Keynote Speakers


Jun Zou, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. 

Biography:

Jun Zou is currently Choh-Ming Li Chair Professor of Mathematics of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Head of Department of Mathematics" https://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/~zou/." Before taking up his position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, he had worked two years (93-95) in University of California at Los Angeles as a post-doctoral fellow and a CAM Assistant Professor, worked two and a half years (91-93) in Technical University of Munich as a Visiting Assistant Professor and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (Germany), and worked two years (89-91) in Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) as an Assistant Professor.Jun Zou's research interests include numerical methods and analyses of direct and inverse problems of partial differential equations.He is currently president of Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and vice president of Hong Kong Mathematical Society. He serves currently as the associate editor of 12 international mathematics journals, including the top applied mathematics journals: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Journal of Scientific Computing and ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis.Jun Zou was elected a SIAM Fellow in 2019 and an AMS Fellow in 2022. 



Vasile Berinde, Professor, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baia Mare Campus, Romania. 

Biography:

Dr. Vasile Berinde is Professor of Mathematics at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baia Mare Campus, Romania, where he has been teaching since 1990. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca. His main research interest is in Nonlinear Analysis, particularly in Metric Fixed Point Theory. He has published over 190 research papers and a highly cited monograph at Springer (2007). He has been included in the 2016 and 2017 Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) List of Highly Cited Researchers as well as in the Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists List (2020, 2021 and 2022). Dr. Berinde received the Distinguished Research Award of Technical University of Cluj Napoca (2013). He has been elected as Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of Donetsk National Technical State University (Ukraine, 2000) and of University "Ovidius" Constanța (Romania, 2021). He served as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, and then as Director of the Doctoral School of Mathematics and is currently the Director (Chairman) of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He served as a member (2012-2016) and Chairman (2018-2020) of the Mathematics Committee for Academic Titles Attestation of the Ministry of Education and is currently the coordinator of the Committee of the Ministry of Education for accreditation of Mathematics Higher Education programmes in Romania. Dr. Berinde is a full member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists and was the vice-president of Romanian Mathematical Society (2012-2021). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Carpathian Journal of Mathematics (a Q1 SCI journal) and Editor for some other journals (Fixed Point Theory, Filomat, Carpathian Mathematical Publications etc.). So far, under his supervision 20 PhD students defended their PhD theses. He has given many Keynote/Plenary/Invited lectures to international conferences and also numerous seminar lectures to various universities and nonlinear analysis research groups worldwide.



Jinsong Wu,Professor, University of Chile, Chile.

Biography:

Dr. Jinsong Wu received 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, and received 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. He is the proposer (2021), Founder (2022) and Founding Editor-in-Chief (2022-present) for the international journal, Green Technologies and Sustainability (GTS), co-published by Elsevier and China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. jointly called KeAi. He was the leading Editor and a co-author of the comprehensive book, entitled “Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications”, published by CRC Press in September 2012, which has been recognized as the very first comprehensive published book effort on green communications covering broad topics of green wireless communications, green wireline communications, general relevant green topics and applications in one book using a research perspective. He won 2017,2019,2021 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Awards.  He won the 2018 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Best Magazine Paper Award. He was the founder (2011) and founding Chair (2011-2017) of the Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC). He is the current Chair (2022-present) and was the co-founder (2014) and founding Vice-Chair (2014-2022) of IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD), which was the very first technical organization on big data within the whole IEEE. He was elected Vice Chair, Technical Activities, IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI) (2017-2022), a pan-IEEE effort under IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) across 25 IEEE Societies, Councils, and organization units (OU). He was the very first proposer of IEEE Journals/Transactions on green information and communications technologies (ICT) (2011-2012).  He was the proposer (2012) and founder (2014) and Series Editor (2014-2018) on Green Communication and Computing Networks in IEEE Communications Magazine. He was an Area Editor (2016-2020) of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was Series Editor (2014-2016) of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC) Series on Green Communications and Networking. 



Javad Abolfazli Esfahan,Professor, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

Biography:

Javad Abolfazli Esfahani (Iran 1960), PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada in 1997, is a professor in Mechanical Engineering, Energy conversion, at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. To date, he has published 5 books/chapters, 160 articles in peer reviewed international journals and more than 100 conference papers. He has worked on theoretical and numerical heat and mass transfer such as drying, solar desalination, condensing boiler, and micro/nano-fluidics. Dr. Esfahani is a member of Iranian combustion Institute and Iranian society of mechanical Engineering, Director of Center of Excellence in Energy Management, Certified by National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Centre of excellence in modeling and control of system, Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Centre of excellence in energy conversion, Sharif university of Technology, and editorial boards of), IRECHE and Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research. He obtains 14 awards for books, research and supervisor of thesis from ISME, Ferdowsi festival, and Iranian combustion society.  He has supervised 9 PhD and 90 MSc theses. More information can find at http://abolfazl.profcms.um.ac.ir/ .



Erdal KARAPINAR,Professor, Cankaya University, Turkey.

Biography:

Erdal KARAPINAR received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, in 1995,1998 and 2004, respectively. He is a Full Professor in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Cankaya University, Turkey. He is current research interest is functional analysis, in particular, fixed point theory and its application and also best proximity point theory. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed journal papers (according to WoS) in prestige journals and 4 books at Springer, more than 10 chapters in edited books. He is a Highly Cited Researcher from 2015 to 2019 according to Clarivate Analysis. He has more than 12,000 citations,55 h-index, according to the Web of Science (WoS) of Clarivate Analysis. He is a lifetime member of The International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC). He is a plenary and keynote speaker at several meetings.



Juntao Fei, Professor, Hohai University, China.

Biography:

Juntao Fei is now a professor at the College of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Director of Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering, Hohai University . He received his M.S and Ph.D. degree from The University of Akron, USA. He was a visiting scholar at University of Virginia, USA, North Carolina State University, USA respectively. He ever served as an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana, USA. He is IAAM Fellow, Vebleo Fellow, IEEE Senior Member . He has actively served as associate editors for a number of international journals. He has served as chairs and program committee members for numerous international conferences. He was a Principal Investigator of 30 projects in the last ten years. He has published more than 300 Journal and conference papers and five books , more than 160 papers were published by international SCI journals. He authorized 105 invention patents. He is an awardee of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts (China). He is selected as the top 2% scientists in the world, the "highly cited scholars in China" by Elsevier. His current research interests are intelligent control, adaptive control, mechatronics and robotics, power electronics and control.