Prof. Dr. Fausto Pedro García Márquez
University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM),
Spain
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Prof. Dr. Fausto Pedro García Márquez has been a full professor at the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM), Spain, since 2013. He is an honorary senior research fellow at Birmingham University, UK, and a lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute. From 2013 to 2014, Dr. Márquez was a senior manager at Accenture. He obtained his European Ph.D. with a maximum distinction. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Runner (2020) and Advancement Prizes (2018) for Management Science and Engineering Management; First International Business Ideas Competition Award (2017); Runner (2015), Advancement (2013), and Silver (2012) Prizes from the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM); and Best Paper Award, Renewable Energy (2015). He has published more than 150 papers in reputable journals. He is the author and editor of thirty-one books and five patents. He is an editor for five international journals and a committee member of more than forty international conferences. He has been the principal investigator for four European projects, six national projects, and more than 150 projects for universities and companies. His main interests are artificial intelligence, maintenance, management, renewable energy, transport, advanced analytics, and data science. He is an expert in the European Union in AI4People (EISMD), and ESF. He is also the director of the Ingenium Research Group.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul,
Turkey
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Dr. Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey. Before this, he served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in University of Sialkot, and International Islamic University, Islamabad Pakistan. He obtained his masters and PhD with distinction. He was awarded Gold Medal for achieving maximum distinction of 4/4 CGPA in his maters. Working in the field of information and communication security, he has published extensively in prestigious venues like: IEEE magazines, Transactions of IEEE and ACM, Elsevier SCS, FGCS, IJEPES, Computer Networks etc. Over 125 publications and with an H-index of 31, I-10 index of 66 and accumulate impact factor of 230+, ha has published more than 95 SCI/E indexed manuscripts and has been cited 2700+ times. He has also supervised more than 40 graduate students in their research. In 2018, considering his research, Pakistan Council for Science and Technology granted him the Prestigious Research Productivity Award, while affirming him among Top Productive Computer Scientist in Pakistan. Recently, he is listed among Top 2% Computer Scientists across the world in Stanford University's report.
His current research interests include lightweight cryptography, elliptic/hyper elliptic curve cryptography, multimedia security, E-payment systems, MANETs, SIP authentication, smart grid security, IP multimedia subsystem, and next generation networks. He occasionally writes on issues of higher education in Pakistan.

Prof. Dr. Tülay Yildirim
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul,
Turkey
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Prof. Dr. Tülay Yildirim (Senior Member, IEEE, IEEE SMC) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and communications engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Liverpool, U.K., in 1997. She is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Yildiz Technical University. She has authored over 200 publications in journals, conferences, and books. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, cyber-physical systems, biomedical instrumentation, biometric person identification and verification systems, electronic circuits and systems, and artificial neural networks. She has been on the organizing, advisory and evaluation boards of many scientific events in her field and has been chairing the ASYU-INISTA conference chain on intelligent systems since 2004. She is the manager of the Cyber Security and Biometric Research Consultancy and Test Center, located within Yıldız Technical University, and the founder of the MEDALab-Machine Intelligence and Electronic Design Automation Laboratory.