J. A. Tenreiro Machado was born at 1957. He graduated with ‘Licenciatura’ (1980), PhD. (1989) and ‘Habilitation’ (1995), in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto. During 1980-1998 he worked at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Porto. Since 1998 he works at the Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Research Interests: Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Fractional Calculus, Modeling, Entropy, Control, Evolutionary Computing, Genomics.

Dr. Akif AKGUL was born in Izmir, Turkey. Dr. AKGUL received his B.S. degree in Electronics-Computer Education from Kocaeli University in 2009 and in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Sakarya University in 2013, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Sakarya University in 2011 and 2015, respectively, in Electronics-Computer Education and Electrical-Electronics Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis work was on chaos-based cryptology. He has been to The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) of Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom in 2015 as a Visiting Researcher. His current research interests include random number generators, cryptology, data hiding, blockchain, IoRT, chaos-based engineering applications. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hitit University, Turkey, where he has been involved in projects concerning the study of chaos-based applications.

Yeliz Karaca is an associate professor of mathematics, and a senior research professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMASS), USA; collaborator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics with the dissertation entitled “Constituting an Optimum Mathematical Model for the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis” from Marmara University, Türkiye in 2012. Among the other awards she has been given, she was also granted the “Cooperation in Neurological Sciences and Support Award” by Turkish Neurology Association as the first mathematician in Türkiye. She also holds a "medical card" as the only mathematician entitled that sort of card. She also holds a medical card as the only mathematician entitled for it. Furthermore, she received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2012 and Best Paper Awards in her specialized discipline in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 as well as 2023, among the other awards in different categories. Another award of hers is Outstanding Reviewer Award (Mathematics Journal, MDPI) in 2021.

As for some publications, Dr. Karaca has a book entitled "Computational Methods for Data Analysis" published in 2018 by De Gruyter. Another publication is an edited book named "Computational Science and Its Applications" – Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCSA 2020, with series 1-7) by Springer. Her edited book is entitled "Multi-Chaos, Fractal and Multi-Fractional Artificial Intelligence of Different Complex Systems", published by Elsevier in 2022. Another work is entitled Computational Science and Its Applications – Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCSA 2023, with series I-9) by Springer. Another book is entitled "Intelligent Fractal-Based Image Analysis: Applications in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision", published by Elsevier in 2024. Besides these, another publication under publication process is a single-authored book, named "Computational and Mathematical Neuroscience, Biology & Medicine: Clinical and Medical Applications" by Wiley-IEEE Press.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of the book series named “Systems Science & Nonlinear Intelligence Dynamics” (https://www.worldscientific.com/series/ssnid) by World Scientific. She has been acting as an editor, guest editor and associate editor in many different issues in SCI indexed journals such as IEEE Access; Electronics, MPDI; International Journal of Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare (IJBDAH); ICCSA2020-Lecture Notes- Springer; Fractal AI-Based Analyses and Applications to Complex Systems, Fractals- World Scientific among others. In addition, she is the leading guest editor of several special issues, one of which is "Fractal-Fractional AI-Based Analyses and Applications to Complex Systems" (Part I, II, III, IV) at Fractals Journal, World Scientific. Some of the other special issues she has been running are as follows: “Advanced fractional calculus, differential equations and neural networks: analysis, modelling and numerical computations", at the Physica Scripta Journal – IOP science; “Advanced Fractals and Fractional Calculus with Science and Engineering Applications: Computing, Dynamics and Control in Complex Systems" (Part I, II) at the Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering Journal, Taylor&Francis and "Dynamic Diseases: Mathematical Informed Expert and Knowledge Computing Technology-based Computational Medicine in Complex Systems", at Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark.

Dr. Karaca has also been acting as a chair, co-chair, member of Advisory Scientific Committee and special session organizer of international conferences some of which are as follows: Image Processing, Wavelet and Applications (IWW), International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), International Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity (ICNSC), The International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA), International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IETI ICIIP ) and International Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ICAIM).

Among her affiliated organizations in which she has active scientific roles and involvement with projects are Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD); Complex Human Adaptive Organizations and Systems (CHAOS)- University of Perugia, Italy; International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, senior member). She is also a member of many associations and charities. She also has one charity she established herself and she is acting as the co-founder and project manager at Yönetim Araştırmaları Derneği (YÖNAD), which is a charity for Management Research, conducting scientific and industry-related projects, seminars, academic work and conferences.

Her research interests include complex systems sciences with applications in various terrains, applied mathematics, advanced computational methods, AI applications, computational (-algorithmic) complexity, fractional calculus, fractals and multifractals, stochastic processes, different kinds of differential and difference equations, discrete mathematics, algebraic complexity, complexity science, wavelet and entropy, solutions of advanced mathematical challenges, mathematical neuroscience and biology as well as well as advanced data analysis in medicine and other related theoretical, computational and applied domains.

Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco is a tenured professor in the Faculty of Electronics Sciences at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla. He founded and currently leads the research group Fractional-order Systems and Nonlinear Circuits. He has published about 150 scientific works on chaotic systems and fractional-order calculus. He is ranked in the Top 2% global scientist list published by Stanford University-Elsevier in both the Single year list and the Career list for the second consecutive year, 2022 and 2023. Dr. Munoz-Pacheco is a senior member of the National System for Researchers by Conahcyt and the Government of Mexico. Dr. Munoz-Pacheco is also an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Physics, IJNM-Wiley, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Chaos Theory and Applications, and so on.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Application of chaos for secure communication, chaos-based pseudo randomness, cryptography, Chaos-based Cryptography, chaos-based image encryption, control and synchronization of chaos, q-deformed nonlinear dynamical systems

Sifeu Takougang Kingni was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1984. He received the M.Sc. degree in Physics (speciality: Mechanics) in 2008 from the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. He received in 2014 a joint Ph.D. degree in Physics (speciality: Mechanics) between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium and the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers, electronics circuits, optomechanics, fluid mechanics systems, synchronization of chaotic systems and secure communications.

Assistant Prof. Dr. Hijaz Ahmad completed his MS in computational mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus. In 2022, he completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Department of Basic Sciences and Islamiat, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan and then he started his Post-doc from Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. His research work is focused on the development and advancement of numerical techniques for finding the numerical solution of mathematical models in the form of partial differential equations and fractional partial differential equations arising in finance, computational biology, and different disciplines of engineering. He has introduced modified variational iteration algorithm-I and modified variational iteration algorithm-II for the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations and fractional iteration algorithm-I for finding the numerical solution of nonlinear non-integer order partial differential equations. The scope of his research is quite broad, covering numerical analysis, fractional calculus, mathematical biology and mathematical physics. Dr Ahmad is included in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2022 and 2023 (by Stanford University and Elsevier).

René LOZI is emeritus Professor at University Cote d’Azur, Dieudonné Center of Mathematics, France. He completed a PhD in 1975 and the French State Thesis (on chaotic dynamical systems) under the supervision of Prof. Rene Thom (Fields medalist) in 1983.

In 1991, he became Full Professor at University of Nice and IUFM (Institute for teacher trainees). He has served as Director of this institute (2001-2006) and as Vice-Chairman of the French Board of Directors of IUFM (2004- 2006). He is a member of several editorial boards of international journals. In 1977, he discovered a particular mapping of the plane having a strange attractor (now, commonly known as "Lozi map"). Nowadays, his research areas include complexity and emergence theory, dynamical systems, bifurcations, control of chaos, cryptography based on chaos, and recently memristors (physical devices for neurocomputing) and artificial intelligence. He is working in those fields with renowned researchers from many countries. He received the Dr. Zakir Husain Award 2012 from the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics during the 12th biannual conference of ISIAM at the University of Punjab, Patialia, (India) in January 2015. He received the C.S. Hsu Award 2024 for distinguished scholars in Nonlinear Dyanamics and Control, issued annually by the Nonlinear Science and Complexity Conferences Series, in August 2024 at the Sichan university of Yibin, China. Since August 2023, he is Vice-President of the International Society of Difference Equations.

Herbert H.C. Iu received the B.Eng. (Hons) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2000.  In 2002, he joined the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia as a Lecturer. He is currently a Professor at the same school. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy, nonlinear dynamics, current sensing techniques, and memristive systems. He has published over 200 papers in these areas. He has won two IET Premium Awards in 2012 and 2014. In 2014, he also won the UWA Vice-Chancellor’s Mid-Career Research Award. He received the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics Prize Paper Award, 2019 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems Prize Paper Award, 2023 IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics Paper Award, and the Best Paper Award of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal on Selected and Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems in 2022-2023. He is now Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics. He was appointed as IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-24. He is a co-editor of Control of Chaos in Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009) and a co-author of Development of Memristor Based Circuits (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013).

Dr. Perkins has co-authored over 30 journal papers in leading journals and graduated 7 PhD students. He has received two of the most prestigious young faculty awards for his research, with approximately $1.6M of external research awards. His background is in nonlinear dynamics, stochastic dynamics, vibrations, and experimental design. Currently, his research interests include oscillator computers, adaptive oscillators, vibrational energy localization, topology optimization, control of flexible/bio-inspired robotics, and music engineering.

1. The Lesser Prize 2014 of IAPC "Nauka/Interperiodica" for the best publication in its journals (a series of works devoted to the study of solutions of systems of ordinary differential equations on compact sets).
2. Together with the French mathematician René Lozi, a high-precision numerical method was developed for constructing approximations to chaotic motions of dynamical systems with quadratic nonlinearities.
3. A high-precision numerical scheme for finding approximations to unstable cycles of the Lorenz system is proposed.

Chaos theory, complexity science, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics of complex systems, interdisciplinary applications

Marcelo A. Savi is Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE - Mechanical Engineering) being the Head of the Center for Nonlinear Mechanics. He has published over 500 journal and conference papers, 5 books and about 18 book chapters. Awards and distinctions were received including: UFRJ solemn tribute to the most influential researchers in the world (Top 2%) based on PLOS Biology publication; COPPE Award Giulio Massarani of the Academic Merit; CNPq Researcher level 1A; Scientist of Rio de Janeiro. He is actively involved as advisor of graduate and undergraduate students. He has administrative experience as head of department, graduate coordinator, and university committees. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2024-present) and Associate Editor of some journals, where it is important to highlight: International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (2018-present); Journal of Vibration and Control (2017-present); ASME – Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (2019-present). Research interests are related to nonlinear mechanics where it should be highlighted smart material and structures; nonlinear dynamics, chaos and control; biomechanics and ecology.

