Professor Yongbing Xu, Chair Professor in Nanotechnology, heads the Spintronics and Nanodevice Laboratory, in The University of York. UK. He is the director of the Nanjing University (China)- York University (UK) Joint Center in Spintronics, and distinguished concurrent professor of Nanjing University and guestprofessor of several other Chinese universities. He was a senior fellow in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK. He has published more than 500 papers in leading academic journals including Progress of Material Science, Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Nature Communication and Nano Letter and given many invited talks/seminars at major international conferences including MRS, WUNSPIN and Intermag. He is leading the Worldwide University Network (WUN) Consortium on Spintronics (30 partners from 12 research leading UK, USA & China universities). Prof. Xu is a member of the NSF panel and the international advisory committee of the EU Warsaw NanoCenter. He has been chair of 6 international spintronics conferences and Intermag “Roadmap for Spintronics” symposiums. He is the series editor of “Electronic Materials and Devices” by Taylor and Francis, editor-in-Chief of “Handbook of Spintronics” by Springer. He had interviews with BBC News24 and New Scientists on Spintronics.

Richard J. Spontak, a Distinguished Professor at NC State University, received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and pursued post-doctoral research at Cambridge University before joining P&G in 1990 and NC State in 1992. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has received numerous research awards including the NC State Holladay Medal for Excellence, the ACS (PMSE) Tess Award, the SPSJ International Award, the IChemE Global Research Project Award and Underwood Medal, the ACS (Rubber) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award, and the IOM3 Colwyn Medal. An elected APS, IOM3, ACS-PMSE, and RSC fellow, he is a Jefferson Science Fellow and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 111; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.

Yoke Khin Yap is a professor of physics, director of the applied physics graduate program, and a University Professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU), USA. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from Osaka University as sponsored by the Japanese government as a Monbusho scholar. Before his appointment at MTU, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). His research interest is nanoscale van der Waals heterostructures and their applications in electronics, energy, and biomedicine. Professor Yap was honored with the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. He was a Charter member of the users' executive committee of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2005-2007 and the first elected user group chair in 2008. Professor Yap received the Bhakta Rath Research Award in 2011, was appointed as a Faculty Fellow in 2014-2016, was honored as an Osaka University Global Alumni Fellow in 2015, and received the MTU Research Award in 2018.

Title of Talk : Boron Nitride van der Waals Heterostructures for Advanced Electronics and Biomedicine

Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career - as a scientist and a senior scientist in AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty in many universities, including in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, etc. Hewas a SPARC fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board of India and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has beenan associate editor of the Elsevier Journal, J. Photochem. Photobiol. C (Impact factor 17.1), and an associate editor of the NPG journal, NPG Asia Materials (IF=10.9).

Prof. Dongling Ma, holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Advanced Functional Nanocomposites, has been a professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) since 2006. Her main research interest consists in the development of various nanomaterials (e.g., semiconductor quantum dots, transition metal catalytic nanoparticles, plasmonic nanostructures) and different types of nanohybrids for applications in energy, environment, catalysis and biomedical sectors. She has co-authored >170 journal articles in a broad range of areas, centered on materials science, in selective, high-impact journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc, Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Chem. Mater. and Chem. Soc. Rev. with a H-index of 61 (Google Scholar). She has co-authored 6 patents (4 granted and 2 under review) and 4 book chapters. She has delivered >120 invited speeches at international conferences and prestigious universities/government laboratories. She is an associate editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials and also serves/served on multiple journal editorial advisory boards, including the prestigious ACS Energy Lett., Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature), Frontiers (Energy), PhotonX (Springer), etc. She also acted as the section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” of Nanomaterials. Her recent awards include the 2022 Clara Benson Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada.

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and of Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA, and worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute. He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, and Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park. He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and editor of Progress in Materials Science. He invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys.

