DrSc Ivan A. Parinov received the MSc in Mechanics from the Rostov State University, Mechanics and Mathematics Department in 1978 (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), the PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Rostov State University in 1990 and the DrSc in Techniques from the South-Russian State Technical University in 2008. He is Corresponding Member of Russian Engineering Academy (2014) He is working in the I. I. Vorovich Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences Institute of the Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University) from 1978. Today, he is Chief Research Fellow. He has head in 1993-2016 the Research Grants and Programs from Soros Foundation, Collaboration for Basic Science and Education (COBASE, USA), Russian Foundation for Basic Research (13 grants), Russian Ministry for Science and Education (7 grants and scientific proposals). He has published above 280 scientific-technical publications among them 21 monographs (in particular, 4 books published with Springer and 11 books with Nova Science Publishers). He has 11 Russian and Soviet patents and 3 certificates on Russian state registration of programs for computer. DrSc Ivan A. Parinov is reviewer of Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Germany) and Mathematical Reviews (USA) from 1994 (above 450 reviews), he reviews papers of journal SOP Transactions on Theoretical Physics (Scientific Online Publishing) from 2013. He was INTAS expert (2004), FP-7 expert (2010), ERA.NET RUS expert (2011, 2015); he is Russian Federal expert of scientific-technical area (2012-2018). He is winner of competition of the Russian Department of Education and Science (2014-2016) on direction “Organization of Fulfillment of the Scientific Researches”. DrSc Ivan A. Parinov is Active Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1994), member of the American Mathematical Society from 1996, the European Mathematical Society from 1998, the Indian Structural Integrity Society from 2016, and has title "Honorary Member ofAll-Russian Society of Inventors and Rationalizers" (2008). Ivan A. Parinov was co-chairman of the PHENMA International Conferences (2012-2016). His research interests include R&D of novel materials and composites (in particular, high-temperature superconductors and ferro-piezoelectrics), fracture mechanics and strength physics, acoustic emission, optics, mathematical modeling, different applications of advanced materials and composites. Dr. Shun-Hsyung Chang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan, in 1990. Afterwards, he served as an associate professor and has been a professor since 1997 in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, where he was the chairman 1998~2003. He also had served as the Vice President of National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, during 2003~2006. He is a professor in the Department of Microelectronic Engineering at this university presently. He has published over 250 technical papers. His research interests include underwater signal processing, electrical engineering, and communication engineering. His outstanding performance in research brought him great honor. In 1984, he was granted The Creative Youth prize by the Ministry of Education. He received the Long-Term Paper Award, organized by Acer Incorporated, in 1994, 1996 and 1998. He and his graduate students won the Third Prize of Graduate Team in TI-Taiwan 1994 DSP Design Championship. He also obtained the Distinguished Award in the contest of Special Topic of Communication System in graduate division held by the Ministry of Education in 2000. He contributes greatly in editorship. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marine Science and Technology 1998~2001, of which he is an editor at present. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ocean and Underwater Technology 2008-2011. Dr. Shun-Hsyung Chang was co-chairman of the PHENMA International Conferences (2012-2016). Dr. Muaffaq A. Jani received the Bachelor of Engineering from Institute Technology of 10 Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia, in 1990, Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Iwate University, Japan, in 1995 and Dr. Engineering in Electronics Information from the Iwate University in 2000. He is working in Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya, Indonesia from 2000. Today, he is academic advisory board of International Association of Certified Practicing Engineers, member of Association for Information System and member of Association for Computing Machinery and co-chairman of the PHENMA International Conference 2016. He was Honorary Committee of International Engineering Conference KKU, Thailand 2014. His research interests include R&D of electrical energy, measurements, information science and numerical analysis.
