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Mr Kouzou Abdallah (IEEE Senior member & IACSIT Senior member, IFAC, IAENG & IISRO member, IEEE-HKN Alumni Member) was born in Djelfa, Algeria in 1964. He is actually a Full Professor at the University of Djelfa, Algeria. He was the president of the Scientific Council of the faculty of Sciences and Technology from 2014 to 2015 and the Dean of the same faculty from 2015 to 2017. He has participated in several research projects and has led several research projects. He was a researcher with Technische Universität Muenchen (TUM) in Germany from 2010 to 2012. He was a collaborator researcher at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He was a collaborator researcher with Qatar University where he participated in some projects. He has participated in many collaborations with other university such as in Spain, Poland, Bulgaria and Turkey. He is a Part-time Professor at PAUWES (PAN Africa University, Institute of Water and energy Sciences (including climate change). He is a visiting professor at Gdansk university of Technology, Poland. He was the founder of the Power Electronics and Power Quality research group at the Applied Automation and Industrial Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Djelfa in Algeria. He was a supervisor of many PhD and Master Students in Algeria. He is a member of many editorial boards for several scientific journals and a member of the scientific and steering committees in several national and international conferences. He is the chair of several international conferences. He is Guest editor with many reputed journals. He was the Chair of the Algerian IEEE Section Power Electronics Chapter. He is the chair of the sub-committee on FACTs and HVDC under the international committee PETC/IEEE-IES. He is currently the IEEE Africa Council Chair. He was a member of Conference Coordination Committee (CoCC) at IEEE Region 8. He is a AdHoc member of the Climate Change Committee with IEEE R8, He is the National Contact Point (NCP) in Algeria within the European Horizon Projects 2022-2027 on Renewable energy and Sustainability. He is a Leader –Author at IPCC under climate change working group. He is member of the Technical Committee on Railway Electrification at IEEE Transportation Electrification Council. He is the current Chair of the IEEE Power Electronics Chapter and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Chapter. He was a plenary and an invited keynote speaker and session chair in several national and international conferences and experts in several national and international scientific activities and project evaluations. He is an expert with the ministry of high education and scientific research in Algeria on Socio-economic projects. He was also a visiting professor at several international universities. He participated in many international PHD dissertation committees. He was the leader of several research project in Algeria. He is actually participating in a joint project with the main company of petrol and gas in Algeria, where he is leading research group on diagnosis and control of gas turbine used in power generation system and compression stations. He was the Chair of the working group on decarbonisation of Transport in Africa. He external expert in a project at Hail University in KSA. He is an expert with European Union Research projects. He is an expert on Climate change, especially of decarbonisation of transport systems. He has published more than 540 papers, his main research interests include Active Power Filtering techniques, Power Quality issues, Power Electronics Devices, Application of Power electronics in Renewable Energies, Materials for multi-layers coating in PV cells. Multi-phase machines, Sensorless control, Electrical vehicles and unmanned vehicles, Application of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms, Application of AI in Energy source and Power electronics control, Smart Grid and Smart Buildings, reliability and diagnostics in power electronics converters and in other industrial applications, Non Destructive Testing and Measurement Techniques, Diagnosis and control of Gas Turbine of high power.

Abdullateef is the Director of Projects at Phase 3 Telecom. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), and a master’s degree in ICT with Honours from the Northern University of Malaysia. He has completed certification from the United States Telecommunication Training Institute (USTTI) in Washington, D.C.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of the IEEE MGA Board and the Region 8 Zone Representative. He served as Vice Chair of the IEEE R8 Student Activities Committee from 2023 to 2024, making IEEE Region 8 student activities a model for other regions. He founded the IEEE Smart Village Africa Working Group in 2020, which has grown to have over 2,000 members from 45 countries in Africa and beyond. He also serves on several committees and boards related to engineering, technology, and humanitarian initiatives. He holds numerous certifications, including Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Business Analysis Professional, and Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA). He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, Fellow of the Nigeria Institute of ICT Engineers, a member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and a Professional Member of the Eta Chapter of the Board of Governors.

