Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell University s N. Rama Rao Professor, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Computer Societies 2009 Tsutomu Kanai Award. Birman was recognized for fundamental and practical contributions to distributed computing, fault tolerance, reliability, and distributed systems management. Birman s work has focused on the development of trustworthy distributed computing systems. Early in his career, he developed the Isis Toolkit, a reliable group communication system that introduced the virtual synchrony model for fault-tolerance. Isis was widely adopted and was used at the core of such mission-critical systems as the French Air Traffic Control System, the New York Stock Exchange, and the US Navy AEGIS warship. Birmans group subsequently developed a series of systems that took group communication a step further, as well as others that explored challenges of extreme-scale using gossip and peer-to-peer protocols. These included Horus, Ensemble, the Bimodal Multicast, the Astrolabe platform, and the Gossip Objects platform. Ideas and technology from these efforts have helped shape modern Cloud Computing systems, including the communication layer of IBM s flagship Websphere product, Microsoft s cluster management platform, and Amazons data-center management systems. Among recent projects, the Live Distributed Objects System offers a novel and easily used Web mashup technology, offers a way to integrate cloud-hosted data sources with peer-to-peer technology using an easily learned drag-and-drop development style. Birman was named as a Fellow of the ACM in 1998 and was awarded the 2009 IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding Achievement Award.

Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, Beijing, China, in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1999. Dr. Yang is currently a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. His research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, sensors, and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, bio-inspired intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang has been very active in professional activities. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation; an Advisory Editorial Board member of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing; and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and several other journals. He was on the grant review panel of NSERC, CIHR, and several other grant agencies. He was the General Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Logistics and Automation and the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation. Among many of his awards, he was a recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award at the University of Guelph.

Aiguo Wu is currently a professor at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jinlin Province, China. He did with his B. S. in the Department of Chemistry Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, July 1998. He worked under Nobel laureate Ahmed H. Zewail as a postdoctoral research associate then he worked as a professor in the division of Functional Materials and Nano Devices Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests are applications of various nanomaterials in biomedicine, bioanalytical chemistry/environmental sciences, and nanostructures fabricated based on biomacromolecules at NIMTE, CAS in Ningbo.

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from the 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 an adjunct 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), the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), the University of Wollongong (UOW) as a Professor. In 2018, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2026), a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, and a Director at the Australian Materials nanoelectronic Centre. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at the JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Group Leader at the Mesoscale Materials Chemistry Group, the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Visiting Professor at the 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

S.S. Iyengar is currently the Distinguished University Professor, Founding Director of the Discovery Lab, and Director of the US Army-funded Centre of Excellence in Digital Forensics at Florida International University, Miami. He has been involved with research and education in high-performance intelligent systems, Data Science and Machine Learning Algorithms, Sensor Fusion, Data Mining, and Intelligent Systems. Since receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1974 from MSU, USA, he has directed over 65 Ph.D. students, 100 Master’s students, and many undergraduate students who are now faculty at Major Universities worldwide or Scientists or Engineers at National Labs/Industries around the world. He has published more than 600 research papers, has authored/co-authored, and edited 26 books. His h-index is 63 with over 19000 citations and is among the list of top 2% cited scholars of Stanford study this year. His books are published by MIT Press, John Wiley, and Sons, CRC Press, Prentice-Hall, Springer Verlag, IEEE Computer Society Press, etc. One of his books titled Introduction to Parallel Algorithms has been translated into Chinese. During the last thirty years, Dr. Iyengar has brought in over 65 million dollars for research and education. In recent, he has received $2.25 Million (USD) funding from the United States Army Research Office to develop a Centre of Excellence in Digital Forensics in collaboration with HBCU institutions. This is considered to be one of the biggest achievements in the whole FIU; many such grants are in the past. He has provided the students and faculty with a vision for active learning and collaboration at Jackson State University, Louisiana State University, Florida International University, and across the world. Dr. Iyengars career is a distinguished one, marked by his incredible record of success in groundbreaking research, inspirational teaching, and excellence in community service. It is his consistent drive to fight for and promote the minority and underrepresented groups that are his passion.

