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Central Queensland University, Australia
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Mohammed Bashir is a globally recognized expert in environmental engineering, sustainable development and pollution control, with over 250 high-impact journal publications and an h-index of 52.He currently serves as a senior academic at the School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity Australia and adjunct professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. His research spans key areas such as pollution control, ESG compliance, life cycle assessment, circular economy, and advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies. With over 9,800 citations, Dr. Bashir has led numerous interdisciplinary projects funded by government bodies and industry partners, aiming to bridge science with actionable solutions. His current focus includes emerging contaminants (ECs), microplastics, and resource recovery in wastewater systems. A recipient of over 20 international awards and recognized among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University, Dr. Bashir brings a unique blend of academic excellence and practical innovation to solving global environmental challenges.
University of Strathclyde, UK
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Winifred Ijomah is Professor in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. She is Founder and Director of The Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing (http://www.scot-reman.ac.uk/), a pan-Scotland expertise hub established to spearhead the Circular Economy in Scotland using product recovery. She has elements of her work incorporated in British Standards Institute, (e.g. BS 8887-220:2010- Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly) and is member of National and International committees established to assist industry to meet international environmental legislation. She is founder of and untill April 2021 Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Journal of Remanufacturing (https://www.springer.com/journal/13243), the first academic journal in the remanufacturing field. She established and heads the University of Strathclyde Sustainability and Remanufacturing Research Group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research aimed at enabling sustainable circular and Netzero manufacturing. She initiated and chaired the first International Conference on Remanufacturing (http://www.remanufacturing-conference.com/); the first international academic conference for remanufacturing; and now a biennial event running in conjunction with Rematec, the world's leading remanufacturing exhibition and trade event. Her work focuses on product end-of-life, particularly remanufacturing and spans both product and process design with a view to enhancing the potential For a circular economy. Winifred has PhD in remanufacturing, 20 years reseaerch experience in the discipline and has graduated over 18 PhD candidates as principal supervisior. Professor Ijomah is a keen STEM and Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador.
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Prof. Xiaodong Liang received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2013. She is currently a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology Solutions for Energy Security in Remote, Northern, and Indigenous Communities with the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Dr. Liang’s research interests include power systems, renewable energy, and electric machines, and she has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. She is a Fellow of IEEE and IET, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also serves as Member-at-Large at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Executive Board.
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Plenary Speaker
Christopher Niezrecki is a Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is currently the Co-Director of the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Laboratory (http://sdasl.uml.edu/), and leads the Center for Energy Innovation at UMass Lowell (www.uml.edu/energy). Dr. Niezrecki is also the Director of the NSF-Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wind Energy Science Technology and Research (WindSTAR). He has been directly involved in vibrations, acoustics, smart structures, controls, and renewable energy research for over 30 years, with more than 200 publications. Areas of current research include: renewable energy and hydrogen systems, wind turbine dynamics, monitoring, and inspection, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, structural health monitoring, optical sensing, and smart materials. In 2020 was selected as a UMass Lowell Distinguished University Professor. Funding for his research ($38M+) has been provided through grants from numerous federal and state agencies as well as industry sponsors.
Central Queensland University, Australia
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Sajal K. Das is the Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Before joining QUT, Dr. Das served as the Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2014 and later joined National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore as a Research Engineer. He was also a Visiting Academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a Faculty Member of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of American International University-Bangladesh. Dr. Das is currently the Editorial Member of Future Energy Journal and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Smart Grid. He also served as the Associate Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation and Guest Editor in Energies and Sustainability. He presented his work as the Keynote Speaker in a number of conferences and workshops and successfully organized the IEEE 2024 International Conference on Power, Electrical, Electronics and Industry Applications as the Conference Secretary and IEEE 2021 International Conference on Automation, Control and Mechatronics for Industry 4.0 (ACMI 2021) as the Organizing Chair. He received the Best Paper award as coauthor in IEEE PEEIACON 2019 and listed in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide according to the 2024 ScholarGPS rankings. Dr. Das is particularly interested to discover the new challenges and find novel solutions to energy transition for net zero in the context of cyber-physical power system. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and his Google Scholar citation counts over 4900.