PEED2025

Keynote Speakers

Mahmoud Shafik

Intelligent systems, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), fly, drive and steer-by-wire, 3D sensors, actuators for autonomous vehicle, and industrial automation.

Professor, University of Derby, UK.

Dr. Mahmoud Shafik is a Professor in Intelligent Mechatronics Systems and Technology, Department of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby, UK. He is an international expert who has made a personal distinction and international recognition, in the field of Advanced Mechatronics Systems and Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience in mechatronics systems hardware and software, innovation for sustainable engineering, advanced manufacturing technology. He also have a number of patents in these areas, of applied research and sustainable technology. He has chaired, secured, managed and delivered several European Commission projects, FP5, FP6 and FP7 programs, of a budget of more than 20 million Euro’s and have made a great economic and social impact in this area of expertise in UK and EU, as a whole. Dr. Mahmoud Shafik also has been supervising a number of PhD and MSc research students, across Europe and he has a number of industrial notes and several publications in international world leading journals and conferences.

Ebrahim Babaei

Analysis, modelling, design, applications, and control of power electronics converters, renewable energy sources, and facts devices.

Professor, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Prof. Ebrahim Babaei received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz. Then he joined the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz in 2007. He is the author and co-author of one book and more than 680 technical journal and conference papers. Some of them are jointly publications with prestigious international researchers. He also holds 26 patents in the area of power electronics. According to ISI Web of Knowledge, he has a Hirsch factor of H=63 and more than 18500 citations. Prof. Babaei has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electrical Engineering of the University of Tabriz, since 2013. He is also currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, an Associate Editor of the Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering, an Associate Editor of International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. He has been the Corresponding Guest Editor for two special issues in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. In addition, Prof. Babaei has been the Technical Program Chair, Track Chair, organizer of different special sessions and Technical Committee member in most important international conferences organized in the field of Power Electronics. Several times, he was the recipient of the Best Researcher Award from the University of Tabriz. He was selected by the Ministry of Science Research and Technology as the distinguished researcher of Iran in the field of engineering in 2022. He also received the Prize Winner and Award of 2016 Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Prof. Babaei is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is also a member of Power Electronics Society of Iran (PESI) and Iranian Productivity Association for Power Industry.

Raffaele Carli

Formalization, simulation, and implementation of decentralized, distributed, and hierarchical optimization and control algorithms, to be applied on distributed systems, multi-agent systems, and networked systems in smart frameworks.

Assistant Professor, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy.

Raffaele Carli received the Laurea degree (Hons.) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, in 2002 and 2016, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Reserve Officer with Italian Navy. From 2004 to 2012, he worked as a System and Control Engineer and the Technical Manager for a space and defense multinational company. He is currently a Senior Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the Polytechnic of Bari. He is qualified for access to a position of full professor in control engineering since 2023. He is the technical responsible for the Decision and Control Laboratory at the Department of Electric and Information Engineering (DEI) of the Polytechnic of Bari. He is an author of over 100 printed international publications. His area of expertise is the development of decision and control techniques for the modelling, optimization, management, and control of complex and large-scale systems. He was the Young Career Chair of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the Publication Co-chair of the 2020 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the General Co-chair of 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Conservation (ICREC 2022), and the Tutorial Co-chair of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2023). He is the   Finance Chair and Special Session Chair of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2024 August 26-30 – Bari, Italy). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING and the and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS.  He is a member of the conference editorial board for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), a member of the international program committee of several international conferences, and a guest editor for special issues on international journals.

Nadeem Javaid

Energy optimization in smart grids, wireless sensor networks, big data analytics, and blockchain.

Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.

Nadeem Javaid (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in electronics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris-Est, France, in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is currently Tenured Professor and Founding Director of the Communications Over Sensors (ComSens) Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Campus. He has supervised 203 master’s and 32 Ph.D. theses. He has authored over 950 articles in technical journals and international conferences. He was a recipient of the Best University Teacher Award from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, in 2016, and the Research Productivity Award from the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, in 2017. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is also an Editor of the Sustainable Cities and Society Journals.

Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad

Power system reliability, smart grid, renewable and distributed energy resources, power system operation.

Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1986, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, and a Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is a Member of the Center of Excellence in Power System Control and Management with the Electrical Engineering Department. He also is the Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Associate Fellow of the Iran National Academy of Sciences. He is the Member of IEEE Power and Energy Society from 1994.

Deepak Kumar Panda

Modeling and simulation nano devices, bio sensing, nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, VLSI design and technology, solar photovoltaics.

Associate Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India.

Dr. Deepak Kumar Panda, currently working as an Associate Professor in ECE department at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. Before that, he worked as Associate Professor in the School of Electronics at VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done Ph.D. in Semiconductor Device Modelling from NIT Silchar, India, M-Tech in ECE from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, and B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National Institute of Science and Technology, Brahmapur Odisha. He has guided 5 Ph.D. scholars and 4 M.Tech scholars under his supervision. He has published more than 40 research articles in SCI indexed scientific journals. He is an IEEE senior member. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. He has served as the General Chair of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing 2023(AISP23) at VITAP University, the General Chair of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing 2022(AISP22) at VITAP University, and the Technical Program Chair of 1st IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing 2020(AISP20) at VITAP University. He also served as the Frequent Reviewer of IEEE Transactions Journals, IOP Journals, IJNM, Micro-electronics Journal.

Zhaohui Cen

Condition monitoring and fault diagnostics, system engineering for unmanned aerial vehicles (uav) and aircrafts, energy storage system/battery management system, robotics and autonomous system for solar energy appllications, artificial intelligence, neura

Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Zhaohui Cen is a Lead Researcher/Scientist at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates(UAE), and specializes in intelligent automation for renewables and aerospace. Dr. Zhaohui brings to his role over 15 years of experience in the field of intelligent automation, condition monitoring and fault diagnostics for industrial systems including UAVs/Spacecrafts and Lithium-ion battery storage systems, as well as Robotics and Autonomous systems for Solar PV applications. He has held academic and research positions in China, UK, Qatar, and UAE. Prior to joining TII, he was a Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), and Group head of Robotics and Autonomous systems. He has a successful track record as a Leading PI (Principal Investigator), securing approximately 2 million USD in research funding and leading a consortium of 10 member institutions, including Texas A&M University, Carnegie Mellon University, TotalEnergies, and Midea. His work has been published in multiple high impact journals and international conferences and featured in newspapers. He is serving as an editorial board member for the Elsevier journal: Energy Nexus and International journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and also as symposium chair/TPC member for prestigious IEEE conferences such as SSCI 2019, and ISNN2018.