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Prof. Sabu Thomas is one of India’s most renowned scientists known for his contributions in polymer science and Nanotechnology. He is a scientist, administrator and an excellent teacher who has students all over the world. He joined Cochin University of Science and Technology to pursue his bachelor’s degree in Polymer science and Rubber Technology. He went on to complete his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur under the eminent guidance of Prof. S K De. After attaining industrial experience, he returned to serve his homeland, Kottayam and joined Mahatma Gandhi University as a lecturer. He has been the Visiting Professor of several institutes abroad. He currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi University.

Title of talk: Engineering at the Nanoscale: A Strategy for Developing High Performance Functional Materials

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 118; 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. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Hebei University of Technology, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others. 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); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society For Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 53,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023).

Title of talk: The Global Response to COVID: What Happened, How We Failed, and How Nanotechnology Helped

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks. He has published two booksand260 journal articles, with 160 of them being corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews(2), Chemical Society Reviews(2), Nature Materials, Nature Electronics(4), Nature Communications (3), Science Advances, Joule(3), Matter(10), Advanced Materials (12), and many others. His works were selected as Research Highlights by Nature and Science7 times and covered by world mainstream media over 1,200 times in total, including NPR, ABC, NBC, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Street Journal‎, and Scientific American. He also filed 14 US patents, including one licensed. With a current h-index of 98 and 50ESI Highly Cited Papers, Dr. Chen was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Sciencein Web of Science. Beyond research, he is an associate editor of Biosensors& Bioelectronics, Med-X, and Textiles, Advisory/ Editorial Board Members of Matter, Cell Reports Physical Science, Materials Today Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Nano Trends, and The Innovation.

Title of talk: Smart Textiles for Personalized Health Care

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Title of talk: RECONSTRUCTION of MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA on INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Architect and Civil Engineer. PhD in Urban Planning and Territorial Management from the Technical University of Valencia. MBA by the ESIC Business School of Valencia and MsC in Concessions and Public-Private Collaboration of the Technical University of Madrid. Associated Professor responsible for various courses related to territorial policy and environmental & infrastructure planning at the Faculty Civil Engineering of the UPCT since 2010. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of California Berkeley (USA), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), CEPES (Mexico) and Cyprus University of Technology. He is currently an invited professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through a Fulbright grant from the United States government.

Manuel F. M. Costa hold a PhD degree in Science (Physics) from the University of Minho (Portugal) where he works at the Physics Department since 1985 teaching and performing applied research in optical metrology, image processing, thin films nanostructures and applications, solar energy, optometric instrumentation and science and technology education and literacy. Presented over four hundred communications in international meetings and published around the same number of scientific papers, monographs and books. Editor or member of the editorial board of several scientific and educational international journals. Chairperson of twenty-nine international conferences. He is President of the Ibero-American Optics Network, RIAO, for the term 2019-2022; President of the Hands-on Science Network, HSCI; President of the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics, SPOF; President of the Portuguese Territorial Committee of the International Commission for Optics, ICO, for three terms 2011-2020; Executive Committee member and Europe Regional Representative of the International Council of Associations for Science Education, ICASE; Deputy Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Optical Society. He is a Fellow of European Optical Society since 2013.

Title of Talk : Non-invasive Optical Microtopographic Inspection of Rough Surfaces

Mohammed El Ghzaoui Das was born in Taounate, Morocco. He has obtained his PhD degree in Transmission and Data Processing, at Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah University. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of physics at the Faculty of Sciences Dhar EL Mahraz, at Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah University, Morocco. His research interests are Microstrip Antennas for microwave, mm-wave and THz communication systems, Flexible antenna design, Filter design, FSS, RFID, microwave components, and THz systems, OFDM modulation, MIMO technology. Presently he is working on the design and development on graphene based THz antennas, modulation techniques for THz communication systems, compact MIMO antenna, antenna array and filter design for 5G applications. He has contributed more than 50 research articles in various peer reviewed international journals and conferences of repute. He has contributed several book chapters. He is associated with different international journals as Editorial board member. He is an active reviewer of different Scopus and SCI/SCIE indexed journals. He is an active member and holds professional membership in different national and international organizations related to development of Engineering & Technological Research. He is associated with different international conferences as National/International Advisory board member, technical committee member and reviewer.

Title of talk: Current Trends and Future Perspective of Designing on-Chip Antennas