various international journals published by Elsevier, and others. |

Anhui University
Hefei
China
Biography of F. Liu
![]() Dr. Fang Liu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and National Engineering Laboratory of Energy- Saving Motor & Control Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China. His current research interests include machinery condition-based monitoring and fault diagnosis, signal processing, robotics and industrial automation. |

Anhui University
Hefei
China
Biography of S. Lu
![]() Dr. Siliang Lu received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in instruments and mechanical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His research interests include mechanical signal processing and fault diagnosis. He is currently an Associate Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory of Energy-Saving Motor and Control Technology, College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, Hefei, China. In recent years, he has authored and co-authored 57 journal articles in reputable journals. |

National Institute of Technology
Rourkela
India
Biography of S. Murugan
![]() Dr. S. Murugan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He was a visiting researcher at Cranfield University, UK for four months in the year 2015 under Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme. He pursued his post-doctoral research in VSB Technical University, Czech Republic in the field of renewable energy in 2015. He has published about 100 research articles in peer reviewed International Journals and Conferences. He has supervised 8 Ph.D scholars and more than 25 post graduate and 100 undergraduate students. |

Shandong University of Technology
Zibo
China
Biography of Y. Tian
![]() Dr. Yebing Tian is currently a Professor and Director of the department of Mechanical Manufacturing at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, China. He received his degrees in B.E. (2001) and Ph. D (2007) at Shandong University of Technology and Dalian University of Technology, China, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow (2007- 2010) at Ibaraki University, Japan. He was appointed as an Assistant Scientist (2010), and promoted to Scientist I (2011) and Scientist II (2013), respectively, in the Machining Technology Group at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. He joined the department of Mechanical Manufacturing at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, China as a full professor in 2017. His current research interests include precision and ultra-precision machining, smart material preparation and characterization. |

China University of Geosciences
Wuhan
China
Biography of Z. Wei
![]() Dr. Zhouchao Wei is currently a full Professor at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). He received his BSc and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from South China University of Technology in 2006 and 2011 respectively. He then joined the College of Mechanical Engineering of Beijing University of Technology in 2014 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Lodz in Poland in 2015 as a Visiting Researcher. He has also been a Visiting scholar at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK, between 2016 and 2017. Dr. Wei's current research interests include the qualitative theory of differential equations, chaos and bifurcation theory. He has been supported by several National Natural Science Funds and has published more than 60 relevant academic papers in SCI-indexed journals. |

Dalian University of Technology
Panjin
China
Biography of J. Xu
![]() 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. |

Weifang Medical University
Weifang
China
Biography of L. Zhnag
![]() 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. |

Tianjin University of Science and Technology
Tianjin
China
Biography of Q. Deng
![]() Dr. Deng obtained his Ph.D. (in 2005) in Analytical Chemistry from NanKai University, Tianjin, China. Following postdoctoral studies at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, he moved to Tianjin University of Science and Technology (2007) to take up an associate professor position in analytical chemistry. In 2012, he was promoted to a full professor. His research interests now are nanostructured sensing and separation materials for detection of chemical hazard from food and environmental. |

Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an
China
Biography of X. Donghai
![]() Dr. Xu Donghai is a full Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He visited University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) as a visiting scholar for one year. He has published more than 80 SCI papers which have been cited more than 2000 times, with 3 ESI papers and an H-index of 20. He has 45 China invention patents and two USA patents. He also has two books under his belt, which are published in Springer Press and Xi’an Jiaotong University Press. He has been awarded the Gold award in Technology Workers Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Shaanxi Province, and for the 8th International Exhibition of Inventions, Excellent doctoral thesis (Shaanxi Province), China Patent Excellence Award. His research interest includes biomass energy, hydrothermal treatment, supercritical fluid technology, etc. |

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Suzhou
China
Biography of M. Matziari
![]() Dr. Magdalini Matziari joined the Chemistry department at Xi'an- Jiaotong Liverpool University in 2012 as a lecturer. After obtaining a PhD degree in 2001 from the National and Kapodistrian university of Athens, she worked there as a researcher and teaching assistant in the laboratory of organic chemistry. In 2006 she received the national award in Material Science of Unesco-L'Oréal, for "In Women in Science" concentrating excellence program. Magdalini works in several areas of synthetic organic chemistry with a strong emphasis on drug- design and medicinal chemistry. Currently the main research interests include the development of small molecular weight inhibitors towards HIV and Hepatitis C virus enzymes, drug delivery systems and studies on organocatalysis. |

Jiaxing University
Jiaxing
China
Biography of G. Qiu
![]() Dr. Guanyinsheng Qiu was born in Jiangxi (China) in 1984. He received his BS (2008) and MS (2011) from the Department of Chemistry at Jiangxi Normal University. In the year 2011, he moved to Fudan University, pursuing his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Jie Wu. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2014. During 2014–2018, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (supervisor: Prof. Jieping Zhu) and Fudan University (supervisor: Prof. Jie Wu). He now works at Jiaxing University as a full professor. He has published more than 90 articles in the international journals, such as Angew. Chem., Chem. Soc. Rev., Org. Lett., Chem. Commun., and Adv. Synth. Catal. etc. The papers have been cited for more than 2000 times. His current research interest mainly focuses on green synthetic methodological development by transitional metal catalysis and photocatalysis. |

