Prof. Zabihollah (Zabi) Rezaee is currently the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence, tenured Professor of Accounting at the Crews School of Accountancy of the University of Memphis. He served a two-year term (2004-2006) on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and he is currently (2019-2024) the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research (JFAR), one of the 17 journals of the American Accounting Association (AAA). He is currently appointed as the Honorary Advisor of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC) in Hong Kong (December 2019-September 2025).

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Masoud Taghavi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Chung-Ang University (CAU) in Seoul, South Korea, PhD in Mechanical Engineering- Energy Conversion, and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, at Faculty of Noshahr, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Iran. His research interests are mechanical engineering, energy engineering, hydrogen liquefaction, production, and storage, LNG, fuel cell, sustainable energies and green systems, solar energy and photovoltaic panels (PV), renewable energies and HVAC new technologies fields, low energy building, and CCUS. For more than 10 years, Masoud has worked as an HVAC engineer in buildings, a researcher, and a teacher for various universities in Iran. Masoud was introduced as the “Top Researcher” and “Top Lecturer” in the faculty of Noshahr, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Iran, respectively in 2020, and 2021, 2022.

Dr. Behzad Shahmoradi was born in Sanandaj City, Kurdistan, west of Iran in 1976. He completed his B.E. in Environmental Health Engineering from Urmia University of Medical Sciences in 2000. After four year experience as environmental health inspector, he joint University of Mysore, India for M.Sc. in Environmental Science. In 2010, he awarded PhD from University of Mysore, India. Later, he joint Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. As full-time professor, he is supervising both M.Tech. and PhD students. He has published more than 145 scientific papers in reputed journals and have excellent collaboration with peer scientists throughout the world. His interest is synthesis of metal oxide doped ZnO/TiO 2 nanomaterials for environmental application.