Highlights of Abdullateef’s career include a senior management role at Suburban before joining Phase 3 Telecom in 2013. He has played a vital role in expanding the company’s optical infrastructure, which now spans over 10,000 km. He has also led the successful implementation of the Phase 3 Telecom 100G transport network nationwide between 2019 and 2022.

Abdullateef’s contributions are widely recognised, and he has received several awards and accolades. These include the Leadership and Innovation Award, Best Creativity Award, and Excellence in Leadership Award from Phase 3 Telecom and IEEE Smart Village, as well as the Award of Excellence from IEEE Nigeria Section, NSE Maitama Branch, MGA YP Achievement Award, and Outstanding Volunteer of IEEE R8 ASYP Congress in 2017 and 2023.

He has mentored several leaders who now lead teams in their respective institutions.

Ahmed Madian (SM’12) is currently a Professor and director for Electronics and Computer Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, NILE University, Giza, Egypt on leave from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority. He is the former director of Microelectronics System Design Master Program from 2015 -2020. Also, He has been the director of Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center (NISC) since 2016 -2023. He has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and journals with h-index 32. Also, he served on the many technical and organizing committees of many international conferences. He received many research grants as Principal Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. Also, he is a member of the National Radio of Science Committee (NRSC), ASRT since 2018-now. He is a member of the Information Technology and Communication Council, ASRT from 2021 to now. Dr. Madian is senior member IEEE. He is currently the IEEE Egypt Section chair and served as the IEEE Egypt section secretary/conference coordinator and member of the ExCom from 2020 – 2023. He served as technical program co-chair of many IEEE international conferences and as organizing committee of many IEEE events and student’s competition. He is a member of the steering committee of many IEEE conferences. He served in the higher council of Communication and Information Technology, Egyptian Academy for Science, research, and Technology (ASRT). He has been elected as a voting member of IEEE CASS Standards Activities subdivision. He organized many awareness sessions for proposal writing and fundraising for different IEEE units.

Dr. Madian won the Best Researcher award (Dr Hazem Ezzat Award 2017) for his outstanding research profile and El-Shorouk Academy Award for Scientific and Technological Creativity 2020 winner.

He is a co-founder of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Egypt chapter which won the Chapter of the Year Award region 8 for 2012.

He is also the founder of IEEE CASS technical chapter Egypt section won the Chapter of the Year Award Region 8 for 2023 and won IEEE-CASS outreach for many years.

He is the IEEE African Council Treasure 2024-2025.

Finally, he has been selected as Distinguished Lecturer for the Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) 2024-2025.

Antonio Luque received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Seville. He has authored 20 journal papers, 40 conference papers, 3 book chapters, and a text book, in addition to supervising two PhD students. He has been invited researcher and teacher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Switzerland), Auburn University (AL,USA), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Jade University (Germany), Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and Tech Institute of Monterrey (Mexico). His current research focuses on cyber-physical systems, IoT, and biomedical applications. In IEEE, he served as 2021-2022 Region 8 Director and 2025 IEEE Vice President for Membership and Geographic Activities, among other positions.

Christoph Baer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He completed his Habilitation at Ruhr University Bochum in November 2025. From 2006 to 2015, he was an RF Research Engineer with the Krohne Group, Duisburg, Germany. From 2016 to 2025, he was an Academic Senior Councillor and Lecturer with the Institute of Electronic Circuits, Ruhr University Bochum. He currently serves as Managing Director of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum.

Dr. Baer has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers, holds several patents, and has received multiple Best Paper Awards, as well as awards for his Diploma and Ph.D. theses. His research focuses on radar- and dielectric-waveguide-based sensors for industrial, environmental, and humanitarian applications. He has led several national and international research projects and has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE JERM and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

Dr. Baer is the Founder of IEEE SIGHT Germany, served as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Germany Section from 2021 to 2024, and currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Germany Section. He is a member of MTT-S, AP-S, the IEEE Sensors Council, SIGHT, and the IEEE Technology for a Sustainable Climate Community.