Chongqing University
Chongqing
China
Biography of J. Ran
![]() Dr. Ran Jing-yu is a Chair Professor and Director at Institute of Energy and Environment, Chongqing University, China. Adjunct professor, Senior Research scholar, Energy Engineering, at Rice University, USA (2011.03-2011.09), Visiting scholar, Energy Engineering at The University of Queensland, Australia(2006.12-2007.12). Dr. Ran researches include investigation on Chemical Looping Combustion, the renewable energy transfer and utilization (biomass and wind energy, etal), micro-combustion, clean combustion and energy transferred & utilized for lower heat value fuel (such as Municipal Solid Waste, biomass, etc.), Coal and gas. Multiphase flow and improving operation efficiency and control pollutants emissions for advanced power generated systems, et al. |

Anhui University of Technology
Maanshan
China
Biography of Bihai Tong
![]() Dr. Bihai Tong is a professor in the School of Metallurgy Engineering, Anhui University of Technology. He received his BS degree in Chemical Education from Xiangtan Normal University, MS degree in Organic Chemistry from Guangxi Normal University and PhD degree in materials physics and chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University, China. His research is currently focused on developing high performance organic electroluminescent materials. |

Jishou University
Jishou
China
Biography of Y. Wang
![]() Dr. Yingchun Wang is an Associate Professor in Jishou University. She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Guangxi Normal University, and a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from Guangxi Normal University, China. Her research is currently focused on developing new methodologies for synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds through Isocyanides-Based Multicomponent reactions and screening the toxicity and antitumor activity of Nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds. |

Henan University
Kaifeng
China
Biography of Q. Wang
![]() Dr. Qilin Wang was born in 1987 in Henan, People’s Republic of China. He obtained his bachelor degree in applied chemistry from Henan University in 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoying Xu and Prof. Weicheng Yuan of Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Henan University as a lecture in 2014 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. He was a visiting scholar at University of South Florida (USA) from Apr. 2018 to Apr. 2019 with Prof. Xiaodong Shi. His research interest includes asymmetric catalysis and synthesis, development of new synthons and cascade reactions, and synthesis of biologically interesting bridged- and spiro-heterocycles. |

South China Normal University
Guangzhou
China
Biography of Z-Y. Wang
![]() Professor Zhao-Yang Wang received his Master degree in Organic Chemistry from Beijing Normal University in 1995 and PhD in Material from South China University of Technology in 2004. Since 2005, he is a professor at the School of Chemistry, South China Normal University, China. His research interests include organic synthesis, functional material and green chemistry. Currently, he has published some scientific papers in well-reputed journals including Angew Chem Int Ed and has also served as a reviewer in some famous journals. |

Xiangtan University
Xiangtan
China
Biography of F. Xiao
![]() Dr. Fuhong Xiao was born in Jiangxi Province, China in 1986. He received his B. S. from East China University of Technology (2009), and Ph. D. from Xiangtan University under the supervision of Professor Guo-Jun Deng (2014, Jun). He then joined the Key Laboratory for Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Application of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University. His current research in Xiangtan University is focused on the development of sustainable oxidative patterns and processes for catalytic organic synthesis. |

Guilin Medical University
Guilin
China
Biography of Y. Xu
![]() Dr. Yanli Xu is an Associate Professor in the Pharmacy School of Guilin Medical University. She received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Guangxi Normal University, and a PhD degree in organic chemistry from South China University of Technology, China. Her research is currently focused on developing new methodologies for synthesis of organoselenium compounds and screening the toxicity and antitumor activity of organoselenium compounds. |

Guizhou Medical University
Guiyang
China
Biography of Y. Yang
![]() Dr. Yuanyong Yang received his B.S. degree in 2007 from Sichuan University. In 2012, he received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore under the supervision of Prof. Choon-Hong Tan. Subsequently, He spent another two years (2012-2014) at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Chua Kim Lee before starting his independent research as an associate professor at Guizhou Medical University and his research concerns the development of new synthetic methods and strategies and investigations toward understanding the mechanism. |
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Université Paris-Saclay
Paris
France
Biography of D.M. Nguyen
![]() Dr Dang Mao Nguyen received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, in 2017. After that, he moved to the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France, to work as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018. He is currently a researcher of the Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Centralesupelec – University Paris-Saclay, France. His research areas are synthesis and modification of polymer and composite materials, natural fiber- reinforced composites, 3D images from tomography, Heat and mass transfers in porous materials, Images processing, and Hybrid materials for electrochemical, water splitting and catalytic applications. During his early career, he has published about 40 reputable-journal publications including book chapters and patents. He is the Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of several international journals, namely, Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society and Materials Proceedings. |

Taibah University
Yanbu
Saudi Arabia
Biography of S. Parveen
![]() Dr Shazia Parveen received her Doctorate degree in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2013. Her research work includes the design and synthesis of metal based chiral chemotherapeutic agents and their in vitro DNA binding and cleavage studies. She has done research training in Solution phase Peptide Synthesis (SPSS) at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India in 2009. She has been awarded with various awards including ‘Best Poster Presentation Award’ in “11th International Conference on Chemistry and its Role in Development” held at Mansoura University, Egypt in 2013. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship in Jamia Hamdard, she is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Yanbu Branch, Taibah University, Madina, KSA. |

