Industrial-Engineering-2021

Professor Kannan Govindan is a founder and current Head of the Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering at SDU. In 2018 and 2019 Professor Kannan Govindan received the highly cited researcher award from Thomson-Reuters/ Clarivate Analytics (one of only 204 researchers to be listed in the engineering category). He received the Fyens Stiftstidende research award for 2019. He also received the High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent to Tianjin award (Under 1000 talents program for High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent experts of Tianjin Province) from Tianjin Province, China. He was awarded the Gold Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis from the former president of India. Also, he was awarded Young Alumni Achiever Award for Excellence in Academic / Research from the governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He received the International Young Scientists award from the Chinese Academy of Science, 2012 -2013. He has published more than 250 international journal articles (with a total 20500 + citations and H-index of 79) in leading journals such as Nature, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Environmental management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Ecological Indicators, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans, European Management Journal, Computers and OR, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research. Many of his papers were selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers or 0.1 % hot papers or identified and highlighted as the Key Scientific Article contributing to the excellence in Engineering and Environmental research (Source: Web of Science). He was rated as 2nd among top ten contributing author in the area of green supply chain management during last 22 years (Source: Sustainable Production and Consumption Journal, 2017). He was rated as 1st among top twenty contributing author in the area of reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management during last 23 years (Source: International Journal of Production Research, 2018). Also, his paper titled "Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions" is selected as one of the 20 trendsetting papers of the last 20 years. The selection has been made from among 14,617 articles published in EJOR until the end of 2016. Professor Kannan Govindan has received more than 12 National and International research project grants. He also serves as an external evaluator for various research foundations/councils from countries such as Swiss, France, Romania, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. He has held various teaching and research roles in a number of European, Asian, and American universities. Currently, he is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling (Inderscience) and the International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (Inderscience). In addition, he serves as associate editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, an area Editor of INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research and has served as a guest editor in journals such as European Journal of Operations Research, Computers and OR, Annals of OR, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics. Finally, he serves as an Editorial Board Member of several international journals. His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management.

Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation) joined HuddersfieldUniversity as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering,in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines and centrifugal compressors. Len published more than250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 12Springer books. He is Fellow of:British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Executive Director, International Society for Condition Monitoring, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Sciences(SCMR),Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Editorial Board member of the International Journal "Electronics", the International Journal "Sensors", the International Journal "Energies", the International Journal "Insight",the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management,the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research and the International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing. He was Chair,First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of ICNDT and EFNDT and Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring.

Leo H. Chiang is Technology Fellow at Dow Inc., leading Chemometrics and AI implementations for Manufacturing. Leo has developed and implemented several data analytics techniques to solve complex manufacturing problems, resulting in 11 Dow Manufacturing Technology Center Awards. In 2016 he received the Dow R&D Excellence in Science Award in recognition of his scientific achievement in industrial research. Leo is on a mission to improve data acumen for workforce at all levels at Dow; he developed data analytics training program and championed many activities to foster cross functional collaboration. Leo is proactive in working with universities to support data science education in chemical engineering. Leo has a B.S. degree from University of Wisconsin at Madison and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Chemical Engineering. Leo has contributed to over 50 externally refereed journal/proceedings papers and has given over 100 conference presentations and university lectures. Leo has coauthored two books published by Springer Verlag. His textbook Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industrial Systems is available in English and Chinese and has received over 2,300 citations according to Google Scholar. Leo has a long history of supporting American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), having served as 2014-2016 Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) director, 2016 CAST 10E programming chair, 2018 spring meeting program chair (MPC), and currently serving the 2019-2022 Executive Board of the Program Committee (EBPC). Leo was instrumental in setting up the Big Data Analytics Topical Conference (2015 to 2017) and Industry 4.0 Topical Conference (2018-2020) at the AIChE spring meeting. He was recognized by the AIChE with the 2016 Herbert Epstein Award for his leadership on Big Data Analytics technical programming and 2016 Computing Practice Award for his world-class leadership in the development and application of methodologies in analytics for batch and continuous processes known as Big Data. Leo is also active in the broader engineering and control community, he was recognized by American Automatic Control Council with the 2020 Control Engineering Practice Award. Leo currently serves as 2019-2021 Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) trustee, 2021 International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) industry co-chair, and 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) vice chair for industrial applications

