Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in applied computing. In 2004, he founded a business called Interactive Supercomputing which was later acquired by Microsoft. Edelman is a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions in numerical linear algebra, computational science, parallel computing, and random matrix theory. He is one of the creators of the technical programming language Julia.

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served as founding Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Bader is an elected Board Member of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and SIAM; a recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award; the 2022 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering; a 2025 inductee of the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art’s Hall of Fame; and the 2025 recipient of the Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation. The Computer History Museum recognizes Bader for developing the first Linux-based supercomputer which became the predominant architecture for all major supercomputers in the world. In 2025, HPC wire named Bader as one of its “35 Legends”.

Mark Z. Jacobson is a Stanford University professor whose work focuses on air pollution, climate science, and large-scale clean energy solutions. He develops advanced 3-D atmospheric and energy models and creates roadmaps for transitioning regions to 100% clean, renewable energy.

A Stanford faculty member since 1994, he has published 191 peer-reviewed papers, delivered ~800 invited talks, and founded the university’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. He is the author of seven books spanning atmospheric science and renewable energy.

In 2022, he was ranked the #1 most influential scientist worldwide in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences (post-1985 researchers) and #6 in Energy (post-1980 researchers).

Dr. Alexandros Flamos is Full Professor at the University of Piraeus (UNIPI) and Director of the Technoeconomics of Energy Systems Laboratory (TEESlab) of UNIPI. He has a Degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in the area of Decision Support Systems (DSS) applied in energy and environmental policy and planning. He teaches Engineering Economics, Energy Management, Renewable Energy Sources Utilization & Technoeconomics of Energy Systems at graduate and post graduate level at UNIPI and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

He has over 25 years of working experience in the areas of DSS, Energy Management & Planning and energy modelling and their applications for analyzing energy policy scenarios, intra- and cross- sectoral interactions of energy and climate policies, security of energy supply, business models and energy pricing competitiveness. He has held the position of scientific coordinator/ senior researcher in more than 50 European Commission (EC)- funded projects (EC R&D FP5, FP6, FP7, Η2020, Horizon Europe, IEE, etc.) related to energy systems management, appraisal and planning. He has also worked as consultant in projects funded by international donors (e.g. the European Investment Bank and EuropeAid).

He has significant experience working as Editor in Chief, Guest Editor and Editorial Board for scientific journals. He also has published more than 150 papers in high impact international scientific Journals (peer reviewed) and international conferences and has been an invited speaker and moderator at major energy policy events (MENAREC, Euro-Asia meetings, EU-GCC, EUSEW etc).

Amgad Mohammed Rabie Hamed Fouda has completed his MSc and Postgraduate studies in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the age of 30 years from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Egypt. He is one of the most famous and reputed Egyptian and Arab pharmacists, researchers and scientists. His new researches focused on the synthesis, discovery, and development of new drugs and medicines for the most resistant and untreated human diseases. He is the head of pharmacists at the Dikernis General Hospital (Mansoura, Egypt), a premier governmental hospital in Egypt. He has published more than 25 papers in very reputed journals and serving as an Editorial Board Member of great repute.