Biography: Dr. Mohamed Khan Afthab Ahamed Khan was born in Tamil Nadu, India during the year 1961. He won the best student award for his excellence in academic and also in sports during his Higher secondary level. He also won the gold medal both in Mathmetics and Physics during his Pre-University at state level. He received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madras University, India, and MS degree in Electronics and Control engineering from BITS Pilani, India, He received his advanced diploma in Power electronics and drives from Lucas-Nuelle, Germany in 2002 and from Woo sun, Korea. He obtained his PhD in Robotics, Power electronics and controls from USA and holds his Professional Engineer [PEng] Certification from IAO, USA and CEng (UK). He is also a Senior member in IEEE USA and MIET UK. He worked with Rohde and Schwarz, Germany as Sales and service engineer from 1983-1987 and served as a Senior lecturer in the faculty of engineering at the Madras university for seven years and has been with the faculty of Electronics Engineering, TAFE Australia, Malaysia campus during the year 1994 to 1997. He served as a Program coordinator for Malaysia France University Nice, France between 1997 to 2006. He has been a consultant and trainer for multinational companies like Schneider electric, France, Vivendi Water supplies, France, and many Malaysian and Singapore companies. Also, he worked as an Assistant professor at UNISEL, Malaysia from 2006 to 2017. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor in the faculty of engineering at UCSI University, Malaysia. He held various positions in IEEE RAS Malaysia chapter and had won more than 15 awards awarded by IEEE Malaysia section. He is the past Chairman for IEEERAS, Malaysia chapter and current IEEE UCSI Student branch counselor. His current research is in Power Electronics, Motor drives, Robotic and Controls. Along with many awards and more than 100 papers or research notes published in journals and conference proceedings, he has travelled more than 25 countries and has visited the top universities like MIT, Stanford, OXFORD, Caltech, Cambridge, Berkley, Imperial and served as a Reviewer and Session Chairman for several conferences and project competitions.

Biography: Dr. Wenbing Zhao received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002. Dr. Zhao has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1990, and a Master of Science degree in Physics in 1993, both at Peking University, Beijing, China. Dr. Zhao also received a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998 at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Zhao joined Cleveland State University (CSU) faculty in 2004 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at CSU. Dr. Zhao published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in the area of distributed systems (three of them won the best paper award), smart and connected health, computer vision, machine learning, physics, and education. Dr. Zhao’s research is supported in part by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Transportation, Ohio State Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Ohio Department of Higher Education, and by Cleveland State University. Dr. Zhao is currently serving on the organizing committee and the technical program committee for numerous international conferences. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and for MDPI Computers. Dr. Zhao is a senior member of IEEE.

Biography: Mohammad Tariqul Islam (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and a Visiting Professor with the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He is the author and coauthor of about 500 research journal articles, nearly 175 conference articles, and a few book chapters on various topics related to antennas, metamaterials, and microwave imaging with 22 inventory patents filed. Thus far, his publications have been cited 6200 times and his H-index is 38 (Source: Scopus). His Google scholar citation is 9200 and H-index is 45. He was a recipient of more than 40 research grants from the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Education, UKM research grant, international research grants from Japan and Saudi Arabia. His research interests include communication antenna design, metamaterial, satellite antennas, and microwave imaging. Dr. Islam has been serving as an Executive Committee member for IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Chapter, since 2018, the Chartered Professional Engineer (CEng), a fellow of IET, U.K., and a Senior Member of IEICE, Japan. He received several International Gold Medal awards, a Best Invention in Telecommunication Award for his research and innovation, and best researcher awards at UKM, in 2010 and 2011. He was a recipient of 2018 and 2019 IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Malaysia Chapter, Excellent Award. He also won the best innovation award, in 2011, and the Best Research Group in ICT niche by UKM, in 2014. He was a recipient of Publication Award from Malaysian Space Agency, in 2014, 2013, 2010, and 2009, and the Best Paper Presentation Award, in 2012, International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP 2012) at Nagoya, Japan, and in 2015 in IconSpace. He has supervised about 30 Ph.D. theses, 20 M.Sc. theses, and has mentored more than 10 postdocs and Visiting scholars. He was an Associate Editor of IET Electronics Letter.

Biography: Mohd Khair Hassan was born in Melaka, Malaysia in Nov 1974. He received his BEng (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronics from University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 1998 and MEng degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Technology Malaysia (UTM). He later completed his Ph.D. degree specializing in Automotive Engineering from University Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2010. Currently, he is the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia and a registered Professional Engineer in the field of Electronic under the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Additionally, he is a Malaysian Board of Technology (MBOT) -certified Professional Technologist. He is currently serving as vice-president of the Malaysian Society for Automatic and Control Engineers (MACE), also known as IFAC-MACE Malaysia, and is an IEEE senior member. Control systems, battery system and AI applications, are among his areas of interest. His research team focuses on RUL prediction, energy management, battery balancing, and battery modelling. In journals, he has authored over 78 publications and authored 5 book chapters. Currently mentoring 16 PhD and 5 MSc students, he has graduated 12 PhD and 15 MSc students. He also serves on the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) and Engineering Technology Accreditation Council (ETAC) panels that accredit Electrical and Electronic (EE) programmes appointed by the Malaysian Board of Engineers. He also serves as an external examiner for PhD and MSc students from Malaysian and international universities. Additionally, he serves as an evaluator and expert panel member for a variety of grant applications.

Biography: Prof. Naidu joined the EE Department as Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed Chair in August 2014. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Kharagpur. Dr. Naidu taught, visited and/or conducted research at IIT (up to – 1985); Guidance and Control Division at NASA Langley Research Center (1985-90); Old Domain University (1987-90); Idaho State University (1990-2014) as Founding Director of Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center (MCERC), Associate Dean of the College of Engineering (1998-2010) and Director School of Engineering (2010-13); United States (US) Air Force Research Laboratory (1998-99); Center of Excellence for Ships and Ocean Structures at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2004); Measurement and Control Laboratory at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2005); the Universities of Western and Southern Australia (2008); East China Normal University (2011 He has over 300 journal and conference publications including 6 books, and has been on the editorial boards of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Optimal Control: Applications and Methods. Dr. Naidu’s area of teaching and research include electrical engineering, optimal control, nonlinear control, intelligent control, industrial control systems and cyber security, biomedical engineering, and time scales in engineering, physical and life sciences. He is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, UK.