University of Mumbai
Mumbai
India
Biography of A.B. Patil
![]() Dr. Aniruddha Patil is working as an assistant professor at Maharshi Dayanand College, Parel, University of Mumbai, India. He received his PhD (Chemical Engineering) from Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai (India) in 2015. He did postdoctoral research work at Bio-Smat, Xiamen University, China. His current research interest is preparing shape and size selective nanoparticles and nanocomposites as a functional material, which has catalytic applications for different organic reactions and electrocatalytic applications for biological sample detections (biosensors fabrication). He has published 26 research articles in an international journal. He has 5 Indian (2 granted), and 4 Chinese Patens. |

ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
Kolkata
India
Biography of D.J. Sarkar
![]() Dr. Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemicals from the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi. During his doctoral thesis, he worked extensively on the development of pesticidal nanoformulations to improve their efficacy. He received the institute's Gold Medal for his doctoral thesis and also secured ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences and Best Doctoral Thesis from Society of Pesticide Science, New Delhi for the same. He joined ICAR-IARI, New Delhi as faculty in 2012 and worked specifically on the development of various superabsorbent nanocomposite products for their application in agriculture for better water and nutrient use efficiency. For his work on the superabsorbent technology he received National Award for Technology Innovation in various fields of Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastic Processing Industry, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India in 2015. He has two Indian patents on the development of nanoformulations of pesticides and one Indian patent on the development of superabsorbent nanocomposites. Besides this, to his credit one US patent is also granted. He has more than 20 research articles on the application of nanotechnology in agriculture besides other minor publications. Recently, he is researching on the development of various nanostructured materials suitable for fisheries application, heavy metal monitoring in aquatic environment, metagenomics, nanobiosensor development under the aegis of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, India. |

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Taipei
Taiwan
Biography of M. Sivakumar
![]() Dr. Mani Sivakumar received his Bachelor and Master Degree in Physics from Periyar University, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at National Taipei University of Technology in July 2017. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interest mainly focuses on hybrid metal oxides and the carbon- based nanomaterial synthesis from various bio-wastes for electrochemical biosensor and sensors, electrocatalysis and supercapacitors. Recently focused on organic/inorganic composite membrane or carbon-based membrane for salt, dye and gas separation in an environmental application. He has published more than 25 research articles in SCI journals. |

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
Shenyang
China
Biography of P. Yang
![]() Dr. Peng Yang received his Ph.D. in Dalian University of Technology (China) in 2006. Afterwards, he did his postdoc research in INSERM (France), University of Saskatchewan (Canada), University of New Orleans (USA), respectively. In 2011, he joined Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (China). He is now a Professor and Principle Investigator of Wuya College of Innovation at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University. Prof. Dr. Peng YANG has good academic records and he initiates the study on calix[n]carbazoles internationally. His recent research interests focus on the creation of complex molecular architectures, exploration of their biocompatibility as well as generation of their pharmaceutical applications. |

Northwest University
Xi'an
China
Biography of T. Zhang
![]() Dr. T. L. Zhang is currently working as an Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecular of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, China. He is also a member of the Professional Committee of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Division of the Chinese Optical Engineering Society(CSOE). His research interests include (1) Chemometrics & machine learning; (2) Metallurgical industry process analysis; (3)Environmental analysis; (4) laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). He has published over 50 papers in refereed journals. Please also suggest a few names in the relevant field suitable for joining the Editorial Board. |

Gazi University
Ankara
Turkey
Biography of H. Çelikkan
![]() Dr. Hüseyin Çelikkan is currently a Professor in the analytical chemistry department of Gazi University, Turkey. He received the Ph.D. in 2007. His research is focused on electrochemical sensors, electrodeposition, electrocatalysis and the applications of 2D materials. |

Capital University of Science and Technology
Islamabad
Pakistan
Biography of S-M. Bakhtiar
![]() Dr Syeda Marriam Bakhtiar has completed her MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and PhD in Human Molecular Genetics with a special focus on learning disabilities. Her research interests include the molecular understanding of inherited diseases/disorders and other infectious diseases more prevalent in Pakistan. She is implementing integrated Molecular Genetics and Genomics approaches to understand the complexities of the inherited genetic diseases, their characterization at the molecular level, and strategies for control and prevention. Similarly, in infectious diseases, she is particularly interested in pathogen-host interaction in analyzing the genomic data (sequencing). Her research interest also includes Bioinformatics and Computational biology approaches to analyze and interpret the vast amount of genomic data available on public databases and utilization of this data to its full potential. |

University of North Bengal
Darjeeling
India
Biography of R.K. Das
![]() Dr. Rajesh Kumar Das is currently the Faculty of Chemistry, University of North Bengal, India. He did his M.Sc. form NBU with distinction and awarded a University Medal. He completed the Ph.D on Solution Thermodynamics and post doctorate on Bioinformatics. His current research interests include Computer Aided Drug Design, QSAR, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry. He has authored or co-authored over 20 articles in peer review journals. Dr. Das is a life member of Chemical CRSI, Indian Chemical Society, Indian Science Congress. He is currently the Guest Editor of The Open Microbiology Journal, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Drug Design and Medicinal Chemistry, Reviewer of Drug Development Research, and International Journal of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry , and Bentham Brand Ambassador of Bentham Science. |

