International Organizing Committee

Klimis Ntalianis received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), in 1998 and 2003, respectively. From 2004 and 2006, he completed two postdoctoral theses. From 1998 to 2009, he was a Senior Researcher and a Project Coordinator with the Image, Video, and Multimedia Laboratory, NTUA. During this period, he participated in the writing, submission, and implementation of more than 20 Research and Development proposals in various calls for proposals. In parallel, from 2005 to 2011, he worked as an Adjunct Lecturer with the University of Peloponnese the Hellenic Naval Academy, the Hellenic Air Force, and the Cyprus University of Technology. He is currently a Professor with West Attica University, Athens, Greece. He has published more than 170 scientific articles. His main research interests include multimedia processing, social media analysis, crowdsourcing, and data mining. He is an active reviewer for more than ten international journals published by the IEEE, Springer, and Elsevier. In addition, he is an active reviewer and/or participates in the organizing committees of more than 20 international conferences of the IEEE and ACM.

Prof. Tribelsky received his MS from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973, a PhD from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1976, and a Dr. of Sci. (habilitation) from Landau Institute in 1985. He received numerous national and international awards: Leninsky Komsomol Prize (1979); COE Professorship, the University of Tokyo (2006, 2008) and Kyushu University (2007), Japan; Honorary PhD, Yamaguchi University, Japan (2016), etc. Now he heads a laboratory at Lomonosov Moscow State University. His field is theoretical and mathematical physics. Presently, his interest lies in subwavelength optics. He authorizes several books, book chapters, review articles, and more than 100 research papers. See https://polly.phys.msu.ru/en/labs/Tribelsky/ for more details.

Daniel Lepadatu is an Associate Professor at the Technical University Gheorghe Asachi from Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services and simultaneously at the Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Urban Planning and Architecture from Chisinau, Republic of Moldova where he obtained the habilitated doctor title. He is an editorial board member or reviewer for many international journals including Materials, Buildings, Processes, Polymers, CivilEng, Mathematics, etc. As an expert in advanced materials, he has published over one hundred scientific papers and he is a member of the Romanian National Expert Register for development research activity and simultaneously an expert member of ANACEC from Moldova in the civil engineering field. His major research interest area is processes optimization using modern methods including design of experiments, response surface methodology, and artificial neural networks.

Helena Cristina Vasconcelos is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the Azores in Portugal. She has an extensive academic background, including a 5-year bachelor’s degree in Physics and Materials Engineering obtained in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering completed in 1999. She is also a research member of the Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys), FCT-NOVA, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. Helena's research interests primarily focus on oxide thin films produced by DC reactive sputtering. She has a strong background in optical glass materials, fluorescence, and photonics. Her expertise in these areas has resulted in numerous publications in reputable journals and presentations at leading conferences.

He is an Auxiliar Professor at ISEP – School of Engineering, Porto, Portugal. He  completed the Título de Agregado in Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2020 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Doutoramento in Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Mestrado in M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Profile of Mechanical Constructions in 2006 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia and Licenciatura in Graduation in Mechanical Engineering - Transport Branch in 2003 by Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. He is an Adjunct Teacher in Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, and Researcher in Associated Laboratory for Energy Transports and Aeronautics. He published 320 articles in journals. He has 136 section(s) of books and 23 book(s). He  participated in 112 event(s). He supervised 5 PhD thesis(es) and e co-supervised 1.  He Supervised 167 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 73. He has received 16 awards and/or honors. He Participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 6 project(s). His research area includes material joining, adhesive joints, material characterization, polymers, composite materials, sandwich structures, advanced manufacturing systems, automation and robotics, industrial design, numerical modelling, finite element method, and cohesive zone models.