Professor Hui-Ming Wee is an Adjunct Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. He has received his B.S. degree (honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Strathclyde University (UK), M. Eng. from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Cleveland State University, Ohio (USA). He has received an excellent research award from the Ministry of Science & Technology, excellent life researcher award and the Medal for Distinguished Industrial Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals, international conferences and book chapters, of which, more than 300 papers are SCI & SSCI index, and most of his papers are published in top 15% journals. His papers have been cited by Google for 10,686 times with an H-index of 55.He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Technologies, Guest Editor for Journal of Cloud Computing, on Cloud Information Technologies in Education and International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, on "How Lean Six Sigma Improve Organizational Resilience post COVID-19".

Professor at the department of Industrial Engineering, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Canada. Dr Georges Abdul-Nour received his Bachelors and Master degrees in IE from the University of Moncton, NB, Canada. He completed his Ph.D. in the same field, at the Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, U.S.A. Dr Abdul-Nour authored and co-authored nine books and book chapters, and more than 450-refereed papers in international Journal, conferences proceeding, communications and technical reports. He has conducted research projects in private companies, in such field of Six-Sigma, Intelligent manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, and Asset management. He holds the NSERG-HQ RDC-Asset Management research Chair. He is an elected member of the Academy of Industrial Engineering of Texas Tech, member of the Editorial Board of IJPR, and Fellow of ISEAM.

Abdul Talib Bon is Professor of Technology Management in Faculty of Technology Management and Business at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He has a PhD in Computer Sciences, which he obtained from the Universite de La Rochelle, France. He studied Business Administration major in Quality Management at the master's level in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for which he was awarded the MBA. He's bachelor degree and diploma in Mechanical Engineering which his obtained from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received his postgraduate certificate in Mechatronics and Robotics from Carlisle, United Kingdom. He is Director of Teaching Factory since 1 September 2016. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has had over 33 years experiences of teaching in higher learning education. In UTHM, he teaches Industrial Engineering and Project Management at the under-graduate level. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has multidisciplinary research interests that encompass industrial engineering, forecasting and Green Supply Chain management. His completed 20 research grant projects as project leader and research member. He has supervised more than 120 undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. He has served as a reviewer for a number of engineering management and computer science conferences and journals as part of his expertise sharing initiatives. He had published more than 350 International Proceedings and International Journals and 10 books. He is also Fellow and President of Industrial Engineering and Operation Management Society (IEOMS, Malaysia), Council member of Industrial Engineering and Operation Management Society (IEOMS Global), member of Management Science and Operation Research Society of Malaysia (MSORSM), member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), member of Institute of Industrial Engineer (IIE), USA, member of International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), member of Technological Association of Malaysia (TAM) and associate member of Malaysian Institute of Management (AMIM).

Lin Zhang is a professor of Beihang University, China. He received the B.S. degree in 1986 from Nankai University, China, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in 1989 and 1992 from Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include cloud manufacturing and simulation, modeling& simulationfor complex systems, model engineering. He served as the President of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), the executive vice president of ChinaSimulation Federation (CSF). He is currently the president of Asian Simulation Federation (ASIASIM), a Fellow of SCS, ASIASIM and CSF,a senior member of IEEE, chief scientist of the National High-Tech R&DProgram (863) and National Key R&D Program of China. He serves as the Director of Engineering Research Center of Complex Product Advanced Manufacturing Systems, Ministry of Education of China,Editor-in-Chiefand associate editors of 6 peer-reviewed international journals. He authored and coauthored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers,among Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in cross-field. He received the National Award for Excellent Science and Technology Books, the Outstanding Individual Award of National High-Tech R&D Program, the National Excellent Scientific and Technological Workers Awards.

