Dr. Eng. Ahmed Boutejdar
Otto-von-Guericke university, Magdeburg, Germany
Bio: Ahmed Boutejdar was born in Souk El-Arbaa du Gharb, Morocco. He received the Bachelor of Science B.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics from both universities Technische Hochschule Köthen and from Ibn Tofeil University, Kénitra, Morocco between 1991 and 1995. From 1992 to 1993 Preparatory Year of german language and Preparatory Year of Engineering high School in köthen, Germany. B.Sc. and Diplom-Eng degrees (with highest honors) in Electrical Engineering, Communication, and Microwave Engineering from Otto-von-Guericke university, Magdeburg, Germany in 2002 and 2004 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree, Thesis title: Design, development and optimization of compact microstrip RF filters using "Defected Ground Structure" (DGS) technology (with highest honors) in electrical engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke university, Magdeburg, Germany in 2010.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhijun Qiao
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX, USA
Bio: Zhijun Qiao received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1997.,From 1999 to 2001, he was the Humboldt Research Fellow with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, where he was a Researcher with the Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA from 2001 to 2004. Since 1997, he has been a Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China. He is currently the President's Endowed Professor with the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA. His research interests include nonlinear partial differential equations and their application in radar imaging.
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Moustafa Hassan
Cairo University
Bio: Mohamed A. Moustafa Hassan (S. Member IEEE): received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1977, 1982, and 1988 respectively, in Electrical Engineering, from Cairo University, Egypt. Since 1977, He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt as a Teaching staff. During his PhD research program, He visited Department of Electrical Engineering, BUGH - Wuppertal funded by DAAD, Germany for the academic years of 1984 to 1987. During the academic years of 1989 to 1992, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at The University of Calgary, Canada, funded partially by CIDA. He is currently a Professor of control of Power Systems at Cairo University. He was working as Vice Dean for ITEC Alamieria (Funded via EDF, Egyptian Ministry Cabinet) Cairo Egypt (from Sept 2012 till Feb 2014), and Vice Dean for graduate Studies at FISCS October 6 University, Giza Egypt (for the Academic Year 2014/2015).
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Philip W. T. Pong
New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America
Bio: Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) with 1st class honours. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.
Dr. Sameh M. Yamany
Corporate Chief Technology Officer
Bio: Dr. Sameh Yamany serves as the Corporate Chief Technology Officer at VIAVI Solutions, entrusted with steering the company’s technological vision and strategic directions. His professional journey encompasses a distinguished role as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Trendium, a cutting-edge company specializing in customer experience assurance, which merged with VIAVI in 2013. Before this, Dr. Yamany excelled in a senior executive capacity at Tektronix Communications, overseeing the development of the Iris suite for comprehensive wireless and wireline monitoring solutions. In the academic arena, he has held the position of Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, Virginia. Dr. Yamany obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisville, USA. He is an esteemed author of various patents, scholarly articles, and book chapters, with his expertise spanning fields like artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and biomedical engineering.