Ravindra Pandey is Professor and Chair of Physics at the Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA. Pandey received his education at Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar, National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, Atomic Energy Research Laboratory, Harwell, UK, and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He has participated in multi-disciplinary efforts (theoretical and experimental) to build the programs in novel nanostructures with industrial and national laboratories. He also has co-organized and participated in several international conferences in Materials Physics and Nanoscale Science. Pandey is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Sridhar Komarneni is a Distinguished Professor in the Materials Research Institute and Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His main research interests are low temperature nanophase and nanocomposite materials for different applications, organoclays, sol-gel chemistry of high-performance ceramics, hydrothermal and microwave-hydrothermal synthesis, and new materials preparation and characterization. He is the author of over 780 refereed papers including 730 journal papers which have received over 36,400 citations as per Google scholar with a h-index of 97. He received the Highly Cited Researcher status in 2002 from the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). He received numerous awards including election as a Fellow of 5 research societies such as Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science etc. Prof.Komarneni is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Porous Materials and Editor-in-Chief of Materials Research Innovations. He also serves and served as an editorial board member of several journals. He was one of the earliest to recognize the importance of ‘Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials’ and organized 5 pioneering symposia at the Materials Research Society on “Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials” starting in 1992 resulting in 5 edited books.

Prof. Jianyong Ouyang received his PhD, master and bachelor degrees from the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan, the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Science, and the Tsinghua university in Beijing, respectively. His research interests include flexible electronics and energy materials and devices. He invented the first polymer-nanoparticle resistive memory, the first hybrid ionic/electronic thermoelectric converter, the first adhesive intrinsically conducting polymers and the first strain sensor for food processing monitoring in the world, observed the ductilization on polymers for the first time in the world, and continuously reported world-record conductivities and thermoelectric properties of solution-processable intrinsically conductive polymers and world-record thermoelectric properties of ionic conductors.

Dr. Yang is a full professor in the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia. His main research interests include advanced composite structures, nanocomposites, structural stability and dynamics, smart structures and control, and nano/micro-mechanics. He is an author of over 350 papers including 261 journal papers which have so far attracted over 18300 Google Scholar citations with h-index 78. He is the Highly Cited Researcher (Cross Field) in 2019, 2020, and 2021 by Clarivate Analytics and is named by Australian Research Magazine as the Global Field Leader in Mechanical Engineering in 2020, Australia’s Research Field Leader in Mechanical Engineering in 2019, 2020, 2021, and Australia’s Research Field Leader in Structural Engineering in 2021. Prof Yang is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Structures, the Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of many international journals including Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Thin-Walled Structures, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, Scientific Reports, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Materials, and Shock and Vibration, etc.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 322 journal papers, more than 677 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 38 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). Since 2018 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Professor C.W. Lim Currently a fellow of ASME, ASCE, EMI and HKIE, Ir Professor Lim received a B.Eng. from University of Technology of Malaysia, M.Eng. and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and The University of Hong Kong. He is also a visiting professor at various universities worldwide. He has expertise in theory of plates and shells, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, metamaterials and symplectic elasticity. He is currently the subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration, joint-editor for Journal of Mechanics of Material and Structures, subject editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling, Managing Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, etc. and also on the editorial board of some other top-ranked international journals. He has published one very well-selling title entitled “Symplectic Elasticity”, co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong from Dalian University of Technology, as recorded by the publisher, World Scientific, in Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering. He has published more than 350 international journal papers and have more than 12,000 citations. Recently Professor Lim was awarded the prestigious 2020 JN Reddy Medal as a recognition “for significant and original contributions to vibration of plates and shells, smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, and symplectic elasticity”. He will deliver a plenary lecture and chair another plenary lecture at WCCM-APACM 2022, the largest biennial meet for computational scientists worldwide. He was also previously awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society. Professor Lim is a registered professional engineer in Hong Kong.

Abraham (Avi) Marmur is a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He has worked and published in the field of interfacial phenomena for about forty-five years, has published extensively in this field and related research areas, and has been consulting for major companies. He has also participated in many international conferences and has been active in lecturing in universities and industrial sites in many countries. At Technion, professor Marmur received awards for excellence in research and in teaching. In addition, he was an editor of Reviews in Chemical Engineering, and was on the advisory committee of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, and Colloids and surfaces A. In addition, he is on the editorial board of several other profession journals.

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Stefano obtained a bachelor’s and master degree in Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering at Sapienza University (Rome - Italy). During his ph.D. he shifted his interest in Applied Experimental Nuclear Physics and Computer Science. While doctoral student, Stefano was hired by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as Engineer and Scientist, he spent a decade working on High Energy Physics within the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Stefano worked on several cutting edge systems and advanced software as frontier research requires frontier technologies. After CERN, he decided to move to the US and he joined FloridaTech working on computational aspects (such as firmware, data-acquisition system, electronics). Since 2018 Stefano joined EMU, to teach computer science and engineering courses.

