Hiba Al-Sheikh received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Balamand, Lebanon, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. She was awarded two student excellence awards from the faculty of engineering as well as the university founder award for scoring the highest GPA. In 2003, she was selected to participate in the Young Ambassadors Program for Leadership Skills in Carlisle, PA, USA. In 2015, she received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering specialty Automation and Signal Analysis from Université de Rouen Normandie, IRSEEM/ESIGELEC, France. Dr. Al-Sheikh has more than 18 years of work experience over which she held different academic and administrative positions at several universities in Lebanon and abroad. She is currently Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at City University, Tripoli, Lebanon. She has supervised and moderated several undergraduate and graduate projects and MS theses and is co-supervising Ph.D. students at Université d’Aix Marseille and Université de Rouen Normandie. She is serving as guest editor of special issue in Processes MDPI journal. Dr. Al- Sheikh is a member of the OEA, an IEEE member, and a member of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS). She served as a member of the scientific committee of the OEA and as the Counselor of CityU IEEE student branch. She is currently the Chair of IEEE Lebanon Joint Chapter, IE13/PE31/CAS04/PEL35. Her research interests include fault detection, power electronics systems, hybrid vehicles, hybrid energy systems, and renewable energy systems.

Jean Sawma received the diploma and the master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingenieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB), Lebanon and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Beyrouth and University of Cergy-Pontoise, France in 2016. Since 2019, Jean has been working as a full-time assistant professor in the electrical department at ESIB. His current research interests include Model Predictive Control (MPC), the control of power electronics and electrical motors and FPGA SoC based embedded control.

Abdallah El Ghaly received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Power and Control Program, M.S.E. degree, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Power and Machines Program from Beirut Arab University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2013, 2016, and 2022, respectively. Dr. El Ghaly worked as a senior electrical design engineer from 2013 to 2019, participating in the design of commercial, industrial, and residential buildings worldwide, particularly in the Gulf region. He began his academic career at Beirut Arab University in 2019 as a full-time lecturer. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor in the Electrical Power and Machines Program at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Beirut Arab University. He also serves as a reviewer for the International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, results in engineering, IEEEE Access, e-prime, and computer and electrical engineering. Dr. El Ghaly is a member of OEA, IEEE, and the PE society. He is serving as a secretary in the IEEE-Lebanon Joint Chapter, IE13/PE31/CAS04/PEL35. His research interests include power quality, active power filters, power electronics, and renewable energy systems.

Abdallah Kassem has previously worked as research assistant at Polystim Neurotechnologies Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. He still cooperates with this laboratory doing some researches. He received his B.S in Microelectronics from University of Quebec in Montreal in 1992, his M.Sc and Ph.D in microelectronic from Ecole polytechnique de Montreal in 1996 and 2004 respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he taught computer architecture, microprocessors and digital electronic courses and laboratories at AUB, LAU in Lebanon. Dr. Kassem joined Notre Dame University-Louaize in 2005 as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2011. His research interests include microelectronics design and test, VLSI, semiconductor device modeling and simulation, microprocessors/ microcontrollers, re-used system design, engineering education, m-Heath and biomedical engineering. Dr. Kassem is a Professional Engineer in Lebanon (Ordre des Ingénieurs du Liban). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Organizer and TPC member of many IEEE International conferences.

Engr. Mohamad Kassab is a telecom engineer manager in Nour El-Hoda for trading and communication (Connext ISP). He earned his ABET accreditation Bachelor of computer and communication of engineering from Notre Dame University-Louaize. Since 2018, he work as Social Media coordination in IEEE Lebanon section. He is a member in The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-IEEE and The Order of Engineers and Architects in tripoli-OEA. He can be reached at majkassab@ieee.org

Ali W. Koubayssi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese International University, Lebanon, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. In 2015, he started his work as a lab instructor at the Lebanese International University, Lebanon. Eng. Koubayssi has more than 10 research papers that are published in many IEEE conferences and journals. He has supervised and moderated several undergraduate and graduate projects. Eng. Koubayssi is a member of the OEA, an IEEE member, and a member of IEEE Power & Energy Society Membership (PES). His research interests include fault detection, designing hybrid power systems, smart grids, and renewable energy systems.