Cagri Yilmaz

Çagri Yilmaz received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2007, achieving high honors. He went on to complete his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Duisburg-Essen University in Germany in 2010. During his master's program, he worked on the "Intellisipline" project in the mechanical department and gained further experience as an intern in the manufacturing department at ThyssenKrupp MillServices & Systems in Duisburg. In 2010, he successfully completed his master's thesis, titled "Adaptation of T-Data data management software package to Microsoft .Net Framework Technology," at Trützchler Spinning firm in Mönchengladbach, Germany, as part of the T-Data project. Subsequently, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Dai-Labor) at the Technical University of Berlin from 2011 to 2014, focusing on robot systems and smart grids. Since February 2016, Çagri Yilmaz has been employed as a Lecturer in the Mechatronics Department of Akdeniz University Vocational School of Technical Sciences. He completed his doctoral studies in the field of Acoustics and Vibration at Akdeniz University's Mechanical Engineering Department in May 2022. His doctoral thesis centered on investigating acoustic force sensitivity using the theory of Multi-Frequency Atomic Force Microscopy (MF-AFM). Currently, he is engaged in theoretical studies on the sensitivities of micro-cantilevers to external forces under multi-frequency operations.

C. Doroftei received his PhD degree in solid state physics from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, in 2008. His post-graduate research involves the study on the structure, morphology, electric, magnetic and catalytic properties of oxide compounds (type structure: spinel, perovskite and hexagonal). Applications: humidity sensors, gas sensors, magnetic field sensors, magnetic memory media and catalysts. Presently he is Senior Researcher with habilitation in Physics at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Romania.

Jiye (James) Fang is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of Materials Science Program/track at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. After he graduated from Lanzhou University, he received his M.Sc. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Materials Science from National University of Singapore in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He became a faculty member of Chemistry at University of New Orleans in 2002, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2005. His research direction is shape-control synthesis of functional low-dimensional materials and sustainable energy applications.

Santanu K. Maiti is an Associate Professor of Physics at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests mainly focus on Quantum Transport in Meso-scale and Nano-scale Systems. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed International Journals, out of which more than sixty five papers he published independently and did more than hundred presentations in National and International Conferences. He has also published many Reviews, co-edited a Book in Springer Series and contributed a chapter to a Book. He has also been working as Associate Editor, Section Editor as well as Editorial Board Member in several International Journals over the past many years.

Dr. S.V.A.R.Sastry has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He was B.Tech Gold Medalist from NIT Jalandhar, M.Tech Silver Medalist from IIT Delhi and got Best Ph.D Thesis Award from JNTU Kakinada. He has authored 12 Patents, 22 International Books in the area of Renewable Energy, Unit Operations & Heat Transfer. He has published more than 64 Research Papers and presented papers in more than 60 International Conferences. He is a Member Scientist of CORE GROUP of Scientists on Tree Borne Oil seeds for promotion, utilization and socio-economic linkages in Southern India. He is a Senior Member of Institution of Engineers, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Indian Desalination Association, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology and Institute for Engineering Research and Publication. He has been awarded Outstanding reviewer status by Elsevier, U.S. and granted full free access to Scopus by Elsevier, U.S. He is an Editor for five International Journals and Editorial Board member for six International Journals.

His Biography has been published in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 31st, 32nd & 33rd editions consecutively. He got the Andhra Pradesh University Best Teacher Award from JNTU Kakinada for five consecutive years from 2008 to 2013. He is a Recipient of International Awards from IBC, Cambridge, England. He got selected for inclusion in "100 Best Educators of 2014"; "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century"; "CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE for Outstanding Educational Achievement"; and the prestigious "Leading Professionals of the World-2014" by International Biographical Centre (IBC), Cambridge, England.

Dr. S. Sivasankaran is an eminent Fluid Dynamicist whose areas of interest are CFD, convective heat and mass transfer, numerical simulations, MHD, nanofluids, micro-channel heat sinks and porous media. After completing his Ph.D. in 2006, he has received four Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Taiwan and South Korea. He has successfully supervised 12 PhD students and 7 Master's students. He has contributed more than 175 papers in international journals and 44 papers in conference proceedings. He has been featured in the top 2% of scientists in the world for the past 4 years. He is an Editor-in-Chief in two journals, an Associate Editor in two international journals, an Editor in 2 journals, an Assistant Chief Editor in 1 journal and he is a member of the editorial board in 12 international journals. He is acting as a reviewer for more than 50 international journals. He has received some awards for his research (Best Paper Award, Best Researcher Award, etc.) and teaching works (Best Teacher Award). He has served on several national and international committees.