Prof. Dr. Reda Hegazy of Former Minister of Education and Technical Education of Egypt. President of the Al Ryada University for Science and Technology, Egypt

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Reda Hegazy holds the position of President of Al Ryada University for Science and Technology in Sadat City. He has held several key positions, starting as Director of the Adult Education Center in Sirs Al-Layyan, Vice President of the General Authority for Adult Literacy, Deputy Director of the Professional Academy for Teachers, then Head of the General Education Sector from 2015 to 2019, and held the position of Head of the General Secondary Examinations for a period of 3 years, Deputy Minister of Education and Technical Education for Teachers' Affairs, Minister of Education and Technical Education.

Reda Hegazy contributed to a real breakthrough in managing the file of the General Secondary Examinations, as he was one of the members of the committee that took over the development of the booklet system after the events of the General Secondary School Leaks in 2016, which achieved a breakthrough in exams, prevented leaks, and reduced electronic cheating.

Reda Hegazy is a research professor in the Training and Media Department at the National Center for Examinations and Educational Evaluation. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Management and Teaching Methods from Mansoura University. He worked as a preparatory science teacher at the Dakahlia Education and Generalization Directorate, then as a secondary chemistry teacher at the Dakahlia Education Directorate, an assistant teacher at the National Center for Examinations and Educational Evaluation, and a teacher at the National Center for Examinations and Educational Evaluation. Reda Hegazy held several leadership positions, most notably Head of the General Education Sector at the Ministry of Education and Technical Education from November 2, 2015, Deputy Director of the Professional Academy for Teachers, Deputy Head of the General Authority for Literacy and Adult Education, Director of the Regional Center for Adult Education in Sirs El-Layyan until 2012, Head of the Planning Unit in the Training and Media Department at the National Examinations Center, and Head of the Training Materials Production Unit in the Training and Media Department at the National Examinations Center, in addition to other educational and scientific positions in various fields. He also wrote many educational scientific theses in Egyptian universities.

Prof. Dr. Zhibo Pang of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Senior Principal Scientist, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Zhibo Pang, MBA & PhD, is currently a Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Sweden and Adjunct Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is a Member of IEEE IES Industry Activities Committee, Steering Committee Member of IEEE IoT Technical Community, Vice-Chair of IEEE TC on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications, and Co-Chair of IEEE TC on Industrial Informatics. He is Associate Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCE, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE JESTIE, and IEEE IoTM.

Dr. Zhibo was awarded “Inventor of the Year Award” by ABB Corporate Research Sweden, three times in 2016, 2018, and 2021 respectively. He works on embodied intelligence, robotics, control, computing, communication, and electronics for Industry 4.0 and Healthcare 4.0. He has many productized research results and 22 granted patents in US, Europe, or Japan.

Dr. Zhibo is a passionate innovator and research leader in digital transformation of industry with 20+ years of experiences at universities, large company, and start-ups. Spanning the entire innovation cycle, I have been playing the roles of visionary leader, concept creator, resource investigator, cross-organizational coordinator, technical mentor, hardcore coder, product manager, and customer communicator. I work on enabling technologies in robotics, artificial intelligence, control, computing, communication, and electronics for Industry 4.0 and Healthcare 4.0.

Prof. Dr. Sabah Mohammed of Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Canada

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Sabah Mohammed is full Professor at the department of Computer Science at Lakehead University (Ontario Canada) since 2002. He is currently the Chair of the department. He is also a Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEng), Information Processing Professional with CIPS and Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Sabah Mohammed research interest is in intelligent systems that have to operate in large, nondeterministic, cooperative, highly connected, survivable, adaptive or partially known domains.

His continuous research is inspired by his PhD work back in 1981 from Brunel University (UK) on the employment of the Brain Activity Structures for decision making (planning and learning) that enable processes (e.g. agents, mobile objects) and collaborative processes to act intelligently in their environments to timely achieve the required goals. Having trained in medicine with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), his research is focused on Smart, Translational, Generative and Connected Health. Prior to his work at Lakehead University,

Dr. Mohammed was the chair of three computer science departments at HCT, Philadelphia and Applied Science University. He is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of two journals (Emerging Technology of Web Intelligence (JETWI)-2008-2012 and the International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH)-2018-2021). Currently he is the chair of the special interest research group on Smart and Connected Health with the IEEE ComSoc eHealth TC. Dr. Mohammed active research on connected healthcare through translational medicine is funded by both NSERC and MITACS.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KUST, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he is now the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Holder of the UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected. 

Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA (Formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA)). He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution, access to, and use of information and communication technologies in rural, low-income, disaster, and/or hard-to-reach areas. Throughout his 30-year academic career has developed analytical and simulation tools for evaluating the performance of radio-frequency and optical wireless communication systems. He has also designed and optimized innovative technologies for emerging wireless networks.

