Dr. Ahmed Omran is a Professor of Practice in the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program, at the School of Applied Engineering & Technology (SAET) – Newark College of Engineering (NCE) – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in NJ USA and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Omran earned his B.Sc in Civil Engineering and MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Minoufiya in Egypt, while his Ph.D. and Post-Doc in Concrete Technology and Construction Materials from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. He is licensed as a P.Eng. from PEO in Canada. Dr. Omran’s main research interest is directed toward (1) Development of Sustainable Materials for construction and rehabilitation for infrastructures (SCM; Mineral and chemical admixtures; Natural and lightweight aggregates; By-products, bio-based, recycled materials as alternatives to SCM; Steel, natural, and synthetic fibers), (2) Material characterization, (3) Rheology and concrete formwork pressure, (4) Design/develop specialty concrete mixtures (geopolymer, ECC, SCC, UHPC, RCC, FRC), (5) Durability and volume stability, (6) Multi-scale properties, (7) Engineering nanocomposites for an advanced nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive waste management, and environmental remediation, (8) Adding values/functions to existing and new construction materials, (9) Nanomaterials and Nano-cellulose fibrils in construction, (10) Pavement, (11) Materials’ Recycling, and (12) Modeling and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in construction. Dr. Omran's innovative research in Canada, the USA, and Egypt resulted in more than 125 publications, 90 presentations, and 500 citations (Google Scholar). He honored with ACI Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper in 2017 and obtained the best presentation awards from various international conferences. Dr. Omran has taught courses in Engineering Materials, Rheology, Concrete Technology, Durability and Repair of Structures, Structural Design, Engineering Introduction, Engineering drawing, Statistics. He co-advised/mentored more than 30 graduate students. Dr. Omran is actively involved in ACI 237 (SCC), ACI 238 (workability), ACI 347 (formwork), ACI 555 (recycled materials), ACI E703 (concrete construction practices), CSA S269.1/S269.3 (formwork/falsework), CSA A3000 (cementitious materials), RILEM FPC 233 (formwork pressure), ASTM C09.24 (SCM), and ASTM C09 (concrete and concrete aggregates). Dr. Omran is a reviewer of many International Journals and Conferences: ASTM J of Test & Eval, Elsevier J of Const & Build Mat., Elsevier J of Eng Struct, RILEM Mat & Struct, ACI Mat J, ASCE J of Mat in Civil Eng, and others. He honored with Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing & Recognized reviewer from Elsevier J. of Constr. & Build. Materials (2017).

Hassan Karimi-Maleh works as professor in the School of Resource and Environment, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He is a highly cited researcher selected by clarivate analytics 2018 (cross-filed), 2019 (Agriculture field) and 2020 (cross-filed) and 2021 (Chemistry and Agriculture, two categories in one year) and Top 1% Scientists in Chemistry and Agriculture simultaneously in ISI Essential Science Indicators from 2014 until now. He has published more than 341 SCI research papers with more than 18782 citations and H-index 84 (according to WOS report) and 21420 citations and h-index 92 (according to google scholar). He works as editorial board of more than 20 international journals such as Applied Nanoscience (associated editor Springer IF 3.674), Alexandria Engineering Journal (associated editor ELSEVIER IF 3.732), Journal of nanostructure in Chemistry (associated editor Springer IF 6.391), Scientific Report (associated editor Nature IF 4.379), InfoMat (Editor Wiley IF 25.405), Journal of food measurement and characterization (Editor and guest editor Springer IF 2.431), Food and chemical toxicology (Guest editor Elsevier IF 6.023), Chemosphere (Managing Guest Editor Elsevier IF 7.086) and etc. He also works as adjunct Professor in University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Quchan University of Technology, Quchan, Iran. He work as leader nanobiosensor group in Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam 2019-2020. He publishes one book in Springer publisher and also one chapter book in same publisher. Recently, he published one paper in Science journal. He was plenary speaker many conference such as The 8th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2022), 6th Postgraduate Colloquium for Environmental Research 2022, 7th international conference on agricultural and biological science (abs) (2021) and etc. He worked as leader Nano biosensor group on Duc Thang University, Vietnam in 2019-2020.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA and is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA. He is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored about 500 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products, and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”. Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 IMAPS Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Maharshi Dey is currently working as a Graduate R&D Intern at 3M company in Minneapolis, USA. He is in his final year of PhD in Mechanical Engineering with research focus in Materials Science, at University of North Dakota, USA. Under the supervision of his professor, with a team of researchers, he has been working on developing novel MAX/MAB phase nano-layered ceramics and their composites. He has published more than 10 manuscripts in peer reviewed international journals and have presented his research in several international conferences since 2017. His hobbies include travelling, hiking, and camping outdoors.

