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Dr. Goldenberg is the founder of Engineering Services Inc. (ESI) - www.esit.com, established in 1982. ESI is a high-technology company involved in the development of robotics-based automation and technology. Under his leadership, the company has achieved significant growth and a global leading role in a wide range of industrial sectors. From 2000 to 2001 Dr. Goldenberg was also the President of Virtek Engineering Science Inc. (VESI), a high-technology company formed after the acquisition of part of ESI by Virtek Vision International Ltd., a publicly listed company. Dr. Goldenberg is also President of Anviv Mechatronics Inc. (AMI), which he founded in 2006. Anviv is a high-technology company involved in the development of mechatronics products. In 2021 Dr. Goldenberg has established two companies active in AI-Embedded Robotics: TNL AI-Embedded Robotics Inc. and ESIRAI Inc. In May 2015 ESI has been acquired by a Chinese consortium located in Shenzhen, P.R. China. He has been the President of ESI after the acquisition until the Chinese consortium became a public company listed in Hong Kong. Dr. Goldenberg has been the Chief Technology Officer of the public company until May 12, 2019, when he left the public company. Dr. Goldenberg is also the founder of the field of Robotics at University of Toronto where he has been from 1982 as a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, cross appointed in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, and previously cross-appointed in the Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is as of 2011 a Professor Emeritus. Dr. Goldenberg is also an Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University and Guest Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. Dr. Goldenberg has supervised to date one of the largest numbers of graduate students in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (48 PhD and 67 MASc). He has an exceptional publication record with over 10500 citations (134 archival journal papers, 306 papers in major conferences, 15 book chapters and 95 patents granted and applied). As of May 2019, he has returned to the University on a part-time basis to work on graduate research in the use of Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Robotics, focusing on Personal Service Robots. This is the domain of research of RAL ‘2019. From 1975 to 1981 Dr. Goldenberg has been an employee of SPAR Aerospace Ltd., of Toronto, working on the development of the first Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (Canadarm). Dr. Goldenberg is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEng), and a Designated Consulting Engineer in Ontario. He is the recipient of the 2010 PEO Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship, the 2013 EIC Sir John Kennedy Medal for Outstanding Merit in the Engineering Profession, the 2016 IEEE A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal for Exemplary Contributions to the Engineering Profession, and the 2018 Ph.D. (Honorary) from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Goldenberg is a former editor of the archival international journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and a member of the editorial boards of Robotica, Robotics in Japan, Journal of Robotics, Robotics Journal, Scientific World Journal, Industrial Engineering and Management Journal, SOJ Robotics and Automation and International Journal of Automation and Computing. Dr. Goldenberg obtained his PhD in 1976 at the University of Toronto, and his M.A.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1969 and 1972, respectively. Dr. Goldenberg was born in Bucharest, Romania.

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, structural health monitoring, renewable energy, metamaterials, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published over 310 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and has eight issued U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research.

Hamid Khayyam received his B.Sc. degree (Hons.) from the University of Isfahan, his M.Sc. degree from Iran University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Khayyam has accumulated over ten years of experience in automation and energy productivity, having worked in various industrial companies. In his previous role, he led efforts in modeling, control, and optimization of energy systems in the carbon fiber production line at Carbon Nexus, Deakin University. Currently, Dr. Khayyam serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering within the School of Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD students. Dr Khayyam has published 3 books, 9 book chapters, and authored over 120 articles for professional journals and conferences. Additionally, he is an active member of several Editorial Boards for ISI journals such as: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Sustainability. Dr. Khayyam's research focuses on implementing new technologies to develop innovative approaches that integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning. These approaches aim to solve complex systems, including those related to energy, transportation, and automation, with a goal of simplifying and streamlining their use for end-users. Furthermore, Dr. Khayyam is an academic member of the Intelligent Automation Research Group (IARG) at RMIT University in Australia and The Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) at The University of British Columbia in Canada. He holds the status of Senior Member within IEEE and is actively engaged in the Power and Energy and Intelligent Transportation Systems Societies.

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Dr. Mohsen Sheikholeslami works at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in Iran. His research interests fall into the fields of Energy, especially in solar system application. As the head of Renewable Energy Systems and Nanofluid Applications in Heat Transfer Laboratory, He has mainly worked in the area of renewable energy and environmental sustainability. The main topics include the methods for improving the functionality of solar thermal systems, proposing innovative factors for enhancing the thermal and electrical efficiency of PVT systems, reducing the temperature of PV cells, utilizing concentrating systems such as LFR and Parabolic reflectors integrated with PV systems, employment of PCMs within thermosyphon evacuated tube collectors as the novel method for the system development, and inside the PVT systems for cooling purposes. Ultimately, future research can also be fixated on the utilization of concentrated heat by LFR and parabolic reflectors for the intensification of PCMs melting rate. Also, his other research interests are CFD, simulation, Mesoscopic modeling, Nonlinear Science, Magnetohydrodynamic, Ferrohydrodynamic, Electrohydrodynamic and Heat exchangers. According to the reports of Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics), he has been selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (Top 0.01%). Recently, he was selected as first rank of the world (2020-2021) (in field of Mechanical Engineering & Transports) according to stanford university ranking

