Ciprian Alecsandru is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant Lecturer in the Transportation Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest from 1997 to 2001, where he also obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees. Since joining Concordia University in 2006, Dr. Alecsandru has focused his research on traffic operations and safety, emphasizing computational intelligence and traffic simulation models. His research interests include traffic simulation, intelligent transportation systems, and sustainable transportation development. He managed research grants from provincial and federal governments as well as from industrial partners. The research conducted in collaboration with his graduate students spans a variety of topics from improving operations and safety of public transport networks to evaluating the impact of transitioning vehicular infrastructure towards connected and autonomous systems.

Jocelyne Brendle is full professor at the Institut de Science des Materiaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) UMR-UHA-CNRS 7361 and co-director of the IS2M-Timac Agro Company joint laboratory Matiaire and Vice-President of the Universite of Haute-Alsace in charge of Social Responsibility. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Haute-Alsace, France, in 1996 and her Ability to supervise research (HDR) in 2002. Her fields of research are related to layered materials (clay minerals, organic-inorganic hybrids having a clay-like structure): synthesis by hydrothermal or sol-gel process, functionalization through ion exchange or grafting and applications in the field of drug delivery systems, agriculture, pollutants retention (radionuclides, heavy metal cations and organic), polymer-layered materials nanocomposites. She was and is involved in many collaborations with industrial partners, has 25 patents and is author or co-author of about 130 publications. She was Vice-President of the French Group of Clays for 4 years and Vice-President of the AIPEA (International Association for the Study of Clays), Chair of the International Clay Conference Committee during five years.

Doina Logofătu is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She leads the Soft Computing, Programming and Algorithms (SCoPA) research group within the university’s Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research interests encompass soft computing, programming languages, competitive programming, teaching challenges and algorithm development. Professor Logofătu is known for her contribution in programming education in Romania and Germany. She authored several books, including Einführung in C: Praktisches Lern- und Arbeitsbuch für Programmieranfanger, Algorithmen und Problemlösungen mit C++, German-language Introductions to C/C++ Programming and Algorithms. She has also contributed to various academic publications and conferences in her field.

Since 1999 Dan Doru Micu has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, where he is currently full professor, director of the Energy Transition Research Center and president of the Senate Research Committee. Between 2006-2010 he was part-time scientific expert at the Managerial Agency of Scientific Research, Innovation and Technological Transfer – Ministry of Education and Research. Starting from 2020, he has been selected as an expert at the National Council for Scientific Research at Ministry of Research. He was project manager at 15 research grants obtained by national and international competitions (8 Horizon Projects). Also, he was leading more than 20 research projects for industry. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. He lectured at more than 50 universities all over the world. He was a Fulbright Senior Fellow (2017 and 2022) at Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, US, and since 2019 he is a part-time professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

Sinan Müftü, Ph.D., is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. He joined Northeastern in September 2000. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, in 1994. He received a Doctor of Mechanical Engineering, Honoris causa, from „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University in Iași, in Romania, in 2024. Prior to joining Northeastern he was a research scientist at the Haystack Radioastronomy Observatory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He held visiting appointments in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of MIT, Sabanci University, and Engineering Science Department of Oxford University. His research is in the general area of applied mechanics with applications in tribology and bioengineering, including mechanics of axially translating materials for roll-2-roll systems, mechanics of high velocity particle impact for Cold Spray additive manufacturing and structure-function relationship in biological systems. Dr. Müftü served in the executive committee of the Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS) division of the ASME and was the chair of this division in 2004. Dr. Müftü served in the executive committee of the Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS) division of the ASME and was the chair of the division in 2004. Dr. Müftü and his colleagues received the best paper award from the ASME ISPS division on three separate occasions. He served as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology, and on the review board of the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants. Dr. Müftü is a past recipient of the COE Outstanding Teaching Award, the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Faculty Member in ME, the Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award, and the Faculty Research Team Award. He was elected a fellow of the ASME in 2007 for his contributions to mechanics of axially translating media.

Former ITU (Istanbul Technical University) academician, Burak Özkal served between 1992-2023 at Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, has BSc. Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science, and completed Contemporary Business Management Program at graduate level. He was a visiting scholar at Penn State, PML (USA) and a post-doctoral researcher at Akita University, CGES (Japan). His research and scientific publications have focused to materials characterization and product development in the fields of powder metallurgy and ceramic technology mainly concentrating on powder based metallic and ceramic systems. He has coordinated 11th and 12th International Metallurgy and Materials Congresses and 12th International Symposium on Novel and Nano Materials in Istanbul and contributed several other international meetings and proceedings as editorial board member, session coordinator, chairman and speaker. He has active and previous periodic membership involving different scientific societies including UCTAE  Chamber of Metallurgical and Materials Engineers, Carbon Society of Turkey, Turkish Powder Metallurgy Association, Turkish Ceramic Society, Turkish Electron Microscopy Society, The Ceramic Society of Japan, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) and has special recognition award from The Ceramic Society of Japan. Since 2023, he is holding Research & Development Center Director position in Yurtbay Seramik, ceramic tile producer company serving globally. He is still very happy to continue contributing scientific community in the fields of his expertise under different tasks and roles.