Professor Sam Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Ceramics in 1991 from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2006 he was promoted to tenured full professor in Singapore Nanyang Technological University. In 2018 he established and served as Director of Centre for Advanced Thin Films and Devices in Southwest University, China. In 2023, he joined in the School of Aeronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology and also serves HIT Zhengzhou Research Institute (https://homepage.hit.edu.cn/samzhang). Prof. Zhang was elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), a Fellow of Thin Films Society (FTFS) in 2018, and a Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIoMMM) in 2007. Prof. Zhang was a Principal Editor for Journal of Materials Research (USA) for thin films and coating field (since 2003). Prof. Zhang has been serving the world’s first “Thin Films Society” (www.thinfilms.sg) as its founding and current president since 2009. Prof. Zhang has authored/edited 21 books published with CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. Currently, Prof. Zhang is working on a four-volume Materials for Energy Handbooks in Chinese to be published in 2024 by Chongqing University Press. Of these books, Materials Characterization Techniques has been adopted as textbook by more than 30 American and European universities alone as of October 2015. That book had also been translated into Chinese and published by China Science Publishing Co. in October 2010 and distributed nationwide in China (also available online at Amazon.cn). Prof. Zhang is also the Series Editor for Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Book Series published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. A full list of his books is at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JPBX42). Over the years, Prof. Zhang has authored/co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed international journal papers with h-index of 62 and total citation of over 13,500 times as of 29 May 2024 (https://publons.com/researcher/2817766/sam-zhang/). Details of Professor Zhang’s research and publications are easily accessible at http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/samzhang

Panos Anastasopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo, and has been the inaugural Stephen E. Still Chair of Transportation Engineering. He is also the Founder and Director of the Engineering Statistics and Econometrics Application (E-SEA) research lab, and Scientific Consultant for Inferenx Labs Inc. – a start-up focusing on transportation and infrastructure systems solutions. He has also served as Director of the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL). He received his BSc from the Athens University of Economics and Business, and his MSc and PhD from Purdue University. His research interests include: safe mobility; transport economics; travel behavior; implications of transportation investments and emerging technologies; integration of human behavior with advanced air vehicles and automated/connected vehicles; urban air mobility; infrastructure and crisis management; policy and decision making; and computational tools (statistical and econometric modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence). In these areas, he has published over 200 papers, book chapters, and reports, and one textbook. He is Executive Associate Editor of Analytic Methods in Accident Research (ranked #1 Journal in Safety Research and Transportation by Scopus and Web-of-Science), and serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member in several other prestigious journals. He is the former Chair of TRB’s Statistical and Econometric Methods Committee, and Vice Chair of the ASCE T&DI Economics and Finance Committee. He has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher for his work during the last twelve years.

Professor Duc is the Vice-President of Vietnamese Association in Mechanics and a member of the Professor Election Council in Mechanics of Vietnam, the Head of Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Structures, the Dean of the Faculty of in Civil Engineering - VNU Hanoi, University of Engineering and Technology (UET). He also is the President of the network club about ensures the quality of higher education of Vietnam; Program Director of Civil Engineering Program of Vietnam-Japan University (VJU); Program Director of Automation and informatics Program of International School (IS), Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Professor Duc holds a Ph.D. in mathematics -physics from Moscow State University (1991) and a Doctor of Science degree (Dr. Habilitation) in Engineering from Russian Academy of Sciences (1997). He had been appointed to Associate Professor (2007) and Full Professor (2013) at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Professor Duc has over 350 publications in which over 200 papers have appeared in numerous ISI (SCI, SCIE) journals. He is the member of Editorial Board of 10 ISI International journals. Last but not least, he has written 6 textbooks and monographs for the undergraduate and graduate programs in Vietnamese, Russian and English. Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc has been a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (since 1999). He was a member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (1999-2004), the former Vice-President and Secretary general of Vietnam Science-Technical Association in Russia (1999-2001), former Vice President of Vietnamese Young Scientist Association in Vietnam (2004-2010), Vice President of the University of Engineering and Technology, VNU (2008-2012). Professor Duc has been awarded Silver Medal of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for the Invention on The law-behavior of mechanical characteristic for three-phase composite 3Dm reinforced by spherical particles (in Russia, 1999) and the Third Prize of “Talented Vietnamese National Award ” (in Vietnam, 2008). Because of outstanding contributions to the national education and training career, professor Duc has received the VNU President’s merit of excellence awards in years 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and the Prime Minister’s merit of excellence award in 2009. Certificate of Merit granted by the Minister of Education of Vietnam, 2019,2022. He has been selected as one of the most outstanding people in Vietnam education system in 2015, President of Vietnam awarded 3-rd class Labour Medal in 2016, 2-nd class Labour Medal in 2022. Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc was announced by the US journal PLoS Biology to be in the list of the top 10,000 greatest influential scientists in the world in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and ranking 85 in the field of Engineering in the world in 2023.