Conrad Attard is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology and Chair of the Master of Science in Digital Health at the University of Malta. He holds academic qualifications in computer science from the University of Sheffield and the University of Malta and has more than a decade of research experience in digital health, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, pervasive electronic monitoring, robotics, sensor-based systems and human activity recognition. He established and leads the Pervasive Electronic Monitoring in Healthcare Laboratory and is the lead researcher of HEARTS (Human-centred Elderly Assistance with Robotic Technology and Support). His research focuses on developing data-driven, mobile, and context-aware technologies for healthcare, including intelligent monitoring, decision support methods, and machine learning approaches for analysing health and activity data. He is also Chair of the IEEE Malta Section and founder and organiser of the IEEE Region 8 Robot Championships.

Deepak Mathur is a distinguished IEEE leader and technology professional with a long record of service to the global engineering community. He is a member of IEEE Governance and has served on the IEEE Board as Region 10 Director (2021–2022) and IEEE Vice President (2024). He also served as IEEE India Council Chair during 2015–2016.

A former Chief General Manager at ONGC, India’s premier public sector enterprise in hydrocarbon exploration and production, Deepak brings more than four decades of experience across electronics, telecommunications, information technology, and energy-sector engineering. Throughout his career, he held key engineering and managerial roles, leading complex technology initiatives and multidisciplinary teams.

His work includes the planning and execution of major IT and engineering projects such as SCADA systems, online and real-time monitoring platforms, IT infrastructure development, WiMAX-based broadband wireless access, GPS/GSM-based vehicle tracking systems, and high-tech oil well logging systems used to analyze subsurface properties for hydrocarbon exploration.

Deepak currently serves as a Professor of Practice at a university in India, where he mentors students by bringing real-world industry perspective into academic learning and professional development.

He is an Electronics and Communication Engineering graduate from IIT Roorkee and holds an MBA, including an Executive MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Across his IEEE journey, Deepak has received several notable recognitions, including the IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award, the IEEE MGA Achievement Award, and the IEEE India Council Lifetime Achievement Award—reflecting his sustained commitment to advancing technology, professional leadership, and volunteer engagement.

Professor Abandah, a PhD and MSE graduate from the University of Michigan and BSc holder from the University of Jordan, boasts a multifaceted career as a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Jordan, the first President of Aqaba University of Technology, and General Coordinator of the Erasmus+ DeCAIR project for developing AI and Robotics curricula. With 40 years of experience spanning academia and industry, he excels in both teaching and research (AI, Arabic NLP, machine learning) with 77 publications, 1400+ citations, and an h-index of 22. His 15+ years of industry expertise encompass localization, military electronics, and product/project development, where he spearheaded technical teams as Design Engineer, Project Manager, Development Manager, VP Development, and General Manager. An active IEEE Senior Member and member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitor Program, he co-founded the IEEE Jordan Section, chaired it for three terms, led the IEEE Region 8 Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and established the AEECT and JEEIT conferences, showcasing his dedication to service and innovation.

Giambattista Gruosso is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he has developed more than two decades of experience in teaching, research and academic leadership. His work focuses on the modelling, simulation and validation of complex electrical and cyber-physical systems, with particular expertise in smart grids, electric mobility, probabilistic power-flow analysis, Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, digital twins and artificial intelligence for energy-system control.

He earned his degree in Electrical Engineering and National Engineering Licence in 1999 and later completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He joined Politecnico di Milano as an Assistant Professor in 2002 and became Associate Professor in 2011. In 2019, he obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Full Professor in Electrical Engineering.

Gruosso’s research has progressed from electromagnetic and nonlinear circuit modelling to advanced applications in renewable generation, distribution networks, industrial energy systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. His contributions include uncertainty modelling, surrogate methods, sensitivity analysis, photovoltaic and load forecasting, coordinated EV charging, vehicle-to-grid strategies, reinforcement learning and physics-informed machine learning.

He is the founder and Scientific Coordinator of Simlab40, a laboratory dedicated to advanced simulation, real-time models, Hardware-in-the-Loop validation, digital twins and Industry 4.0 applications. He has coordinated major research grants worth approximately €600,000 and led 33 industry-funded projects with a combined value of around €640,000.