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Hijaz Ahmad is a researcher in the field of Applied Mathematics at International Telematic University Uninettuno, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Roma, Italy. He is Head of the Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering Research Group, Scientific Research Center, Al-Ayen University, Nasiriyah, Iraq, and Associate Member of the Section of Mathematics, International Telematic University Uninettuno, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Roma, Italy. The scope of his research is quite broad, covering Numerical Analysis, Fractional Calculus, Mathematical Inequalities, Quantum Calculus, and Mathematical Analysis. He has published over 300 research articles in international journals and a total number of citations of over 3300 (Google Scholar H-Index = 30). He has collaborated with over 50 international countries and more than 700 researchers. He has served as a reviewer for more than 100 international journals and an editor for at least 30 journals.

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Oded Millo perforemd his Ph.D. research in Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying excitations at metallic surfaces. Was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University, focusing there on quantum-transport and mesoscopic physics. He is now a full professor at the Racah Institute of Physics. His current research focuses on local-probe and transport studies of unconventional superconductivity (including high Tc and triplet-pairing superconductivity), nanostructured semiconductor systems (isolated nanocrystals and their assemnblies), as well asphoto-conductance properties of solar-cell materials. These works resulted inmore than 180 publications and h-index of 48.He was among the founders of the Hebrew University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnologyand also served as the Head of Physics Department and Vice-Dean for Study Affairs at the Faculty of Sciences at the Hebrew University.Milloholds the Harry de Jur Chair in Applied Science, and he is a recipient of the IVS, Alonand the Young Reaserhers Landau prizes.

Dr. Xiaogan Liang is currently working as an Associate Professor at The Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Michigan (UM). His current research interests are focused on nanofabrication, nanomanufacturing, microsystem integration, nanoelectronics and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional nanostructures, biosensors, and microdrone sensors. Dr. Liang has coauthored 73 journal publications and >50 conference presentations, has given >30 invited presentations, and has 8 US patents. Dr. Liang is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, and he is the member of Sigma Xi, IEEE, and ASME. Dr. Liang obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Jianjun Tian is a professor, and vice-dean of Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is member of editor board of Science China Materials,Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater.Current research focuses on quantum dots and perovskites, and their applications in light emitting, solar cells and photodetectors.He published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals, such as Science, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett.

Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi holds a PhD in Particle Physics, Mathematical Physics and Modeling from Provence University (currently Aix-Marseille University), France and a diploma of advanced studies in Plasma Physics and Radiation Astrophysics from the same institution. He worked with different worldwide research departments in UK, South Korea, China, Greece, Thailand, India, etc. and he is currently affiliated to Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He is the author of more than 325 peer-reviewed papers in peer-refereed reputed journals and a reviewer for more than 125 scientific journals. His research ranges from applied mathematics to theoretical physics including nonlinear dynamical systems, space and astrophysics, general relativity, geometrical and algebraic physics, physics and chemistry of solids, plasma MHD, neutronics and nuclear reactors, superconductivity, and magnetic materials among others.

Dr.Xiaoshan Xu is an associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a faculty associate in Nebraska Center for Materials Nanoscience.Dr. Xu’s research focuses on quantum materials with ferroic properties in thin film form. Dr. Xu obtained his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in Physics and his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University in Physics. He is a recipient of the Eugene Wigner Fellowship in the Oak Ridge National Lab, Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Early Career Award from the US Department of Energy.

My name is Lawan; I was born on 11th August 1992 in the family of Alhaji Muhammad Ummati in the city of Jos Plateau-Nigeria.My father is a Kanuri man from a tribe from Borno state in Nigeria. He was a civil servant working with a Tin mining company from the 1960s till 1990. My mother is from the Fulani tribe in Plateau State also in Nigeria. I started my early education in 1997(Nursery) at Elistor Private School, later moving to St. marks pilot School where I completed my primary education. I then move to Islamic Orientation Secondary School and graduated in 2011 in B/ladi. In 2014, I proceeded to the Federal University Dutsewhere I obtained my first degree with first-Class honors. Due to my outstanding record, I was able to secure a foreign scholarship for my master’s program in material science and engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. I am in my final semester working on “Hydrogen separation through metal-based alloy membrane ”for hydrogen production and purification applications.

