Wireless and Satellite Communications

Dr. Fairouz Kamareddine is a Professor in the department of mathematics and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.

Mathematics and Computer sciences.

Dr. Benjamin K. Malphrus is Professor of Space Science at Morehead State University where he also directs the University’s Space Science Center and serves as the Director of Space Operations for the Kentucky Space program. He has served as Principal Investigator on several nanosatellite missions including KySat-1, CXBN 1 and 2, and TechSpot-1. He and his team recently received an $8M contract from NASA to design a small space probe to fly to the Moon to prospect for water ice. In the late 1990s, he developed a theory of galaxy formation that has gained wide acceptance among the astronomical community.

Microsatellite and Picosatellite systems engineering, Satellite Ground Operations, The Physics of Interacting Galaxies and The Cosmic X-Ray Background

Timothy Sands completed his Ph.D. at the Naval Postgraduate School and postdoctoral studies at Stanford University and Columbia University and is currently Associate Dean of the Naval Postgraduate School’s engineering school. Dr. Sands is an International Scholar Laurette of the Golden Key International Honor Society, a Fellow of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and panelist of both the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. He has published prolifically and given several plenary, keynote, and invitational presentations. Dr. Sands holds one patent in spacecraft attitude control

Communications, Korean Affairs, Chinese, Defense Systems Acquisitions, Guidance and Control, Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Warfare

Najib Odhah received the BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt, in 2002, 2009, and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he was an assistant professor in the electrical communications department, engineering faculty, Ibb University, Yemen. He is currently working as a Postdoc in the institute of high performance (IHP) microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His research areas of interest include wireless communications, signal processing techniques for wireless communications, multiple antennas techniques for wireless communications, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques (traditional, cooperative, and massive), power allocation algorithms for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Systems (traditional and cognitive), Radio Resource Management (RRM) for wireless communications, digital signal processing, digital communications, Interference Cancellation and Interference Coordination (ICIC) techniques, channel estimation and equalization, game theory based optimization techniques for future 5G wireless communication systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, and green wireless communications.

wireless communications

Russell Mathers is currently Executive Director at AF Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications Cente. His Personal experience includes senior positions with extensive operations and planning background. Expert in contingency planning, crisis management, and integrating cyberspace and kinetic operations worldwide.

B-2 and B-52 nuclear and conventional background, Pacific Rim specialty, TS/SCI clearance. Nuclear Deterrence, Command and Control Communications, Korean Affairs, Chinese, Defense Systems Acquisitions, Guidance and Control, Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace,

Nicolas H Younan is currently the Department Head and James worth Bagley Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). He received the BS and MS degrees from MSU in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio University in 1988. His research interests include signal processing and pattern recognition. He has been involved in the development of advanced image processing and pattern recognition techniques for remote sensing applications, image/data fusion, feature extraction and classification, automatic target recognition/identification, and image information/data mining.

Remote Sensing

Daniel Wheeler Bursch is a former NASA astronaut, and Captain of the United States Navy. He had four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions lasting 10 to 11 days each. His fourth and final spaceflight was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a crew member of Expedition 4, which lasted from December 2001 to June 2002. He Graduated from Vestal Senior High School, Vestal, New York, in 1975; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the United States Naval Academy in 1979 and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1991.

Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace

Professor Doctor Engineer Leonard Kabeya Mukeba Yakasham received the B.Eng. Aerospace mechanical Engineering of National University of Zaire in 1981, M.ScT in Manufacturing of National High School ENNA Paris in 1984, MB of Kinshasa University in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Liege, Belgium in 2007. His research interests include fluids mechanic, surfaces and interfaces of solid-fluid system. Simulation and modeling for multiparameters system. He has been involved in development nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation “ns PDE” by numerical analysis oriented to p-Version of Finite element method (FEM), design and manufacturing engineering, Opto-microfluidic Imagery Techniques of Optical contact angle meter “CAM 200”, Computational Fluids Dynamic “CFD” with Aerodynamic Tunnel, Additive manufacturing Machines tools, Energetic and thermal machines, Industrial and Drink Water Hydraulic Process, mathematical control flexible regulation system and hydro-small power. He is Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Coordinator of Research and Development Cell at Institute Superior of Techniques Applied ‘ISTA-Kinshasa’ in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He is Manager Director of PNRST “Space and Technologic National Program/ Programme National de Recheche Spatiale et Technogie” for Congolese satellite system of DRC and Delegate Administrator of Academy of Sciences & Engineering for Africa Development “ASEAD” under Consul Congolese Engineers. He is an International Expert in development comminatory, Tuning Africa high education, the old Technic Director of GENERAL MOTORS and Director Technique & Production of Center Research for Defense Problem (CRPD)

Aerospace and mechanical engineering, Fluids mechanics, Applied physic mathematical, Mass, Energy and Thermal science, solar thermo-energetic, Bibliometric, Scientometry, Local development initiatives projects and Satellite system.

Currently he is working as Professor at Department of Computer Science, Education College for Pure Science, Basra University, Iraq. He has completed his Ph.D in Computer and Communication Engineering from University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia in 2011. He was a member of scientific and reviewing committees of many journals and international conferences in the domains of Computer Science and optical communications engineering and was an Editor-in-Chiefs in sixteen journals: International Journal of Advanced Computer Communications and Control, (IJACCC), Sci-Afric Journal of Scientific Issues, Research and Essays (SJSIRS), An Interdisciplinary Journal of Scientific Research & Education. And he was chosen as a reviewer, an examiner or chairman committee for some theses submitted for Master and Doctoral degrees by the faculties of Education, Computer Science (Wire and Wireless Networks) and Engineering and scientific committees.

My research focuses is Computer and Communication Network Engineering. I am also interests include optical communications, optical fiber, spread-spectrum communications, and information theory, Wireless Network, Sensor Network, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, computer engineering, data mining and Artificial intelligence.

Michael Keidar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University. He is Director of The George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology a consortium of laboratories which includes the MpNL.Michael is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a founding member of the International Society of Plasma Medicine (ISPM), and a member of AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee (EP).

Aerospace engineering, Biomedical engineering Fluid mechanics, Thermal science and energy Mechanical engineering Nanotechnologies Propulsion

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Petra Perner (IAPR Fellow) is the director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI in Leipzig, Germany. She received her Diploma degree in electrical engineering and her PhD degree in computer science for the work on “Data Reduction Methods for Industrial Robots with Direct Teach-in-Programing”. Her habilitation thesis was about “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems". She has been the principal investigator of various national and international research projects. She received several research awards for her research work and has been awarded with 3 business awards for her work on bringing intelligent image interpretation methods and data mining methods into business.

Data Reduction and coding methods for satellite Communication,Telecommunication,Telemedicine and Data Stream Mining

Professor Bharat Bhargava a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He is conducting research in security and privacy issues in Service Oriented Architecture (SoA) and Cloud Computing. This involves identity management, trust and privacy, secure routing in internet and mobile networks and dealing with malicious hosts, adaptability to attacks, controlled data dissemination, and experimental studies. His recent work involves attack graphs for collaborative attacks. Prof. Bhargava has won six best paper awards in addition to the technical achievement award and golden core award from IEEE, and is a fellow of IEEE. He received Outstanding Instructor Awards from the Purdue chapter of the ACM in 1996 and 1998. He has graduated the largest number of PhD students in CS department and is active in supporting/mentoring minority students. He has graduated the largest number of women PhD students and the first African American student PhD in Purdue’s CS department. In 2003, he was inducted in the Purdue's Book of Great Teachers.

Cloud and Network Security, V2V safety, privacy and Autonomous Systems, Data Leakage, Smart Cities, Homes