Central China Normal University
Wuhan
China
Biography of X. Jiang
![]() Dr. Xingpeng Jiang is currently a professor at the School of Computer at Central China Normal University. He is the director of the Department of Computer Science and Technology and was selected as a "Chutian Scholar-Young Scientist" in Hubei Province. He is serving as a member of the IEEE BIBM Conference Program Committee, editor of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences and the Advances in Bio-marker Science and Technology. He is also a member of the Bioinformatics Committee of the Chinese Computer Society, the member of Gene Detection Technology Branch of the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Association and Vice Chairman of the Hubei Bioinformatics Society. His research interests include microbiome data mining and medical artificial intelligence. He has published more than 60 academic papers in the field of bioinformatics, majorly in microbiology data mining and analysis. |

University of Turku
Turku
Finland
Biography of G. Krishnasamy
![]() Dr. Gopinath Krishnasamy is currently working as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland. He has obtained his doctoral degree in Bioinformatics from Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India in 2016. Then, he worked as Researcher and Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea (Jan 2016 to May 2019). His research areas are Computational Enzyme Engineering, Computer Aided Drug Designing and Natural products research, Molecular dynamics, Database development working interdisciplinary projects (Enzyme engineering, computational approaches in Drug designing and natural product research. |

Guangxi University
Nanning
China
Biography of W. Lan
![]() Dr Wei Lan received his PhD in Computer Science from Central South University in 2016. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, School of Computer, Electronic Information, Guangxi University, China. He has been awarded several research grants, including a National Natural Science Foundation of China Project. He has published more than 30 referred papers including Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Methods, Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience. His research interests include bioinformatics, data mining, and machine learning. |

Fuzhou University
Fuzhou
China
Biography of J. Li
![]() Dr. Jinyu Li obtained his PhD in Computational Biology at RWTH-Aachen University, Germany in 2015, supervised by Prof. Paolo Carloni. He then worked as a postdoc at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Starting from 2016, he established his own lab at Fuzhou University, China and has been a full professor in chemistry since 2017. His research interests mainly focus on the development of in silico methods and their integrations with biological experiments for biomedicine. He is a fellow member of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association. He was awarded the Minjiang Scholar Professorship in 2015, and the Distinguished Young Scholar of the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian in 2019. He has published over 40 papers on peer-reviewed journals, e.g. Nat Chem Biol, JACS, Angew, J Med Chem, and PLoS Comput Biol. |

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Nagpur
India
Biography of D.K. Mahapatra
![]() Dr. Debarshi Kar Mahapatra is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dadasaheb Balpande College of Pharmacy, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. His research interests include computer assisted rational designing, synthesis of low molecular weight ligands against druggable targets, development of drug delivery systems, and optimization of unconventional formulations. He has made several publications in various reputed international journals and presented his original contributions at several international platforms for which he also received awards. He has contributed several edited books, syllabus-based textbooks, lab manuals, book chapters, magazine articles, and guide books on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Natural Products, Pharmacology, and Pharmaceutics. He also serves a reviewer and an editorial board member for several journals of international repute. He is an active member of several professional and international scientific societies. |

Alagappa University
Karaikudi
India
Biography of K. Muthusamy
![]() Dr Karthikeyan Muthusamy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He received his Masters and a PhD degree in Biomedical Genetics from the Department of Genetics, Dr ALMPGIBMS, University of Madras, Chennai, India. He has been actively researching in understanding the genetics and molecular basis of variation in drug response, drug Repurposing for human diseases like hypertension, diabetics, cardiovascular diseases, renal failure viral diseases, and so on to study therapeutic efficacies and side effects of the drugs through the computational and experimental methods. In connection with that, he has published more than 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is also an Editor in various Journals. |

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte
Brazil
Biography of J.M. Ortega
![]() Dr. Ortega holds a degree in Biosciences and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Sao Paulo. He is currently an associate professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais, leading the Biodata Lab. He has experience in Biochemistry, with emphasis on bioinformatics, acting on the following topics: chromatin structure, yeast two-hybrid system, biochemistry of transcription factors and bioinformatics. Participated twice in the board of the Brazilian Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and was the organizer of the X-meeting 2005. Participates in the PhD program on Bioinformatics at UFMG and Minas Gerais Genome Network and is responsible for the Center for High-Performance Computing at ICB/UFMG. |