Dr. Hongquan Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in the development of novel bioanalytical tools and nanosensors for the detection of biological targets in various research fields. His research projects include 1) exploring binding-induced DNA assembly to create ultrasensitive and point-of-care bioanalytical tools, 2) constructing target-triggered DNA nanomachines and nanodevices, 3) developing fluorescent nanosensors for real-time detection of specific biological targets in cellular environments, and 4) developing CRISPR-based diagnostic methods. Dr. Zhang has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious scientific journals, including Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; ACS Nano; and Chem. Rev., with over 5400 citations on Google Scholar. He has also issued or filed seven patents. In addition, he has served as a guest editor for a Trends in Analytical Chemistry issue.

Dr. Mohd. Shkir: Currently he is an Associate Professor, at department of Physics, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. He has published over 550 research papers in high impact international and national journals with over 11000 citations, h-index-50, i10-index 304and also published one patent [ES2527976 (A1) ― 2015-02-02]. Four new patents have been filed to USPTO in the last 3 months. He is leading a research group “Investigation on Novel Class of Materials (INCM) at KKU”. He was born in Pilibhit, UP, India in 1982. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from M.J.P. Rohilkhand University (MJPRU), Bareilly, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Jamia Millia Islamia (a central university), India. Very recently he receives an Excellence award named ¨Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Award for Excellence in Scientific Research 2020¨for working on a project ¨Structure-based modulation of SARS-CoV2 Nucleocapsid protein-protein interaction: Towards drug designing against COVID-19¨(COVID-19 RC#09). He got DS Kothari Post-Doctoral fellowship award and research associate from Solar Energy Centre: Government of India, He did his post-doctoral (PDF) research from Crystal Growth Lab (CGL), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain with Prof. E. Diegues, on topic of "System for Manufacturing Solar Cells For Multilayer And Procedure For Making These" and have patent on it. He worked in University of Delhi (DU) and Manav Rachna College of engineering (MRCE) as an Assistant Professor of Physics. He also confirmed to receive IAAM Young Scientist Medal 2018, Singapore. He also gets nominated for “Researchers’ Award for Revolutionary Findings’, by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, India. His scientific interest focused on nonlinear optics, nanotechnology and thin film fabrications for optoelectronic device applications which combines experimental and theoretical techniques. Fabrication of new systems and devices for future applications. He is working on determination of various electro-optical properties using computational techniques. He is currently working on Nano-synthesis of different kind of materials for biomedical, optoelectronic and radiation detection applications.

Dr. Željka Vanić is a full professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She received PhD in 2002 at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, and conducted her postdoctoral research at the Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Freiburg (Germany). Her scientific interest includes pharmaceutical nanotechnology, particularly design and evaluation of phospholipid-based drug delivery nanosystems, liposomes, hydrogels and liposomes-in-semisolid bases formulations for improved (trans)dermal and vaginal drug delivery.

Dr. Mamun Sarker is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the flagship university of the university of Nebraska system in USA; and an Assistant Professor on study leave at the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), one of the most reputed public universities in Bangladesh. Dr. Sarker earned his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, NE, USA where he conducted groundbreaking research on the synthesis and characterization of atomically precise nanoporous graphene with tailored electronic properties. Throughout his career, Dr. Sarker has made remarkable contributions to the development of novel materials for a wide range of applications. His research interests encompass the design and synthesis of functional carbon nanomaterials, including Nanoporous Graphenes (NPGs), Graphene Nanoribbons (GNRs), Nanographenes (NGs), Graphene Oxide (GO), Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO), polymers, and 2D materials with a particular focus on their unique optical, electrical, and mechanical properties, and applications in the electronic logic devices, gas sensors, and quantum topological spin chains.

Dr. Jianping Lu received his PhD in physical chemistry from Tsinghua University, China, in 1998. Part of his PhD thesis research was carried out at CSIRO, Australia. Right after graduation, Dr. Lu did his postdoctoral research on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in Prof. Hay’s group at McGill University from 1998 to 2000, and then in Prof. Winnik’s group at University of Toronto working on the synthesis of block copolymers containing fluorescent dyes at the junction by anionic polymerization from 2000-2001. From 2001 to 2002, Dr. Lu worked for a high-tech start-up company as a senior research scientist and project leader, responsible for the development of low-loss photo-patternable optical waveguide materials. In 2003, he joined Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, as an assistant research officer, conducting research on the design and synthesis of organic semiconductors for applications in organic electronic devices, such as OLEDs, organic field effect transistors (OFETs), and organic photovoltaics (OPVs). In 2012, Dr. Lu was promoted to senior research officer. So far, Dr. Lu has published about 80 papers in prestigious scientific journals, such as JACS, Adv Mater, AdvFunct Mater, Chem Mater, and ChemCommun. Dr. Lu has 12 awarded or filed patents. Dr. Lu has received multiple awards from NRC due to his research excellence and outstanding achievements.