His scientific output includes 96 indexed journal papers, 118 international conference papers and three books or textbooks. He has supervised five completed Ph.D. students and currently supervises two doctoral researchers.

Gruosso is a Senior Member of IEEE and has held major international leadership roles, including Chair of the IEEE Italy Section, Executive Vice President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Vice-Chair of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee. His career combines scientific excellence, industrial collaboration, doctoral education and international service.

Hassene Mnif was born in Sfax, Tunisia, in 1975. He obtained his Engineering and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Sfax (ENIS) in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux I, France, in 2004, and his Habilitation (HDR) from the University of Sfax in 2011.

He is currently a Full Professor and serves as the Vice-President of the University of Sfax, in charge of scientific research. From 2014 to 2020, he was the Director of the National School of Electronics and Telecommunications, where he launched several innovative initiatives in engineering education.

Prof. Mnif is a member of the Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory. His research interests include energy harvesting, radio-frequency integrated circuit design, micro-mobility systems, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He is also involved in energy optimization for telecommunications and mobility applications.

He has authored or co-authored nearly 100 journal and conference papers and has gained substantial experience in the scientific coordination of national and international research projects.

Actively involved in the IEEE community, he has participated in the organization of several IEEE conferences and workshops. He served as Treasurer of the IEEE Tunisia Section from 2011 to 2013, Chair of the IEEE Tunisia CAS Chapter from 2018 to 2022 and is currently serving as Chair of the IEEE Tunisia Section.

Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and Deputy Chief Information Officer at Waseda University, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He has served as a director and advisor to companies such as eXmotion and SI&C, effectively bridging academia and industry in computing, with a focus on software and AI engineering. Hironori is the Immediate Past President of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) and currently chairs the CS Ad Hoc Committee on AI Strategy. His extensive technical leadership and IEEE governance experience includes roles as TAB Budget Process WG Chair and Editor of the IEEE-CS Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide). He has received numerous honors, including the Computer Best Paper Award and the Spirit of the CS Award. Beyond his work with IEEE, Hironori contributes to international initiatives such as ISO/IEC. He has led many academia-industry joint research projects and large-scale funded projects in AI software engineering, and heads the SmartSE professional IoT/AI/DX education project. More information: http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/washizaki/

Jacques Demerjian (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Lebanon, and Director of the LaRRIS Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Networks from Télécom Paris, France, in 2004, and was awarded the title of Professeur des Universités in France in 2022. His research interests include wireless and ad hoc networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), Intrusion Detection Systems, and network security. He has authored approximately 100 peer-reviewed publications and supervised numerous Ph.D. students. He is the co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of MENACOMM conference and currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Lebanon Chapter and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Lebanon Section.

Prof. Mohammad S. Sharawi is an affiliate Full-professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, USA, and a Principal/Lead engineer with Blue Origin, USA, working on cutting edge communication systems for space applications. He was a tenured Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, between 2019-2023. Prof. Sharawi was with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, between 2009-2018. He founded and directed the Integrated Multi-Application Antenna Group (IMAAG) and the Antennas and Microwave Structure Design Laboratory (AMSDL). He was a visiting Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Oakland University, USA, in 2013, 2014 and 2023.

Prof. Sharawi’s areas of research include Multiband Printed Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Antenna systems, Reconfigurable and Active integrated Antennas, Applied Electromagnetics, Millimeter-wave MIMO antennas and Integrated 4G/5G antennas for various applications, Dielectric Antennas, and on package antennas. He has more than 430 papers published in refereed journals and international conferences, 11 book chapters, and three books entitled “Printed MIMO Antenna Engineering,” 2014, “Design and Applications of Active Integrated Antennas,” 2018, and “MIMO Antenna Systems for 5G and Beyond”, 2024. Prof. Sharawi has 28 issued/granted and 8 pending patents in the United States Patent Office (USPO). He is serving/served as Area and Associate Editor for IEEE AWPL, IEEE OJAP, MOTL, IET-MAP and Frontiers. He served on the Technical and organizational program committees of several international conferences (EuCAP, APS, IMWS-5G, APCAP, iWAT). Prof. Sharawi is a member of the IEEE Member benefits committee, and the person managing the APS Student travel grant. He served as the EuRAAP delegate for north America. He was the IEEE Seattle AP/MTT/ED joint chapter Co-Chair in 2024. He is a Fellow-IEEE and Fellow-IET.

