Dr. Salman Raza Naqvi (T.I & Young Entrepreneur PEC) is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Karlstad University, Sweden, with a strong international profile in sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials from waste and biomass streams. His expertise includes thermochemical conversion, waste-to-energy process engineering, process modelling and simulation, machine-learning-based prediction and optimization, hydrogen production, and carbon capture-related systems. He has worked across academia, industry, and public sector roles in Sweden, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Germany, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the Czech Republic. His record includes extensive publications, patents, competitive research grants, and broad collaboration with international partners. He has substantial teaching and supervision experience at bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels, and contributes to curriculum development, accreditation, and doctoral supervision training. He also serves the research community through editorial board roles, guest editorships, conference committees, invited talks, and peer review in leading journals in energy and chemical engineering.

Ir. Dr. Haslinda Bt Zabiri is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. With a PhD in Advanced Process Control from UTP and a MASc from McMaster University, Canada, she brings over two decades of academic and industrial experience in chemical engineering. Her research focuses on hybrid model predictive control, control valve stiction diagnostics, CO2 capture systems, and multivariate statistical process monitoring.