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Dr. Marinela Mircea received a degree in informatics in economy from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, a Ph.D. in Economics, and a habilitation degree in Economic Informatics. Since 2003, she has been teaching at the Informatics and Cybernetics Economy Department, Bucharest University of Economic Studies. From 2005 to 2012, she was an employee of the Public Procurement Compartment within the

Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where she was the head of the Monitoring and Reporting Office (2007–2012) and engaged directly with the procurement procedures conducted by the university. Currently, she is a full professor at this university. She has published more than 100 articles in journals, magazines, and international conferences on computer science, informatics, and business management. She has authored and coauthored eighteen books. She was a member of more than fifteen research projects and a project manager for two national research projects. Her research interests include programming, information systems, business management, and business intelligence. Prof. Mircea is a member of the Association for the Promotion of Economic Informatics Education, a senior member of the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, and a member of the Association of North America Higher Education International.

Dr. Tien Nguyen is an adjunct research professor in Mathematics at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), Center of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), where he is the chairman of the CCAM Advisory Board. Concurrently, he also serves as a senior project leader at the Aerospace Corporation. Prior to this position, he was associate director/interim director and principal engineer/technical staff. Previously, he had more

than an 11-year successful tenure at NASA-JPL and served as a NASA delegate to the international Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS); many of his works were adopted as CCSDS standards. He also had a very productive 10-year tenure at Raytheon, where he served as a chief engineer, technical director, project manager, and principal investigator for many advanced concept technology (ACT) programs. He became the program area chief engineer for the ACT System Integration product line and retired as a Raytheon engineering fellow. While at Raytheon, Dr. Nguyen was a certified program manager at levels 5/6, EVMS level 2, and Six Sigma. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Claremont Graduate University, California, and serval master's degrees in pure mathematics, electromagnetic field theory, communications systems theory, and digital signal processing. His current research focuses on the applications of advanced technology enablers developed from industrial revolutions 4.0 and 5.0 for managing future commercial, civilian, and defense programs. He has edited two books on satellite design and complex systems-of-systems modeling and simulation and published more than 250 papers in professional journals, magazines, and national and international conferences. He holds seventeen patents with two pending.

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