Yahya Lakys is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2003, his MSc. in Telecommunications from the University of Rennes, in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Electronics from the University of Bordeaux, in 2009. He worked previously at the Institut d’ Electronique Fondamentale (IEF), University of Paris, on the design of spintronics-based integrated circuits before joining Atmel Corporation where he worked on the design of radiation hardened circuits for aerospace applications. Communication technologies and Artificial Intelligence are among his current research interests.
Mehmet Ali Güler
Mehmet Ali Güler is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of the Middle East (AUM), Kuwait since 2018. Prior to AUM, he was a full professor at TOBB University, Türkiye since 2015. He received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. in 1996, and 2001, respectively. Güler worked as senior structural and thermal engineer at Cd-adapco (now SIEMENS), Melville NY, USA (2000–2005) and as a chief engineer at Temsa Global (2005–2006), Adana, Türkiye. He was a Fulbright scholar at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ between 2013-2014 . Guler has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and 20 conference papers on contact and fracture mechanics, peridynamics, crashworthiness and finite element analysis.