Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modeling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling, and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and the top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works have garnered more than 10,600 citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.

Dr. Choi is an internationally recognized researcher in nanotechnology and has conducted pioneering research on nanomaterials and applications in rechargeable batteries and electronic devices. He is a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow since 2009 and has received MRS Medal Award in 2006. He is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Department at University of North Texas, and a founder of rechargeable battery start-up company to make a commercial Li-S battery based on the licensed patents. He is the author/co-author of over 80 patents, 1 book (GRAPHENE CRC Press 2011), 10 book chapters, over 260 publications, which includes 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and 80 conference proceedings. His research articles have been cited ~16,000 times with H-index of 65 (Google Scholar).

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. A registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and was a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 900 publications, Dr. Rosen is active in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from Waseda University, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, to start his own research group. At the same time, he started to serve as a professor to supervise Ph.D. students at the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Waseda University. After being granted the ARC Future Fellowship, in May 2016, he joined the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), The University of Wollongong (UOW) as a full professor. In 2018, he moved to The University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a senior group leader at AIBN (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2022) and a full professor at the School of Chemical Engineering. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Group Leader at Mesoscale Materials Chemistry Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a visiting professor at Waseda University, an advisory board member of prestigious journals (Small, Small Structures, ChemCatChem, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater., etc.) and an associate editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier). He has published more than 850 papers in international refereed journals (>10 Nature's and Science's sister journals, >20 J Am Chem Soc, >10 ACS Nano, >10 Chem Sci, >30 Angew Chem Int Ed, >25 Chem Mater, >10 Mater Hor, etc.) with > 50,000 citations (h-index > 115, Google Scholar; h-index > 100 Web-of-Science). He is selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and in Materials Science in 2020. He has received many outstanding awards, such as the NISTEP Award by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2016), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists (2014), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (2013), the PCCP Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), the Tsukuba Encouragement Prize (2012), the Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ) Award (2010), and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2010). Recently, he was selected as one of Australia's Top 40 Researchers of Research Report published by The Australian in 2019 and 2020.

Dr. Dongsheng Li is distinguished professor at Shantou University and director of Guangdong Engineering Center for Structure Safety and Health Monitoring. Before joining Shantou University in 2018, he served as an engineer in industry for five years and worked at Dalian University of Technology as a lecture/associated professor for 16 years. Dongsheng Li received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 1994; his M.S. degree from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, majoring in engineering mechanics; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Siegen, Germany in 2012. His research interests include structural health monitoring of large-span bridges and wind turbines, including fiber Bragg grating sensing, damage identification under varying environment, optimal sensor placement, and random loading identification. He conjectured the existence of mode localization phenomenon in wind turbine blades and afterwards proved it. He developed a novel loading-dependent sensor placement theory that depends on both structural characteristics and actual loading conditions. His contributions also include the strain transferring mechanism in optical fiber sensors. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dominick J. DeMichele Scholarship Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, and China National Award for Technological Invention(2ndPrize). He is currently the Editor of Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Frontiers Research of Architecture and Engineering, and Advances in Civil Engineering (Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded).He has published more than 80 technical papers in international refereed journals and conferences. His paper was cited more than 1000 times.

Professor Hahn is Regents Professor of Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He joined JBNU in 1991, prior to which he worked for LG Metals Research Center for 1988-1991 after he received his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Utah in 1988. His research interest is synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanostructures and their applications for optoelectronic devices and chemical and biological sensors, resulting in over 320 SCI papers (over 13580 citaions, h-index over 60 in Google scholar) and 17 patents. He co-authored 6 books including Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications (5 volume sets) published by American Scientific Publishers in 2010. He received Woo SeongIl Materials Awards 2018 by KIChE, Asian Energy Technology Award 2017 by International Association of Advanced Materials, Rudolf A. Marcus Award for outstanding research in the area of chemical science in 2016, the American Ceramic Society Global Ambassador Award 2016, the Scientist of the Month Award in 2011 by Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the CBNU’s Best Research Professor Award consecutively in 2008-2010, and Top 100 Scientists Award four times in 2005, 2011, 2014 and 2015 accredited by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, UK.