University Federal Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Biography of K. Pal
![]() Prof. (Dr.) Kaushik Pal belongs to an Indian citizen and born in Kolkata. Currently acting as “Visiting Research Professor” at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and acting as Distinguished Chair Professor and Group Leader (Chief-Scientist & Faculty Fellow) position in Wuhan University, Wuchang Dist., Hubei, Republic of China. Before, he worked as a “Visiting Professor” at IIUCN, School of Energy Materials, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. He received his Ph.D. from University of Kalyani. Most significant prestigious awards “Marie-Curie Experienced Researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow)” offered by the European Commission in Greece and “Brain Korea (BK-21) National Research Foundation Visiting Scientist Fellowship” in South Korea achieved his research career. He was appointed “Senior Postdoctoral Fellow” in China and within a year achieved a prestigious position “Chief-Scientist & Faculty (CAS) Fellow” by Chinese Academy of Science. He also served as “Research Professor (Group Leader & Independent Scientist)”, at Bharath University (BIHER), Research & Development, Chennai. His current spans are focusing e.g. Nanofabrication, functional Materials, condensed matter physics (Expt.), CNTs/graphene, liquid crystal, polymeric nanocomposite, switchable device, electron microscopy and spectroscopy, bio-inspired materials, drug delivery, tissue engineering, cell culture and integration, switchable device modulation, flexible and transparent electrodes, supercapacitor, optoelectronics, green chemistry, and biosensor applications. His outstanding research finding and novelty published around 65-articles in several international top-tier journals likewise: IOP Nanotechnology, Royal Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer, IEEE publications got the highest citation in every year and performed editing 20- book’s chapters and 8-Review Articles. Throughout his academic experiences, skills and research background deserve him as an Editorial member of ‘World Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology’, ‘Current Graphene Science’, ‘J. of Chemical Reviews’, ‘Pan Stanford', ‘En Press’, and ‘InTech Open Access’ publisher edited several book’s chapters and since last year reviewed around 150 articles. |

Alagappa University
Karaikudi
India
Biography of C. Selvaraj
![]() Dr Chandrabose Selvaraj is a Bioinformatician with expertise in microbial informatics. He is a senior researcher in the Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University, India. His expertise also includes computational chemistry, Molecular modelling, and Drug design. Dr Selvaraj obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics (2014), from the Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University, India. He did his post-doctoral in International esteemed institutes that include Food and Drug Administration (USA), Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC-Brno), Konkuk University (South Korea), Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi (India). His work is dedicated to understanding molecular-level interactions between the Pathogen and humans for chemical biology and drug discovery to applying theoretical and biophysical methods using various Bioinformatics approaches along with few experimental validations. |

Henan University of Technology
Zhengzhou
China
Biography of G. Selvaraj
![]() Dr. Gurudeeban Selvaraj is currently working as a Postdoctoral Scientist at Prof. Gilles and Prof. Wei’s lab in CERMM, Concordia University, Canada. Prior to joining CERMM, he was a postdoctoral scientist at Henan University of Technology, Annamalai University and Istanbul Medeniyet University from September 2014 to November 2017. He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 2003 from Bharathiar University, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Marine Biotechnology in 2008 and 2014, all from Annamalai University. He received prestigious research grants from different funding agencies includes MITACS Global link (2019), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018), Henan Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018), TUBITAK-2216, Turkey (2014), and UGC, India (2011). He published more than 50 research articles in reputed and indexed journals with total citation of 1248 and h-index of 18 since 2011. |


Henan Institute of Technology
Xinxiang
China
Biography of X. Wang
![]() Dr. Xianfang Wang is currently a professor and an academic leader at Henan Institute of Technology, China. She received her PhD degree in 2009 from Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. Her research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings. She has also published 2 books with co-authors. Recently, Dr. Wang works in Graph Convolutional Networks, DTA Prediction and Drug Repositioning. She has finished over 5 research fundings from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Support Program for Innovative Talents in Universities of Henan Province, the Research Project of Science and Technology in Henan Province and the Henan Natural Science Foundation. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenzhen
China
Biography of Y. Wei
![]() Dr Yanjie Wei is a Professor and the Executive Director at the Center for High-Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his PhD in 2007 at Michigan Tech University in the field of Computational Biophysics. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. His research focuses on high-performance computing and computational biology/bioinformatics. He has published about 60 publications in journals/conferences including Proteins, BMC Bioinformatics, PloS Computational Biology, J. of Physical Chemistry B, Cell Research, PPoPP2015, ICPP2016, etc. |

Sichuan University
Chengdu
China
Biography of X-Y. Wei
![]() Dr. Xiao-Yong Wei is a Professor and the department head of the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Xiao-Yong Wei is also affiliated with the Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, where he works as a professor and the coordinator for the Healthism project. Healthism is an interdisciplinary project to tackle chronic diseases and significantly improve quality of life by going beyond the episodic health model developed for prevalent disease-centric-healthcare. Healthism focuses on physical and mental health to develop approaches for changing the way people adopt lifestyle for achieving best health to meet their desired goals. He has more than 20 publications |

Shantou University Medical College
Shantou
China
Biography of B. Wu
![]() Dr. Bingli Wu's main research interest is the application of both molecular experiments and bioinformatics, using of the biological data (microarray and RNA-seq) from our research group and public database, to analyze the biological functions, expression and regulation mechanisms, and cell signaling pathways of genes involved in the proliferation, invasion and metastasis of esophageal cancer and brain tumor. |

Dezhou University
Dezhou
China
Biography of J-F. Yu
![]() Dr. Jia-Feng Yu is a Professor in the Institute of Biophysics, Dezhou University, China. He received his PHD degree in Bioinformatics from Southeast University in 2012, and he is currently deputy director of Shandong Key Laboratory of Biophysics. His research field involves prokaryotic genome annotation, intrinsically disordered proteins, flora, lncRNA, small open reading frames, some works have been published in NAR, DNA Res, CMLS, BMC Bioinformatics, etc. |

