Dr. Bimal K. Bose (Life Fellow, IEEE) held the Condra Chair of Excellence (Endowed Chair) in Power Electronics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since 1987, where he was responsible for teaching and research program in power electronics and motor drives. Concurrently, he served as Distinguished Scientist (1989-2000) and Chief Scientist (1987-1989) of EPRI-Power Electronics Applications Center, Knoxville,TN. Prior to this, he was a Research Engineer in the GE Corporate Research and Development (now GE Global Research Center), Schenectady, NY, for 11 years (1976-1987), an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, for five years (1971-1976),

Power Electronics,Artificial Intelligence,Wireless Sensors

Prof Zhongdong Wang received her BEng degree in High Voltage Engineering and MSc degree in in High Voltage Technologies from Tsinghua University of Beijing China in 1991 and 1993, respectively and her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UMIST in 1999. She joined The University of Manchester (then UMIST) in 2000 and currently she is a Professor of High Voltage Engineering at the Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester. Her current research interests include condition monitoring techniques, thermal, electrical transient and magnetic modeling techniques for transformers, insulation ageing mechanisms and alternative liquid insulating materials.

Power Transformers,Optical Fiber,Electric Cars Autonomy,Sensorless Induction Motor Drives,

Prof Zhongdong Wang received her BEng degree in High Voltage Engineering and MSc degree in in High Voltage Technologies from Tsinghua University of Beijing China in 1991 and 1993, respectively and her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UMIST in 1999. She joined The University of Manchester (then UMIST) in 2000 and currently she is a Professor of High Voltage Engineering at the Electrical Energy and Power Systems Group of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Manchester. Her current research interests include condition monitoring techniques, thermal, electrical transient and magnetic modeling techniques for transformers, insulation ageing mechanisms and alternative liquid insulating materials.

Power Transformers,Optical Fiber,Electric Cars Autonomy,Sensorless Induction Motor Drives.

Professor Zhili Sun was born in China. He obtained a BSc degree in Mathematics from Nanjing University, China in 1982. He worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University after his graduation. In 1985, the Chinese Ministry of Education awarded him a scholarship to study for a Master Degree in Computer Networks in Lancaster University in UK, and in 1986 he was awarded the Overseas Research Studentship (ORS), the Peel Studentship and Senate Scholarship from Lancaster University in the Department of Computing for his PhD project on Managing Large Scale Distributed Systems. From 1989 to 1993, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Broadband Communications and Networks in the Department of Electronic Engineering, at Queen Mary, University of London. Professor Sun is a well recognised leading researcher and expert in the fields of Satellite Networking and Internet Protocols. He has led a research team for many years working as Principal Investigator in a number of research projects.

Broadband Communications and Networks, Satellite Networking and Internet Protocols.

Fei Yuan received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China in 1985, the M.A.Sc. degree in chemical engineering and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1995 and 1999, respectively. During 1985-1989, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Jiangsu, China. In 1989 he was a Visiting Professor at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Canada, and Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was with Paton Controls Limited, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada as a Controls Engineer during 1989-1994. Since 1999 he has been with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University.

CMOS circuits for passive wireless microsystems, Wireless Communication Systems, Gbps wireline data communication systems, CMOS-enabled biosensors and actuators.

Chi Chung Ko received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology, U.K. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore.

His current research interests include Digital Signal Proessing, Adaptive Arrays, Communications and Networks.

Douglas Yung earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from UCLA in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech in 2008. He worked as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on sensor development microfluidics, and bacterial spore viability. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in 2009. He is intrigued by biosensing and electronic interfacing with living cells. On the biosensing side, his research group is developing technologies for rapid viability assessment of superbugs using a combination of electrochemical, optical techniques and MEMS devices. His team is also developing methods to interface living microbes with electronics at a micro- and nano-scale.

BioMEMS devices, Biosensors, Interface science, Astrobiology, Microbial fuel cell, Sterilization technology

Qin Xin graduated with his Ph.D (Oct. 2002 – Oct. 2004) in Department of Computer Science at University of Liverpool, UK in December 2004. Currently, he is working as a FULL professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands (UoFI), Faroe Islands. Prior to joining UoFI, he had held variant research positions in world leading universities and research laboratory including Senior Research Fellowship at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Research Scientist/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship atUniversity of Bergen, Norway. Currently, Prof. Dr. Xin is serving on Management Committee Board of Denmark for several EU ICT projects. Prof.Dr. Xin has produced more than 70 peer reviewed scientific papers. His works have been published in leading international conferences and journals, such as ICALP, ACM PODC, SWAT, IEEE MASS, ISAAC, SIROCCO, IEEE ICC, Algorithmica, Theoretical Computer Science, Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, and Advances in Space Research. He has been very actively involved in the services for the community in terms of acting (or acted) on various positions (e.g., Session Chair, Member of Technical Program Committee, Symposium Organizer and Local Organization Co-chair) for numerous international leading conferences in the fields of distributed computing, wireless communications and ubiquitous intelligence and computing, including IEEE MASS, IEEE LCN, ACM SAC, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, IFIP NPC, IEEE Sarnoff and so on. He is the Organizing Committee Chair for the 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020, Torshavn, Faroe Islands). Currently, he also serves on the editorial board for more than ten international journals.

