Meet the editors

Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki is a senior associate professor in the Department of Mechatronics and Mechanical Systems Engineering, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Tsuzuki is an expert in CAD/CAM, optimization methods, cutting and packing, inverse problems, ultrasound, and computer graphics. He developed methodologies for various industrial applications related to ultrasound, software development, and

CAD/CAM systems. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Dr. Tsuzuki has been the chair of several events held by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and IEEE. He was elected chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Manufacturing Plant Control and vice chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Systems.

Ahmad Barari is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and director of Advanced Digital Design, Manufacturing, and Metrology (AD-2MLabs), Ontario Tech University, Canada. Dr. Barari is an expert in the digitalization of the product life cycle including design, manufacturing, inspection, and maintenance. He developed methodologies for various industrial applications in product

development, process control, prognostics, health monitoring, and prescriptive and predictive maintenance. His contributions include software solutions, new machines and processes, graduate course curricula, and more than 180 publications in highly ranked journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Barari has closely collaborated with various industries on projects funded by national and international sources. He has been a member of numerous international scientific committees and organizations, including the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He has been an editorial board member for various journals and proceedings. He has organized, chaired, or administrated more than twenty academic national and international events, conference topics, invited sessions, and seminars. Dr. Barari was previously the chair of IFAC's 13th international workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. He is currently the vice chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Manufacturing Plant Control and the chair of the IFAC Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Working Group.

Tomoki Saka teaches Machine Learning, Computer Languages, and Information Processing Laboratory at the Department of Media Informatics, College of Informatics and Human Communication, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan, in 2009. In 2011, he received a master's degree in Informa-

tion Media and Environment Sciences from the Graduate School of Environment and Information Science at the same university. In the same year, he was engaged in PC mechanical design work at Fujitsu Limited. In 2017, he received Dr. info. Sci. in the same department at the same university. He has been a research associate since 2021.

André Kubagawa Sato is a postdoctoral researcher in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research concerns the study of optimization and inverse problems, mostly in biomedical applications. Recently, his work is focused on identifying forest fires from sensor data.

Rogério Yugo Takimoto received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received his MSc and Ph.D. in Ocean and Space Systems Engineering from Yokohama National University, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Mechatronics Engineering Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research interests include signal and image processing,

filtering, 3D reconstruction, segmentation, pattern recognition, optimization, and biomedical signal processing.

Rehab O. Abdel Rahman is an Associate Professor of Chemical Nuclear Engineering, Radioactive Waste Management Department, Hot Laboratories & Waste Management Center, Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt. She obtained a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt. She has more than forty peer-reviewed scientific papers, twenty-five book chapters, and ten books to his credit. She has taught and supervised post-

graduate research in chemistry, physics, petrochemical, and environmental chemical engineering departments. She serves as a verified reviewer for several journals and is managing editor for the *International Journal of Environment and Waste Management* and the *International Journal of Engineering Education.*

Dr. Yung Tse Hung is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970 and an MS and BS in Civil Engineering from Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1964. He has 15 books, 450 reports and journal publications, and numerous conference presentations in water and wastewater treatment

to his credit. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a fellow of the Ohio Academy of Science, and a member of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Water Environment Federation. He is the executive director of the Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association. His research interests include water supply and water treatment, municipal wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment, biological waste treatment, water and wastewater treatment plant design, water pollution control, and water quality engineering.
