Dr. Mehdi Salimi is an accomplished faculty member with a diverse academic background, having held positions at several Canadian universities, including KPU, StFX, and McMaster University. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from UPM in 2011 and previously obtained a master's degree in pure mathematics from Tehran, Iran, in 2006. Dr. Salimi has served as a visiting professor at UniRC and a research fellow at the MEDAlics Research Centre at the University "Dante Alighieri" in Italy. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Dynamics (CfD) at Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in January 2015 and is now a senior member of the faculty there. Additionally, he is part of the Decisions Lab at DiGiES, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Dr. Salimi has published around 80 articles, showcasing his expertise in Game Theory, Dynamical Systems, and Data Science. His contributions extend to editorial roles in several prestigious journals, reflecting his commitment to advancing scientific knowledge and fostering academic dialogue in his fields of interest. Moreover, Dr. Salimi has made valuable contributions as an editorial member of esteemed journals, including Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Annals of Operations Research, Soft Computing, Dynamic Games and Applications, Results in Control and Optimization, Engineering Science and Technology an International Journal, Mathematics, and Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems. Dr. Ali Ahmadian is a senior research scientist the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy and an Associate Fellow Researcher at the Institute of IR 4.0, The National University of Malaysia. As an active researcher, he is dedicated to research in applied mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in early of 2014 as the best postgraduate student from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). After his Ph.D. He took a postdoctoral fellowship at same university as part of the numerical analysis research group and at the same time joint to the University of Malaya as an Associate Researcher. He was promoted as a Fellow Researcher on December 2017 in UPM. In 2019, he joined the National University of Malaysia as a senior lecturer where he currently works in the Institute of IR 4.0. In general, his primary mathematical focus is the development of computational methods and models for problems arising in computer science, biology, physics, and engineering under fuzzy and fractional calculus (FC); in this context, he has worked on projects related to nano-communication networks, drug delivery systems, acid hydrolysis in palm oil frond, and carbon nanotubes dynamics, nanofluids, viscosity, AI and etc. He is a member of editorial board in Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Soft Computing, Journal of control and Decision, Progress in Fractional Differentiation and Applications (Natural Sciences Publishing) and Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Hindawi) and lead guest editor of special issues in more than 50 international journals from Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and so on. He is an author of more than 350 research papers published in as Nature, IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and etc. He is an author and editor of four books published and in process in CRC Press and Elsevier, respectively. He also presented his research works in 38 international conferences held in Canada, Serbia, China, Turkey, Malaysia and UAE. He also received Premio Anassilaos Giovani Award for his achievement in art, culture, economics and science from Italy in November 2021.