Professor Alouini, a co-founder of KAUST's ECE program, inspires future engineers through his pioneering work in wireless communications. His integrated space-air-ground networks, spectrum sharing schemes, and optical wireless communication systems research shape connectivity's future and embody KAUST's scientific excellence and global impact.

Professor Alouini has published numerous conference and journal papers and co-authored the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels, published by Wiley Interscience. A former editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, he also served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He was also a series editor for the IEEE Communication Magazine's Optical Communications and Networks Special Series and the founding field chief editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is now an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems (since 2022).

Prof. Dr. Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif of Menoufia University, Egypt, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif, SMIEEE, graduated with distinction from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2013, earning a Ph.D. Since then, he has led and participated in several successful research projects and secured grants in Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, and Tunisia. Currently, Dr. Abd El-Latif holds staff positions at Menoufia University, Egypt, and Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. With over 18 years of professional experience, he has published over 320 papers in journals and conference proceedings, including 18 books, with over 12400 citations.

Since 2022, he has served as Head of the MEGANET 6G Lab Research in the Russian Federation. Dr. Abd El-Latif holds several leadership positions, including Vice Chair of the EIAS Research Lab, Founder and Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence in Quantum & Intelligent Computing (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia). He has received several awards, including the State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences from the Arab Republic of Egypt in 2016, the Best Ph.D. Student Award from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2013, and the Young Scientist Award from Menoufia University, Egypt, in 2014.

Dr. Abd El-Latif actively participates in the scientific community, serving as Chair/Co-Chair of several Scopus/EI conferences. He also holds editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, Series Editor of Quantum Information Processing and Computing, and Series Editor of Advances in Cybersecurity Management. Additionally, he serves as an academic editor or associate editor for many indexed journals in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, covering various quartiles. Dr. Abd El-Latif's research interests span quantum communications and cryptography, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), AI-based image processing, information hiding, and applications of dynamical systems (discrete-time models: chaotic systems and quantum walks) in cybersecurity.

Prof. Dr. Saber H. Zainud of Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Egypt

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Saber Helmy Zainud-Deen received the B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt, in 1978, 1982 and 1988, respectively.

Since 1988, he has been a teaching staff member with the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University. He is a coauthor of about 300 papers in international conference proceedings and journals, and twelve textbooks. His current research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, Frequency diverse array, holographic surfaces, time modulated arrays, reflectarray and transmitarray, RFID, finite-difference frequency-domain, landmine detection, breast cancer detection, fractal antenna arrays, and applications of microwave vortex beams.

Prof. Dr. Adam Narbudowicz of Tyndall National Institute, Dublin, Ireland, Assoc. Prof. at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Adam Narbudowicz is a Senior Scientist with Wireless Communications Laboratory, Tyndall National Institute, Dublin, Ireland and also an Associate Professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. He received his MSc in 2008 from Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland and PhD in 2013 from Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (now TU Dublin). He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow (twice) of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action co-funded projects, including two-year research stay at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Dr. Adam has co-authored some 100 scientific publications in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Among various distinctions, he was awarded IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassadors in 2023, the Scholarship for the Outstanding Young Polish Scientists in 2019 and the Inaugural Prof. Tom Brazil CONNECT Excellence in Research Award in 2018. His research interests include antenna miniaturisation and electrically small antennas, machine learning for remote sensing and sustainable antenna technology.

His research interests include wireless physical-layer security, remote sensing, electrically small antennas, and microwave circuitry for full-duplex radios. He was a recipient of the 2012 DIT Inventor Competition Award for the Best Postgraduate and Staff Invention and the Best Paper Award (Third Prize) at the 2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.

Dr. Consult. Hassan El-Shoubashy of Head of the Mechatronics Engineering Department, Alexandria Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology, Egypt

Biography:

Dr. Hassan Ahmed Rashad El-Shoubashy is an Assistant Professor in the Mechatronics Engineering Department at Alexandria Higher Institute of Engineering & Technology (AIET). He also lectures at the Air Defense College and is a Consultant Engineer in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. El-Shoubashy holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Power Engineering from Menoufia University, and a diploma in Combustion and Combustion Engines from Alexandria University.

He has published several papers on topics like gas burners, natural gas treatment, methane generation, and renewable energy. His recent publications include investigations into smart farms powered by solar energy and the impact of ergonomics on productivity. Dr. El-Shoubashy teaches various subjects such as Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and Machine Design. Moreover, his research interests span combustion, internal combustion engines, heat transfer, renewable energy, and green hydrogen generation.

Dr. El-Shoubashy has also completed numerous training courses, including a TOEFL certification, and is proficient in Microsoft Office. He is involved in multiple international conferences and is committed to advancing sustainable energy technologies. His work emphasizes the integration of innovative technologies like electric cars and renewable energy systems in the mechanical engineering field.