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of W. Zhang
![]() Dr. Weilin Zhang received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He received several awards such as Academic Innovation Award of Ministry of Education (2010), Travel Awards (52ed ASH Annual Meeting, America, 2010), and Excellent university graduates of Henan Province (Henan Provincial People’s Government, 2004). Besides, he is an editorial board member of the Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine and is also a member of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. Moreover, Dr. Zhang has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
Biography of P. Zhou
![]() Dr. Zhou received his PhD degree in China Agricultural University in 2007. Since 2011, he joined Shanghai Jiaotong University as an Assistant Professor and promoted to be Associate Professor in 2014. Dr. Zhou mainly focuses on forage and turf grass abiotic stress molecular physiology. He is studying the roles of plant hormones and stress proteins in forage and turf grass under abiotic stress. To present, Dr. Zhou has published more than 24 scientific papers in the professional journals. |

Xi'an Polytechnic University
Xi’an
China
Biography of W. Fan
![]() Dr. Wei Fan graduated in textile science and engineering from the University of Tianjin Polytechnic University, China. With the only exception of one postdoctoral stay in USA (University of North Texas) he has spent his entire career at the Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, where he is now an Associate Professor and the Assistant of Dean in the School of Textile Science and Engineering. His work has been mainly focused on the structures and properties of textile composites, preparation and properties of flexible and smart wearable and recycling of waste textiles. He has published over 30 papers in refereed journals. |

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
Xi’an
China
Biography of X. Li
![]() Dr. Xuejuan Li graduated in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the school of Science, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China. She has been awarded several research grants, including a National Natural Science Foundation of China Project. She has published several referred papers including Multi-scale modeling and computation, CFD, Numerical methods for PDEs, Neurocomputing. |

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
Xi’an
China
Biography of Y. Shen
![]() Dr. Yue Shen has graduated from Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, and now is a lecturer at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. Her interest covers mainly in numerical solution of partial differential equation, especially PDE-constrained Optimization and adaptive finite element method. She has published several articles in reputed journals. |

East China Jiaotong University
Nanchang
China
Biography of J. Zhang
![]() Dr. Jingjing Zhang is an Associate Professor at the school of science, East China Jiaotong University. She received her Ph. D. from the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. In 2012-2013, Dr. Jingjing Zhang worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. Her research interest includes computational geometric mechanics, numerical analysis, numerical mathematics and nonlinear science. Dr. Zhang has authored/co-authored over 20 academic papers in the area of computational mathematics, computational physics and engineering. |

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai
China
Biography of W. Cao
![]() Dr Wei Cao has been appointed as the Associate Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine since 2017. His training fellowship of Head & Neck Oncology was completed in 2015 from Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. He joined the Editorial Board of ‘Frontiers in Oncology’ in January 2020 and was appointed as the Guest Associate Editor for managing the research topic "Non-coding RNAs in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Functional and Clinical Implications". Up till now, he has published 38 original articles including, ‘Cancer, EMBO J, Molecular Cancer, Bioinformatics, Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, Cancer Prevention Research, Oral Oncology, Head & Neck.’ He hosted 3 projects from the Natural Science Foundation of China. His research interest includes Head and Neck Oncology, Epigenetic and genetic whole studies, Classifier for early detection, predict lymph node metastasis and survival. |

Central University of Technology
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Biography of C.I. Chukwuma
![]() Dr Chukwuma has a Ph.D., M.Sc, and B.Sc. (Hon) in Biochemistry from University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. He has 4 years of postdoctoral research experience in medicinal plant and functional food research. He has published more than 32 articles in reputable journals and has more than 220 citations. He is also a recipient of several awards and scholarships and has served as an invited reviewer for many reputable journals and several competitive grants. He is currently a researcher and MSc/PhD project supervisor at the Central University of Technology, South Africa and a registered scientist of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions. |

Imam Abdulrhaman Bin Faisal University
Dammam
Saudi Arabia
Biography of T. Ezzat
![]() Prof. Tamer Ezzat is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry- College of Science- Imam Abdulrhaman Bin Faisal University (IAU) – Saudi Arabia (Dammam). He is presently serving as a Chairman of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Unit - Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center –Saudi Arabia (Dammam). He received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.nat) in materials science from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany in 2005. He worked at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany as a visiting assistant professor in 2007-2011, at the King Abdulaziz University (KAU) through attracting distinguished academics track till became a full professor in 2017. |

Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu
China
Biography of H. Jiang
![]() Dr. He-Zhong Jiang obtained his Ph. D. degree in 2011 from the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a member of Chinese Chemical Society, and an Associate Professor at the School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University (China). Dr. Jiang has experience in the area of Chemistry of Natural Products, Phytochemistry, and Effective Substances of Traditional Chinese Medicine, working mainly in: Medicinal plants, New Research Drugs, Effective Substances of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ethnodrug. |

National Institute of Pathology
New Delhi
India
Biography of S. Kumar
![]() He completed his Master's Degree in Biotechnology from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Thereafter he started working in genetic engineering at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. Thereafter, he went on to acquire his Doctor of Philosophy from School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in drug discovery and cell biology. Currently, he is working as a Scientist at the National Institute of Pathology New Delhi. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed international journals, presented several conference papers on the above field. |

Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore
India
Biography of K. Ramanathan
![]() Dr. K. Ramanathan, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Ramanathan received ICMR International Fellowship award for the Young Biomedical Scientist for the year 2018-19 and successfully completed his fellowship training at Purdue University, USA. Ramanathan has broad interests in the area of Machine Learning, Cancer precision medicine and drug resistance analysis. Ramanathan has more than 15 years of research experience in molecular simulation study and drug resistance analysis and has authored/co-authored more than 110 papers in these areas. |


Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
Beijing
China
Biography of L. Wu
![]() Dr. Lidong Wu received his PhD (2012) in Analytical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, and then worked at Chinese Academy of Fishery Science (2012). He worked at Marine Institute of Ireland, Ireland as a Visiting scholar (2013-2014) and Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting research scholar (2016- 2018). He was selected in the One-hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (2013). His current research interests mainly focus on analytical and environmental chemistry, and their applications in aquaculture environment and food safety. The recent research interests include: sample preparation and pretreatment; development of analysis and detection technology such as RFID based sensors, FET based biosensors, non-aqueous enzyme based sensors and analytical nanomaterials for rapid screening and detection of environmental pollutants, biomolecules, etc. |

University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei
China
Biography of S.S.A. Shah
![]() Dr. Syed Shoaib Ahmad Shah is currently working in University of Science and Technology of China and also Assistant Professor in The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. In 2018, he earned his Ph.D degree from Chongqing University, China. He has credited several peer reviewed published articles in well-known journals like Angew. Chem., Current Medicinal Chemistry, Mini- Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, JPCC, JMCA, Electrochimica Acta, Chemistry-A European Journal etc. He has also been awarded out-standing researcher award from Chongqing University in 2018. |


National Council for Scientific Research
Beirut
Lebanon
Biography of M. Awad
![]() Prof. Mohamad Awad earned his PhD in 2008 from the University of Rennes 1, France in Telecommunication and Signal processing. He has been working for the National Council for Scientific Research since January 1996 starting as a Research Assistant, and later promoted to Research Director. He has many published research papers, and book chapters in GIS, Remote Sensing, Computer Science, Oceanography, Image processing, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Management. Prof. Awad is a member of many international organizations such as IEEE, and GRSS. He has obtained several awards and grants such as Fulbright research grant, LAAS Award for Career Excellence in Science 2016, and Publons Awards for the best reviewers in the years of 2018 and 2019. |

University of Guilan
Rudsar
Iran
Biography of T. Bakhshpoori
![]() Dr. Taha Bakhshpoori earned the B.Sc. in civil engineering from Department of Engineering, University of Guilan (2009), M.Sc. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) both in structural engineering from Department of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology. He has served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology and Engineering, University of Guilan, since December 2015. His research interests include, Artificial Intelligence and Applications to Civil Engineering Problems, Meta-heuristic Modeling and Optimization, Multi Objective Optimization, Structural optimization, Reliability, Robust, and Risk Based Design Optimization, and Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection. |

University of Hassan II Casablanca
Casablanca
Morocco
Biography of S. Broumi
![]() Dr. Said Broumi was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1978. He received his PHD from University Hassan II - Casablanca. He received his M.Sc. in Industrial Automatic from Hassan II University Ainchok- Casablanca. His search major field is on neutrosophic graph theory, soft set theory, fuzzy theory, intuitionistic fuzzy theory, neutrosophic theory, neutrosophic soft set theory and neutrosophic decision making problem, networking. He has published over 200 articles. |

Harbin Engineering University
Harbin
China
Biography of L. Fan
![]() Liyun Fan is currently a Professor at the College of Power and Energy Engineering, Harbin Engineering University. He holds a PhD degree in Power Machinery and Engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. His research interests include Engine Simulation, Computing Science, Modeling and design of Power System. He has won several awards such as: ‘Key Technology and Application of Marine Diesel/LNG Dual Fuel Power System’, 2019 National Technology Invention Award, ‘Electronic Control Fuel Injection Technology of Diesel Engine’, Second-Class Award of Invention Awarded by Science and Technology Department of Heilongjiang Province, 2014 and so on. Dr Fan has published several articles in well-reputed journals. |

Huaqiao University
Quanzhou
China
Biography of Z. Gao
![]() Professor. Zhenguo Gao is a Professor at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He is also the Dean of Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Machine Learning (Huaqiao University), Fujian Province University. He has been a visiting scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Michigan in 2010 and 2011, respectively. He received his BS and MS degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Architecture from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2006. His research interests include wireless ad hoc network, cognitive radio network, etc. |

Taipei Medical University
Taipei
Taiwan
Biography of N.Q. Khanh Le
![]() Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le is an Assistant Professor with the Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. He earned his MS and PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are artificial intelligence, deep learning, bioinformatics, computational biology, radiogenomics, and healthcare informatics. |

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant
USA
Biography of E-B. Lin
![]() Dr. En-Bing Lin is Professor of Mathematics at Central Michigan University, USA. He is a former mathematics department chair at the University of Toledo and Central Michigan University. He has taught and visited at several institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of California-Riverside, the University of Toledo, UCLA, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include Data Analysis, Image Processing, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Wavelet Analysis and its Applications. He has served on several academic committees of regional and national associations. He has organized several special sessions at regional IEEE conference and American Mathematical Society national and regional meetings. |

