Biography: Dr. Mohamed Khan Afthab Ahamed Khan was born in Tamil Nadu, India during the year 1961. He won the best student award for his excellence in academic and also in sports during his Higher secondary level. He also won the gold medal both in Mathmetics and Physics during his Pre-University at state level. He received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madras University, India, and MS degree in Electronics and Control engineering from BITS Pilani, India, He received his advanced diploma in Power electronics and drives from Lucas-Nuelle, Germany in 2002 and from Woo sun, Korea. He obtained his PhD in Robotics, Power electronics and controls from USA and holds his Professional Engineer [PEng] Certification from IAO, USA and CEng (UK). He is also a Senior member in IEEE USA and MIET UK. He worked with Rohde and Schwarz, Germany as Sales and service engineer from 1983-1987 and served as a Senior lecturer in the faculty of engineering at the Madras university for seven years and has been with the faculty of Electronics Engineering, TAFE Australia, Malaysia campus during the year 1994 to 1997. He served as a Program coordinator for Malaysia France University Nice, France between 1997 to 2006. He has been a consultant and trainer for multinational companies like Schneider electric, France, Vivendi Water supplies, France, and many Malaysian and Singapore companies. Also, he worked as an Assistant professor at UNISEL, Malaysia from 2006 to 2017. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor in the faculty of engineering at UCSI University, Malaysia. He held various positions in IEEE RAS Malaysia chapter and had won more than 15 awards awarded by IEEE Malaysia section. He is the past Chairman for IEEERAS, Malaysia chapter and current IEEE UCSI Student branch counselor. His current research is in Power Electronics, Motor drives, Robotic and Controls. Along with many awards and more than 100 papers or research notes published in journals and conference proceedings, he has travelled more than 25 countries and has visited the top universities like MIT, Stanford, OXFORD, Caltech, Cambridge, Berkley, Imperial and served as a Reviewer and Session Chairman for several conferences and project competitions.

Biography: Dr. Wenbing Zhao received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002. Dr. Zhao has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1990, and a Master of Science degree in Physics in 1993, both at Peking University, Beijing, China. Dr. Zhao also received a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998 at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Zhao joined Cleveland State University (CSU) faculty in 2004 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at CSU. Dr. Zhao published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in the area of distributed systems (three of them won the best paper award), smart and connected health, computer vision, machine learning, physics, and education. Dr. Zhao’s research is supported in part by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Transportation, Ohio State Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Ohio Department of Higher Education, and by Cleveland State University. Dr. Zhao is currently serving on the organizing committee and the technical program committee for numerous international conferences. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and for MDPI Computers. Dr. Zhao is a senior member of IEEE.