Dr George Q. Huang is Chair Professor and Head of Department in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He gained his BEng and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Southeast University (China) and Cardiff University (UK) respectively. He has conducted research projects in the field of Physical Internet for Manufacturing, Logistics and Construction with substantial government and industrial grants exceeding HK$60M. He has published extensively including overthree hundredrefereed articles in journals and conferences in addition to ten monographs, edited reference books and conference proceedings.He is among "Top 1% Most Cited Scholar" in the relevant field. He serves as associate editors and editorial members for several international journals. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a fellow of ASME, HKIE,IET and CILT, and member of IIE and HKLA.

Dr. Guerrero-Cusumano is a Tenured Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Business. He has been a member of the faculty at Georgetown since 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Sciences in Statistics degree from the Mathematics Department of the University of Illinois and he is also an Economics Statistician from the School of Economics Science, Rosario University, Argentina. In 2008, He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa in Administration by Ovidius University (Romania). Also in 2008-2010, he was elected a Fellow at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, Great Britain. He was an Executive Editor of the journal Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability, Georgetown U-Universia, Spain, 2007-2010. Professor Guerrero Cusumano was the former academic co-director of the Corporate International Master's at the Georgetown University School of Business. He was former Director of the International Institute on Government, Management, and Policy at Georgetown U. Among his research areas are Business Intelligence, Big and Small Data, Data Mining, Text Mining, International Business, Social Responsibility, Quality of Service, Business Forecasting, Six Sigma and Quality Improvement. He was awarded numerous international prizes on research and teaching, recently, he was recognized by IEOM (Industrial engineering and Operations Management) Society International with the 2021 Distinguished Professor Award. He speaks seven languages fluently (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,

Fei Tao is currently a Professor at the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China. His current research interests are digital twin driven product design/manufacturing and service, and smart manufacturing service. In these fields, he has authored 4 monographs as the first author and published over 70 papers in Nature, CIRP Annals and IEEE/ASME Transactions, of which 20 are ESI high cited papers, and his publications have over 17000 citations in Google Scholar. Prof. Tao is a Global Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 and 2020. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Service and Computing-Oriented Manufacturing (IJSCOM), the Associate Editor of Robotic and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM). He is also a CIRP Associate Member and IEEE Senior Member.

Dr. Yongsheng Ma is a full professor at the University of Alberta where he joined since 2007. Dr. Ma is also a member of ASEE, SME, SPE, CSME and an Alberta registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.). His main research areas include engineering informatics for design and manufacturing, CADCAM, and product lifecycle management. Dr. Ma received his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, Beijing (1986), both M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from UMIST, UK. In 2000-2007, he was an associate professor with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Ma started career as a Ngee Ann Polytechnic lecturer in Singapore (1993); and then a senior research fellow and group manager (1996-2000) at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.Dr. Ma has published more than 200 internationally recognized top journal and conference papers, and book chapters. Dr. Ma had been an associate editor of IEEE Transaction of Automation Science and Engineering (2009-2013). In 2012, he won the prestigious ASTech award sponsored by The Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation together with Drader Manufacturing Ltd. Dr. Ma had been engaged for collaboration with many academic institutions and industrial partners internationally. 2019-2020, Dr. Ma had been a visiting professor of SUSTech (China).Since 2020, Dr. Ma has become an associate editor for Advanced Engineering Informatics(Elsevier) and Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering - Digital Manufacturing (Frontiers, open access).