Dr. Salah Uddin is a materials scientist in an industrial laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, US. He accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He received a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Collaborative Materials Science Program in Montana (with emphasis on dynamic high strain rate mechanical deformation behavior and manufacturing effect). His research interests include the (I) mechanical behavior of advanced manufacturing materials, and (II) materials physics and characterization, including structural studies and their connection to macroscopic physical properties.

Dr. Chetan Nikhare is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He earned a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Nagpur University, India in 2003, M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2006, and the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Deakin University, Australia in 2010. Dr. Nikhare joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in August 2012. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of New Hampshire. To date, he has performed different aspects of numerical and analytical modeling for material undergoing mechanical processes. He learned constitutive modeling of mild steel and advanced high strength steels and microstructural modeling during his graduate and post-graduate studies. His research interest are, but not limited to, experiments and numerical simulation of sheet metal and bulk forming in various deformation mode, fatigue and fracture, hydroforming and analytical modeling of material mechanics and processes.

Dr. Nataly Carolina Rosero-Navarro got Doctor in Chemistry from Universidad Auto nomaof Madrid, Spain, in 2011. She was awarded with two postdoctoral position in 2012 and 2013 at Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage Group of University of Aveiro and at Division of Applied Chemistry of Hokkaido University, respectively. Currently, she is a senior researcher at the Institute of Ceramic and glass in Spain andassociated professor visitorat Hokkaido University. Her research work is focused on the implementation of the solution processes for the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials (glassy and crystalline) and organic-inorganic hybrid materials as coatings, membranes and composites for environmental and energy applications. She has accumulated a recognized experience in the design of hybrid and inorganic coatings with unique corrosion inhibition, bioactive and chemical-resistance properties providing significant knowledge in the area of ecofriendly sol-gel coatings and multilayer systems. She has also implemented novel soft chemical routes to prepare protonic hybrid membranes, sulfide and oxide solid electrolytes, materials for electrode/electrolyte interfaces and composites electrodes for all-solid-state batteries and, electrocatalysts for fuel cells and metal-air batteries providing new insights and concepts for the improvement of energy generation and storages. Her long-term goal includes the design and synthesis of inorganic and hybrid materials for the next “green” energy generation and storage. More than 80 publications and 150 participation in conferences. She got Ulrich Award and Woman in Global Science Award.

Dr. Muhammad Prisla Kamil received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from Yeungnam University, South Korea in 2020. He secured a postdoctoral and then a faculty member positions in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University from 2020 to 2022. Currently, he is newly drafted as a researcher in the National Research and Innovation Agency of the Republic of Indonesia. His research topics are mostly based on the surface modification of lighweight metals using advanced plasma electrolysis treatments that led to the formation of inorganic or hybrid organic-inorganic coatings capable of enhancing mechanical and chemical resistances, as well as imparting certain functional properties such as catalytic properties to support waste water treatments. His research interests also include corrosion studies via electrochemical methods to reveal the short-term and predict the long-term degradative behavior of metallic materials, as well as molecular DFT studies for corrosion inhibitors and related phenomena.

Hassan Karimi-Maleh works as professor in the School of Resource and Environment, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He is a highly cited researcher selected by clarivate analytics 2018 (cross-filed), 2019 (Agriculture field) and 2020 (cross-filed) and 2021 (Chemistry and Agriculture, two categories in one year) and Top 1% Scientists in Chemistry and Agriculture simultaneously in ISI Essential Science Indicators from 2014 until now. He has published more than 341 SCI research papers with more than 18782 citations and H-index 84 (according to WOS report) and 21420 citations and h-index 92 (according to google scholar). He works as editorial board of more than 20 international journals such as Applied Nanoscience (associated editor Springer IF 3.674), Alexandria Engineering Journal (associated editor ELSEVIER IF 3.732), Journal of nanostructure in Chemistry (associated editor Springer IF 6.391), Scientific Report (associated editor Nature IF 4.379), InfoMat (Editor Wiley IF 25.405), Journal of food measurement and characterization (Editor and guest editor Springer IF 2.431), Food and chemical toxicology (Guest editor Elsevier IF 6.023), Chemosphere (Managing Guest Editor Elsevier IF 7.086) and etc. He also works as adjunct Professor in University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Quchan University of Technology, Quchan, Iran. He work as leader nanobiosensor group in Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam 2019-2020. He publishes one book in Springer publisher and also one chapter book in same publisher. Recently, he published one paper in Science journal. He was plenary speaker many conference such as The 8th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2022), 6th Postgraduate Colloquium for Environmental Research 2022, 7th international conference on agricultural and biological science (abs) (2021) and etc. He worked as leader Nano biosensor group on Duc Thang University, Vietnam in 2019-2020.