Biography: Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, UCLA, USA, and Bordeaux Univ., France. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 500+ publications, presented numerous plenaries, keynote, invited and contributed talks and taught continued education courses worldwide. He received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Labs. Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). He is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. Ephraim's most recent awards are 2023 SHEN International Research Award on Science, Health and Engineering" for the paper "Probabilistic Fitts' Law and the Likelihood of the Tunguska Type of Event", Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 10(1), March 2023"; 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award (for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems); 2019 IMAPS Lifetime Achievement award (for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology) and 2022 IEEE SCV Section Outstanding Engineer award (for seminal contributions to several critical IEEE fields, including probabilistic design-for-reliability of microelectronic and photonic materials, devices and systems, and the role of the human factor).

Biography: Dr. Rania Remmani is a research fellow at the University of Miguel Hernández, Spain, and an expert in environmental chemistry, sustainable materials, and biochar-based pollutant remediation. Her research focuses on the valorization of date palm biomass, the development of advanced carbon materials, and AI-driven environmental solutions within the circular bioeconomy framework. Dr. Remmani has authored and co-authored several publications in high-impact journals such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Chemical Engineering Science, and Materials. She actively serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals including Journal of Environmental Management, Agricultural Water Management, and Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier). Her ongoing work combines life cycle assessment, machine learning, and sustainable technologies to address global water and environmental challenges.

Biography: Khalil Kassmi, born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1963, is a distinguished academic and researcher specializing in electronics and renewable energy. He completed his higher education at Paul Sabatier University (PSU) in Toulouse, France, from 1983 to 1991, earning his PhD in Electronics in 1991 with research conducted at the Laboratory of Automatic and Analysis of Systems (LAAS/CNRST) within the MOS Technology team. In 1992, he joined SGS Thomson-Casablanca as an engineer, overseeing the assembly line of power electronic components, including TO220 packages and thyristors. In 1993, he transitioned to academia, joining Mohammed 1st University in Oujda, Morocco, as a professor-researcher. He obtained his second PhD (Doctorat d'État) in Electronics in 1996, and has been a full professor since 2000.
Currently, Prof. Kassmi leads the research team Materials, Electronics, and Renewable Energies (MERE), focusing on materials and electronic components, photovoltaic cells and systems, and solar energy applications. Under his supervision, numerous PhD theses have been successfully completed. His academic contributions include co-authoring over 100 publications and international conference presentations in the field of photovoltaic renewable energy, covering materials, cells, and systems.
Since 2002, he has coordinated national and international projects related to solar and photovoltaic renewable energy, both in education and research (projects: Actions Intégrées, PROTARS, PMARS, LEAP-RE, WBI, ARICA, etc.). He holds five patents in photovoltaic control and regulation, particularly in photovoltaic-powered heating systems. As an expert evaluator for Morocco’s National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) in Rabat, he has significantly contributed to the scientific community since October 2019, and also serves as a reviewer for several indexed journals.
He is the editor of the book collection Solar Water Heating: Fundamentals and Applications (Nova Science Publishers, 2021), co-editor of another book collection (Taylor & Francis Group, 2021), and co-editor of the book Solar Cookers and Sustainable Cooking Solutions for the Post-Energy Crisis Era (IGI Global Scientific publishing, 2025). His expertise has earned him recognition as a thought leader in renewable energy technologies, and his work continues to inspire advancements in the field.