Prof Brij B. Gupta received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India (One of the oldest technical institutes in Asia). In more than 17 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 30 books and 10 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Govt. of Canada, Visvesvaraya Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, Govt of India, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE best paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, India respectively. Prof Gupta is also serving as Distinguished Research Scientist with LoginRadius Inc., USA which is one of leading cybersecurity companies in the world, especially in the field of customer identity and access management (CIAM). He is also selected in the 2021 and 2020 Stanford University’s ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities (i.e. Temple University, Macquarie University, Yamaguchi University, University of Murcia, Deakin University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University of Technology, etc) worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof. Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI and IJCAC, IGI Global, as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of Book Series with CRC, World Scientific and IET press. He also served as TPC members and organized/special session chairs in ICCE 2021, GCCE 2014-2021 and TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM:CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, etc. Dr Gupta is also serving/served as Associate/Guest Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IoT, IEEE Big Data, ASOC, FGCS, etc. At present, Prof. Gupta is working as Director, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media and networking.

Prof. Dr. Ambo Tuwo was born in Makassar on November 18, 1962. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Fisheries in 1986 at Hasanuddin University, Makassar. He obtained a master’s degree in Coastal Resource Management from the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France in 1990. He also obtained a Doctorate degree in Marine Ecology from the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in 1993. He has held the position of Full Professor in Marine Ecology since 2001. Ambo Tuwo has been a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, Hasanuddin University since 1987. He has been a visiting lecturer at several universities in Japan, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, and the Philippines. As a lecturer, he teaches several courses at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, namely: Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Coastal and Marine Ecology, Aquatic Ecology, Tropical Aquatic Ecology, Fish Population Dynamics, Philosophy of Science, Principles of Environmental Science, Contemporary Marine Issues, Coastal and Marine Resource Management, Integrated Ecosystem Management, Ecotourism Fundamentals, Coastal and Marine Ecotourism, and Management of Natural Tourism Areas.

ilhami Colak was born in 1962 in Turkey. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from Gazi University, Turkey, in 1985. Then, he did his MSc degree in electrical engineering in the field of Speed Control of Wound Rotor Induction Machines Using Semiconductor Devices at Gazi University in 1991. He received his PhD degree from Aston University in England on Mixed Frequency Testing of Induction Machines Using Inverters in 1994. He became an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor, and a full Professor in 1995, 1999 and 2005, respectively. He has published more than 440 papers on different subjects, including electrical machines, drive systems, machine learning, reactive power compensation, inverters, converters, artificial neural networks, distance learning, automation, renewable energy sources and smart grids in the SCOPUS with 36 h-index. More than 320 of his papers have been cited in the SCI database of Thomson Reuters with 28 h-index and received more than 3650 citations. He has organized more than 100 international conferences and workshops. In the last fifteen years, he has concentrated his studies on renewable energy and smart grids by publishing papers, journals (www.ijrer.org), and (www.ijSmartGrid.org) and organizing international IEEE sponsored conferences (www.icrera.org), and (www.icSmartGrid.org). He is also the editor-in-chief of Electric Power Components and Systems (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uemp20/current). He has 1 international and 3 national patents. He also spent around 3 years at the European Commission Research Centre (JRC) as an expert in the field of smart grids in the Netherlands. He used to be a dean of engineering faculty, vice rector and the rector of the Gelisim and Nisantasi universities. He is currently a full professor at Istinye University. Professor COLAK achieved a great success of 10% by being included in the "World's Most Influential Scientists" 2% list, which was created USA Stanford University considering the "Works of the Year 2020-2021-2022-2023".

Since 1994 onwards, P. Venkatesh has been working as a teaching faculty in various positions as lecturer, Assistant professor, Associate professor, Professor and guiding undergraduate and post graduate Engineering students in Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. He received the BOYSCAST Fellowship scheme award in the year 2006 from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India for carrying out Post Doctoral research work at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. He is a Fellow in Institution of Engineers (India) (IE (India)), Senior member in IEEE (USA) and a life member in Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He has visited countries Malaysia and Singapore. He has produced 12 Ph.D scholars so far. Currently he has an h index of 22. He has written a book namely Electrical power system analysis, security and Deregulation and one more book chapter in the title smart grid. He has completed three projects funded by AICTE, DST-FAST Track and UGC. Further informations are available in www.tinyurl.com/venkateshtce

Dr Syed Abdul Rehman Khan is an expert of Supply Chain and Logistics Management. Dr Khan achieved his CSCP—Certified Supply Chain Professional certificate from the U.S.A. and completed his postdoctoral fellowship from Tsinghua University.

Dr Khan is a Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He has more than twelve years’ core experience of supply chain and logistics at industry and academic levels. He has attended several international conferences and also has been invited as a keynote speaker in different countries. He has published more than 110+ scientific research papers in different well- renowned international peer-reviewed journals (SSCI/SCI and ABS listed) and conferences, including couple of research paper indexed in Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Dr Khan is the authored of three books related to the sustainability in supply chain and business operations. He is a regular contributor to conferences and workshops around the world. During the last three years, Dr Khan has won 5 different national/provincial-level research projects. Besides, Dr Khan has achieved scientific innovation awards three times consecutively by the Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government, China.

Also, Dr Khan holds memberships in the following well-renowned institutions and supply chain bodies/associations: APCIS-U.S.; Production and Operation Management Society, India; Council of Supply Chain Management of Professionals U.S.; Supply Chain Association of Pakistan; and Global Supply Chain Council China.

David Raisz (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Budapest, Hungary, in 2000 and 2011, respectively. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Guest Researcher with the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. From 2012 to 2016, he led the Power Systems and Environment Group with the Department of Electric Power Engineering, BUTE, as an Associate Professor. Between 2017 and 2020, he joined the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He has been working on or leading more than 40 industrial and research projects.

Dr. Oveis Abedinia joins to Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2015 as Post-doc researcher and adjunct faculty member. In 2017 he started to construct different solar power plants in middle-east countries as project manager and then joins to Ardabil Techno-Park as Head of International Relations. Dr. Abedinia started his cooperation with Nazarbayev University from 2019 as visiting professor. He is Editor in different journals such as Complexity and guest editor in Energies. He has authored and co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications (journal and conference papers), in addition to 4 book and book-chapters.

Personal Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oveis-Abedini