Timothy M. Young is a Professor in the Center for Renewable Carbon at the University of Tennessee (UT). He has Ph.D.in Statistics (Natural Resources)and M.S.in Statistics (Operations Research)from the University of Tennessee. He also holds M.S.and B.S.degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught highly successful industry courses in 'Advanced Analytics and Data Mining',' Process Analytics, Statistical Process Control| Lean Methods,' and 'Design of Experiments for R&D and Manufacturer's more than 1,000 industry personnel since 2000. His current focus areas in the data sciences are advanced analytical modeling of processes; machine learning, elementary AI applications; data fusion and data quality management, statistical visualization; real-time predictive analytics, and real-time statistical process control. He has four years of manufacturing experience with Georgia-Pacific Corporation. He has participated in grants from the private and public sectors totaling more than $25 million. He has successfully mentored more than 29 M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students combined. He has 304 scientific publications of which 98 appear in refereed journals. He has given more than 400 professional presentations and has been an invited keynote speaker at 20 scientific meetings. He is an invited lecturer at BOKU University, Vienna and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Technical University of Munich Germany since 2007. Tim has extensive invited international speaking engagements in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Romania, and Wales. He has been the keynote speaker at annual quality and continuous improvement meetings of select companies.He was a Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist in 2014|2016 in Austria. Tim was awarded the University of Wisconsin CALS 'Outstanding Alumni of the Year' in 2018 and 'Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science' in 2019. He is current Head of the Industrial Engineering Unit and Director of the Center for Data Science (CDS)of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Greece. Leadership experience includes past President of the Forest Products Society (FPS). Tim is also an active member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ), American Statistical Association (ASA), and Forest Products Society (FPS).

Dumitru Nedelcu is a Professor and Ph.D supervisor at the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (TUIASI), Romania, Manager of Fine Mechanics and Nanotechnology Laboratory, President of ModTech Professional Association with 12 branches abroad, ModTech International Conference and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Modern Manufacturing Technologies, Advanced Engineering Forum, International Journal of Manufacturing Economics and Management and International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology. His research topics: processing and characterization of polymeric and biodegradable materials; management of industrial manufacturing projects. He was a Visiting Professor at TAT, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo, Guest Professor at Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan and Grenoble Institute of Technology, France. He had Erasmus teaching internships in prestigious universities from Poland, Italy and Mexico. Since with October 2016 he was accepted as Visiting Professor at the Silesian University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Gliwice, Poland. As far as research is concerned, he coordinated 14 national and international projects as project manager/responsible and member in other 16 research projects. He was invited to give 22 lectures, as plenary speaker/keynote speaker/invited speaker at different international conferences and over the years he got 22 national / international awards. Throughout his career, he received a TEMPUS and Romanian Government scholarship at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. He has published more than 180 scientific papers on ISI and BDI journals and international conferences proceedings. He serves on various journals and conferences review committees

Mario Chauca is Vice-President IFEES, was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association Overseas Technical Scholarship AOTS Kenshu Kiokay of Peru, Director of Research Institute UNTELS University, Advisor Reviewer at Ricardo Palma University, a member of the technical committees since 2010 in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, was Steering Committee member IEEE MWSCAS, keynote speaker and Distinguished Speaker in IEOM. He obtained a scholarship from the AOTS-Japan and NIPA-Corea. He was a Consultant in PNUD-IBD and Peruvian Government Project. He is a Peruvian researcher registered by the Peruvian Government, adviser first award paper CONEIMERA2018, adviser of the First General Award Project for more than 5000 projects in the contest from the Romero Group, adviser for first projects in congress INTERCON, CONEIMERA, and was nominated for the Graña y Montero Prize for Research in Peruvian Engineering. Nominated Peruvian Research Southern Prize 2019 and nominated research award 2018 MEXICO. He has published more than 50 papers in Peru and internationally, served as author and advisor of articles published in SCOPUS, WoS and Journals. He teaches at the postgraduate and undergraduate level, with 30 years of experience. He graduated as an Electronic Engineer from Ricardo Palma University in Lima Peru. He has Master's and Doctorate Degree.

Professor Ian R. McAndrew FRAeS is a very highly qualified academic with extensive experiences within industry and internationally recognised researcher with extensive teaching experience at all levels of education. Conference and Journal publication of 71 over 29 years, six books and numerous Keynote presentations around the world. Has supervised 114 students to their doctoral completion in USA, UK, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Kenya and South Africa. Extensive consultancy experience internationally for multi-nations and organisations. Leading a global doctorate program of in excess of 330 students. As the Dean of Doctoral Programs at Capitol Technology University he is responsible for 19 different Doctoral Programs ranging from Cybersecurity, Analytics, Aviation and Technology based to Manufacturing.

