Sadia Samar Ali is a Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research, specializing in Supply Chain Management for Consumer Analytics. With a strong background in engineering and management, Dr. Ali focuses her research on Circular Sustainable Supply Chain Management and the application of AI/ML optimization techniques in developing countries. She is actively involved in international groups like EURO and IFORS, promoting sustainable practices and smart technologies. Her impressive body of work includes 80 + published papers, with many in top-tier journals, alongside three authored books. As an Associate Editor for GRETS and PLOS One, she contributes significantly to the field while mentoring students and enhancing their research capabilities. Her expertise has also led her to serve as an editorial board member in 30 + international journals, keynote speaker at various international forums on applications of data analytics and optimization in the field of technology integration such as UAVs.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001, and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from the same University. He is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). He has been the Head of DEMec since June 2023. João Tavares is co-editor of more than 80 books, co-author of more than 50 book chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering” published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: International Symposium on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences and International Conference on Biodental Engineering. Additionally, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD theses and supervisor of several post-doc projects and has participated in many scientific projects both as a researcher and as scientific coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, and new product development.

Dr. Jie Deng leads research on the vibroacoustics of Acoustic Black Holes (ABHs), wave manipulation, energy harvesting, and acoustic metamaterials, in the Department of Engineering at Universitat Ramon Llull. He is a member of the Chinese Society of Acoustics, the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering, and a fellow of the Vibration Utilization Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) in 2020 (Excellent Cum Laude) and from Chongqing University (China) in 2021 (Excellent Thesis). In 2020, he also joined the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA-Lyon) as a visiting scholar. He was an Associate Professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) during 2021-2024. To date, Dr. Deng has authored 41 journal articles and 15 conference papers (Google Scholar citation count: 2112, h-index: 26), and he was listed as one of the World's top 2\% scientists in 2023 and 2024. He currently serves as a Guest Editor for Materials and Frontiers in Physics and as a referee for several journals, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, and Communications Physics

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Dr. Nurin Wahidah Mohd Zulkifli is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Malaya. She specializes in tribology, with a particular focus on combustion and fuel engineering. Her research contributions include over 100 published articles, which have garnered significant academic recognition, including thousands of citations and a high H-index. In 2020, Dr. Nurin was acknowledged among the top 2% of researchers globally for highly cited documents in engineering. She has supervised numerous postgraduate students from diverse international backgrounds and has successfully led various research projects funded by internal and external grants. Dr. Nurin is actively engaged in collaborative research with both industrial partners, such as PROTON and PETRONAS Research, and academic institutions worldwide, including those in the UK and Saudi Arabia. Her work continues to advance the fields of mechanical engineering and sustainable energy technologies.