Dr. Timothy Sands graduated from Columbia University and Stanford University. He is an Eminent Engineer (Tau Beta Pi), an International Scholar Laureate (Golden Key International Honor Society), a Fellow of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and panelist of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program and an interviewer for undergraduate admissions at Stanford University. He has published prolifically in archival journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters, in addition to giving plenary, keynote, and invitational presentations; and holds one shared patent in spacecraft attitude control and is a recipient of the prestigious Theodore von Karman award. He is currently Professor of Astronautics Practice at Cornell University having previously served at disparate universities as Chief Academic Officer, Dean, Associate Dean, and Research Center Director.

Professor Young-Jin Cha received his Ph.D. (2008) from Texas A&M University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S. (2004) from Yonsei University, and B. E. (2002) from Kumoh National Institute of Technology. He started as a post-doctoral fellow (2009) in the City College of New York by collaborating with Professor Anil Agrawal who is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, then he became a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2012). He then joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2014. His extensive research activities in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and structural control for seismic damage reduction have led to the publication of 41 peer-reviewed, high-impact papers in top journals including one editorial, including Computer-Aided Civil Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) (impact factor (IF): 11.775, top rank 1 in Civil Engineering), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (IF: 8.236), Automation in Construction (IF: 7.7), and Structural Health Monitoring (IF: 5.929). He has accepted/published 39 peer-reviewed, internationally recognized conference papers and delivered 68 conference presentations. He also authored a book chapter that was published in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO).

Dr. Frank Hsu currently working as a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA. He obtained his Ph.D in Combinatorial and Applied Mathematics from University of Michigan in the year of 1979, after that he served as a assistant professor of Computer and Information Sciences in the Fordham University. He act as a chair for many scientific conferences and chair for academics. He published books, journals, and articles and he positioned as board member in the editorial board for IEEE publications.

Agostino Iadicicco (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, and serves as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal. Since 2002, his research activity has been focused on optoelectronics and photonics devices for sensing and communications applications.

Huanyang Chen received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Assistant and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He was a Professor at Soochow University from 2009 to 2016 and at Xiamen University in 2016. His research covers photonic/phononic crystals, metamaterial designs, and transformation optics/acoustics. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 papers, including review articles for Nature Photonics/Nature Materials/Nature Review Materials. His papers have been cited more than 6000 times, and he has an H-index of 36. His work on transformation acoustics and cloaking has been selected into the list of best of 2008 by IOP.

Nadhir Al-Ansari is currently a Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea Technical University Sweden. Research interests are mainly in Water Resources and Environment. Served several academic administrative posts (Dean, Head of Department). Publications include more than 700 articles in international/national journals, chapters in books, and 22 books and special issues. He executed more than 60 major research projects in Iraq, Jordan, and the UK. Awarded several scientific and educational awards, among them is the British Council on its 70th Anniversary awarded him top five scientists in Cultural Relations. One patent on Physical methods for the separation of iron oxides. Supervised more than 70 postgraduate students at different universities. Member of several scientific societies like International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Chartered Institution of Water and Environment Management, Established and President (till 1995) of the Iraqi Water Resources Society…, etc. Member of the editorial board of 24 international journals.

Prof. Ivan Ganchev is a Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre (TRC), University of Limerick, Ireland. He is a Full Professor from the University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria. Prof. Ganchev does research in novel telecommunication and information paradigms; modeling, simulation, and emulation of complex information systems, networks, and services; information modeling; future networks and services; smart ubiquitous networking; context-aware networking; mobile cloud computing; Internet of Things (IoT); Internet of Services (IoS); Ambient Assisted Living (AAL); Enhanced Living Environments (ELE); Internet tomography; mHealth and mLearning ICT.