Hyoyoung Lee is a fellow Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University. He served as a director of the National Creative Research Initiatives program for nine years. Currently, he has served as an Associate Director of Centre for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute of Basic Science (IBS) at Sungkyunkwan University. His research interest is a chiral induction of the racemic mixture by the light, 0-2D semiconductors including holey graph-yne/-ene, graphene quantum dots, transition metal dichalcogenides and transition metal oxidesincluding Hyoyung Lee blue TiO2, and their applications for energy conversion including water splitting, CO2 and N2 reduction reactions, electro- and photo-catalysis, and energy storage. He has written about 200 journal articles in top-tier journals. He has achieved numerous technology transfers to industrial companies, including reduced graphene oxide, transparent electrode, and blue TiO2 materials.

Professor Rajan Jose supervises the Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory in the University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & Technology. He has served as the Dean of Research of UMP during Feb 2016-Aug 2019 and a member of various committees of UMP and Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received PhD degree in the year 2002.He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including metals and alloys, luminescent quantum dots for biological and energy applications, glass and glass ceramics for quantum electronics, and electrochemical materials for energy conversion and storage. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 230 papers in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) indexed journals which are cited over12750 times with an h-index of 60 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 23 Doctoral, and 10 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him as one of the top 2% materials scientists in the world. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research are on the structure-property relationship in materials for a desired device functionality.

Dr. Shafieezadeh is the Lichtenstein Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering and is the director of the Risk Assessment and Management of Structural and Infrastructure Systems(RAMSIS) lab at Ohio State University at The Ohio State University. His research interests include multi-hazard reliability and risk-based life-cycle analysis of the built environment; resilience assessment and improvement of civil infrastructure systems; aging and deterioration modeling; uncertainty quantification; and decision making in uncertain environments. His research on resilience of the power grid in the face of climatic extremes and dynamic risk quantification and communication of risks to critical infrastructure systems have been supported by US federal and state agencies, the industry and international research institutions. He is a recipient of the Sam Nunn Security Fellowship on the role of technology in public policy from Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (2011), M.S. from Utah State University (2008) and both M.S. (2006) and B.S. (2003) from University of Tehran. He has authored/co-authored over 200 journal and conference proceedings and presentations. His research related to power grid resilience has been published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Access, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Structural Safety, among others.

Fatemeh Najibi has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of London. She has a Master's Degree in Power System Engineering. She has been recognized as an Exceptional Talent promising leader in the UK. Her main research interests are in the area of machine learning, renewable energy, microgrid, smart grids, optimization, and transmission-distribution coordination management. She is a young researcher with more than five years of research experience in Academia and more than three years in the renewable energy industry.

Jingqiang Tan joined Central South University (CSU) as a professor in January 2017. He received his bachelor degree in Geological Engineering from CSU in 2006, master degree in Structural Geology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and PhD degree in Petroleum Geology from Tehcnical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin,Germany) and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam, Germany) in 2014. Afterwards, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Petroleum Geochemistry at the University of Houston in the United States.His primary research interests are geological and geochemical analysis of shale gas and oil systems and characterization and stimulation of unconventional reservoirs.

SAEED PEYGHAMI (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, 2012, and 2017, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aalborg University from 2017 to 2021. In 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher with Intelligent Electric Power Grids, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. He is currently an Assistant Professor in electrical energy engineering with Aalborg University. His research interests include reliability, control, and stability of power electronic-based power systems, and renewable energies .

Dr.Taoufik Brahim has a PhD in Energy Engineering. He is currently an Assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology of Sousse (ISSATS), University of Sousse, Tunisia. He is a Researcher at LESTE laboratory, National School of Engineering of Monastir (ENIM-Tunisia). His research interests are related to these topics:Phase change heat transfer, Heat Pipes, Thermal management, Solar energy, Energy storage, CFD, Numerical modeling, and simulation. He is a reviewer in many peer-review International journals and has four years of Industrial experience as an Energy Engineer