Prof. Nagham Saeed is a Professor of Expert Systems at the University of West London and Chair of the IEEE UK & Ireland Section. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence, expert systems, intelligent communications, and sustainable next-generation networks. She has led numerous international research and innovation projects and is actively involved in IEEE leadership, conferences, and professional development initiatives worldwide.

Prof. Aydın received BSc (1984) and MSc (1987) degrees in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Yildiz Technical University, Türkiye, and PhD degree in Medical Physics (1994) at the University of Leicester, UK. He was an Assistant Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department, Gebze Technical University, Türkiye, from 1995 to 1999. He worked in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Kings College London and the Division of Clinical Neuroscience at St George’s Hospital Medical School as a Research Fellow between 1998 and 2001. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems at the University of Edinburgh from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed as head of Computer Engineering Department and in 2006 he founded Software Engineering Department, both at Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye. Between 2009 and 2023, he was a professor in the Computer Engineering Department at Yildiz Technical University and served as the head of the department between 2011 and 2023. He is now with the Computer Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye. His research interests and contributions cover a wide range of subjects including biomedical signal/image processing, bioinformatics, system-on-chip, wireless communication, AI, data science, and computer science. He was awarded the IEE (now IET) the Institute Premium Award for 2000/2001 for his contributions in complex wavelet transform for processing Doppler ultrasound signals. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as IEEE Türkiye Section Chair.

René Garello was born in 1953. He received the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a Research Associate at Aeronomy Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado (USA). He joined the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique (IMT Atlantique, formerly Telecom Bretagne), Brest, France in 1985. In 1988, he became Professor in this engineering school in the field of signal processing and image processing and in 1995, Prof. Garello obtained his Habilitation (HDR; Habilitation to Supervise Research). Prof. Garello retired in Sept. 2021 with the status of Professor Emeritus.

His main research interests lie in Remote Sensing, 2D signal processing, statistical and spectral analysis applied to ocean surface features detection and characterization. For the last three decades, he has worked in the development of signal and image processing tools for the interpretation of radar signals and the extraction of sea surface features, either natural (wind, waves, currents) or manmade (ships, pollution). These application fields were supported by several European projects and industrial contracts. He is presently engaged in several initiatives on the topic of Marine Debris and Plastic in the oceans, sustainable developments and ocean best practices systems.

Prof. Garello has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers, a hundred and thirty conference communications and three books. He had supervised more than 30 PhD students. For all his works, Prof. Garello was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE, class of 2006, “for contributions to signal processing applied to remote sensing of the ocean”. In 2021, he received the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from IEEE OES "for signal and image processing of remotely sensed measurements of the ocean and connecting to physical oceanography solutions".

At IMT Atlantique, Prof. Garello was the head of the research team TOMS (Traitement, Observation et Méthodes Statistiques – Processing, Observations and Statistical Methods) within the CNRS unit Lab-STICC before creating the ICTO (Information & Communication Technologies for Oceans) program. He was the director of the Scientific Interest Group Bretagne Télédétection (Brittany Remote Sensing) and leader of the project VIGISAT, a satellite radar receiving ground station for which he obtained twice a multi-million € grant (2009-2014; 2015-2020).

Prof. Garello was an elected IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society AdCom member from 1999 to 2001, from 2003 to 2005 and in 2005 for a new three-year term. In 2005, he was elected Vice-President Conference Operations and then re-elected in 2006 and 2008. In the beginning of 2001, he headed the Committee for defining a new set of Conference Policies and Procedures in order to ensure continuity between successive OCEANS conferences. This committee (called JOAB – Joint OCEANS Administrative Board) defined several new approaches and came up with the concept of two Oceans-a-year (every year in Northern America, every other odd year in Europe and every other even year in Asia-Pacific).

