General Chair

Farid Menaa
Professor, University of California San Diego, United States

Research Interests: Preventive Medicine; Personalized Medicine; Translational Medicine; Integrative Medicine;Regenerative Medicine; Green Medicine; Nanomedicine; Biotechnology; and Nanotechnology; Transplantation; Cosmetics & Aging; Oncology & Hematology; Dermatology; Infectiology; Endocrinology; Neurology; Microbiota; Genetics & Genomics; Biophysics; Bioremediation; Photocatalysis; Sensing & Imaging; Lasers; Robotics; Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Farid Menaa is an inter- and multi-disciplinary experienced professional with worldwide reputation. Besides, he holds a MBA in Entrepreneurship. During his ongoing career he has mainly contributed to the identification and the characterization genetic biomarkers of diseases, as well to the development of pharmaceutical theranostic solutions. He has a solid background and experiences in academic, governmental and industrial environments, He is a member of several prestigious organizations and sits in numerous editorial boards of reputed journals. He has authored more than 200 articles, reviewed more than 1000 articles for the medical and scientific communities, and has participated to over 600 scientific international events where he sometimes acts as chairman and/or co-organizer. Dr. Menaa is a co-pioneer of CFS, a spectroscopy-based technology with unique features and large applicabilities in sciences, technologies, and innovations. Dr. Menaa is currently an international health expert and consultant specialist. He is the founder and CEO of MENAA group (Medicine Engineering Nanotechnology in Asia and Arabia) promoting advising and development in R&D&I in the Asian & Arabic regions of the globe.

Sos Agaian
Distinguished Professor,City University of New York, USA

Research field: Big and Small Data Analytics, Computational Vision and Sensing, Machine Learning and Urban Computing, Multimodal Biometric and Digital Forensics, Information Processing and Fusion, and Fast Algorithms, computer sciences.

Sos S. Agaian, PhD in Mathematics, Dr, Engineering Science, and is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Agaian was the Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UTHSCSA at San Antonio; Professor, UT System Cyber and Cloud Security Initiative, and Director of Multimedia and Mobile Signal Processing Laboratory. He has been a visiting faculty at the Tufts University, the Tampere Institute of Technology, and the Leading Scientist at the AWARE, Inc. at Bedford, MA.

Dr. Agaian received his M.S. in Mathematics and Mechanics (summa cum laude) from the Yerevan State University, Armenia; his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); and his Doctor of Engineering Sciences degree from the Institute of Control Systems, RAS.

Co-chair

Ram Bilas Pachori
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Indore, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, Indore, India

Research Interests: Signal and Image Processing; Biomedical Signal Processing; Non-stationary Signal Processing; Speech Signal Processing; Brain-Computer Interface; Machine Learning; AI and IoT in Healthcare.

Ram Bilas Pachori received the B.E. degree with honours in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, India, in 2001, the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Before joining the IIT Indore, India, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Charles Delaunay Institute, University of Technology of Troyes, France (2007-2008) and an Assistant Professor at the Communication Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India (2008-2009). He was an Assistant Professor (2009-2013), an Associate Professor (2013- 2017), and a Professor (2017-2023) at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore, where he has been a Professor (HAG) since 2023. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in July 2023; Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, University of Malta, Malta, from June 2023 to July 2023; Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Lab, Free University of Berlin, Germany, from July 2022 to September 2022; School of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Taylor’s University, Malaysia, from 2018 to 2019. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Intelligent Systems Research Center, Ulster University, Londonderry, UK, in December 2014. His research interests include signal and image processing, biomedical signal processing, non-stationary signal processing, speech signal processing, brain-computer interface, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and the internet of things in healthcare. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2021-2024). Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Electronics Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. He is also serving as a Handling Editor of Signal Processing and an Editor of IETE Technical Review journal. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Class of 2025), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and Institution of Engineers (India) (IEI). He has authored the textbook titled “TimeFrequency Analysis Techniques and their Applications” (CRC Press, 2023). He has supervised 22 Ph.D. theses and is currently supervising 11 Ph.D. theses. He has 356 publications, which include journal articles (223), conference papers (92), books (11), and book chapters (30). He has also eight patents, including two granted (Australian patent and Indian patent) and six published (Indian patents). His publications have been cited approximately 18000 times with h-index of 73 according to Google Scholar

Omkar Singh Kushwaha
Senior Principal Project Scientist, Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India.

Research field: Biomaterials, Synthesis, Material Characterization, Thin Films and Nanotechnology, Polymers, Nanomaterials, Nanoparticle, Nanomaterials Synthesis, Nanostructured Materials.

Dr. Kushwaha is recipient of DST-SERB & CSIR Projects for independent research. He is a multidisciplinary Scientist, with experience of teaching & research of Chemistry, Engineering, Polymers, Materials, Nanomaterials & Biomaterials, Composites, High pressure reactions, contaminated water-treatment, and many more. Dr. Kushwaha is open to world-wide collaborations across all disciplines of research in order to learn, share and promote science and technology.

Technical Committee Chair

Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, United States

Giustino Varrassi, Paolo Procacci Foundation, Italy

Technical Committee Member

Abdelhakim Dorbane, University of Ain Temouchent, Algeria

Ahmed Fatimi, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Arpita Roy, Sharda University,Indian

Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, Dongguan University of Technology, China

Carlos M. Travieso-González, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Dimitrios A. Karras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Fahad Hassan Shah, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Ghulam Abbas, University of Nizwa, Aman

Heba M. Afify, Cairo University, Egypt

Ijaz Rasul, Government College University, Pakistan

Jeevithan Elango, UCAM-Catholic University of San Antonio de Murcia, Spain

Kenta Nakai,University of Tokyo,Japan

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

Mehdi Gheisari, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Mehraeen Esmaeil, Khalkhal University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Mohana Kumara Patel, University of Horticultural Sciences, India

Muhammad Attique khan, HITEC University, Pakistan

Muhammad Hanif Ramlee, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

Nan Zhang, University College Dublin, Ireland

Obradovic Zarema, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Oon Chern Ein, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Raheleh Kafieh, Durham University, UK

Ramendra Pati Pandey, D Y Patil International University, India

Rosa Tundis, University of Calabria, Italy

Santosh Kumar Mishra, S.N.D.T. Women's University(Retired), India

Seppo Sirkemaa, University of Turku, Finland

Sergey V. Suchkov, N.D. Zelinskii Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Shalini Sivadasan, KMCH College of Pharmacy, India

Stalis Norma Ethica, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Indonesia

Sushreeta Tripathy, S'O'A Deemed to be University, India

Tan Xiao Jian, Tunku Abdul Rahman University College,Malaysia

Tingzhong Yang, Zhejiang University, China

Vivek Mittal, Harvard University USA, United States

Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Vuanghao Lim, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Sponsor

International Association of Applied Science and Technology (IAAST)