Aditya Institute of Technology and Management
Srikakulam
Indian
Biography of J. Nayak
![]() Dr. Janmenjoy Nayak is working as an Associate Professor at the Aditya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM),(An Autonomous Institution) Tekkali, K Kotturu, AP- 532201, India. Being two times Gold Medallist in Computer Science in his career, he has been awarded with INSPIRE Research Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India (both as JRF and SRF level) and Best researcher award from Jawaharlal Nehru University of Technology, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh for the AY: 2018-19. He has edited eight books and seven Special Issues on the applications of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, data analytics and pattern recognition, published by Springer, Inderscience International publications. He has published more than 90 referred articles in various book chapters, conferences and International repute peer reviewed journals of Elsevier, Inderscience, Springer, IEEE etc. He has a total ten years of experience in both teaching and research. He is the regular member of IEEE and life member of some of the reputed societies like CSI India, Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS), Orissa Mathematical Society (OMS), IAENG (Hongkong) etc. He has successfully conducted and is being associated with International repute series conferences like ICCIDM, HIS, ARIAM, CIPR, SCDA etc. His area of interest includes data mining, nature inspired algorithms and soft computing. |

COMSATS University
Islamabad
Pakistan
Biography of B. Raza
![]() Dr. Basit Raza received his Master degree in computer science from the University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from International Islamic University Islamabad and University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2014. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan. His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, medical imaging and data science. Dr. Raza has authored several papers in refereed journals and conferences and has been serving as a reviewer for prestigious journals, such as Applied Soft Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Applied Intelligence, IEEE Access and Future Generation Computer Systems. |

University of Sousse
Sousse
Tunisia
Biography of L. Saidi
![]() Lotfi Saidi, Ph.D., Senior member IEEE, received a doctorate degree in electrical engineering, from the University of Tunis, ENSIT. He is a member of the research group in Signal Image and Energy Mastery laboratory (SIME) at the University of Tunis, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Brest, IRDL Laboratory in Brest, France, and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Sousse (ESSTHS). His research interests include prognosis and health management (PHM) for electro-mechanical systems, based on advanced digital signal processing tools and pattern-recognition techniques. |

University of Chicago
Chicago
USA
Biography of V. Sathya
![]() Dr. Vanlin Sathya is currently a postdoc research scholar at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief in EAI Endorsed Transaction on Mobile Communications and Applications (MCA). He authored more than 60 IEEE and ACM publications. His novel research ideas generated considerable interest in an industry-led IEEE 802.11 coexistence workshop and ETSI standards. His recent research interests lie in design, analysis, and implementation of wireless network algorithms and particularly interested in 5G NR-U/LAA Wi-Fi Coexistence in 5GHz & 6GHz unlicensed spectrum, 5G mmWave Technologies, Device-to-Device (D2D) networking, Interference Management in 5G NR network, Internet of Things (IoT), LTE Wi-Fi Aggregation (LWA), Handover and Placement of Femto (small cells) in LTE, Full Duplex in 5G cellular communication, Data offloading, Bandwidth aggregation and routing between Wi-Fi and cellular, M2M congestion and scheduling issues. Dr. Vanlin Sathya serves as TPC and Session Chair in ICNC, ICBTA, ICSNC, CECNET, SPCOM, NCC, and COMSNET. He is also a review board member in different international journals. |

University of East Sarajevo
Doboj
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Biography of Z. Stević
![]() Dr. Zeljko Stevic is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering Doboj, University of East Sarajevo. He received a PhD in Transport and Traffic Engineering from University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences 2018. His research interests include logistics; supply chain management; transport; traffic engineering; multi-criteria decision making problems; rough set theory; sustainability; fuzzy set theory, neutrosophic set theory. He has published over 110 papers from the area of his interest. He has contributed outstanding research in the mentioned fields. In all his researches he has provided a very good application studies and practical contributed solving different problems in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, traffic engineering, etc.Dr. Stević has authored/co-authored of papers published in refereed International Journals including Applied Soft Computing, Neural Computing and Applications, Sustainability, Symmetry, Engineering Economics, Soft Computing, Transport, Scientometrics, Information, ECECSR, Technical gazette, SIC, Mathematics (MDPI), and other. |

Mingnan Normal University
Zhangzhou
China
Biography of X. Xia
![]() Xuewen Xia received a PhD degree in Computer Software and Theory from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2009. He was a lecturer with the Hubei Engineering University, Xiaogan, China in 2009. In 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. In 2014, he was an Associate Professor with the School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China. Currently, he is a Professor at the College of Physics and Information Engineering, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China. His current research interests include the areas of computational intelligence techniques and their applications. |

Beihang University
Beijing
China
Biography of X. Yang
![]() Dr. XINGBANG YANG is currently a Postdoctoral Associate with the Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His current research interests include bioinspired robotics, lower limb prosthetics, assistive robotics, soft robotics, and biomechanics. He is the author of over 30 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and the inventor of more than 10 patented inventions. His academic achievements were ever reported by medias such as Science News, MIT Technology Review, IEEE spectrum, China Youth Daily, etc. He was also invited as the reviewer of around 20 journals/conferences like J. Royal Soc. Interface, J. Field Robot., Mech. Mach. Theory, J. Biomech, ICRA, etc. |

Shandong University of Technology
Zibo
China
Biography of M. Zheng
![]() Mingwen Zheng received the B.S. degree in School of Science from Shandong University of Technology in 2002, the M.S. degree in School of Computer and Communication Engineering from China Univ |