Mirbek Turduev is Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University, Kyrgyzstan. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Control Engineering from the Kyrgyz State Technical University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. His research interests include manipulations of photons, bio-inspired photonics design, nano-photonic wires, transformation optics, surface modes biosensors, and lab-on-a-chip applications.
Dr. Turduev has previously held positions at the TED University in Ankara, Turkey, as an Assistant and Associate Professor. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. His professional activities include being a reviewer for several journals such as Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, and being a member of Optical Society of America and IEEE Photonic Society. He is also a member of various committees such as the PhD Thesis Monitoring Committee and the Scientific Research Committee Board.
Dr. Turduev is skilled in several simulation environments such as MEEP, Lumerical, PWE, MPB, and RSoft. He is also proficient in programming languages such as Matlab, C, and C++. He has received various awards and scholarships, including a Full Scholarship from the Kyrgyzstan Government for undergraduate education, a Full Scholarship from TUBITAK BIDEB for PhD education, and a Full Scholarship from TUBITAK BIDEB for the Scientific Meetings Grant Programmes. Dr. Turduev is fluent in Kyrgyz, Russian, Turkish, and English.

Kubat Kemelov graduated from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering. In 2010, he completed a master’s degree, and in 2019, he earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering. In 2008, he was hired as a research assistant in the Department of Environmental Engineering at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University. In 2020, he was promoted to the position of lecturer, and in 2023, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the same department. His research focuses on environmental engineering sciences, addressing topics such as climate change impacts and adaptation, air pollution modeling and control, water quality and water pollution, and wastewater treatment processes.