Dr. Gomaa Ali is an Associate Prof. at University of Khorfakkan (UAE) and Al-Azhar University (Egypt). He has 17 years of experience working in the research areas of materials science, humidity sensing, graphene, supercapacitors, water treatment, and recycling. He was awarded his Ph.D. from UMP, Malaysia. He is the recipient of some national and international prizes and awards (1. TWAS-AREP (2018), 2. ARSCO Award 2022, 3. MKF-BUE excellence award, BUE (2024), 4. Individuals Award from ASRT, 2021, 5. Obada International Prize (2021), 6. Arab Water Council Award 2022, 7. Gold Medal (Archimedes, Russia, 2014), 8. Green Technology Award (CITREX, Malaysia, 2015), 8. Gold Medal (BIS, UK, 2015). He has been included in Stanford University’s List of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists. He has published over 175 articles and 30 book chapters. So far, he has over 8500 citations and an h-index of 56. He is an Editor of many WoS journals. He is a member of international scientific societies, including TWAS, AAS, ACS, and RSC. He is an Editor of some handbooks, “Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing” Springer, 2021, Handbook of Biodegradable Materials” Springer, 2022, etc.

Lobna A. Said (Senior Member IEEE 2020) is a full-time Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Nile University (NU). She is the director of the Microelectronics System Design Master Program (MSD) and the former Co-director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center (NISC) (2021-2024). She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD in electronics and electrical communications from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively. She has over 230 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She has an H-index of 37, according to the Scopus database. Her interdisciplinary research interests include smart systems, hardware accelerators, data encryption, energy harvesting, fractional-order circuits and systems, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory. She was involved in many national/international research grants as a PI, Co-PI, or Senior Researcher/ Member. She is the Vice-Chair of the technical Chapters of the IEEE Egypt Section and the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter. She is Vice Chair of the IEEE System Council Egypt Chapter. She has been the Counselor of the IEEE NU