Prof. Dr. Schilling had in space industry responsibility in Earth observation and interplanetary satellites (such as HUYGENS to the Saturnian moon Titan and ROSETTA for exploration of comets), before he was appointed professor and chair for Robotics and Telematics at University Würzburg 2003- 2022. He is president of the research company „Center for Telematics (ZfT)“ and chairman of board in the company “S4 – Smart Small Satellite Systems GmbH”. His team built the first German pico-satellite UWE-1, launched 2005 to optimize Internet in space. He published more than 400 papers and received several awards, including the Walter-Reis-Award for Robotic Innovations 2008 (for research in mobile robotics) and 2012 (for medical robotics), top grants from the European Research Council ERC: 2012 an ERC Advanced Grant for research on control of networked distributed satellite systems and 2018 an ERC Synergy Grant for “CloudCT” to improve climate models by observations from a formation of 10 small satellites by computed tomography methods. He was awarded 2021 with the Eugen-Sänger-Medal from DGLR, 2022 with the Global AACII Award, 2023 with the Frank.J.Malina-medal of the International Astronautical Federation IAF for his contributions to technology progress in small satellite area. He is full member of the International Academy of Astronautics and was Consulting Professor at Stanford University 2002-2006.

Seongwoo Woo, full time position. Dr. Woo has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and he has obtained PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. He majors in energy system such as HVAC and its heat transfer, optimal design and control of refrigerator, reliability design of thermal components, and failure Analysis of thermal components in marketplace using the Non-destructive such as SEM & XRAY. In 1992.03–1997 he worked in Agency for Defense Development, Chinhae, South Korea, where he has researcher in charge of Development of Naval weapon System. He was working as a Senior Reliability Engineer in Refrigerator Division, Digital Appliance, SAMSUNG Electronics. Now he is working as associate professor in mechanical department, Ethiopian Technical University.

Sergey Ivashov, PhD, graduated from Space Research faculty, Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, with honours in 1972; as post-graduate student he had successfully submitted the thesis for a PhD degree in 1975. He worked as a scientific researcher in rocket industry of the USSR in 1975-1977. Since 1977 up to 2000 he had been working in the Central Scientific and Research Institute of Radio & Electronic systems, Moscow, as a senior scientific fellow and thereafter he had been promoted for a head of Laboratory. From January 2001 up to February 2024 he was the head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow. His latest research relates to NDT&E of thermal insulation of rocket cryogenic fuel tanks by holographic radar. Other scientific interests are connected with holographic subsurface radar design and its applications for searching of bugging devices and civil construction engineering. The air reconnaissance of mine fields and development of radar sensors for mine’s detection related to humanitarian demining operations are also included in area of his scientific interests. His research also includes remote detection and diagnostics of human heartbeat and breathing for applications in security and medicine. This research is based on using of continues-wave radar in frequency band of 2-15 GHz.