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, is professor of HRM and Innovation Management, at Teluq university of Quebec (Canada). She has held a Canada Research Chair on Socio-organizational Challenges of the Knowledge Economy and heads a research center, CURA on work-life articulation over the lifecourse. She has published extensively and directed many research projects, including : Competencies for IA project management; Design thinking for HR Innovation; Telework and Coworking; Work-Life

Margarita Castro, is a part time professor at Universidad Anahuac, at Mexico City. She was the head of the industrial engineering department for ten years, and has worked in different sectors of Industry in Mexico. Her main interest are focused on Dynamic Systems and Sharing knowledge. She is now working as an independent consultant.

Yefei Yang, as an associated professor in Logistics Management Department of Beijing Jiao tong University and the head of The Executive Development Programs, .mainly focuses on service operation management, the green supply chain as well as the intellectualized operations. In recent years, she has applied and participated in a number of research projects on Operations Management, supply chain Management, Belt and Road, and the construction of supply chain finance index. Also, she published many papers in international important well-known journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations & Production Management. In addition, she also takes some review duties of important relevant journals and provides some training to some executives of enterprises in China and other developing countries.

Dr. Yiran (Emma) Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (IMSE) and the Director of the Sustainable and Intelligent Manufacturing (SIGMA) Lab, The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), USA. She has a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a B.S. degree in Vehicle Engineering. Dr. Yang has published more than 20 peer-reviewed research articles in high-quality journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Yang's research is mainly focused on sustainability practices in 3D printing towards green manufacturing and circular economy, and advanced hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing. Dr. Yang is dedicated to creating a collaborative and diverse research environment and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students especially those from traditionally underrepresented groups. She has also been devoting her time to serving the scientific community and contributing to K12 outreach and workforce development for future manufacturing.

Dr. Wong Wai Peng is an Associate Professor with the School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She received a Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore in the area of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She has published no less than 50 articles in ISI impact factor and other reputable international journals to her credit. Her research interests include simulation optimization, logistics, and supply chain management. Dr. Wong received the Australian Government's meritorious and prestigious Endeavour Executive Fellowship Award (2015) and the Sumitomo Grant for Japan-Related Projects (2015). She also received the distinguished British Academy Newton Ungku Omar Fund (2017) and she is a Chartered Member of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Malaysia).

Dr. Ying Bai is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Johnson C. Smith University. His special interests include: artificial intelligences, soft computing, robotic controls, robots calibrations, and database programming. Since 2003, Dr. Bai has published sixteen (16) books with publishers such as Prentice Hall, CRC Press LLC, Springer, Cambridge University Press, and Wiley IEEE Press. During recent years, Dr. Bai has also published more than sixty (60) academic research papers in IEEE Trans. Journals and International conferences

Dr Morteza Saberi is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Information, Systems and Modelling, UTS, Sydney. He has an outstanding research record and significant capabilities in the area of business intelligence, data mining and applied machine learning. He has published more than 190 papers in reputable academic journals and conference proceedings such as Future Generation Computer Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Fuzzy Sets and systems, IEEE-ACCESS, Applied Soft Computing, Enterprise Information Systems, Business Process Management Journal, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Neurocomputing, Safety science, Quality and Quantity, Energy Policy, Applied Energy, Energy, neurocomputing, AAA-I, WSDM and IJCAI. His Google Scholar citations and h-index are 3500 and 28, respectively. He was a Lecturer at the UNSW, Business school and University of Tafresh's Department of Industrial Engineering. He has won over 20 national and international research awards and recognitions till date from his research. He was awarded the first Place Dissertation Competition from Sixth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) as an output of his PhD. He visited two world class research institutes in Germany: the Department of Information Systems (under Professor Martin Theobald), Max Planck Institute, Saarbrucken, Germany and Information Systems Group (under Professor Felix Naumann), Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany.

Sugoutam Ghoshis a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).Prior to that, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Antalya International University, Turkey, as Research Fellow at Nanyang Business School, The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, Singapore and National University of Singapore.He was a visiting lecturer in University of Toronto, Canada.He earned his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a Master's degree from IIT Kharagpur and a Bachelor's degree from Jadavpur University. He teaches courses on Operations Management, Inventory Management, Optimization and Simulation. His research interest lies inInventory management and Supply chain risk management. His research has been published in reputed journals like POM and EJOR.

