Fractional Order Systems: Optimization, Control, Circuit Realizations and Applications

Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is the leader of Automated Systems and Computing Lab (ASCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. He is also the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier. He is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning, control theory and applications, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published or co-published over 550 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Ahmad Azar has received several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018). In June 2018, he was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In August 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS). Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Research.com since December 2019. He was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020. In October 2020, Prof. Azar received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. From October 2020 to September 2023, Prof. Azar was recognized as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In November 2020, October 2021, October 2022, October 2023, September 2024, and September 2025 Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University, based on single-year impact and career-long impact. These rankings were published by Stanford University in the PLOS journal and were based on the SCOPUS database. Prof. Ahmad Azar has been recognized as one of the top ten researchers at Prince Sultan University, based on his Scopus H-index. He has also received a university award for being among his top publication of research. Prof. Azar has received Prince Sultan University’s Research Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the university’s Highest Impact Researcher Award, based on his H-index. Additionally, he has earned a PSU research award for having publications ranked among the top five by impact factor. Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 4.3 Robotics, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Cities. He is a technical Committee Member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IFAC Technical committee Member TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systems.

Ahmed G. Radwan (Senior member IEEE) is a Professor in the Engineering Mathematics Department, Cairo University, Egypt, and Acting Director of Research, Nile University, Egypt. He was the Former Director of Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC), Nile University, Egypt. Dr. Radwan was a visiting Professor in Computational Electromagnetic Lab (CEL), Electrical and Computer Engineering department (ECE), McMaster University, Canada in the interval [2008 – 2009], then he was selected to be a part of the first foundation research teams to join KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) during the interval [2009 -2011]. His research interests include interdisciplinary concepts between mathematics and engineering applications such as fractional-order systems, bifurcation, chaos, memristor, and encryption. Dr. Radwan received the Cairo University excellence award for research in the engineering sciences in 2016, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in basic sciences in 2015, the state achievements award for research in mathematical sciences in 2012, the Cairo University achievements award for research in the engineering sciences in 2013, and the best researcher awards Nile University 2015 & 2016. Dr. Radwan has more than 200 papers, h-index 30, and more than 3000 citations based on Scopus database. He is the Co-inventor of Six US patents, author/Co-author of Seven international books as well as 15-chapter books in the highly ranked publishers such as Elsevier and Springer. He received many research grants as Principle Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. He was Invited to be Lead/Guest Editors in Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, and Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and Complexity. He organized many special sessions, serve as TPC (Technical Program Committee) in several international conferences. He was selected as a member of the first scientific council of Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) as well as in the first scientific council of the Egyptian Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, and Innovation (ECASTI) to empower and encourage Egyptian young scientists in science and technology and build knowledge-based societies.