Rouverson Pereira da Silva is an Agricultural Engineer at the Federal University of Lavras (1990), MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlandia (1995), and Ph.D. in Agronomy (Crop Production) of the Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho State University (2002) ). He completed postdoctoral studies at UGA (2017). Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of UNESP / Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil, where he is the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Agronomy (Plant Production). He is a Productivity Scholar of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals, more than 400 short papers in conferences, and articles in technical journals. He participated in several scientific events in Brazil and abroad. He directed 11 Ph.D. theses, 19 dissertations, and more than 100 scientific initiations and course completion in the areas of Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy. He is an ad hoc consultant in several scientific journals and works in the field of Agricultural Engineering (Agricultural Mechanization and Machinery and Precision Agriculture), focusing on the following topics: digital agriculture, mechanized harvest systems (sugarcane, peanut, cotton, coffee, and cereals) and quality control in mechanized agricultural operations.

Prof. Dongsoo Har received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and his Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic institute at Brooklyn, US. He received the Best Paper Award (Jack Neubauer Memorial Award) from IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2000, from ENICS international conference in 2008, and from APWCE international conference in 2016. Since 2013, he has been a faculty member of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. He is the director of railway specialized graduate school in KAIST, the director of the center for the green transportation system in KAIST, and the director of the steering board of electronic warfare workshop in Korea. He was the General co-chair of the APWCE international conference in 2016, TPC chair of IFEV international workshop in 2014, and TPC member of many international conferences. He is also appointed as General co-chair of the APWCE international conference in November 2017. He is an associate editor of IEEE Sensors journal.

Prof. Tseung-Yuen Tseng is now a Lifetime Chair Professor in the Institute of Electronics, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University. He was the Dean of the College of Engineering(2005-2007), the Vice-Chancellor, and University Chair Professor(2007-2009) of the National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Tsengs professional interests are electronic ceramics, nanoceramics, ceramic sensors, high-k dielectric films, ferroelectric thin films, and their based devices, energy materials, and resistive switching memory devices. He has published over 430 research papers in refereed international journals and 170 conference papers(over 80 keynote and invited talks), 7 books, and held 36 patents. He invented the base metal multilayer ceramic capacitors, which have become a large-scale commercial product. He was Chair of the Board of Asian Ferroelectrics Association and General Chair of The 6th Asian Meeting of Ferroelectrics. He has received numerous awards, such as Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council, IEEE CPMT Exceptional Technical Achievement Award, Academic Award and National Endowed Chair Professor from Ministry of Education, IEEE CPMT Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award, and Distinguished Achievement Award of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society(2018). He was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, IEEE Fellow, MRS-T Fellow, and APAM Academician.

Kitchen XU is currently a ZJU-100 Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU). He is a member of the State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power & Mechatronic Systems and a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. He received the Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2018 and then moved to Osaka Prefecture University (OPU) as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Japan. His research mainly includes multifunctional flexible electrodes/sensors and systems integration, advanced laser manufacturing. In the past five years, over 20papers have been published in Adv. Mater., Adv.Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., ACS Nano, etc. including 16 papers as the first and corresponding authors. 2 articles were recognized as ESI hot highly cited papers. He was invited to serve as a Corresponding Expert engineering, a journal launched by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Editorial Board of OptoElectronic Engineering. He is an independent reviewer for over 40 journals (over 150 times).

Ag. Asri Ag. Ibrahim is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS). He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Electronics) from The University of York, United Kingdom. Before that, he completed his Masters's Degree in Computer Science and Bachelors's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Malaya. Dr. Ag. Asri is now serving as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the university and also the Director of the Department of Information and Communication Technology. He has served the university for more than 20 years. He is the author and co-author of more than 80 articles and proceedings. He is also the principal investigator and research member of more than 30 research grants. He is also active in community engagement activities especially in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs and technology adoption for entrepreneurs.

Sagar Naik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has also been a member of IEEE since 1994. His research interests include computer network protocols, wireless and mobile communication systems, sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, cognitive radio systems and energy saving in hand-held devices and data centers. Delay tolerant networks, body-area networks, mHealth (mobile health) and eHealth applications, vehicular networks, and intelligent transportation systems are also areas of research that interest Professor Naik.

Liming Wang received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. After the postdoctoral research work at Texas A&M University, he was appointed as a Distinguished Professor in College of Textiles, Donghua University in 2018. His research focuses on fiber/textile materials and their applications in energy, the environment, and wearable sensors.

