Prof. Dr. Ahmed S. Elwakil of University of Sharjah

see http://fractal.utko.feec.vutbr.cz/index.php/program/

Biography:

Ahmed Elwakil was born in Cairo, Egypt. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Electronics and Communications at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, University College Dublin. Since September 2000, He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates, where he is currently a Professor. Prior to that, he was with the Egyptian Nuclear Research Centre. His research interests are primarily in the areas of Circuit Theory, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory, as well as Fractional-Order Circuits and Systems with diverse applications ranging from the modeling of oscillatory networks and nonlinear electronic circuits to energy devices and bio-materials. He is the author and co-author of over 150 publications in these areas and is currently classified among the top 7.5% researchers world-wide based on his RG Score of 35.14 on Research-Gate (www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed_Elwakil2). He has served as a reviewer, review committee member and organizing committee member for many conferences including ISCAS, NOLTA, ICECS, ECCTD, ICM, NDES and ISSPA and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications (Wiley) and was a past Editor of this journal. He is also an Associate Editor of the Int. J. Bifurcation & Chaos, (World Scientific) and the Journal of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA), published by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE-Japan). He was a past Associate Editor for the J. of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems: Series-B, published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and is currently on the Editorial Board of the IEEE J. Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.

Prof. Elwakil is an Associate Member of the Centre for Chaos Control and Synchronization at the City University of Hong Kong and has served as an instructor for a number of courses organized by the United Nations University (UNU) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), where he was also an Associate member. He was a Keynote speaker at the sixth International Workshop on Chaos Fractals and Applications, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, August 2013 and a keynote speaker at the Int. Conf. on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA), Catania, Italy, June 2014 where he lectured on the theory of Fractional-order circuits and systems: An emerging interdisciplinary research area. He has been a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (TCNCAS) since 2003.

Prof. Elwakil was a Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE J. of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits & Systems, special issue on fractional-order circuits and systems (Sep. 2013) and a Guest Editor for a special issue on Chaos-Fractals Theories and Applications published in the J. of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014. He is also the guest editor for a special issue on Fractional-Order Circuits to be published in April 2016 in the J. Circuits Systems & Signal Processing (Springer). He organized several special sessions including a recent special session on Fundamental Nonlinear Elements in Circuit Theory and Applications at NOLTA'15 (Hong Kong).
Prof. Elwakil's paper ”Construction of classes of circuit-independent chaotic oscillators using passive only non linear devices,? published in IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems-March 2001, is among its top 50 cited papers. The same paper was identified (by Reuters-Thomson) as the fastest moving front in Mathematics in January 2007. His paper “Fractional-order circuits and systems: An emerging interdisciplinary research area,” published in the IEEE Circuits & Systems Magazine is also among its top 50 cited papers ranking 38/50. He received the Egyptian Government first class medal for achievements in Engineering Sciences in 2003 and 2009, respectively and was a visiting Professor/Researcher at Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey), University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), Queens University (Belfast, UK), Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark), Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), University College Cork (Cork, Ireland), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) and Nile University (Cairo, Egypt). He is currently an Adjunct Prof. in the Nano-electronics Integrated Systems Center at Nile University.

Address:Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Prof. Dr. Igor Podlubny of University of Kosice

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Biography:

Igor Podlubny (M'09) received the M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in differential equations and mathematical physics from Odessa State University, Ukraine, in 1983 and 1989, respectively, and the Dr.Sc. degree (advanced doctorate) in applied mathematics from the Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2010.

Degrees and titles

DrSc (2010)
applied mathematics, advanced (or higher) doctorate, awarded by the Slovak Technical University
University Professor (2001)
title awarded by the President of the Slovak Republic
University Docent habilitation (1995)
process control, Technical University of Kosice.
("Univ. Docent" [SK,CZ] = "Univ. Dozent" [D,A] = "Reader" [UK] = "Associate Professor" [USA]).
RNDr (1990),
applied mathematics, Comenius University, Bratislava, 1990.
CSc (=PhD) (1989)
differential equations and mathematical physics, Odessa State University, Odessa, Ukraine (former USSR).
MSc (1983),
applied mathematics, Odessa State University, Odessa, Ukraine (former USSR).

Scientific and Teaching Awards

Scientist of the Year in Slovakia (2012)
Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the most frequently cited book in Slovakia (2009) - for the book "Fractional Differential Equations"
Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the third most frequently cited article in Slovakia (2010) - for the article "Fractional-Order Systems and PIλDμ-Controllers", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 208–213
Prize of the Literary Fund of the Slovak Republic for the three-year citation impact (2010, 2007, 2004)
Excellence in Teaching Award from JSMF – the Union of Slovak Mathematicians and Physicists (2008)
Honorary Diploma at the 7th annual ceremony "Scientist of the Year in the Slovak Republic" under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Union of the Slovak Scientific and Technical Societies (2006, 2003)
Prize of the Rector of the Technical University of Kosice (2004)
Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Research (2002)
Medal of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Kosice (2002)
Cambridge Colleges Hospitality Scheme research fellowship (2000)

Address:Kosice, Slovakia

Prof. Dr. Ahmed S. Elwakil of University of Sharjah

Biography:

Address:Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Prof. Dr. Igor Podlubny of University of Kosice

Biography:

Address:Kosice, Slovakia