Dr. Mateusz Dulski receivedhisPh.D. in physics from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, in 2015. His dissertationfocused on the structural and physicochemicalcharacterization of a newclass of luminescent (rondorfite) and porous (mayenite) minerals. A part of hisPh.D. thesisresearch, mainly in spectroscopy, was carried out during the Le MansUniversité, France internship and financed by a national grant. Aftergraduation, Dr. Dulski was employed as the Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Materials Science. In 2015, he started a newstage of hiscarrier, focusing on synthesizing and developing newideas for implementing metal-dopedsilicananostructuresinto engineering coat-forming structures on biomedical implants. Research studies have been realized in the project leader SONATA finished by developing a new class of human-friendly, biocompatible, and biological active coating, improving Ni Tialloy's functionality. In 2021, he increased the applicability of the silicas by its surface modificationusingactivegroups to improve metal ionuptake. The idea correlated with developing environmentallyfriendlymolecularsieves to remediategroundwater and soil. Researchprovidedinto OPUS grant. So far, Dr. Dulski haspublishedabout 140 papers in prestigiousscientificjournals, such as Nanoscale, ASS, Mater. Sci. Eng. C, ACS Appl. Mat. & Inter., etc. Dr. Dulski participated in 10 national and twointernationalgrants. Dr. Lu hasreceived multipleawards for hisresearch excellence and outstandingachievements.

He received the Ph. D. of science from Kyoto University in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo in 2010, and moved to Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor (2010-2014). He was an assistant professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University from 2014 to 2019. He is currently a lecturer at Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University

Riam Abu Much is currently Vice-President at The Academic Arab College for Education in Israel. Former Head of Elementary Science Department, and Head of Chemistry Department. She serves also as a Senior Lecturer at the same college. She earned her Ph.D. degree in chemistry (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) from Bar-Ilan University, she also received her M.Sc. and BSc. in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2008-2009 she was a post-doctoral fellow in chemistry on Bar-Ilan University. Dr. Riam`s research focuses on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. During her M.Sc. and Ph.D. study, she worked on developing metals and magnetic materials at the nanoscale using Ultrasound Irradiation, in addition, she served as teaching assistant at Bar-Ilan University. She published number of papers in leading Journals in this area. In recent years, her research expanded to include chemical education with an emphasis on nano-education. Riam served previously as a scientific member in SALiS and ARTiST projects funded by EU. Riam has published several national and international articles, books, and chapter of books, she has organized several international conferences around the world. Riam has presented her research work on different countries and has awarded as the best presenter and the best paper several times.

Dr. Chunli Zhang received his Ph.D. (2011) in Structural Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Then he joined in the group of Professor Chuanzeng Zhang at the University of Siegen as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017, he joined in the group of Professor Zhonglin Wang at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a Professor at Zhejiang University, his main research interests include: mechanics of smart materials/structures, mechanics of multiferroic materials, and modeling of piezoelectric and piezotronic devices. He has publised over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and is editorial board member of Symmetry and Guster editor of Frontiers in Material.

Wang Yan, she is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), a national high-level talent, and an inductee of the “Agricultural Science Talent Program” of CAAS. She is also the chief scientist of the "Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Agricultural Application” team of the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS, the deputy director of the Environmental Engineering Research Office, and a member of the Agricultural Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society. Her research focuses on the synthesis and agricultural application of nanocarrier materials, efficient and green nanopesticide/veterinary drug formulations and targeted precise controlled release. She presided over National High Technology Research and Development Program, the sub-task of collaborative innovation project of the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovition Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing and many other programs. She has published more than 80 papers in academic journals such as ACS Nano, Coord. Chem. Rev., Environ. Sci. Nano, authorized 18 patents, and won one Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology Award.

