Michel Fathi received the B.S. and M.S. degree from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. He was Visiting Scholar with the University of Florida, U.S.A., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, U.S.A. He has authored or co-authored articles in journals such as Technometrics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. His research interests include Operations Research, Management Science, Data Science, AI in Business, Cybersecurity and Information Systems, Energy Systems, Healthcare, and Social Goods. Dr. Fathi has received three Postdoctoral Fellowships at Ecole Centrale Paris, France, Ghent University, Belgium, and Mississippi State University, U.S.A. He is the Corresponding Editor of the textbooks Large Scale Optimisation in Supply Chains and Smart Manufacturing: Theory and Applications and Optimisation in Large Scale Problems: Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 Applications. Dr. Fathi is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Production and Operations Management Society, and Decision Sciences Institute and serves as an associate editor for AI in Business Journal, Energy Systems Journal, and Operations Research Forum Journal. He is also currently editing the Handbook of Smart Energy Systems.
Enrico Zio received the MSc degree in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1991 and in mechanical engineering from UCLA in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano and in probabilistic risk assessment at MIT in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently full professor at the Centre for research on Risk and Crises (CRC) of Ecole de Mines, ParisTech, PSL University, France, full professor and President of the Alumni Association at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Co-Director of the Center for REliability and Safety of Critical Infrastructures (CRESCI) and the sino-french laboratory of Risk Science and Engineering (RISE), at Beihang University, Beijing, China, adjoint and guest professor in several prestigious universities around the World. He is IEEE and Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer.
In 2020, he has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany (https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html), one the world's most prestigious research awards across all scientific disciplines. In 2021, he has been appointed as Member of the Board Committee of the International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure (ICRI) 2021-2026, 4TU.Resilience Ambassador by the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering and its backbone – the 4TU-programme DeSIRE (Designing Systems for informed Resilience Engineering), a strategic capacity building research programme of the four Dutch Technical Universities, Fellow of the of the Prognostics & Health Management Society a world recognized scientist in the area of reliability centered, condition based and predictive maintenance.
His research focuses on the modeling of the failure-repair-maintenance behavior of components and complex systems, for the analysis of their reliability, maintainability, prognostics, safety, vulnerability, resilience and security characteristics, and on the development and use of Monte Carlo simulation methods, artificial intelligence techniques and optimization heuristics. He is author and co-author of seven books and more than 500 papers on international journals, Chairman and Co-Chairman of several international Conferences, associate editor of several international journals and referee of more than twenty.
Panos Pardalos was born in Drosato (Mezilo) Argitheas in 1954 and graduated from Athens University (Department of Mathematics). He received his PhD (Computes and Information Sciences) from the University of Minnesota. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science & Information Engineering departments.
Panos Pardalos is a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, Financial applications, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AAIA, AIMBE, EUROPT, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Panos Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for “scientific contributions that stand the test of time.”
Panos Pardalos has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2018-2019). The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date – fundamental discoveries, new theories, insights that have had significant impact on their discipline.
Panos Pardalos is also a Member of several Academies of Sciences, and he holds several honorary PhD degrees and affiliations. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Management Science, and Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. He has published over 600 journal papers, and edited/authored over 200 books. He is one of the most cited authors and has graduated 71 PhD students so far. Details can be found in www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos
Panos Pardalos has lectured and given invited keynote addresses worldwide in countries including Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the USA.
