Prof. Youmin Zhang

IEEE Fellow, Concordia University, Canada

Biography: Dr. Youmin Zhang is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) at Concordia University, Canada. His main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring, health management, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles with applications to forest fires, pipelines, power lines, wind farms, solar panels arrays, environment, natural resources and natural disasters monitoring, detection, and protection by combining with remote sensing techniques; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and advanced control techniques; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, fault-tolerant and health management of safety-critical systems with application to unmanned systems (UAVs, UGVs/ACs, USVs and UUVs), renewable and hybrid energy systems, smart grids, smart cities, cyber-physical systems (CPSs), and manufacturing systems. He has published 8 books, over 550 journal and conference papers, and book chapters, including 170 referred journal papers since 2015. The published 428 papers have been cited 11,195 times with h-index of 52 at the Web of Science Core Collection. The Google Scholar citations are currently with 22,694 citations, and with an h-index of 72 and i10-index of 338 (53 and 250 since 2018).
He was awarded as a Concordia University Research Fellow in the Strategic Research Cluster 'Technology, Industry and the Environment' in 2018 in recognition of his outstanding research works and contributions. His research works on developments of unmanned systems (including unmanned aerial/ground/marine vehicles) with applications to forest fires detection and autonomous transportation have been reported by public media in national (CTV News, Radio-Canada International, Canadian Science Publishing), citywide (La Presse, Ville.Montreal), and organizational (Concordia News, Quanser Inc., Amtek Company) levels for several times. He has been invited to deliver plenary/keynote talks at international conferences/workshops and research seminars worldwide for more than 200 times.
Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of AIAA, President of International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ISIUS) during 2019-2022, Executive Committee Member of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Steering Committee Member of International Symposium on Autonomous Systems (ISAS), and a member of the Technical Committee for several international and national scientific societies. 

More detailed information can be found at: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/.

Prof. David Bassir

Sino-French Institute,Dongguan University of Technology, China

Paris-Saclay University, France

Biography: David BASSIR is as Professor at the French University of Technology UTBM and also a Senior Research at Ecole Normal Superieur ENS- Paris Saclay University. Previously, he was the dean of IUT at the University of Lorraine (France), Consult for Science and Technology at the French Embassy to serve at the Consulate General of France in Guangzhou (China), General Director of Research at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du Batiment et de l'Industrie (Paris) and Space Craft engineer at GECI Technology in different space agencies such as Arianespace and Astrium Group. He joined the mechanical department of the UTBM as associate professor in 2001 and the Chair Aerospace Structures in 2008 at Technical University of Delft as visiting professor. He holds a Master and a PhD degree in structural optimization from the University of Franche-Comté (France). He has published more than 150 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, including more than 56 articles in indexed journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Int. journal IJSMDO (Scopus, EI) that is published by EDP Sciences.

Prof. Pascal Lorenz

IEEE Senior Member, University of Haute-Alsace, France

Biography: Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA-Elsevier). He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.

Prof. Pierre Richard Lindsay DAHOO

Paris-Saclay University, France

Biography: 

Scientific Output

• 95 peer-reviewed journal articles, incl. 18 (2020–2025)

• 40 oral presentations & 65 proceedings at international conferences

• 19 scientific books and 8 book chapters (English & French)

• 1 patent (2013)

• 14 PhD students supervised + 2 postdocs

• Organizer of 12 workshops / 15 international schools

• Supervision of PhD students across France, Mauritius, and international programs

• Examiner for 27 doctoral theses and 2 HDRs (France, Morocco, India, CERN)

• President or rapporteur for numerous PhD/HDR juries

Scientific Committees & Societies

• Board Member, French Physical Society (SFP),

• President of Committee of Physics and Optics without borders, (SFP) 

• Chair, International Commission on Physics & Optics, SFP

• Member, NEXTMOVE (former MOVEO) Competitiveness Cluster (2006–2025)

• Scientific Committees: UVSQ, SFP PAMO, APE-EMM, ENS Recruitment Panel

Administrative Leadership

• Director, ISTY Engineering School, UVSQ (2019–2022)

• Director, IUT of Mantes-en-Yvelines (2016–2019)

• Vice President, UVSQ – Industrial Partnerships (2008–2012)

• Chairholder, “Materials Simulation & Engineering” Chair (2012–2022)