His main research focus is on design and analysis of sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms for various communication and optimization problems in wireless communication networks, as well as cryptography and digital currencies including quantum money. Moreover, he also investigates the combinatorial optimization problems with applications in Bioinformatics, Data Mining and Space Research.

Professor Dr. Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and information Technology, University Putra Malaysia. She hold the position of the Deputy of Dean at the Faculty of Computer Science and information Technology, University Putra Malaysia. She received her PhD in the area of Quantum Computing from the University of Bradford, UK in 2006. In research she has more than 100 publications in international journals, 22 publications in Conference Proceedings, 20 research grants (16 completed and 4 in progress), 4 patents, and 4 software copyrights. She gave many invited and contributed talks in international conferences. She participated in the organizing committees of several international conferences. She is one of the member of the editorial board of 4 journals. She also supervised 12 PhD students as main supervisor, and I was involved in the supervision of 18 other PhD students. There is no doubt that she is an established researcher at an international level. Prof. Zuriati is the founder of ZA Quantum Sdn Bhd, the start up company from University Putra Malaysia to produce a software designing tool for Quantum Communication known as Quantum Communication Simulator(QuCS). QuCS is web-based application interface of ‘’drag and drop” using “Software as Services”. Recently she has been awarded as Distinguished Woman In Computer Science at 4th Venus International Women Awards - VIWA 2019. More proudly, the software won each one gold award and a special award at 2016 International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada. Prof. Zuriati also won the outstanding ‘World Woman Science Grand Award at the 3rd World Scientist Awards (WSA) 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. She bagged the award from her research which led to the creation of an innovative product in the field of science – Quantum Communication Simulator (QuCS) – which was subsequently commercialized. She also won an 'Innovative Inventor Grand Award' for 'Order of Merit: Information Technology' at the 5th World Inventor Award Festival (WIAF) 2016 - a show of recognition for her creative and innovative product, QuCS, which involved the transfer of technology. It is the highest appreciation for recognizing female researchers who have been successful in highlighting significant incompatibility products thus contributing significantly to the world.

Professor Dr. Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain research interests include: Developing Cashless Payment System based on Blockchain Technology, Efficient multiparty QKD protocol for classical network and cloud as well as the load balancing in the wireless ad hoc network, quantum processor unit for quantum computer, Authentication Time of IEEE 802.15.4 with Multiple-key Protocol, Intra-domain Mobility Handling Scheme for Wireless Networks, Efficiency and Fairness for new AIMD Algorithms. At the international level, I have been actively involved as a member of the editorial board for some international peer-reviewed and cited journals.

Prof. Piyush Yadav is working as Assistant Professor at G. L. Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida, India in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He is also the Chairman of Institution of Communication Engineers and Information Technologists (ICEIT)-GLBITM Chapter.He has contributed and presented more than 35 papers in national, International conferences and journals which include reputed publishers such as IEEE, Springer, Elsevier and Universiti Putra Malaysia Press. He is also actively involved in project development setup mentoring and technology incubation and development in collaboration with industries and renowned research organizations. He served as the Chair of the Technical session on communication systems in PEEIC-2018 and wireless networks in ICTGA-2018 He is the conference Secretary in MedCom-2014. He is also the Reviewer of several International Journals including IEEE Access, Open Computer Science, and Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems etc. He is also a senior member of Institution of Communication Engineers and Information Technologists (ICEIT).

Prof. Piyush Yadav major research areas include wireless communication and ICT in healthcare with specific interest in heterogeneous networks.

Lie-Liang Yang received his BEng degree in communications engineering from Shanghai TieDao University, Shanghai, China in 1988, and his MEng and PhD degrees in communications and electronics from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 1991 and 1997, respectively. Since 1997, he has been with the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, where he is the professor of wireless communications in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. He is a fellow of both the IEEE and the IET, and was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE-VTS. He served as an associate editor to the IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology and Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), and is currently an associate editor to the IEEE Access and a subject editor to the IET Electronics Letters.

He has research interest in wireless communications, wireless networks and signal processing for wireless communications, as well as molecular communications and nano-networks. He has published over 380 research papers in journals and conference proceedings, authored/co-authored three books and also published over 10 book chapters. The details about his research publications can be found at https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/llyang.