Fractional-Order Modeling of Dynamic Systems with Applications in Optimization, Signal Processing, and Control (Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control)

Ahmed G. Radwan (Senior member IEEE) is a Professor in the Engineering Mathematics Department, Cairo University, Egypt, and Acting Director of Research, Nile University, Egypt. He was the Former Director of Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC), Nile University, Egypt. Dr. Radwan was a visiting Professor in Computational Electromagnetic Lab (CEL), Electrical and Computer Engineering department (ECE), McMaster University, Canada in the interval [2008 – 2009], then he was selected to be a part of the first foundation research teams to join KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) during the interval [2009 -2011]. His research interests include interdisciplinary concepts between mathematics and engineering applications such as fractional-order systems, bifurcation, chaos, memristor, and encryption. Dr. Radwan received the Cairo University excellence award for research in the engineering sciences in 2016, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in basic sciences in 2015, the state achievements award for research in mathematical sciences in 2012, the Cairo University achievements award for research in the engineering sciences in 2013, and the best researcher awards Nile University 2015 & 2016.

Dr. Radwan has more than 200 papers, h-index 30, and more than 3000 citations based on Scopus database. He is the Co-inventor of Six US patents, author/Co-author of Seven international books as well as 15-chapter books in the highly ranked publishers such as Elsevier and Springer. He received many research grants as Principle Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. He was Invited to be Lead/Guest Editors in Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, and Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and Complexity. He organized many special sessions, serve as TPC (Technical Program Committee) in several international conferences. He was selected as a member of the first scientific council of Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) as well as in the first scientific council of the Egyptian Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, and Innovation (ECASTI) to empower and encourage Egyptian young scientists in science and technology and build knowledge-based societies.

Farooq Ahmad Khanday (M’15, SM’19) received B.Sc., M.Sc., M. Phil. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Kashmir in 2001, 2004 2010 and 2013 respectively. From June 2005 to Jan. 2009, he served as Assistant Professor on a contractual basis at the University of Kashmir, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology. In 2009, Dr. Khanday joined the Department of Higher Education J&K and Department of Electronics and Vocational Studies, Islamia College of Science and Commerce Srinagar, as Assistant Professor. In May 2010, he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir. His research interests include Fractional-order Circuits, Nano-Electronics, Low-voltage analog integrated circuit design, Hardware Neural Network, Quantum Computing, Stochastic Computing, and Biomedical Circuit Design. Dr. Khanday is the author or co-author of more than 85 publications in peer-reviewed indexed International and National journals/conferences of repute and three book chapters. A book of Dr. Khanday on “Nanoscale Electronic Devices and their Applications” is to appear in July 2020. Dr. Khanday is the Management Committee (MC) Observer of the COST Action CA15225 (Fractional-order systems - analysis, synthesis, and their importance for future design) of the European Union. He is the senior member of IEEE and a member of several professional societies. Dr. Khanday is serving as a reviewer for many reputed International and National scientific journals in Electronics. He has successfully guided many Ph.D., M. Phil scholars, and M. Tech thesis. Dr. Khanday also has completed/ongoing funded research projects to his credit and has established laboratories with state of the art facilities for pursuing research in the field of IC design, Nanoelectronics, fractional-order systems, etc.

Lobna A. Said is a full-time Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and the Nano-Electronics Integrated System Research Center (NISC), Nile University (NU). She received the B.Sc. , the M.Sc., and the Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communications from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007, 2011, and 2016, respectively. She has H-index 15, and more than 660 citations based on the Scopus database. She has over 85 publications distributed between high-impact journals, conferences, and book chapters. She was involved in many research grants as a Senior Researcher, or as a Co-PI from different national organizations. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, including system modeling, control techniques, optimization techniques, analog and digital integrated circuits, fractional-order circuits and systems, non-linear analysis, and chaos theory. She has received the Recognized Reviewer Award from many international journals. She is the Vice-Chair of research activities at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Egypt Chapter. She has received the Excellence Award from the Center for the Development of Higher education and Research in 2016. She is the Winner of Dr. Hazem Ezzat Prize for the outstanding researcher, NU 2019. She is one of the top 10 researchers at NU for the year 2018-2019. Recently, she was selected as a member of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) to empower and encourage young Egyptian scientists in science and technology and build knowledge-based societies. In 2020, she was selected to be an affiliate member of the African Academy of Science (AAS). She is in the technical program committee for many International Conferences.