CURRENT CHINESE SCIENCE

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. 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).

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Dr. 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.

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

Dr. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.