Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Autonomy

Mukhdeep Singh Manshahia, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 from Punjabi University Patiala. He works in Sustainable Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Sensor Networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), Nature Inspired Computing, Energy Harvesting, and Renewable Energy Systems. He has edited three books, published 46 international and national research papers, and presented 30 research papers at international and national conferences/seminars. He has guided four Master dissertations, 55 undergraduate projects, and two Ph.D. dissertations. He has 17 years of working experience at universities. He is a reviewer for many WoS journals and is a member of the Computer Society of India, IEEE, and IAENG.

Valeriy Kharchenko, Ph.D., is Chief Scientific Officer at FSBSI Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM, Moscow. He is a researcher and consultant in a wide range of energy-saving fields, including energy policy at the national and international levels, energy RTD strategy, RUE, and RES. Dr. Kharchenko's education includes Tacis Training Programme (Manager in Energy,1994-1995); Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan (Professor, 1994); State Higher Training Courses on Patenting and Invention (Certificate with Distinction, 1987); Institute of Electronics, Moscow (Doctor of Engineering Sciences Degree, 1987); Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk (Candidate of Chemistry Degree, 1969); Tashkent Polytechnic Institute (Тechnology Engineer, 1956-1961). His international activity includes counterpart expert in the Project of EU "Monitoring and evaluation of the energy (nonnuclear) projects implementation in Uzbekistan" (carried out by European companies, 1994-1996); expert for evaluation of submitted proposals INTAS (1998-2000); senior expert of the Central Asia Energy Advisory Group (a project under the EC DG XVII's SYNERGY Programme) with responsibilityfor the formation of expert groups, peering and estimation of their reports, and preparing general Interim and final annual reports (1996-2000); Global Environmental Facility, Government of Uzbekistan (Joint Project UZB/98/G42/A/1G/99), an expert at the premises (2000-2001 UNDP). He is a reviewer for several international journals, including Solar Energy, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Renewable Energy, member of the editorial boards of several international journals, including the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE) and the Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), and an honorary professor of the Institute of Hydropower and Renewable Energy of the National Research University.

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Faculty of Engineering Management at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. His research is on mathematics, statistics, operational research, data science, machine learning, finance, economics, optimization, optimal control, management, neuro-, bio-, and earth sciences, medicine, logistics, development, cosmology, and generalized space-time research. He is involved in the organization of scientific life internationally. He received a Diploma and Doctorate in Mathematics and Economics/ Business Administration at RWTH Aachen and Habilitation at TU Darmstadt. He replaced Professorships at the University of Cologne, and TU Chemnitz, Germany. He was a Professor in Financial Mathematics and Scientific Computing and Assistant to the Director at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He has been a member of five other graduate schools, institutes, and departments at METU. Dr. Weber also has affiliations at the University of Siegen (Germany), Federation University (Ballarat, Australia), University of Aveiro (Portugal), University of North Sumatra (Medan, Indonesia), MalaysiaUniversity of Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, KTO Karatay University (Konya, Turkey), Vidyasagar University (Midnapore, India), Mazandaran University of Science and Technology (Babol, Iran), Istinye University (Istanbul, Turkey), and Georgian International Academy of Sciences. He is an Advisor to EURO Conferences for the Association of European OR Societies and the International Federation of OR Societies (IFORS). Professor Weber is an IFORS Fellow, a member of many national OR societies, an honorary chair of some EURO working groups, a subeditor of the IFORS Newsletter, a member of the IFORS Developing Countries Committee and Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group. He has supervised many MSc and Ph.D. students, authored and edited numerous books and articles, and given presentations on diverse areas in theory, methods, and practice. He has been a member of many international journal editorial, special issue, and award boards, participated in numerous research projects, and received various recognitions from students, universities, conferences, and scientific organizations.

Pandian Vasant is a Research Associate at MERLIN Research Centre, TDTU, HCMC, Vietnam, and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE). He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Intelligence from UNEM, Costa Rica, an MSc in Engineering Mathematics from the University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, and a BSc (Hons, Second Class Upper) in Mathematics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research interests include soft computing, hybrid optimization, innovative computing, and applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentations, special issues, and chapters and was the General Chair of the EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Penang, Malaysia (2016) and Bangkok, Thailand (2018). In the years 2009 and 2015, he was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing. He has 32 years of university working experience (teaching, research, and editorial). He is currently the General Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization and a member of the AMS (USA), NAVY Research Group (TUO, Czech Republic), and MERLIN Research Centre (TDTU, Vietnam).

Mukhdeep Singh Manshahia, Ph.D.，是印度旁遮普邦旁遮普大學的助理教授。他於2016年獲得旁遮普大學的博士學位。他的研究領域包括可持續計算、人工智慧、無線感測網路、物聯網（IoT）、自然啟發計算、能量收集及可再生能源系統。他編輯了三本書，發表了46篇國際和國內研究論文，並在國際和國內會議/研討會上發表了30篇研究論文。他指導了四篇碩士論文、55個本科專案和兩篇博士論文。他在大學擁有17年的工作經驗。他是多本WoS期刊的審稿人，也是印度計算機學會、IEEE和IAENG的成員。

Valeriy Kharchenko, Ph.D.，是莫斯科FSBSI聯邦科學農業工程中心VIM的首席科學官。他是一位研究員和顧問，專注於多個節能領域，包括國內和國際層面的能源政策、能源研發策略、能源使用效率（RUE）和可再生能源系統（RES）。Kharchenko博士的教育背景包括1994-1995年的Tacis培訓計畫（能源經理）；1994年烏茲別克斯坦塔什干國立技術大學的教授；1987年獲得專利和發明國家高級培訓課程的優異證書；1987年在莫斯科電子學院獲得工程科學博士學位；1969年在新西伯利亞無機化學研究所獲得化學候選人學位；1956-1961年在塔什干理工學院獲得技術工程師學位。他的國際活動包括擔任歐盟「監測和評估烏茲別克斯坦非核能源項目實施」計畫的對口專家（由歐洲公司執行，1994-1996）；擔任INTAS提交提案的評估專家（1998-2000）；擔任中亞能源諮詢小組的高級專家（該計畫屬於歐盟DG XVII的SYNERGY計畫），負責專家小組的組建、報告的審查和評估，以及準備一般的中期和最終年度報告（1996-2000）；在烏茲別克斯坦政府的全球環境設施（聯合項目UZB/98/G42/A/1G/99）中擔任專家（2000-2001年聯合國開發計畫署）。他是多本國際期刊的審稿人，包括《Solar Energy》，並擔任《European Journal of Renewable Energy》的副主編，還是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering》（IJEOE）和《Journal of Cases on Information Technology》（JCIT），並且是國立研究大學水電與可再生能源研究所的榮譽教授。

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Ph.D.，是波蘭波茲南科技大學工程管理學院的教授。他的研究領域包括數學、統計學、運籌學、數據科學、機器學習、金融、經濟學、優化、最優控制、管理、神經科學、生物科學、地球科學、醫學、物流、發展、宇宙學及廣義時空研究。他參與國際科學活動的組織。他在亞琛工業大學獲得數學和經濟學/商業管理的文憑和博士學位，並在達姆施塔特工業大學獲得資格認證。他曾在科隆大學和德國化學工業大學擔任教授。他曾在土耳其安卡拉的中東技術大學（METU）擔任金融數學和科學計算的教授及應用數學研究所的主任助理。他在METU的其他五個研究所、學院和系所中也有任職經歷。Weber博士還與德國西根大學、澳大利亞巴拉瑞特聯邦大學、葡萄牙阿維羅大學、印尼美丹的北蘇門答臘大學等機構有合作關係。