Prof. V. Sundarapandian (India) was born near Madurai, India on July 15, 1967. He obtained his D.Sc. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, USA in May 1996. He has specialized in the areas – Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems, Chaos and Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, and Computational Science. Presently, Dr. V. Sundarapandian is serving as Professor and Dean of the Research and Development Centre at Vel Tech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University, Chennai, India. Earlier, he has served as Professor and Acting Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala at Trivandrum, India (IIITM-K). Dr. V. Sundarapandian has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has authored 3 books on Science subjects, viz. Numerical Linear Algebra (PHI Learning, India), Probability, Statistics and Queuing Theory (PHI Learning, India), and Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (McGraw Hill Education, India). He has guided 3 doctorate students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He has authored over 290 papers in refereed international journals and over 80 papers in International Conferences. He has served as General Chair and Conference Chair of many International Conferences, and delivered many Keynote addresses on Chaos and Control Systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of over ten International Journals on Control Systems, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computational Biology and Soft Computing. He is also in the Editorial Boards of many International Journals on Computer Science, Information Technology and Computational Science. 

Prof. Mohamad Djemaï (France) is currently full Professor at the University of Valenciennes, France since 2008. He is with LAMIH–Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation, Mechanics and Computer Science, CNRS. ULMR-8201. He received his PhD degree in Control Systems Engineering from the University of Paris XI (France) in 1996. He was assistant professor with University of Versailles and CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers)—Paris. He then joined the ENSEA (Ecole National Supérieure de l’Eléctronique et ses Aplications) at Cergy Pontoise, France where he took the role of Associate Professor from 2000 until 2008.
Prof. Djemaï research interests are in nonlinear control systems theory in general, with principal interest in variable structure systems, and sliding mode approach: in control, observation, fault detection and the analysis and modelling of hybrid dynamical systems, which is the topic of the present research. 
He has applied his research to various industrial applications including power systems, chaotic and communication systems, biomechanical systems, robotics and vehicle. He is member of IFAC TC 2.1 control system, IFAC TC. 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, and IEEE.
He has published more than 120 papers in his area of research. He was the co-editor of IFAC’CHAOS’06 Conference, co-author 02 book and 02 special issues. 
He has supervised 12 successful PhD students and is currently supervising 04 students. 
He has also secured several grants and participate in National and European Projects.

Dr. Nidhal Bouaynaya (USA) received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de L’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA), France, in 2002, the MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 2022, the Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies in Signal and Image processing from ENSEA, France, in 2003, the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, in 2007. From 2007-2013, she was an Assistant then Associate Professor with the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. In 2013, Dr. Bouaynaya won the UALR Faculty Excellence Award in Research. Starting fall 2013, Dr. Bouaynaya will join Rowan University as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Bouaynaya won the Best Student Paper Award in Visual Communication and Image Processing 2006. She is currently serving as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Systems Biology. Her current research interests are in genomic signal processing, medical imaging, mathematical biology and dynamical systems.

Dr. Nectarios Chr. Benekos (Switzerland) is a CERN & Senior Research Scientist, Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has extensive experience and demonstrated excellence in experimental particle physics research. Experience in data analysis and in the use of on-line and off-line software. High capacity for innovation and potential for making a significant medium to long-term contribution to the scientific program of the Particle Physics community. His research interests are :
• Search for the Higgs Boson(s) and New Physics at the LHC, including the nature of Dark Matter (super-symmetry), large extra-dimension and flavour violation
• Experimental techniques in particle physics: calorimetry, tracking detectors, data analysis, pattern recognition and materials modeling
• Detector development , implementation, calibration and commissioning phase
Spin-offs and Industry:
• Applications to industry and medicine
• Econo-physics research and applications
• Data processing, complex system modeling and financial analysis
• Risk management using econometrics and optimization methods.

and he has more than 400 publications (QSPIRES data base), with about 21000 citations.

Dr. ATahir El Hashani (Libya) obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Control System Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautical and Astronautics-China. He was a member of a research group at the Libyan industrial research and development center (1990-2008) Tripoli-Libya. He is Lecturer at Aeronautical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya. in the field of control system, Microcontroller and Data Acquisition Applications.

He has published several papers in International Conferences. His research interests are Aircraft Control Systems, microcontroller applications, embedded systems, Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing.

Dr. Kathy Ning Shen (China) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Management at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. Before she joined the University of Wollongong in Dubai, she was an Assistant Professor and the Chairperson of Management Information System Department at Abu Dhabi University. She got Master of Philosophy and Doctoral degrees in Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong, where the Information System Department is ranked top 5 globally in research; and Bachelor and Master in Management at Peking University, one of top universities in China. Her main research areas include human-computer interaction, applications of information systems in organizations, virtual communities, and knowledge management. She has published more than 60 refereed journal and conference articles. Her work has appeared in top refereed journals conferences in the field. Currently she is also serving the Associate Editor for Information Systems Journal. She has been actively engaging in indigenous research in the UAE. Her research has been funded by Emirates Foundation (2 projects on social media and virtual collaboration)and National Research Foundation (1 project on information system assimilation in organizations). She successfully obtained 5 additional research grants, including 2 from the UOWD Research Grant as PI, 2 from Zayed University as co-PI and 1 from Educational Strategies Development Fund (ESDF) in University of Wollongong in Australia as co-PI.

