Dr. Alexandros Flamos is Full Professor at the University of Piraeus (UNIPI) and Director of the Technoeconomics of Energy Systems Laboratory (TEESlab) of UNIPI. He has a Degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in the area of Decision Support Systems (DSS) applied in energy and environmental policy and planning. He teaches Engineering Economics, Energy Management, Renewable Energy Sources Utilization & Technoeconomics of Energy Systems at graduate and post graduate level at UNIPI and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

He has over 25 years of working experience in the areas of DSS, Energy Management & Planning and energy modelling and their applications for analyzing energy policy scenarios, intra- and cross- sectoral interactions of energy and climate policies, security of energy supply, business models and energy pricing competitiveness. He has held the position of scientific coordinator/ senior researcher in more than 50 European Commission (EC)- funded projects (EC R&D FP5, FP6, FP7, Η2020, Horizon Europe, IEE, etc.) related to energy systems management, appraisal and planning. He has also worked as consultant in projects funded by international donors (e.g. the European Investment Bank and EuropeAid).

He has significant experience working as Editor in Chief, Guest Editor and Editorial Board for scientific journals. He also has published more than 150 papers in high impact international scientific Journals (peer reviewed) and international conferences and has been an invited speaker and moderator at major energy policy events (MENAREC, Euro-Asia meetings, EU-GCC, EUSEW etc).

Professor Aoife M. Foley is an Irish–British engineer and a leading expert in energy systems, renewable energy integration, transport electrification, and net-zero infrastructure. She served as Editor-in-Chief and in other senior editorial roles at Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews from 2014 to 2023, helping grow the journal’s impact and global influence.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a PhD in energy engineering from University College Cork, as well as a master’s degree from Trinity College Dublin. Professor Foley has held academic positions at University College Cork and Queen’s University Belfast, where she progressed to full Professor in 2022. In 2023, she joined The University of Manchester as Chair in Net Zero Infrastructure.

With nearly 15 years of industry experience in energy and engineering before entering academia, she has authored highly cited research, including one of the world’s most referenced papers in wind forecasting. She also serves on editorial boards for Renewable Energy and Scientific Reports.

Samir Khuller (born 1965) is a professor of Computer Science and the Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He was previously Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science in the University of Maryland's Department of Computer Science. His research is in the area of algorithm design, specifically on combinatorial optimization, graphs and networks and scheduling.

Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from Cornell University as a student of Vijay Vazirani. From 1990 to 1992, he was a research associate at UMIACS (the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), a division of the University of Maryland. In 1992 he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science. He became the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science in 2012, a position he held until 2017. 

Dr. Apostol Vassilev is a Research Supervisor in the Computer Security Division at NIST. His team’s research agenda convers a range of topics in Trustworthy AI and Cybersecurity, with a focus on Adversarial Machine Learning (AML), AI bias, meta learning with large language models (LLMs), Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography, novel approaches to cybersecurity testing and measurement through automated machine-based methodologies.

Apostol Vassilev works closely with academia, industry and government agencies on the development and adoption of standards in Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity and contributes to national and international standards groups. He is a guest co-editor to the upcoming IEEE Transactions on AI – Special Issue on Responsible AI Engineering. Apostol is a frequent speaker at international conferences and a keynote speaker to many events.