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Adrian Ilinca is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure. He was a professor, founder, and director of the Wind Energy Research Laboratory at Université du Québec à Rimouski. He completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. His areas of interest are the aerodynamics and the aeroelasticity of wind turbines, icing effects on wind turbines with anti-icing and de-icing techniques, and wind-diesel systems with compressed air energy storage.

Frank Werner received a PhD degree (with summa cum laude) in Mathematics in 1984 and defended my habilitation thesis in 1989. From this time on, I worked at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany, since 1998 as an extraordinary professor. My research subjects are scheduling, discrete optimization, and mathematical problems of operations research. Since 2019, I am Editor-in-Chief of the journal Algorithms. I am also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Production Research, of Journal of Scheduling and of Operations Research and Decisions and a member of the Editorial/Advisory Board of 15 further journals. I was a guest editor of special issues in seven international journals and a member of the program committee of more than 110 international conferences. I am also the author of two Mathematics textbooks, an author/editor of 11 further books as well as about 300 published journal papers.

Annarita Paiano, a Ph.D. in Commodity Science, technology, innovation, and sustainable production, is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, Management and Law studies, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the author of over 80 scientific papers and a member of many research projects. Paiano is a member of the Italian LCA network, AISME (Italian Society of Commodities Sciences), IGWT (International Society of Commodity Science and Technology) and a Former Member of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology an Chemistry). The research of Paiano deals with energy systems and GHG emissions, end-of-life management, circular economy and sustainability. She is an Editorial Board Member of international journals and reviewer of journals edited by Elsevier, Wiley Online Library Publisher, Taylor and Francis, Springer and others.

Jinsong Wu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2006.,He received the 2020 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award for his outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking, the 2017 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Excellent Services Award for his excellent technical leadership and services in the Green Communications and Computing Community, the 2017, 2019, and 2021 IEEE Systems Journal best paper awards, and the 2018 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Best Magazine Paper Award. He was elected as the Vice Chair of the Technical Activities of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI) from 2017 to 2022. He was the Founder and the Founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) from 2011 to 2017. He was the Co-Founder and the Founding Vice-Chair of the IEEE TCBD in 2014 and from 2014 to 2022, respectively. Since 2022, he has been the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD). He was the very first proposer of IEEE Green ICT Journals or Transactions in 2012. He was a Proposer in 2021, the Founder in 2022, and has been the Founding Editor-in-Chief since 2022, for the new international journal, Green Technologies and Sustainability, (KeAi). He was the leading Editor and the coauthor of the comprehensive book, titled Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, September 2012)

Dr. Michael Opoku Agyeman is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the IET, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) and, a Senior Member of the IEEE who is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Leader of BEng, HND, MEng Computer Systems Engineering at the Department of Computing at the University of Northampton, UK. Michael is the 2018/19 Elected Senate representative for academic staff from the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology (FAST) at the University of Northampton. He is an Associate member of the Chartered Management Institute (ACMI). Previously, he was with Intel Embedded System Research group of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Research Fellow, where he worked on reliable wireless Network-on-Chip solutions. He received the PhD in Embedded and Distributed Systems from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, in and the MSc. degree in Embedded and Distributed Systems from London South Bank University, UK. Michael received the BSc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Michael holds two teaching qualifications: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision (PGCert) from the University of Northampton. He is the author of 4 books, 2 book chapters and over 70 publications in major journals and conference proceedings. Michael’s research interest spans across 3 main strands and disciplines: 1. High Performance Computing and Embedded Systems (VLSI SoC design, computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, wired and wireless NoCs, smart rehabilitation solutions, embedded systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT)); 2. Business Administration (Neuromarketing, advertising and marketing research) and; 3. Pedagogy (student engagement in HE, problem-based learning and team-based learning ), all linked by his passion for emerging technologies and teaching. He has been a Guest Editor of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He is a technical committee member of over 10 conferences such as IEEE ICCSN, IEEE ICBDA and IEEE ICCT. He is also a reviewer of several conferences and journals including IEEE TVLSI and TCAD. His work on wireless NoC has attracted 2 best paper awards in IEEE/IFIP 14th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing in 2016 (EUC) and Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 2016, respectively. His research contribution on smart rehabilitation systems for stroke patients won the best paper in the poster session award at the International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC) in 2019. He is the first winner of the Diamond Early Career Research Award at the University of Northampton in 2019. He is also the winner of the University of Northampton’s 2018 International Changemaker of the year award.

Professor for Petroleum Engineering and Head of Department at Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) - Brazil. Holds a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (2008) and a master degree in Energy Engineering (2010) from the Federal University of Itajuba - Brazil. Holds also a bachelor and master degree in Petroleum Engineering (2012) from the Montanuniversität Leoben - Austria. Developed his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering (2016) by the State University of State University of Sao Paulo - Brazil in the interest of the petroleum sector (pre-salt drilling optimization). Worked as a Visiting Researcher for the Human Resources Training Program of the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), and worked also as Field Engineer in different positions (Supervisor / Manager) for Schlumberger Oilfield Services - Angola, in the Drilling and Measurement sector.

Yael Parag is the Vice Dean of the IDC’s School of Sustainability. She holds a BSc degree in biology, and MA and PhD degrees in social sciences - all from Tel Aviv University. Between 2005 and 2011 she was a researcher in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), at the University of Oxford, UK and a senior researcher at the Lower Carbon Future (energy group). Her research focuses on energy consumer behavior, consumer integration into the smart energy grid via smart technologies, prosumer markets, demand flexibility, energy security, local and community governance of energy, public acceptance of energy generation technologies, microgrids, personal carbon trading and more. In addition, she is developing the Middle Out perspective and applies it as an analytical tool for understanding socio-techno-economic transitions. Prof. Parag is the recipient of various international and national competitive research grants. She is an editorial board member of the journals 'Energy Research and Social Science' and 'Renewable and Sustainable Reviews'.

Yasser is a Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering. He received his BSc (2003) from Shiraz University, MSc (2006) and PhD (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University. Upon graduation until January 2013, he worked as a research engineer in an oil/gas industry . He was a postdoctoral research associate at Delft University of Technology (Jan 2013-Sep 2013) working with Prof Dirk Roekaerts on turbulent reacting flows. In between Sep 2013-Sep 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate with Prof Dame Ann Dowling at Cambridge University on aeroacoustics of gas turbines. Before joining the University of Manchester in December 2020, he was a Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Yasser has research interest in turbulent flow and heat transfer, energy storage, compressors for hydrogen/air storage, aeroacoustics and hydrogen combustion. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator for a number of research projects, funded by EPSRC, Royal Society, Invest Northern Ireland and industry. Yasser is a full college member at EPSRC and is the Leader of the “Turbulent Heat Transfer’’ Special Interest Group in the UK Fluid Network, and an Associate Editor for Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal. He is author on over 50+ high quality journal publications, 1 book, 4 book chapters and over 40 conference papers.