Keynote Speakers

Mr. Mostafa Adimy is Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at INRIA (French National Institute for Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics) and Institut Camille Jordan (ICJ) of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He is the head of the “DRACULA” Inria-team: “Multi-scale modeling of cell dynamics”. Mr. Professor has the following areas of interest: Mathematical modeling of cell population dynamics, leukemia, immune system; Modeling and Biological Control of Vector-Borne Diseases: the case of Malaria and Dengue; Applications of delay differential and reaction-diffusion equations in biology and medicine; Reduction of complexity in differential equations arising from population dynamics, etc.

 

Title: Modeling the relationship between Antibody-Dependent Enhancement and disease severity in dengue infection

Dr. Dumitru Băleanu was born December 4, 1964 in Romania. He completed his undergraduate at Craiova University, Faculty of Science, Physics Department in 1988. Dr. Dumitru Baleanu got the PhD in Physics in 1996 from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Romania. Since 2000, he is been a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey since 2000. He is a professor at the Institute of Space Sciences from Magurele-Bucharest, Romania.His fields of interest include the fractional dynamics and its applications in science and engineering, fractional differential equations and their applications, discrete mathematics, control theory, mathematical physics, solitons theory, Lie symmetry, dynamic systems on time scales, the wavelet method and its applications, quantization of systems with constraints, the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, geometries admitting generic and non-generic symmetries.

He is an editorial board member of several prestigious international journals as Applied Numerical Mathematics, Mathematics, Symmetry, Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences, Advances in Difference Equations, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Open Physics, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics and Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis. He is the chief editor of Frontiers in Physics-section Mathematical Physics and Progress in Fractional Differentiation and Applications. His h-index is 56 and he has been a highly cited researcher in Mathematics since 2015. He co-authored several published books in World Scientific Publishing, Academic Press, Springer and De Gruyter. He got several international prizes as Obada Prize (2019), ICFDA2018 Award: Innovation in Fractional Calculus and ICFDA 2016 Award: Dissemination Award.

Title: Generalised fractional operators with real world applications

Paul Bogdan is the Jack Munushian Early Career Chair and Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been recognized with a number of honors and distinctions, including the 2021 DoD Trusted Artificial Intelligence (TAI) Challenge award, the USC Stevens Center 2021 Technology Advancement Award for the first AI framework for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine design, the 2019 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship award, the 2018 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award, the 2017 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 Okawa Foundation Award, the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the 2012 A.G. Jordan Award from Carnegie Mellon University for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis and service, and several best paper awards. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, new computational cognitive neuroscience tools for deciphering biological intelligence, the control of complex time-varying networks, and design methodologies for heterogeneous manycore systems.

 

Title: From Biological Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities and Methodologies

Martin Bohner is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Mathe-matics and Statistics at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri, USA. He received the BS (1989) and MS (1993) in Econo-mathematics and PhD (1995) from University Ulm, Germany, and MS (1992) in Applied Mathematics from San Diego State University. He was a Postdoc, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, at National University of Singapore (1997) and at San Diego State Univer-sity (1998). Martin Bohner is a Past President of ISDE, the International Society of Difference Equations. His research interests center around differential, difference, and dynamic equations as well as their applications to economics, finance, biology, physics, and engineering. He is the author of seven textbooks and more than 350 publications, Editor-in-Chief of three interna-tional journals, and Associate Editor for almost 100 international journals. His work has been cited more than 18000 times in the literature, including more than 5000 citations of his book “Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: An Introduction with Applications”, co-authored with Professor Allan Peterson. His h-index is 60, and his i10-index is 224. Professor Bohner is the recipient of the 2021 Obada Prize. His honors at Missouri S&T include five Faculty Excellence Awards, one Faculty Research Award, and nine Teaching Awards.

 

Title: The Beverton-Holt Equation

Juan Carlos Cortés López (http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/jccortes), is a full professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia (UPV), Spain. Since 2009, he is the deputy director of the University Institute of Multidisciplinary Mathematics of the UPV, developing his research in the MUNQU group (Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification) https://munqu.webs.upv.es/. His current research is oriented to the extension of the classical theory of differential equations (in a broad sense, ODEs, PDEs, equations with delay, fractional ODEs, etc.) to the random scenario under the approach of the so-called Random Differential Equations (RDEs) and their application in modeling with real data, paying attention to the development of inverse techniques for the estimation of the probability distributions of the parameters that appear in the RDEs so that they capture the uncertainty of the phenomenon being modeled.

