Smanalieva J. N. obtained her Master’s degree in 2001 at the Department of Food Preservation Technology, Faculty of Technology, Kyrgyz State Technical University. In 2007, she earned her PhD in Food Rheology at the Institute of Food Chemistry and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany). In 2008, she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyrgyz-Turkish “Manas” University, where she underwent continuous professional development and career progression from 2008 to 2018. She was promoted to Acting Associate Professor in 2013 and, in 2017, was officially awarded the academic title of Associate Professor by the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic.
She has extensive international research and teaching experience in the Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, and Switzerland. With support from the German Academic Exchange Service, she conducted several research stays and attended graduate seminars at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2013–2014, she was awarded a scholarship by the Federal Commission for Scholarships for International Students and completed a research internship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Institute of Nutrition and Health.
From 2018 to 2020, Smanalieva J. N. served as Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, where she was appointed Acting Head of the Department of “Nutritional Sciences, Food and Household Economics / Vocational Education.”
From 2022 to 2024, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Max Rubner Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food in Karlsruhe.
In 2020, she was appointed a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at I. Razzakov Kyrgyz State Technical University, where she is currently employed. Her teaching responsibilities include core lecture courses in Nutrition, Food Toxicology, and Functional Food Ingredients, and she supervises Master’s and doctoral research projects.
She is currently a researcher in the Department of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. Together with Professor Thomas Henle, she leads a sub-project within the international research project “SUFACHAIN – Promoting Sustainable Land Management through the Development of Products, (Technological) Processes and SMEs in the Field of Non-Timber Forest and Agroforestry Value Chains in Central Asia,” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Germany).
Her publication record comprises more than 60 scientific works.
Mehmet Odabaşı lisans eğitimini Atatürk Üniversitesi Kimya Bölümü’nden, yüksek lisans ve doktora derecesini biyokimya alanındaki çalışmaları ile Hacettepe Üniversitesi'nden aldı. Aksaray Üniversitesi’nde, 2007 yılında Yardımcı Doçent, 2012 yılında Doçent ve 2018 yılında Profesör oldu. Dr. Odabaşı, Aksaray Üniversitesine başladığı 2007 yılında, Biyokimya ve Biyokromatografi Araştırma Grubu'nu kurdu (biochemreg.com). Dr. Odabaşı’nın çalışma alanları, polimerik membranlar, monolitik kolonlar, kriyojeller, kopozit malzemeler, mikroküre ve magnetik taşıyıcıların hazırlanması ve protein enzim, antibadi, nükleik asit ve hormonlar gibi biyolojik moleküller ile ağır metal ve mikrosistin gibi çevresel atıkların uzaklaştırılması üzerinedir. 2025 yılı sonu itibariyle Dr. Odabaşı'nın SCIE kapsamında dergilerde yayınlanmış 80'in üzerinde yayını vardır ve h-indeksi 29'dur.
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 from 2020 to 2025. 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.
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.
Juan Eduardo Nápoles Valdes, was born in Cuba and currently lives in Argentina, is a PhD in Mathematical Sciences (1994 at the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba), was President of the Cuban Society of Mathematics and Computing and is currently Professor at the National University of the Northeast and the National Technological University of Argentina. He directs the Nonlinear Analysis Group (UNNE), research projects and several PhD and Bachelor students.
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