Dr. Mudassir Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor and former Head in the Department of Computer Science at College of Science & Arts Tanumah, King Khalid University Abha, Saudi Arabia. He has completed Ph.D. in Computer Science from Noida International University (NIU), India. He has completed his Graduationfrom Aligarh Muslim University and master’sfrom Gautam Budh Technical University, India. He has more than 12 years of Teaching Experience at the King Khalid University of Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 34 papersin International Journals (SCIE, ESCI, Scopus, UGC Care), conferences IEEE and Springer Nature) and 1 patent. He is the Member of various technical/ professional societies such as IEEE, UACEE, Internet Society, IAENG and CSTA. His research interest includes Big data, IoT, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, eLearning, Fuzzy Logic, Image Processing, Cyber Security and Cloud Computing

Dr. Ranjit Das is Assistant Professor of Universidad Catolica Del Norte, Chile. Dr. Das is UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) expert in the field of Seismic hazard Assessment. Dr.Ranjit Das had graduated from Guwahati University, India in 2001 with Physics as a major subject. He received his Master of Computer Application and M-Tech in Computational Seismology from Tezpur University, India in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in Computational Seismology from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India with topic entitled “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Northeast India Region" in 2013. He has expertise in the areas of Seismic Hazard Assessment and Seismological data analysis using Machine Learning. Dr. Das has recently developed a new earthquake measuring scale which is a better version than the existing earthquake magnitude scale. Dr. Das developed several original contributions in the field of regression analysis. Dr. Das is Principal Investigator for Conicyt-funded Natural Hazard project (Title:SEISMIC HAZARD IN NORTHERN CHILE FROM EARTHQUAKE CATALOG VERSUS GNSS STRAIN RATE).He is a life member of the Seismological Society of America.

Yhosvany Soler Castillo has a major in electrical engineer awarded by the Higher Polytechnic Institute José Antonio Echevarría, in Havana (1990 - 1995); besides, he holds two diplomate courses, the first in foreign trade at Institute of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, INCOMEX in Havana (2014), and the second one in Photovoltaic Solar Energy at the Photovoltaic Researches Laboratory - Materials Sciences and Technologies Institute (IMRE) - Faculty of Physics of the Havana University (2019). On the other hand, he has got a master´s degree in physics awarded by the faculty of physics of Havana University (2022). Currently, he is working at Aviaimport, S.A, as Specialist in Foreign Trade Sales and Purchase, as well as started from 2020, as autonomous researcher, focused in PV systems energy conversion efficiency, mathematical modeling, Physics , Electrodynamics, Thermodynamics, Optics, Semiconductor Physics, Solid State Physics , Applied Physics and Photonics. In almost three year as reseacher, he has published 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and 1 conference proceeding, with 2 additional ones under peer-reviewing process.

Douglas Gouvea, Bachelor in Chemistry from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1986), Master in Physical Chemistry - Araraquara from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1989) and PhD in Chemistry from Federal University of São Carlos - University of Limoges France (1995) ). Assistant Professor (ATER) at ENSCI in Limoges - France in the school year 1994-1995. Hired as a professor in 1997 at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, currently holding the position of Full Professor. The central theme of the research works is related to the physical-chemistry of the surface of ceramic powders mainly on the following topics: ceramic dispersions, synthesis of ceramic materials, sintering and stability and phase transitions in nanometric oxides and photocatalysis.

Rita Magri is associate professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, since 2010. She got her Master Degree in Physics, mark summa cum laude, in 1985 and her PhD in 1990 with a thesis on Density Functional Theory calculations applied to semiconductor superlattices. In 1990-1991 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) (now National Renewable Energy Laboratory), in Golden, Colorado, USA, under the direction of Dr. Alex Zunger. From 1992 to 1993 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, in the group of Prof. J. Dahn. Her research interests have focused and focuses mainly on the theoretical modelling and atomistic computations of the structural and electronic properties of semiconductors, with particular regard to low dimensional systems and nanostructures. She has been principal investigator of international and national research projects, single author and co-author of more than 100 articles in international journals, and an invited speaker in many international workshops and conferences.

Dr. Mahmoud Said Elsayed received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering from Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt in 2007, the M.E. degrees in Information Security from Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2018, and a PhD degree from the School of Computer Science, UCD, Dublin, Ireland in 2022. He is also received a diploma in management of innovation from the DIT Institute, Dublin, Ireland, and another diploma in networking from the ITI Institute, Cairo, Egypt. Besides, a set of international professional certificates in computer networks, security, and IT fields from Cisco, IBM, Huawei, Juniper, and VMware systems. He has worked for several years in the industry through Huawei and IBM Co. in the area of Computer Networks and Security. Dr. Mahmoud is currently a Network and Security Design Engineer at one of the largest companies in the area of telecommunications. He is also serving as a technical supervisor for PhD students at UCD, Ireland, and Master students, Nile university, Egypt. His research interests include, but are not limited to computer networks, cybersecurity, applications of artificial intelligence to anomaly detection, cancer prognosis and prediction, software-defined networks, malware and vulnerability analysis, security for the Internet of Things, routing protocols, cloud computing, and next generation Wi-Fi design.