Prof. Garello was the General Chairman of the first OCEANS of the new Two-Oceans-a-year concept: OCEANS’05 held in Brest, France in June 2005. He received the OES Distinguished Service Award (DSA) in 2006 for developing and implementing the two OCEANS conference policy.

In 2012, Prof. René Garello was elected President of the IEEE OES for a two-year term and re-elected by acclamation in 2014. He was from 2017 to 2019 the chair of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative, and has been for the same period seating as principal for IEEE at the GEO (Group on Earth Observation) Executive Committee.

Prof. Garello was an elected TAB member of the IEEE Conferences Committee (2015-2016), 2017 Member of the TAB Re-Connect Ad Hoc Committee. He was appointed as a member of the IEEE TAB Strategic Planning Committee from 2017 to 2019.

Prof. René Garello is presently President of the IEEE France Section, elected for the period 2023-2025. He co-chaired the OBPS (Ocean Best Practices System) Steering Committee, a UNESCO/IOC supported project for the period 2023-2024.

He is the chair of the IEEE Region 8 ad hoc Committee on Climate change for the period 2025-2026.

He was the General Chair of the IEEE OCEANS 2025 conference held in Brest in June 2025.

Rodolfo Oliveira is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NOVA School of Science and Technology and a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Lisbon. His work focuses on wireless and mobile communications, sensing, stochastic modeling, and the design and performance analysis of next-generation network architectures.

He has held visiting research and teaching positions at several international institutions: at the University of Thessaly in Greece in 2008; at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the United States in 2011 and again in 2023; and at the Technical University of Berlin in 2025. Rodolfo has been actively involved in numerous research projects funded by national and European agencies.

His research has resulted in over 200 peer-reviewed publications, including high-impact journals and several award-winning conference papers. He serves on the editorial boards of leading journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, where he was named Exemplary Editor in 2023, and is a Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, where he received the same distinction in 2021.

Since 2010, Rodolfo has been an active member of the IEEE Portugal Section, serving as Section Chair from 2022 to 2025. He also serves as Chair of the IEEE Region 8 Ad hoc Committee on Flagship and Portfolio Conferences and has participated in different committees of several IEEE Conferences.

S Z Sayed Hassen is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Mauritius. His research focuses on Systems Modelling, Data-driven Control, and Model Predictive Control, with notable work applying data-driven MPC to epidemic management. He has authored more than 48 publications with close to 600 citations. As Dean, he leads the Faculty’s academic and research strategy, including international partnerships and joint supervision initiatives. He is based in Mauritius.

Dr. Sami Alghamdi is an academic leader and researcher in electrical engineering and semiconductor technologies. He serves as Vice Dean of Graduate Studies at King Abdulaziz University, where he contributes to academic development, research, and international collaboration. His work spans advanced electronic devices, power systems, and applied engineering technologies.

Dr. Sami Al Issa is the Director of the Technical Institute of Computer and Assistant Professor at Damascus University, Syria. He holds a Ph.D. in Control of Robotic Systems and an M.Tech in Control Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. His research focuses on event-triggered adaptive control, networked systems, and multi-agent robotics. He serves as Head of the Scientific Committee for the Vocational and Technical Olympiad, a Board Member of the Arab Encyclopedia, and a member of several national scientific committees in Syria. He is an active member of IEEE and The Robotics Society (TRS), India, and serves as a reviewer for over 150 manuscripts across prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 7th IFAC ACODS conference.

Tiziana Tambosso is an innovation consultant and entrepreneurship mentor. She was a Technical Expert for European Commission, H2020-SME Instrument program and Horizon Europe program. She was co-founder of Tambosso & Associates (2006-2018) carrying out projects, technical studies and market analysis for SME. She has been Visiting Professor in Taiwan, teaching master courses on Green Photonics and Laser Instrumentation. She has been Head of Research Group and Project Manager at CSELT-TILAB (1993 to 2005), Head of fiber optic devices group at SIRTI, R&D (1989-93), designer of integrated circuits at SGS Microelectronics (now ST Microelectronics) (1983-1985). She was author of about 80 journals and conference papers and hold twelve patents (H-index 14). She acted as Secretary and Vice-Chair (1993-1997) of IEC-SC86B international standardization Committee. For this activity she is awarded by the Commission with a certificate which recognizes that under her leadership the Committee has become the first in 100 for published standards.