Olfa Boubaker received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) and Habilitation Universitaire degree in Control Engineering from the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), in Tunisia. She is currently a full professor at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT) of University of Carthage where she is actively engaged in teaching and research in control theory, nonlinear systems, and robotics.

Professor Boubaker has participated in several research projects in sustainable development areas. She supervised (08) theses and (23) Master dissertations and mentored more than (80) engineer graduated projects in the industry. She is the principal author of (10) books, editor of (06) special issues, and the author/co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers with editorial roles in prestigious publications and several international conferences.

Electronics, Embedded System Design, Circuits and Systems, Chaos Theory and Chaos-based engineering applications.

Dr. Orhan Ozgur Aybar currently works Deputy Director of Piri Reis University Institute of Graduate Education. Most recently, Dr. Aybar held the position of Director of Continuing Education Center (PUSEM), Director of Institute of Graduate Studies at Piri Reis University and Director of Information Technology. He does research in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Natural Science, Engineering and Medicine, Programming Languages, Applied Mathematics, Computational Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Physics

Prof. Denis Butusov is a Head of Computer-Aided Engineering Dept. at the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia, where he is also a Head of Youth Research Institute. He has published extensively in nonlinear systems simulation, specifically numerical methods, geometrical integration, memristive circuits, discrete chaotic maps, and a wide variety of applications, including chaotic sensors, nonlinear systems identification, power systems, robotics and chaos-based cryptography. Dr. Butusov and his collaborators are the authors of the controllable symmetry concept in numerical simulations of nonlinear systems. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems.

Esteban Tlelo Cuautle received a B.Sc. degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla (ITP) México in 1993. He then received both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), México in 1995 and 2000, respectively. During 1995-2000 he was with the electronics-engineering department at ITP. In 2001 he was appointed as Professor-Researcher at INAOE. He has been Visiting Researcher in the department of Electrical Engineering at University of California Riverside, USA (2009-2010), in the department of Computer Science at CINVESTAV, México City, México (2016-2017), and Visiting Lecturer at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC, Chengdu 2014-2019). He has authored 5 books, edited 12 books and more than 300 works published in book chapters, international journals and conferences. He is member in the National System for Researchers (SNI-CONACyT-México). He serves as Associate Editor in Fractal and Fractional (2022-2023), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (2021-Present), Electronics (2019-Present), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2019-Present), Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronics Engineering (2019-2022), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (2016-2023), Integration the VLSI Journal (2013-Present), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2014-2015), and PLOS ONE (2018-2021). He has organized special sessions in IEEE conferences (ISCAS’15, LATS’15, MWSCAS’14) and has been Chair and Technical Program Committee member of major conferences on circuits and systems. His research interests include integrated circuit design, optimization by metaheuristics, fractional-order chaotic systems, artificial intelligence, security in Internet of Things, and analog/RF and mixed-signal design automation tools.

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Chaos Theory, Control Theory, Fractal 

Uğur Erkin KOCAMAZ was born at Yeşilyurt town of Malatya in 1979. He completed his primary and secondary educations at Sakarya Büyükgazi Primary School and Sakarya Anatolian High School, respectively. He started his high school education in Kocaeli Körfez Science High School, and completed it in Sakarya Atatürk High School. He started to Dokuz Eylül University Computer Engineering department in 1996 and graduated in 2001, in which he also received 1 year English preparatory education. He completed his M.Sc. in Computer and Information Engineering department at Sakarya University in 2004, his Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering department (in Electronics) at Sakarya University in 2018, and his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Engineering department at Sakarya University in 2024. In December 2003, he started his work career as a Research Assistant in Institute of Science at Sakarya University. In December 2012, he passed to Karacabey Vocational School at Uludağ University as a Lecturer. Then, he became Assist. Prof. Dr. in August 2022 at the same institution. He is still working at there. He is scientifically studying in the fields of data structures and algorithms, artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, neuro-fuzzy, chaotic systems, chaos control, synchronization and chaotic secure communication. He has many publications in the international journals and conferences. He is single. His hobbies are travelling, listening music, watching movies, painting, playing basketball and table tennis.

Dr. Akif AKGUL was born in Izmir, Turkey. Dr. AKGUL received his B.S. degree in Electronics-Computer Education from Kocaeli University in 2009 and in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Sakarya University in 2013, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Sakarya University in 2011 and 2015, respectively, in Electronics-Computer Education and Electrical-Electronics Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis work was on chaos-based cryptology. He has been to The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) of Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom in 2015 as a Visiting Researcher. His current research interests include random number generators, cryptology, data hiding, blockchain, IoRT, chaos-based engineering applications. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hitit University, Turkey, where he has been involved in projects concerning the study of chaos-based applications.