Gabe GABRIELLE has been an Engineering Programmer at Kennedy Space Center for 17 years, involved in NASA’s Disability Awareness and Action Working Group and Speakers Bureau. His role included identifying solutions for infrastructure repairs, giving him access to key KSC facilities. His experiences at NASA inspired him to promote STEAM to students, emphasizing dreams, goals, and enjoying life. As a former Director of Engineering for the US Air Force’s Special Operations Command, he visited 350 schools in the US and 185 schools internationally, reaching over 88,000 students. He also supported outreach programs in South Africa and received the 2016 Central Florida Aerospace Academy Ray Lien Award.

Khalil AMINE is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Manager of Advanced Battery Technology at Argonne National Laboratory. He directs research on advanced materials and battery systems for HEV, PHEV, EV, and aerospace, military, and medical applications. He is president of IMLB and the International Lithium Battery Association, and editor of Nano-Energy journal. Dr. Amine has received numerous awards including Scientific America’s Top Worldwide Research 50 Award (2003), University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award (2008), US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2009), and multiple R&D 100 Awards. He holds over 140 patents, has authored over 367 publications, and was the most cited scientist in battery technology from 1998-2008.

Prof. Daniel Tudor Cotfas

Transylvania University of Brașov

Romania

Daniel Tudor Cotfas is Professor in Electronics and Computers Department, at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. His research interest is in the characterization of the hybrid PV components, virtual instrumentation, and remote systems control. During his career he received several awards - Gold medal at invention salon Euroinvent 2015; National Instruments Graphical System Design Achievement Awards 2013, USA, Austin: Education Winner, NI Community's Choice; Editor's Choice Award; Romania National Instruments NIDays Contest 2012 Romania, Bucharest. Prof. Dr. Cotfas published more than 65 papers in ISI journals or ISI conferences and over 50 papers in proceedings of international and national conferences and has reviewed more than 100 papers for ISI and BDI journals.

Founding President of the IEEE Morocco Section

Mohamed ESSAIDI is the founder and current president of the IEEE Moroccan Section since November 2004. He founded the Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS) in 2000 and the Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (ICTIS) in 2005. He co-directed the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Information Security Assurance in Tetouan in 2005. Additionally, he chairs the Scientific Committees of several symposia and conferences, and referees for multiple journals including IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

Dr. Mousa Marzband is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, with a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. He has held prestigious research roles at the University of Manchester and University College Cork and has been honored as an Honorary Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University. Renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to renewable energy systems and electric vehicle (EV) integration, Dr. Marzband has led high-impact projects funded by prominent organizations such as the British Council, EPSRC, and QNRF. His recent work focuses on advancing smart grid resilience, EV energy management, and cybersecurity. With over 10,700 citations (h-index: 56), Dr. Marzband is recognized among the top 1% of researchers in engineering worldwide.

ATIF IQBAL (Fellow IEEE (USA), Fellow IET (UK), Fellow IE (India)) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, U.K., in 2006. He received D.Sc. degree (Habilitation) in control, informatics, and electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland in 2019. He is a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, and a former Full Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, AMU, Aligarh, India. Dr. Iqbal has been listed in top 2% highly cited scientists of the world (Stanford University, USA) since 2019. He has published widely in international journals and conferences on his research findings related to power electronics, variable speed drives, e-mobility, smart grid, complex energy transition, micro and nano grids and renewable energy sources. He has authored or coauthored more than 570 research articles, 8 patents, and four books and several chapters in edited books. He has supervised several large research and development projects worth several million USD. He has supervised 21 PhD He was also a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Merit Award for year 2014–2015 and the Research Excellence Awards at Qatar University, in 2015, and 2022. He has received Research Excellence Award from the College of Engineering, Qatar University in 2019. He has received several best research papers awards in top International Conferences. He is serving as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Qatar Section. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics and Senior Editor IEEE Access.

Prof. Dr. Ing. Rachid BENNACER: is an Engineer in Mechanical field (1989), and he got his PhD thesis at Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6) in 1993. He worked as lecturer in the University Paris XI (1993/94), became an associate professor at Cergy Pontoise University in 1994 and full Professor in 2008. He moved as senior Professor to the prestigious school Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris-Saclay) since 2010. He becomes in 2017 an Exceptional National Class Professor. He is also adjunced professor at Tianjin Uni. Of comm. (China) and UMB Univ. He assumed several responsibilities, director of the LEEVAM research team (2003-2007), Licence degrees & Aggregation title (2008-2011), Master research degree (2011 2013), Transfer and Environmental Research Unit (CNRS LMT-Lab) (since July 2012), dean of Civil/Environmental department (Oct. 2012/Sep. 2016) and 2019/2023 Coordinate International Affairs Related to Ph.D Univ. Paris-Saclay; President of ENS Paris-Saclay Special Executive committee and vice Dean of the ISI Graduate school. His present research activity is within the LMPS laboratory. His Research field covers wide spectrum and several domains. It covers the building material for energy applications or on durability aspect, renewable and energy system. The expertise covers the direct numerical simulation including CFD coupling on multi-scales. The previous approach is consolidated by analytical or reduction approach in order to identify the instabilities and global behavior bifurcation and similarity controlling parameters in multiphysics situations. He published around 10 book chapters and more than 300 referenced international journals (Rank A).

Prof. Kawtar HAFIDI is experimental nuclear physicist and the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory. He oversee five Argonne research divisions and two U.S. Department of Energy user facilities conducting fundamental and applied research in nuclear and high energy physics, materials science, chemical science and engineering, and nanoscience and technology. He has over 20 years of experience in leading and conducting fundamental research at major accelerator facilities in the United States and Europe.
This research has focused on the experimental study of quantum chromodynamics in the strong regime, with emphasis on nucleon form factors, flavor decomposition, spin structure, and transverse momentum dependent distributions.

The First International Conference on Bio- Materials Science, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (ICBMSM2E'24)

11-12 December 2024, Nador, Morocco

Important Notice to All Participants

Keynote speakers

Prof. Daniel Tudor Cotfas

Transylvania University of Brașov

Founding President of the IEEE Morocco Section