Dr. Divya Bajpai Tripathy is currently a full time Professor in the Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. I have research and teaching experience of more than 12 years. I have more than 65 research publications in reputed Journals/Books/ Book chapters/Conference proceedings and patent filed to her credit. She has guided 12 Masters research students. Currently five doctorate students have been registered under my supervision. She has been principal investigator in a DST funded research project. She has a research collaboration with Prof. M.A. Quraishi, King Fahd University, Saudi Arab, Dr. Anjali Gupta, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Prof. Anuradha Mishra, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida.

Thu Ha Dao has got a Master’s degree in Physics awarded by the Physics department of the University of Camrino, Italy in 2019. In 2019-2020, she worked as a fellow researcher under the project NARAs (Nanotecnologie Applicate alla Rilevazione di Arsenico nelle Acque) at Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. Her main activity was to prepare the substrates which potentially can be used for SERs (surface enhanced raman spectroscopy) measurement to detect Arsenic in water. From 2020 till now, she has been a PhD student at the Industrial Engineering department at Tor Vergata University under the project QUANTEP (QUANtum Technologies Experimental Platform). The QUANTEP project aims at the development and implementation of a complete Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit for Quantum Computation with linear quantum optics circuits and single photons.

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Dr. Pranab Sarker is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Howard University. Previously, he was a postdoc at the Center of Materials Genomics at Duke University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research covers a broad range of topics and interests—solar energy conversion (PV and PEC), ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs), bio-nano interface, and zwitterionic polymers—focusing on ab initio materials design, multiscale characterization, and thermodynamic growth conditions prediction.

Prof. Dr. Gomah E. Nenaah is a Professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Biology Department, College of Science and Arts, Najran University, Saudi Arabia, and Zoology Department, Faculty of Science. Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. Prof. Nenaah published more than 40 scientific articles in highly indexed ISI journals. He published many scientific researches that have been funded by several local and international bodies. Prof. Nenaah has attended many specialized international conferences in ecology, nanotechnology, and pest management. His field of research focuses on the isolation, purification and structural elucidation of natural products from wild and aromatic plants using advanced technologies, including spectroscopic instrumentation, and to investigate the biological activities of the natural plant products, particularly their insecticidal and antimicrobial bioactivities. Using Nanotechnology for the preparation of biologically active nanoscale natural products (nanopesticides/nanofungicides) is a main branch of interest in the last ten years.

Prof Adel Mathlouthi is a theoretical physicist and a researcher in nano-sciences. Researches focuses on quantum black holes, the mechanical properties of the photon, photon fission and its relationship to the end of geological ages and the great extinctions, in addition to establishing new cosmic constants to study the dimensions of the universe.

Dr. Ana L. Leal-Cruz is a Professor of Electronics Engineering and Postgradat Departamento de InvestigaciónenFísica of the Universidad de Sonora in México. She received his BS in Chemical Engineering (specializing in metallurgy), MS in Ceramic Engineering and a PhD in Metallurgy and Ceramic Engineering at CINVESTAV in Saltillo, Coah., México. His research interests include synthesis and characterization of structural and functional advanced materials, as well as design, development and optimization of nanomaterials and devices for medical, optoelectronics and electronics applications. She is inventor of two patent and is co-author of more than 51 papers in journals and more than 60 conferences papers.