IEEE Member for more than 30 years she (M’94, SM’02) has been a volunteer since 1997 serving in different roles. Some examples: Program Committee member of IEEE Section Congress 2026, IEEE Conference Committee member (2025-2026), IEEE IEC (Industry Engagement Committee) member (2023-2026). R8 Vice-Chair for Technical Activities (2025-2026), R8 Conference Coordination Committee chair (2023-2024). IEEE Award Board N&A member (2023-2024), IEEE MGA N&A Committee member (2021-2022), IEEE N&A Committee member (2020-2021). IEEE PHOS Membership Council - AVP for Global Strategy (2014-2015). For the IEEE Italy Section: Chair (Sept.2016-Jan.2019) (the first woman from the foundation 1959). The Section received the R8 Outstanding Large Section Award 2016 and she received the Italy Section Distinguished Service award 2021. Entrepreneurship Committee Coordinator (2021-2024) (founder of the committee in 2017); Industry Engagement Committee Coordinator (2025-2026). IEEE Photonics Italy Chapter Chair (2002-2012). During her term the chapter received the following awards from the PHOS Society and from the Region 8: Most Improved Chapter 2010, Chapter of the Year 2008, R8 Chapter of the Year 2007, R8 Chapter of the Year 2002, Most Innovative Chapter 2002.

She acted as TPC Chair, Steering Committee Chair, General Chair and co-Chair for several IEEE Conferences including R8 flagship conferences (MELECON, EUROCON, RTSI, HISTELCON, IHTC,…), also contributing as invited speaker, panelist, moderator and organizer of special sessions and events. She was instrumental in the realization and approval of a multi-region agreement for IEEE HISTELCON.

Werner Roman Drexel is Lead Principal Analog Design at Infineon Technologies Austria AG in Graz, where he has worked since 1998 on chipcard analog design, security sensor design and non-volatile memory design. He studied electrical engineering with a focus on communication engineering at the Technical University of Graz, and worked previously as a freelance analog designer at Austria Microsystems and as a software engineer in industry. He has held officer positions in the IEEE Austria Section since 2014 and is its current Chair. He has been a member of the IEEE SA P1912 working group since 2015 and its Vice Chair since 2025, and serves as IEEE Region 8 Assistant Secretary and an IEEE Region 8 AFI Corresponding Member.

Professor Abandah, a PhD and MSE graduate from the University of Michigan and BSc holder from the University of Jordan, boasts a multifaceted career as a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Jordan, the first President of Aqaba University of Technology, and General Coordinator of the Erasmus+ DeCAIR project for developing AI and Robotics curricula. With 40 years of experience spanning academia and industry, he excels in both teaching and research (AI, Arabic NLP, machine learning) with 77 publications, 1400+ citations, and an h-index of 22. His 15+ years of industry expertise encompass localization, military electronics, and product/project development, where he spearheaded technical teams as Design Engineer, Project Manager, Development Manager, VP Development, and General Manager. An active IEEE Senior Member and member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitor Program, he co-founded the IEEE Jordan Section, chaired it for three terms, led the IEEE Region 8 Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and established the AEECT and JEEIT conferences, showcasing his dedication to service and innovation.

Tabarak Al-Hawadi holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering (2026) and currently serves as the Faculty Secretary at the Faculty of Information Technology, Aqaba University of Technology. She combines a strong technical background with effective administrative and organizational skills, contributing to the efficient coordination of academic and faculty operations. Her key competencies include problem-solving, office management, technical support, and the effective use of digital technologies in administrative environments. She is committed to continuous professional development and to applying her technical and organizational expertise to enhance the quality and efficiency of academic administration.