Alessandro Ruggiero, after attending the PhD course in Tribology at the University of Pisa, rom 1999 to 2005, he was Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Salerno, where he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering since 2005 till today. In 2017 he received the National qualification to Full Professor in Applied Mechanics. He authored more than 200 scientific papers on prestigious indexed international journals and national and international proceedings. He serves as Editor, member of the Editorial Board and reviewer for many WoS/SCOPUS indexed international scientific journals and as evaluator of national and international research projects. He cooperates with numerous international Universities and prestigious Research Centers. Actually, he is member of the IFToMM Technical Committee for Tribology and National Coordinator of Italian AIMETA Tribology Group. His current research interests are focused on (bio)tribology, but they include also dynamics of mechanical systems, noise and vibration measurements, mechanical measurement and diagnostic on mechanical systems.

Dr Pedram Asef is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Automotive Engineering specialising in Automotive Electrical and Electromechanical Systems at the Department of Engineering and Technology, University of Hertfordshire. He is an IEEE Senior Member, recognised internationally due to his contributions to the profession. He was awarded his Ph.D. with Cum Laude grade in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech, in Spain. Prior to joining the University of Hertfordshire, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Surrey, in the UK, where he developed robust and multi-objective optimisation algorithms for energy consumption reduction and management purposes. He is Editor of Frontiers Energy System and Power Engineering Journal. He is also Lead Representative of IEEE Power and Energy Society, Young Professionals, in Europe region, since 2018. Currently, he is acting as a chair and committee member of multiple IEEE international conferences. He is the academic advisor for the UH Eco Racing team, responsible for designing, building and racing an energy efficient car in the annual Shell Eco-marathon competition. His previous and/ or current projects were funded by the UKRI, European Commission, and Texas State Center for Port Management on Transportation Electrification, Electrical Machines and Drives, Powertrain Development, and Renewable Energy Systems for urban applications. he has published +20 research papers at international conferences, indexed journals, and registered two patents

Tiago H. Moreira de Oliveira is currently the Head of Innovation & Development at GeoGlobal, a leading company on the sector of geospatial intelligence and geographic information. For 10 years, he was the Executive Coordinator for R&D national and international Projects at NOVA Geoinformatics & Analytics Lab (NOVA IMS), participating and leading about 50 projects related with GIS & Science. His role as executive coordinator of this research department led him to participate in research and innovation projects that, for example, promote the conception, development, and implementation of GIS for management, integration, and analysis. His knowledge and expertise in GIS and Project Management allowed him to coordinate Projects; plan and assign tasks to the project's team; prepare new proposals; write scientific articles and contribute to GIS consulting areas. He stills plays the role of Coordinator in the GIS & Science master course and as a member of the UNIGIS International Network, which is associated to this master course. Since he has expertise in e-learning Platforms, he is a relevant asset in the programming of the course and its schedule; the design, maintenance, and implementation of the e-learning Platform, and by monitoring and following the students during the course.

Dr. Wei ZHANG is currently an Assistant Professor with the Information and Communications Technology Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Before joining SIT, he was a Scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Research Fellow at NTU, Singapore. Dr. Zhang received the B.Sc. degree in electronic information science and technology from the School of Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2008, the M.Eng. degree in circuits and system from the School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2015. Dr. Zhang serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) as well as the Area Chair, Track Chair, Review Committee Member, and TPC members of the top conferences such as IJCAI, GLOBECOM, and ICME. His research interests lie in utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for smart cities, especially smart grid and smart buildings, towards improved user experience and enhanced sustainability.

