Dr. Md. Mahbub Alam, PhD

Professor, School of Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China

Topic: ": Flow-Induced Vibrations for Ocean Energy Harvesting "

Alam Md. Mahbub, hailing from Bangladesh, is a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (China) since 2012. He worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), research and postdoctoral fellows at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and lecturer at the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh). More than 450 technical articles have been authored and co-authored, including 300+ SCI journal papers. Most of the papers have been published in the top-notched journals, including Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Fluids & Structures, Ocean Engineering, Physics of Fluids, and Journal of Sustainable and Energy Reviews. His papers are well-cited: 12,500+ (h-index 59) in the WoS database and 16,000+ (h-index 65) in the Google database. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher for 2018 - 2025 (single year) by Web of Science, ranked top 2%. He has edited four special issues in ‘Wind and Structures, an International Journal’ and one in Energies. He has delivered 50+ Keynote speeches at international conferences. His research has mostly involved flow-induced vibrations, bluff-body wake, fluid-structure interactions, hydrodynamics of swimming animals, and energy harvesting from wind and ocean currents.

Dr. Naef A.A. Qasem, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Topic: "Zero- and Low-Carbon Flights."

Dr. Naef Qasem is a Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and a Research Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Aviation and Space Exploration, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from KFUPM in 2017. His research focuses on thermal sciences, including energy systems, clean propulsion, aerodynamics, thermal management, and separation processes. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles (predominantly in Q1, h-index 41), holds 15 U.S. patents, and has authored 2 books. He serves as a Young Editor for Applied Energy (Q1, IF = 11) and as a Guest Editor for some journals. He is a recipient of the KFUPM Distinguished Associate Professor Award, and has been ranked among the top researchers in Saudi Arabia in Sustainability and Essential Needs by RDIA.

Dr Eldad Avital

Reader in Fluids and Acoustics, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Topic: "Advances in Aerodynamics and Energy Management of Small Wind Turbines"

Dr Avital is a Reader in Fluids and Acoustics at the school of engineering and materials science in Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). His research interests are in renewable energy, water-hydrodynamics, and bio fluid. His research has focused on drag reduction and improving aero-hydrodynamic efficiency using innovative approaches, many as inspired by nature’s bio solutions. These approaches were implemented in fluid machinery for power and energy production as well as supporting bio fluid systems as blood and urine flows. His group uses high-fidelity computational simulations along with reduced-order modelling and experimental validation. He has published more than 110 journal papers, he is an associate editor of two journals (Fluids and Frontiers in Energy Research), a senior fellow of the UK Advance HE and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.