Dr. Gaith Rjoub is a faculty member and researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST). He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Systems Engineering from Concordia University (2021). His research focuses on deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent coordination, clinical AI agents, and intelligent automation systems, with extensive experience leading academic initiatives, industry partnerships, and advanced applied AI research.

Islam T. Almalkawi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Hashemite University in Jordan, the IEEE HU academic Counselor, and the advisor for the IEEE HU CS/CIS/IES. He received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Hashemite University (HU), Jordan, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in Information Networking jointly from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), PA USA, and Athens Information Technology, Athens Greece in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Architecture from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona Spain, in 2013. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Project Management Assistant with the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Amman, Jordan. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Laboratory Supervisor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, HU. He also was a Research Assistant during his graduate studies. Since 2013, he has been with the Department of Computer Engineering, HU, and served as department head from 2023 to 2025. His research interests include wireless sensor and multimedia networks, image processing and security, green computing, security and key management in distributed and IoT networks, and machine learning-enabled intelligent networking. Dr. Almalkawi is a senior member of IEEE and the Jordan Engineers Association, and serves as a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.

Dr. Wa’el Ibrahim Almazaydeh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Cyber Security Department at the Faculty of Information Security, Aqaba University of Technology, Jordan. He earned his PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Information Security, from the University of Mysore, India, in 2019, following an MSc from Al-Balqa Applied University in 2010 and a BSc from Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in 2005. His research interests include information and database security, image and audio steganography, data hiding, secure communication, and digital image processing. His research also encompasses practical applications of information security, particularly the secure embedding of patient information within medical images to support confidential and reliable data exchange among healthcare institutions. Dr. Almazaydeh has published peer-reviewed research in international journals and IEEE conference proceedings and brings more than a decade of academic, research, and administrative experience gained through his work at several Jordanian universities, including Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, and Isra University.

Dr. Ahmad Hweishel Alfarjat is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Department at Aqaba University of Technology. His research interests span network security, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), machine learning, and cybersecurity, with a particular focus on applying intelligent technologies to address emerging security and computing challenges. He is also passionate about software architecture, secure software systems, and emerging technologies, and actively contributes to research and academic development in software engineering and information security.

Dr. Mohammad Alathamneh is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Huson University College, Jordan. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University, USA. His research interests include power electronics, grid-connected converters, electric motor drives, advanced control systems, renewable energy integration, and reinforcement learning applications in power and industrial electronics. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Jordan Section Chapter and is actively involved in IEEE technical, professional, and student activities in Jordan.

Dr. Mohammad Abdel-Majeed is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Jordan (UJ), where he has served since June 2016. He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2016, following an MS in 2010, and a BS in Computer Engineering from UJ in 2007. His research focuses on the design of artificial intelligence–based systems, with applications in healthcare and natural language processing.

At UJ, Dr. Abdel-Majeed served as Vice Chair of the University Requirements Coordination Office (2021) and later as Chair of the Computer Engineering Department (2021–2023). He has contributed extensively to the global research community, serving on the organizing and program committees of major IEEE conferences, including IPDPS 2019, JEEIT 2019, ICCD 2022, ICCD 2024 and AEECT 2026. In addition, he reviewed for leading IEEE journals such as TVLSI, TPDS, TCAS, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and has participated as a judge in various local and regional student competitions. He has also been involved in multiple international collaborative projects with European partners, including DECAIR, Smart.Eco, and Data-Literacy.

Within IEEE, Dr. Abdel-Majeed currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Joint CS and CIS Jordan Chapter (since August 2024) and has been Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at UJ since 2017. Under his mentorship, the branch earned the IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award for three consecutive years (2020–2022). In recognition of his leadership and contributions, he received the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award in 2022.

Saleh Alkhalaileh received her BS in computer science in 2005 from Mu’tah University, Jordan, and his master's degree in computer sciences in 2018 from Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan. He is now doing his PHD in artificial intelligence at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In addition, he works as a search assistant under the supervision of Dr. Mohammed Alweshah at Al-Balqa Applied University. His research interests include machine learning, data science, and optimization.