 

Title: Some tools for Studying Random Differential Equations with Applications to Real-World Problems

Thorsten Hohage is Professor of Inverse Problems at Georg-August Universität Göttingen. His research interests include inverse problems in partial differential equations, regularization theory, statistical inverse problems and the development of efficient reconstruction algorithms. He is working on application such as helioseismology, phase retrieval, phase contrast tomography, electron miscroscopy, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Thorsten Hohage is spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1456 “Mathematics of Experiment: The challenge of indirect measurements in the natural sciences” in Göttingen, First Chairman of the German Speaking Inverse Problems Society (GIP) and Max Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Solar Systems Research. Moreover, he has been founding president of the International Association of Inverse Problems (IPIA).

Title: Inverse problems in helioseismology

Professor Dr. Poom Kumam is a full Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand since 2015. He is the head of the Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Computational (TaCS-CoE) and KMUTT Fixed Point Theory and Applications Research Group. He has been Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2022 (published multiple highly cited papers, ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year over the last decade. Of all the world’s researchers, they are one in 1,000). He has also been listed and ranked in the Twelfth Place in General Mathematics among the Top 2% Scientists in the World 2020 (Published by Stanford University in USA). In 2021, Professor Poom Kumam one of the leading professors of applied mathematics in Thailand who work at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), has been ranked as the Mathematics Best Scientist in Thailand (Number 1 Mathematician in Thailand) according to the 2021 Alper-Doger Scientific Index (also known as AD Scientific Index). Furthermore, the AD Scientific Index also ranked professor Kumam as the Natural Science Best Scientist in King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and number 6 in Thailand. He has also been listed and ranked in the 241th Place in General Mathematics among the Top 2% Scientists in the World 2020 (Published by Stanford University in USA). Professor Dr. Poom Kumam’s locations in the list of the STANFORD UNIVERSITY NAMES WORLD’S TOP 2% SCIENTISTS Out of a total of 17,766 mathematical scientists, Prof. Poom Kumam has been ranked at 138 (Applied Mathematics) and at 197 (General Mathematics) published on 20 October 2021.

 

Title: Fixed Point Techniques for Approximating Solutions of Nonlinear Problems Beyond Normed Spaces

Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi is a Giles distinguished professor at Mississippi State University and has three Fulbright Awards in Romania. He has been a department head since 2006. His research area is in Applied & Computational Mathematics, which ranges from developing, analyzing, and implementing mathematical models and numerical methods from sciences and engineering. He is particularly interested in optimal control, fractional calculus, and wavelets. He introduced a novel "hybrid functions" method by combining piecewise and continuous basis functions. He was the first to use Legendre wavelets for approximating solutions to problems in dynamic systems with jumps and discontinuities. He has over 230 publications in high-quality international journals in applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. His student, Gamal Elnagar, was the first to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at Mississippi State University. His thesis work resulted in eight publications; one article co-authored with him has been cited over 800 times.

 

Title: Taylor series, hybrid functions, and fractional calculus in engineering and science

Prof. Dr. Suthep Suantai is Committee Member of Chiang Mai University Council. Mr. Professor has the following areas of interest: Solving common nonmonotone equilibrium problems using an inertial parallel hybrid algorithm with Armijo line search with applications to image recovery, Advances in Difference Equations; Weak and strong convergence theorems for common attractive points of widely more generalized hybrid mappings in hilbert spaces; Inertial extragradient methods for solving split equilibrium problems; parallel monotone hybrid algorithm for a finite family of G- nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces endowed with a graph applicable in signal recovery, Computational and Applied Mathematics, etc.

Title: Accelerated Algorithms for Convex Bilevel Optimization Problems and Applications in Data Science

Francesco Villecco, is assistant professor at Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno, obtained his Laurea in Mechanical Engineering at University of Salerno in 2003 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at University of Salerno in 2008. From 2008 to 2009 he was at University of British Columbia, Department of Mining Engineering as Post-Doc. After the Canadian experience he is Research Fellow at University of Salerno. From 2014 he is Professor of Technical Drawing at Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno. His research interests are in the fields of Industrial Design, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic and Open Innovation. He is organizer of Conferences and workshops on Microwaves and Industrial Design. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design (JMEID) published by University of Salerno. He has strong cooperations on common research fields with Universities in Canada, China, Colombia, Russia, US and Vietnam. He is Author of various papers in International Refereed Journals.

 

Title: Smart devices for a better life