Dr. Sayavur I. Bakhtiyarov is a Professor at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, NM, USA). Dr. Bakhtiyarov obtained PhD degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1978, and in 1992 a DSc degree from the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. His area of expertise: multiphase flows, powder technology, non-linear fluid mechanics, tribology, rheology, self-healing composites. Dr. Bakhtiyarov authored 400+ scientific publications in refereed scholarly journals, books, international conferences and symposia proceedings, and 14 patents. Dr. Bakhtiyarov was elected as a foreign member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and International Ecoenergy Academy. He served as a Program director of US DOE and NASA research projects, INSRP US DOD coordinator for NASA’s Mars Science Lab mission. Dr. Bakhtiyarov is a lead organizer of ASME annual symposia and forums, Editor in Chief of two International journals: Mechanics and Solids (IJM&S) and Manufacturing Science and Technology (IJMS&T), Editorial Board Member ofi-manager's Journal on Engineering and Technology (IJET),Mathematics Applied in Science and Technology (MAST), International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids (IJDF) and Far-East Journal of Mathematics (FEJM). Dr. Bakhtiyarov received a Fulbright scholarship grant in 2017.