Professor Abdon Atangana is a distinguished scholar at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and one of the most highly cited mathematicians, recognized globally for his groundbreaking contributions to the field.

In recognition of his exceptional achievements, Professor Atangana has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Black Star Award (2024), the African Genius Award (2024), the UNESCO Al-Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2023), and the TWAS Award in Mathematics (2022).

He serves as the President of the African Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ASIAM) and as the Chairman of the African Mathematical Union Commission on Research and Innovation, where he continues to inspire and advance the role of mathematics in addressing Africa’s challenges.

Bayram Şahin was born in Malatya, Turkey. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Ege University, İzmir, Turkey, in 1993 and his Ph.D from Inonu University in 2000. After graduating, Dr. Şahin worked as a post-doctoral fellow at University of Windsor from March 2003 to September 2003 and a research scholar from June 2007 to September 2007. He has led several TUBITAK funded projects at the interface of manifold theory and maps and he has written (or co-authored) eighty-one academic papers. He is the author of the monograph “Differential Geometry of Lightlike Submanifolds” (2010) , Riemannian Submersions, Riemannian Maps in Hermitian Geometry and Their Applications (2017),and the editors of Turkish Journal of Mathematics, Turkic World Mathematical Society (TWMS) Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics. He is the recipient of Masatoshi Gunduz Ikeda research award at 2006. He is now a professor of Mathematics at Ege University, Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Nurettin DOĞAN, İlk ve Orta öğrenimini Ankara' da tamamladıktan sonra Ankara Üniversitesi Matematik bölümünden mezun oldu. Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora öğrenimini Ankara Üniversitesinde tamamladı. Gazi Üniversitesi Teknik Eğitim Fakültesi Elektronik ve Bilgisayar Eğitimi bölümü ve Gazi Üniversitesi Teknoloji Fakültesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği bölümünde çalıştı. Halen Selçuk Üniversitesi Teknoloji Fakültesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümünde çalışmakatadır. Dinamik sistemlerin yaklaşık analitik serisel çözüm yöntemleri hakkında çalışmaları vardır. Güncel çalışma konuları ise görüntü şifreleme uygulamaları ile ilgilidir.

2004 yılında Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi'nden bilgisayar mühendisliği alanında lisans derecesi ve 2007 ve 2013 yıllarında sırasıyla Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkiye'den bilgisayar mühendisliği alanında yüksek lisans derecesi ve elektrik-elektronik eğitimi alanında doktora derecesi aldı. 2021 yılında doçentlik ünvanı aldı. Araştırma ilgi alanları arasında kablosuz sensör ağları, enerji optimizasyonu, Nesnelerin İnterneti, derin öğrenme, doğal dil işleme ve akıllı şehir yer almaktadır.

Academic qualifications:

BSc/MSc: Applied Mathematics, Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University), Baku, Azerbaijan, 1983.
PhD: Mathematics (Differential Equation), Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), Baku, Azerbaijan, 2002.
DSc: Information Technology (System Analysis, Control and Information Processing), Institute of Cybernetics (now Institute of Control Systems) of ANAS, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2010.

Recognition/Awards:

In 2020-2024 Ramiz Aliguliyev has been recognized among the world’s top 2% scientists in the field of artificial intelligence identified by Stanford University.

In 2017 he was elected corresponding member of ANAS in Informatics.
In 2014 he was awarded with “Taraggi” medal by the order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 2013 under the framework of the “ICT year” in the “3rd ICT Contest Competition” held by the Science Development Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies, his article was awarded the 1st place for the best scientific work published in ICT field.

Professional qualifications:

From 1983 to 1987 he worked as an engineer at the Institute of Cybernetics (now Institute of Control Systems) of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences (AAS), Baku, Azerbaijan.
From 1988 to 2002 he worked as a leading engineer and a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of AAS, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Since 2003 he is a head of department at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Since 2023 he is a director of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan
He has supervised 4 PhDs and 5 Masters, currently supervising 10 PhD students.

Research interests:

Data Mining
Text Mining
Big Data Analytics
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Scientometrics
Social Network Synthesis and Analysis
E-government Analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

Editorial, review and expertise activity:

Editorial Board Member of the journals:
- CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
- TWMS Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
- International Journal of Decision Support System Technology
- Problems of Information Technology
- Problems of Information Society
- Informatics and Control Problems
- International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control
- Turkish Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science
- Communication's
- Artificial Intelligence Evolution
- Ukrainian Journal of Information Systems and Data Science.

Grants:

He was project manager/participant of the
6 grants supported by Azerbaijan Science Foundation
and
5 grants supported by Science Fund of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic.