Sherif Ishak is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the Engineering Science Program at The Louisiana State University. He obtained his B.S (1987) in Civil Engineering and his M.S Civil Engineering (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Civil Engineering from the University of University of Central Florida. His research focuses on Traffic operations and control, Transportation in Geographic information system (GIS), intelligent transportation systems, information systems, microsimulation modeling, and artificial intelligence applications. He is a recipient of Tiger Athletic Foundation Award, LSU, 2015, ASCE Transportation Technical Group Scholarship in 1996, UCF-DSRT Graduate Enhancement Award in 1994 and 1995.

Traffic operations and control, Transportation in Geographic information system (GIS), intelligent transportation systems, information systems, microsimulation modeling, and artificial intelligence applications.

J. Sánchez de Río has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Autónoma University and he has done his postdoctoral studies at the IEM-CSIC Experimental Nuclear Physics Group. He is now working as a researcher in the Statistics and Informatics department at Rey Juan Carlos University. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and 4 patents related to Biometrics. He has participated in many international conferences related to Environmental Science, Photonics, Nuclear Science and Pattern Recognition. He has been lecturer of Biophysics at IE University.

Environmental Science, Photonics, Nuclear Science and Pattern Recognition

Dr Hai GUO obtained his Ph.D. degree in Air Quality in 2000 and did his postdoctoral research at New York University, University of California at Irvine (Nobel laureate group), Queensland University of Technology, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Wuhan University, China. Dr. GUO has supervised 4 postdoctoral fellows, 6 PhD students and a number of Master students. Dr. GUO’s major research interests include atmospheric chemistry, regional and urban air pollution, source apportionment, photochemistry, acidic ultrafine particles, new particle formation and indoor and outdoor air pollution. Dr. GUO is an investigator of more than 35 highly competitive external research projects with grants over 40 million Hong Kong dollars. He has published over 170 papers in high-quality international journals and conference proceedings with over 2186 SCI citations to date. His current h-index is 26. He is an Editorial Advisory Member of Atmospheric Environment (SCI impact factor: 3.281) and other four international journals and Director member of Integrated Land Ecosystem- Atmosphere Processes Study（iLEAPS）of China Branch. He is also an active reviewer for more than 35 journals. Dr. GUO has given keynote and invited speech in a number of international conferences and been a member of Scientific Advisor Committee in various conferences. Dr. GUO obtained the prestigious Gary COMER Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship in 2004-2005.

He is also the winner of the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding in 2010 and in 2014, and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Category I: High Quality Publications) in 2013.

Yongwei Sheng completed his PhD in 2000 from University of California, Berkeley. He currently is a professor at Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and is currently serving in NASA Landsat Science Team and NASA SWOT Mission Science Team.

Monitoring lake dynamics in the context of global change, especially in the regions sensitive to climate change such as the Tibetan Plateau and the pan-Arctic, through several ongoing NSF, NASA, and USGS funded projects.

Xinhang Shen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (B. Eng. in Naval Architecture & M. Sci. in Mechanics) in China and Royal Institute of Technology (Tech. Licentiate in Computational Fluide Mechanics) in Sweden and worked in a few organizations including University of Toronto. In 1995, he developed Natural Area Coding System and founded NAC Geographic Products Inc. From then on, he has been running the company, developing various software and web applications and providing consulting and geo-services for more than 20 years. Natural Area Coding System has been adopted as address systems in Mongolia, Somaliland, Lebanon, Nigeria, Indonesia, etc. Recently, he has been working on theoretical physics and produced a paper to disprove the Special Theory of Relativity. The conclusion of the paper has been reviewed and confirmed by both the reviewer and the chairman of the conference of "The Nature of Light: What are Photons

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Xinhang Shen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (B. Eng. in Naval Architecture & M. Sci. in Mechanics) in China and Royal Institute of Technology (Tech. Licentiate in Computational Fluide Mechanics) in Sweden and worked in a few organizations including University of Toronto. In 1995, he developed Natural Area Coding System and founded NAC Geographic Products Inc. From then on, he has been running the company, developing various software and web applications and providing consulting and geo-services for more than 20 years. Natural Area Coding System has been adopted as address systems in Mongolia, Somaliland, Lebanon, Nigeria, Indonesia, etc. Recently, he has been working on theoretical physics and produced a paper to disprove the Special Theory of Relativity. The conclusion of the paper has been reviewed and confirmed by both the reviewer and the chairman of the conference of "The Nature of Light: What are Photons.

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