Dr. Djourkov Todor has been the head of the Department of Technology of Sugar and Confectionery at the University of Food Technologies, Plovdiv, since 2018, and the general manager of Heating & Drying Equipment Ltd since 1996. He was the general manager of Membrane Technologies Ltd and the general manager of the Bulgarian side of Russian–Bulgarian Applied Scientific Company “Biotechmach” from 1992 to 1996. He obtained an academic position as a professor of Equipment for sugar and confectionery in 2016. He is a Member of the Executive Committee of the international association "Agreement for cooperation in the field of application of fluidized bed systems in industry for the countries of South-Eastern Europe". His research interests are in the areas of fluidized bed drying, process engineering in biotechnology and the food industry.
Dr. Sivanappan Kumar is with the Faculty of Engineering, Naresuan University, Thailand. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. With over three decades of academic experience, he has been involved in teaching, research, training, and outreach in the fields of renewable energy resources and technologies, climate change and greenhouse gas mitigation, and energy and sustainable development. He has held several senior academic positions at the institute and has published over 70 book chapters and monographs, along with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. Additionally, he has presented over 75 papers at conferences, seminars, and workshops and given over 40 keynote lectures. He has achieved significant success in the field of science with an Scopus h-index of 38, a number of citations of 3274, and a g-index of 44. His research interests include renewable energy resource assessment, solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies, energy efficiency in buildings and industries, Technology Needs Assessment for greenhouse gas mitigation, energy access, low carbon and smart cities, low carbon energy systems and green growth, and Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr.Seung-Bok Choi is a leading professor at Mechanical Engineering Department of The State University of New York, Korea (SUNY Korea) located in Incheon, Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, USA in 1986 and 1990, respectively. Since 1991, he had worked at Inha University with excellent positions of a distinguished fellow professor and dean of graduate school. Currently, he is a fellow of Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). His research is focused on control of various systems associated with smart materials: piezoelectric actuators and sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetorheological fluid and electrorheological fluid. He has published 650 SCI journal papers and is now serving as editors of several international journals including Smart Materials and Structures, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Sensors, and Scientific Report.
Prof. Hung Nguyen Xuan. H. Nguyen-Xuan currently holds the position of Director at CIRTech Institute, HUTECH University in Vietnam. He is also an adjunct professor at China Medical University in Taiwan and a visiting professor at Sejong University in South Korea. Dr. Nguyen-Xuan is the President of Vietnam Association for Computational Mechanics and serves as an editorial board member for several international journals, including Composite Structures, Computers & Structures, and Engineering Fracture Mechanics. He is also the editor of CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences and subject editor of Underground Space. Dr. Nguyen-Xuan completed his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from The University of Liège in Belgium in 2008. His research interests revolve around advanced computational methods in engineering, data-driven machinelearning modelling, and 3D printing technology. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers indexed in WoS and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science for eight consecutive years from 2014 to 2021 and in the field of Cross-Field in 2022.
Dr. Nguyen Quoc Hung earned his PhD degree in Solid Mechanics and Manufacturing Engineering from Inha University, Korea in 2009. Currently, he is a professor at the Vietnamese German University (VGU) specializing in structure dynamics and mechatronics. He has been serving as the Dean of the Faculty of MechaEngineering at VGU since 2017. Nguyen Quoc-Hung has published a number of research papers, including over 100 in journals and about 70 of them are considered important. He has also written three chapters in books and presented his research at more than 30 international conferences. He has three US patents as the main author. Quoc-Hung Nguyen has led seven research projects funded by the government