Professor Jose M. Vega completed his education in Aeronautical Engineering, including a PhD, at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos (currently E.T.S.I. Aeronáutica y del Espacio). Besides, he got a MS in Mathematics, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Along the years, his research has focused on applied mathematics at large, with applications to aeronautical and mechanical engineering, physics, and chemistry, including aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, structural health monitoring, dynamical systems, interfacial phenomena and, more recently, on the development of various types of reduced order models and applications to the above mentioned fields. His research work resulted in about 140 articles in first class international journals, one book published by Academic Press in 2020, 50 papers in proceedings from international meetings and conferences, and 4 Patents. Currently, he is professor emeritus at the Aerospace Engineering School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Dr. Michael (Mikhail) A. Liberman is a professor of theoretical physics at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. His scientific interests span from plasma physics to quantum coherence, combustion theory and astrophysics. A graduate of Moscow State University, Liberman obtained his PhD from the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, commencing his career as a theoretical physicist with the guidance from legendary scientists, Yakov Zel’dovich and Ilia Lifshitz at the theoretical department of the famous P. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems. During that period, he was awarded his second doctorate degree (‘habilitation’) at the G.I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Liberman continues to carry traditions of the Landau school of theoretical physics throughout his career at Uppsala University and, presently, at Nordita, drawing the most brilliant physicists from around the world into collaboration. In 1993 Liberman was elected professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He is currently a professor at NORDITA, emeritus at Uppsala University, and honorary professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Dr. Liberman produced hugely influential research in numerous areas of theoretical physics, including physics of shock wave, plasma physics, quantum theory and combustion. Dr. Liberman is regarded as one of the world's leading scientists in combustion theory. Liberman's major contributions in combustion theory include a comprehensive theory of dynamics and stability of flame, fractal structure of a spherically expanding flame; interaction of flames with acoustic and shock waves; a nonlinear equation for a nonperturbative description of curved flame with arbitrary gas expansion subject to the hydrodynamic instability and its analytical solutions. For the first time he explained the origin and the physical mechanism of a tulip shaped flame and the transition from slow combustion (deflagration) to detonation regime. Dr. Liberman's recent research is focused on study of key combustion problems with account a detailed chemical kinetics, which led to qualitative and quantitative revision of the combustion fundamentals. Dr. Liberman authored 5 books (the recent is “Combustion Physics: Flames, Detonations, Explosions, Astrophysical Combustion and Inertial Confinement Fusion” Springer-Nature 2021) and over 400 peer-reviewed papers. 12/10/2021 Prof. Tov Elperin

• 2015 until present: Project coordination research and industry at TU Darmstadt, research group System Reliability, Adaptive Structures, and Machine Acoustics SAM • 2014–2015: Junior Manager at Robert Bosch GmbH – Research and Development • 2013: PhD in Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt, Center for Engineering Materials MPA/IfW; Title: “Function-oriented micro structuring of chromium nitride coatings using hybrid PVD technology” • 2009-2013: Research assistant at TU Darmstadt, Center for Engineering Materials MPA/IfW • since 2019 Lecturer for the lecture “Introduction to the Methods of ”Reliability Engineering" at the TU Darmstadt, Department of System Reliability, Adaptronics and Machine Acoustics SAM • since 2016 Assistant Lecturer for “Reliability in mechanical engineering” at TU Darmstadt, research group System Reliability, Adaptive Structures, and Machine Acoustics SAM • 2011–2013: supervision of “Surface technology 1 “ and “Surface technology 2” at TU Darmstadt, Center for Engineering Materials MPA/IfW • 2009-2013: teaching project management standards at TU Darmstadt, Center for Engineering Materials MPA/IfW

Expert in Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity and Team Leader for this discipline in Getafe (TEYGD-TL1). More than 30 years of experience in Dynamic Flight/Ground Loads (Gust, Turbulence, Dynamic Landing, Taxi, …), Aeroelasticity, Vibrations and Buffeting, Impacts (Bird, Ice, Debris, …), Crashworthiness, and Ground/Flight Tests related to these disciplines (GVT, FVT, …), working in Airbus for more than 24 years. Participation in the design and certification of more than 20 Airbus-DS products and leader/member of several R&T(D) projects. Advisory role in various task forces with significant impact on business. Member of the International Forum of Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD) International Committee, 37 publications in journals/conferences, co-author of a book and referee/editor for several technical journals. PhD degree and professor with more than 20 years of experience in the Technical University of Madrid and mentor of 40 interns from different international universities.

Dr Wong Kok Hoe is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at University of Southampton Malaysia Campus (UoSM). He obtained his BEng, MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2010, 2013, and 2019 respectively. He conducted his research internship at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada under the Canada-ASEAN scholarship. Before joining UoSM, he worked with Daikin R&D centre from 2010 to 2014 as a design engineer responsible for air-cooled rooftop packaged airconditioning unit development and testing. His research focus is on wind energy, particularly vertical axis wind turbines and product design. Together with his research team, he has won several special and gold awards in invention and innovation expos, and this includes PECIPTA, MTE, EINIX, IIDEX, National Intellectual Property Award as well as a WIPO medal. Dr Wong secured three grants as the principal investigator in 2020 and 2021, which are the university level grant, UoSM Seed Fund; the national fundamental scheme research grant (FRGS) by the ministry of higher education (MoHE) and an international grant, Fiscal 2020 Grant for Japan-related Research Project by the Sumitomo Foundation. Dr Wong serves as the main supervisor for a PhD project on the variable diameter vertical axis wind turbine and has a strong collaboration with local and international researchers. Dr Wong has co-authored 20 indexed journal papers, collected about 450 citations with an h-index of 9. He served as a scientific committee member of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology (SEGT), editorial board member of the Journal of Modern Green Energy, editorial board member of the International Journal of Green Technology, Guest Lead Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research Special Issue, Topical Advisory Panel of Applied System Innovation, and also the reviewer of a few prestigious journals including Energy, Energy Reports, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment, International Journal of Sustainable Energy, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing- Green Technology etc.

An expert in nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D), printed electronics, biosensors, microfluidics, cancer cell separation (CTC), and organ-on-a-chip devices with a background in chemical engineering and micro Mechatronics engineering. Dr. Muhsin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at KAUST in Saudi Arabia after working for one year as a senior researcher at Bio Health care Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).