Dr. Anat Tchetchik holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Environment at Bar-Ilan University. She has established and is the head of a program in Environmental Innovation Management in Corporate for MA students at her department. Her main research interests include environmental consumer behavior, evaluation of consumer preferences towards non-market goods, and decision-making in the presence of heterogeneity and latent psychographics as well as the evaluation of ecosystem services, mainly those supplied by urban green infrastructure, including the analysis of the synergies and trade-offs they create. Anta published 25 peer-reviewed articles, many of which are in top journals including Ecological Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Business Research, Transportation Research Part E, and Resources, Conservation and Recycling. She holds competitive grants from several agencies including H2020, the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, and the Israeli National Insurance Institution.

Prof. Ariel Burg obtained her Masters's and Ph.D. degrees under the supervision of Prof. Dan Meyerstein and Prof. Haim Cohen in the Department of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Currently, she is a researcher in the Chemical Engineering Department of Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (SCE), collaboration is an integral part of her academic career. As such, she cooperates with a wide variety of researchers from her department, from other departments at SCE, industry, the Negev Nuclear Research Center, and BGU. Ariel Burg advice and mentor students from across the academic spectrum, including BSc students preparing their final projects in the fourth year of chemical engineering studies as well as graduate and doctoral students Prof. Ariel Burg was interested in five main subjects which are a major part of her study: Development of novel sol-gel based methods for the recycling of heavy metal ions and radioactive waste; Sol-gel matrices as ion and electron exchange columns and as redox catalysts; Development of a method for printing nanoparticles as catalysts and electrocatalysts; Study the mechanism of Fenton and Fenton like reaction in heterogeneous systems; Water oxidation for alternative energy; She is now working on a project related to chemical sensors.

Dr. Nayef Abdulwahab Mohammed Alduais (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) with the first rank in computer engineering from Hodeidah University, Yemen, in 2007, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in communication and computer engineering from the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (FKEE), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He is currently a Lecturer and Principal investigator at Center of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (CIAS), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FSKTM), UTHM, having previously worked as an Assistant Lecturer with the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Hodeidah University, from 2007 to 2013. He has authored numerous articles in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include WSN, the IoT, edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received numerous medals and scientific excellence certificates.

Mutiu Adegboye is a Ph.D. research fellow at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, United Kingdom, with the communications and autonomous systems research group. Adegboye has previously worked at the Computer Engineering Department, Federal University Oye-Ekiti. His research interests include Sensor coverage and Connectivity, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Signal Processing, the Internet of Things, and Autonomous Systems. Adegboye has authored and co-authored in conference proceedings and both national and international journals. Adegboye was a recipient of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund Scholarship Award in 2018 and the Robert Gordon University Merit-Based Award in 2018. He is a Reviewer in different international journals, including the IEEE access, IEEE Journal of IoT, Measurement, Journal of Pipeline Systems- Engineering and Practice, MDPI journals include; Energies, Safety, Water, Journal of marine science and Engineering, and many other journals.

Dr. Sahil Verma (Senior Member IEEE, ACM, IAENG) has published many research articles in reputed journals/publishers like IEEE, Wiley, Springer, ACM, Elsevier, MDPI, etc. Has published papers in reputed top-cited journals like IEEE Transaction in Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journals, ACM Transaction on Internet Technology, CMC, IEEE Access, MONET Elsevier, HCIS Springer, MTAP Springer, MDPI Sensors, Symmetry and many more. He is the reviewer of top-cited journals like IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transport Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Access, Neural Computing, and Applications Springer, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Springer, Mobile Networks and Applications Springer, Journal of Information Security and Applications Elsevier, Mobile Information Systems Hindawi, International Journal of Communication Systems Wiley, Security and Communication Networks Hindawi, etc. Chaired many sessions in international conferences and he is also a member of the editorial board in many journals, a member of TPC, organizing committee member in various international conferences. Has completed consultancies and funding projects. He has also participated as an author in various international conferences. He is involved in many research and development activities, Quality Assurance of the Academic Programs, Curriculum Development for New Programs, and Curriculum Upgradation of Existing Programs.