Sanober Farheen Memon is a PhD Researcher at the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre, Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. She received a B.E Degree in Electronic Engineering and an M.E Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET) Jamshoro, Pakistan in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Before starting her PhD, Sanober served at MUET, Pakistan, for more than 3 years, as a faculty member (Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer), and taught a variety of modules to B.Eng. students and co-supervised final-year projects. Her current research interests include optical fibre sensors, photonics engineering, instrumentation and measurement and intelligent systems. Sanober has been a recipient of the European Union EM INTACT Doctorate Scholarship, the UL Postgraduate Residential Scholarship, UL ECE Departmental Funding, and a Merit Scholarship from MUET, Pakistan during her undergraduate studies. She is a member of IEEE WIE, IEEE Photonics Society and IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society.
Ruoning Wang received a B.S. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China, in 2018. She is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Optical Engineering at the Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. Her research interests include fibre-optic sensors and devices.
Bob Strunz graduated with a BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Limerick in 1987 and was awarded his PhD from the University of Hull in 2005. He is a Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the University of Limerick and a member of the Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems. Bob was formerly Technology Advisor to the University of Limerick and Chief Technical Architect of the National Digital Learning Repository. Bob also served for 16 years as the chief technical advisor to the board of the Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation and was a board member of the Birr Educational trust. In 2016, Bob was a visiting Researcher at the School of Engineering at Napier University, Edinburgh.
Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, PhD (Southampton, UK), FIEEEP, FIE, IEEE Senior Member, is a Distinguished National Professor, and Former Dean and Professor Emeritus at the faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He is also a Member BOG Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. He has remained Guest Scientist/Associate of the ICTP (under umbrella of UNESCO/UNU), Trieste, Italy, for Twelve (12) Years. He is credited as editor/coeditor of the books “Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems”, CCIS 20, “Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies”, CCIS 281, and “Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries”, CCIS 366, published by Springer Verlag, Germany. He has also served as a Guest editor of a Special issue of the Springer International Journal of Wireless Personal Communication. He has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals, as well as IEEE and ACM proceedings.
Professor J T Pembroke holds a PhD in Molecular Biochemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, before taking up a faculty position at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Here, he served as Chair of Industrial Biochemistry, Head of Department of Chemical Sciences and Head of the School of Natural Sciences. He spent an OECD fellowship at the Rowett Institute, Scotland, and Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. His research interests include metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for biofuel production, process optimisation for ethanol production and genetic engineering for increased ethanol productivity. He was a partner in the 5-year EU DEMA (direct ethanol from microalgae) project with partners throughout Europe from industry and academia.
Elfed Lewis graduated with a BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Liverpool University in 1978 and was awarded his PhD from the same institution in 1987. He is Associate Professor and Director of the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre at the University of Limerick, which he founded in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, IET, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has authored and co authored more than 180 journal papers and made in excess of 400 contributions to international conferences. He currently holds 9 patents on Optical Fibre Sensor Devices. In 2005, he was a recipient of the University of Limerick Special Achievement in Research Award and was a Fulbright Scholar with CREOL (University of Central Florida) in 2008. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Sensors Council for the period of July 2013 to June 2015 and General Chair of several recent international conferences held at the University of Limerick, Ireland.