Duc Truong Pham’s research covers the fields of mechanical, manufacturing, computer and systems engineering. His academic output includes more than 600 technical papers and 17 books. He has supervised over 100 PhD theses to completion. He has won in excess of £30M in external research grants and contracts. In addition to pursuing and leading research, he has acted as a consultant to several major companies and has been active with knowledge transfer to industry, applying the results of his work to help multinational companies and SMEs generate wealth and create and safeguard jobs. He has lectured extensively abroad on his research and has delivered more than fifty keynote presentations at international conferences. He was Professeur Invité at École Centrale de Paris, Consulting Professor at HUST (China), Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Visiting Professor at the Université Paul Verlaine (France), Visiting Professor at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), Strategic Scientist at Wuhan University of Technology and Honorary Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University (China). He has received several prizes including the Sir Joseph Whitworth prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1996 and 2000 and the Institution's Thomas Stephens Group Prize in 2001 and 2003 and Donald Julius Groen Prize in 2004, and the 5th ICMR Best Paper Prize in 2007. He is also a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (2016, World Automation Congress) and a Distinguished International Academic Contribution Award (IEEE SMC Society TC on Enterprise Info Sys and IFIP TC8 WG8.9, 2017) He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Learned Society of Wales, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 137) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, University of the Basque Country and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Dr. Yaohua ZHU graduated from the North-Eastern University of China in 1965. He received a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in metallurgy and materials science in 1983 and was conferred a higher doctor degree of Doctor of Science in applied science and engineering in 2006 at the Aston University UK. Four books and 114 peer reviewed articles were published. His recent researches focus on electropulsing induced phase transformations and their effects on electrical, optical and thermal properties of thin films of functional semiconductors.

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Dr. Ghenadii Korotcenkov received his Ph.D. in 1976, and his Doctor Habilitate Degree in 1990. Long time he was a leader of scientific Gas Sensor Group in Technical University of Moldova. From 2007 to 2008, he was an invited scientist in Korean Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea. Then, until the end of 2017 Dr. G. Korotcenkov was a research professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. Currently Dr. G. Korotcenkov is the research professor at the Moldova State University, Chisinau. His current research interests since 1995 include material sciences, focusing on metal oxide film deposition and characterization, surface science, thermoelectric conversion, and design of physical and chemical sensors, including thin film gas sensors. Dr. G. Korotcenkov is either the author or editor of 48 books, published by Momentum Press, CRC Press, Springer, Elsevier and Harbin Institute of Technology Press (China). In addition, currently he is a series editor of “Metal Oxides” book series published by Elsevier. He is the author and coauthor of more than 675 scientific publications, including 40 review papers, 70 book chapters, and more than 200 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals (h-factor = 47 [Scopus] and h-factor = 75 [Google]). Dr. G. Korotchenkov's scientific work has been recognized with numerous national and international awards. G. Korotcenkov have also been listed as one of the "World's Ranking Top 2% Scientists" in Applied Physics/Analytical Chemistry in the Physics and Astronomy Cluster.

Dr. Murali Mohan Cheepu holds a PhD in welding engineering from Kyungsung University, South Korea, and completed postdoctoral research at Pukyong National University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical and production engineering from Andhra University and a master’s degree from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India. Currently, he serves as a research professor at Pukyong National University. He brings extensive expertise in additive manufacturing, welding automation, and AI-driven manufacturing technologies, complemented by industry experience at JSW Steel Ltd., where he focused on advanced welding methods and innovative production processes. Dr. Cheepu has received several international awards from the American Welding Society, the Korean Welding and Joining Society, IAAM Sweden, and KSPE. He has published over 100 national and international research papers and holds six patents, with more than 3,500 citations to his work.

Dr. Quah Hock Jin is currently working as senior lecturer at Institute of Nano Optoelectronics Research and Technology (INOR), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Previously, he was a MOCVD engineer in Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science, & Technology (CREST), with the responsibility of controlling CREST MOCVD system that is located at INOR, USM for the national project related to “GaN on GaN”. He received his BEng (Hons) in Materials Engineering from School of Materials and Mineral Engineering (SMMRE), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2008. He graduated with PhD (2014) and MSc (2010) in Electronics Materials from SMMRE, USM under the sponsorship of “The USM Vice Chancellor’s Award 2011” and “USM Fellowship”, respectively. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow in Institute of Nano Optoelectronics Research and Technology (INOR), USM and Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), Universiti Putra Malaysia. His research interest encompasses development of thin film technology and optimization of device performance based on high dielectric constant thin film materials as well as wide band gap semiconductors for potential applications in power electronics, solid-state lighting, and gas sensors. For years, he has actively involved in the growth of binary and ternary based thin film materials as passivation layers for GaN-, SiC-, Si-, and Ge-based metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors. In recent times, his research areas are widened to the growth and modification of GaN-based compound semiconductors using low cost route to study the aspects of optical performance and gas sensing behaviours point of view. His contribution in the field of research and development is reflected through 46 refereed international top-tier publications with H-Index of 15 and 2 patents filed under MyIPO. He has also received several recognitions from the university under “Sanggar Sanjung” awards for year 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 as well as the “Best Thesis Award for Category of CRI: Engineering and Technology” for the year 2014. He is presently an editorial board member of “The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal (Bentham Open)” as well as “Journal of Material Science and Technology Research (Zeal Press)” and also review editor for “Colloidal Materials and Interfaces (Frontiers in Materials; Impact Factor: 2.689).

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