Tao Peng, PhD, is currently an Associate Professor, master tutor, in the Institute of Industrial Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and master and bachelor degrees in Control Engineering and Automation, respectively, at Xian Jiaotong University, China. He serves as the Deputy Secretary-general in the Industrial Big Data and Intelligent Systems Chapter of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society; Council Member in Industrial Big Data sub-Association of China Association for Mechatronics Technology and Application; Committee Member of Intelligent Simulation Optimization and Scheduling, Chinese Simulation Society. His research interests focus on sustainable manufacturing systems, data analytics for additive manufacturing, industrial big data analytics and decision-making, smart production management. He is the Principal Investigator of eight research projects, including Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, author/co-author over 50 high-quality publications. He serves as a Guest Editor of Additive Manufacturing and Journal of Cleaner Production, reviewer of over 30 SCI-indexed international journals, member of the International Scientific Committee of several well-established international conferences, e.g. CIRP LCE, CIE, EcoDesign.

He was born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. President of the IEOM 2019 session and participating in the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference (IEOM 2019), held from October 23 to 25, 2019 in the city of Toronto, Canada, with the project Design of an electric vehicle autonomous for assistance in the movement of people with visual disabilities using vision algorithms and artificial intelligence, indexed in Scopus. Received a certificate for attendance and delivery of a presentation in 2018 in Malaysia, the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Smart Manufacturing (ICIMA 2018) in Penang, Malaysia, from December 18 to 20, 2018, for the Precision Stamping project Radial for the Textile Industry Controlled by Fuzzy Logic. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019, held from July 22 to 24, 2019 in the city of Cusco, Peru, with the Low-Cost Electrocardiogram project using Neuro-Diffuse System for Recognition of Medical Signs. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the event called XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019, held from August 12 to 14, 2019 in the city of Lima, Peru. With experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.

Rich Lee, holding the degrees of Computer Science, Information Management, Applied Economics, and Maritime Logistics, a professor of the Department of Statistics Information Science of Fu Jen Catholic University, has been teaching in the universities for over 10 years, is dedicated in the research and practice on data analytics and digital transformation. He is the Strategy Advisor of Syntec, a multinational computer numeric controller and machinery corporation, focusing on the digital transformation initiatives. He also serves as the Research Consultant in ITRI (Industry Technology Research Institute) and CDRI (Commerce Development Research Institute); both institutes are the government funded think-tanks of Taiwan. He retired from IBM Taiwan at the end of 2017 as the Senior Strategy and Technical Consultant. During the past over 30 years working experience, he has participated many mega projects globally, including playing the various key roles of hardware manufacturing, software development, information management, and business consulting as well.

Himanshu Gaur is currently working as Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East College, Muscat, Oman. He is currently registrered PhD studnet under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk, Chair of Computational Mechanics, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. His current research themes are on fraction mechanics, optimization and solution of partial differential equations by machine learning etc.

Arialys Hernandez Narino, Graduated as Industrial engineer (2001), Master of Science in Administration, specialized in production and services management (2005) and PhD in Industrial engineering (2010) from University of Matanzas, Cuba and Master of Arts in International Tourism from University of Limerick Ireland. Professor of University of Matanzas and Director of Science and Technology and Innovation in University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas. My main search fields areProcess Management, Health Care Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management Control, Health Care Quality Improvement, Innovation Management. My current research interests: service and manufacturing organizations management, process Improvement based on activity value analysis, risks management, benchmarking, service level; Business Process Management; Quality, Research Development and Innovation and Knowledge management. I am recently working on R&D projects management, knowledge practices in science and innovation management, and process design and modelling based on BPM approach in health care sector.I have published more than 70 articles and have presented more than 20 papers in national and international conferences.Main research and development projects I have been participating:Supply chain process improvement, 2021-2024, University of Matanzas, Cuba; Innovation management and quality of health care improvement, 2018-2022 University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas, Cuba; Process management and control system improvement in health care sector, 2009-2013, University of Matanzas, Cuba. International experience: as professor in Ethiopia of Operations planning (2002-2003); Professor of Master degree in Administration in Venezuela (2011, 2014); Guest professor in Ecuador of Logistics Operations and Processes. Reviewer of several Scientific publications: DYNA, Colombia; Rev Med Electron, Cuba; Ingenieria Industrial, Cuba;