Prof. Priyabrata Pattanaik is now working as Director SOA-Centre for Innovation and Incubation cum Additional Dean-Research in Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India. Prof. Pattanaikjoined as a faculty in theDept. of Electronic and Communication Engineering,in the year of2008. Born on 3rd March 1981 at Puri, Odisha, India.Prof. Pattanaik received his Bachelor degree in Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering) from North Orissa University, Odisha. Then he did his M.Tech degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering, with specialization in VLSI design from BPUT, Odisha. After that he did his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University with specialization in compound semiconductor Bio Sensors. With more than18 years of teaching experience in both B.Tech and M.Tech level, Prof. Pattanaik research area of interest includes III-V and II-VI Magnetic Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Thin film and VLSI Fabrication Technology, Nano science and Nanotechnology, MEMS, Biosensor and Smart agriculture using sensor technology.He has guided several M.Tech and B.Tech project groups. He has been guiding several M.Sc. and Ph.D. research scholars in multidisciplinary. Under his guidance, one Ph.D. scholar is being awarded with good numbers of publications and patents. He has worked as the visiting researcher in University of Reading United Kingdom. He has published more than 80 research papers in peer reviewed international journals of repute. He is guest editor of Advanced Science Letter (American Scientific Publication). He has developed Semiconductor Research Laboratory partially funded by CSIR, New Delhi and also Microelectronic Laboratory. Prof. Pattanaik and his research group has filed and published 36 nos. of Indian Patents and Out of them 7aregranted. His research group now working with University of Oxford, University of Reading, Manchester Fashion Institute, IIT Mandi like top institutes.

Presently, I am working on anticancer activities of different herbal extracts and phytocomponents on various cancer cell lines to detect the different apoptotic pathways and signaling molecules involved in apoptosis cell death (in-vitro study). I am working on develop a novel drugs (anticancer)of different bio-nanoparticles using medical plants extract for cancer cells treatment. The land is very rich in medical plants, some have been studied and others have not been studied. In our current study we will choose the bio-plants that contain high amounts of Taxol, Flavonoids, Cardiac Glycosides, Podophyllotoxin, Ginsenosides, Glycosides, Brucine, Strychnine Brucine, Alkaloids, Aconitine and Aconine. Moreover, my research work is also focused on the antitumor activity of the herbal extracts and compounds in tumor model of mice (in-vivo study).Including: Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity assays. Nanotoxicology, Toxicology, Apoptosis, Oxidative stress Biomarkers, Genetic Toxicology, and Cell biology. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer Disease. Bio-nanotechnology. Biosynthesized Nanoparticles using medical plant extract.

Prof Qiang Zhu has obtainedhis Dr.-Ing. degree in Materials Science (equivalent to PhD in the UK) from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germanyin 1994. After short worked in the same university, he came to the UK to work for University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge and Cummins Turbo Technologies Ltd UK until September 2010. He then moved to the General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (Beijing, China)as Vice Chief Engineer and since 2016 he works as Chair Professor forthe Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China). Professor Zhu’s R&D activities involve development of light metals and superalloys, their forming processing and mechanical characterization. His current R&D interests focus on semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys, additive manufacturing (3D printing)of light metals, superalloys, steels and titanium alloys, failure analysis and fracture mechanics, simulation and modelling of forming processes etc. He has published over160 papers and 60 patents. Among the numerous honors and awards, he has received the outstanding contribution to semi solid processing of alloys and composites (2018), the 2009 international award on Squeeze/semi solid casting from the North America Die Casting Association and two Steve Pawer awards from Cummins Turbo Technologies (2014, 2016).

Dr. K Dhananjay Rao received aBTech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, India, a Master’sDegree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur, India. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha College of Engineering, Vijayawada, India. I have authored more than 20 publications. I have published my research findings in different journals like IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and so on.My research interests include modeling different energy storage systems (especially Lithium-ion batteries and Supercapacitors), state estimation, System identification, Battery Management Systems, and Electric Vehicles.

ABID ALI received an M.S. degree in CS from the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, in 2018, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer science with the Department of Computer Science. He is a computer science Lecturer with the Higher Education Department, KPK, Pakistan. He has eight years of teaching and four years of research experience. He has been a member of multiple committees related to academic fields and a participant in research projects. Moreover, he has taught several courses and supervised several capstone projects. His research interests include Machine Learning, IoT, distributed computing, VANET, security, big data, task scheduling, data mining, cloud and mobile cloud computing, and ICN/SDN. He acted as a reviewer for journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems(Elsevier), Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, CMC journal, and the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL

Mr. Suresh Aluvihara is a researcher in Sri Lanka under the disciplines of Earth Science and Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science and Engineering and Soil Science. He received his first degree in the year 2017 from a recognized government university in Sri Lanka as a special degree with honorable pass. He commenced his postgraduate research works in the following year at the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. In the consideration of his academic works, he is having a series of outstanding research publications in world reputed international journals in Material Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering and Environmental Engineering. Currently he is participating in large number of academic conferences as a keynote speaker, featured speaker, invited speaker and plenary speaker meanwhile he is serving for such conferences under the roles of reviewer and organizing committee member.