Professor Mohammad-Reza Alam holds the American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering and is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, dynamical systems and nonlinear dynamics, and fluid flow controls. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 and joined the faculty of UC Berkeley in 2011. Professor Alam serves as the director of the "Ocean and Coastal Science and Engineering" program and the "Theoretical and Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory" at UC Berkeley.

Madjid Fathi is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen. He is the Chair and Director of the Institute of Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management. Before he got to Siegen he was visiting Professor at UNM, Florida State and Georgia Tech. in USA. He established the Research Center KMIS (Knowledge Management & Intelligent System) in 2007. He did his sabbatical in U.C. Berkeley from 2012.-2013 at BISC (Berkeley Initiative of Soft Computing) by Professor Zadeh, the Father of Fuzzy Logic. His research interests are focused on AI & Knowledge Based system and knowledge management applications in medicine and engineering, computational intelligence and nowledge discovery from text (KDT). Dr. Fathi has published 3 text and 5 edited books, with his students he published more than 250 papers receiving 4 best paper awards. His recent published book "Computer Aided Writing" by springer published in 2020. He is also the editor of the book series "Integrated Systems: Innovations and Applications" published by Springer. the last one will be published in june 2024.