Dr. Ammar Al-Bazi (United Kingdom) gained his Ph.D. in simulation and optimisation from Teesside University, UK in 2010. He received MS.c. in Operational Research and applied statistics from Baghdad University in 1998 and was awarded his B.Sc. (ranked 1/70 student) in Operational Research in 1995. He has extensive experience in water resource management, having developed a number of inflow forecasting models for a number of Iraqi dams using advanced models such as Multiplicative and Adaptive forecasting. In addition, he has formulated a number of mathematical programming models embedded in these forecasting models using techniques such as fuzzy logic, discrete differential dynamic programming, chanced constrained linear programming, and traditional linear programming to optimise the overall water resources distribution process
His research interests include simulation modelling, artificial intelligence, optimisation, business computing and applied statistics. He has been involved in a number of research projects to improve the performance of precast manufacturing systems across the UK. He developed many process maps, activity cycle diagrams and 3D visualised simulation models for a number of industries including precast concrete, doorsets, and trailer companies. He has more than 14 years’ teaching experience and has written more than 40 research papers.

Dr. Youcef Soufi (Algeria) received the B.Eng.(1991) and Doctorate degrees from the University of Annaba, Algeria and the Magister degree in 1997 from University of Tébéssa, Algeria in Electrical Engineering. Since 2000 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering, University of Tébessa, Algeria where he is currently an Associate Professor in electrical engineering. His main and current major research interests include electrical machines, diagnostic, wind and solar energy, power electronics and drives Applied to renewable and sustainable energy. He has published and co-authored more than 80 technical papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings since 2000. He is the member of editorial board of 2 journals, and the member of technical program committee / international advisory board / international steering committee of 08 international conferences.

Eng. Ahmed Rhif (Tunisia) is a Researcher Engineer; he has worked as a Technical Responsible in LEONI (International Leader of Wiring Fibers Companies) and he occuped also the task of Project Manager and Method Engineer in both SMSI (electronic development industry) and CABLITEC (Engineering automobile company). Then he was a Lecturer at the Private University of Sousah (UPS) and now in the High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technologies of Sousah (ISSATso). His research interests include Modelling, Control and Systems Engineering held on the "Laboratory for Advanced Systems" at the Polytechnic School of Tunisia, La Marsa. His work interests include also the conception and realisation of embedded systems and electronic cards as well as the implantation of the international standard of quality (ISO-TS 16949). He has published several papers in International Conferences and International Journals. He is currently serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of 05 International Journals such as: IJICS – IJITCA – IJCTCM – CEEE – IJSET – PET, and he is also serving as a reviewer with the IEEE Conference on Control, Systems & Industrial Informatics, the Energy Conversion and Management journal (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Control (Taylor & Francis). He is also a member of steering committees of some international conferences such as: CEIT – ITCA – CMCA – CIER.

Prof. Djamila Rekioua Ziani (Algeria), studies Electrical Engineering at the "Ecole Nationale Polytechnique" of Algiers, and received her Dipl.-Ing-Degree, the Master Degree in the same school and the Doctorat (PHD) at the University UFAS Setif (Algeria). Since 1989, she is teaching and pursuing research; firstly at the University of Sciences and technology (USTHB), Bab ezzouar (Algiers) and now she is Professor at the University of Bejaia (Algeria). Her research interests are in the modeling, control of A.C machines and Electric drives, Renewable Energy (photovoltaic, wind turbine, fuel cells and hybrid systems).

Dr. Ahmad Azar (Egypt) has received the M.Sc. degree (2006) in System Dynamics and Ph.D degree (2009) in Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (Egypt). He is currently assistant professor, Faculty of computers and information, Benha University, Egypt. 
Dr Ahmad Azar is currently the Vice chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Egypt Chapter and Vice President Of Egypt System Dynamics Chapter. He is an Academic Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence and also a member in KES Focus Group on Agent and Multi-agent Systems. 
His research interests include: Soft computing, Data mining, Machine learning, Rough set, Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation, Modeling of Biomedical Systems, Bioinformatics, Automatic Control Systems, Systems Engineering, System Dynamics, Process Control, Robotics and Systems, Intelligent control systems, Computational intelligence like artificial neural network, fuzzy logic and Genetic algorithms, Hybrid Intelligent Systems like Neuro-Fuzzy systems, and Genetic-Fuzzy systems, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, System thinking, Probability and Statistical Analysis, Decision Support systems, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Urea Kinetic Modeling, Biofeedback systems

Dr. Jalel Chebil (Malaysia) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and Ph.D. from the University of Technology Malaysia, all in Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia. His current research interests include radio wave propagation, wireless communication and digital signal processing.