Automobile Engineering Hybridization and Electrification

Abolfazl Khalkhali received his M.Sc. (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from The University of Guilan, Iran. He was faculty member at Engineering Department of the Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch from 2007 to 2011. He has served as the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and also Dean of Engineering Department at the Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch. He came to the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2011. He is currently associate professor at the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST. He was Deputy of Chancellor in Research and Education of the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST from 2011 to 2015. He is also the head of Automotive Simulation and Optimal Design research laboratory in IUST. His research interests are automotive body structural design, finite element analysis and simulation, multi-objective optimization, product family and platform design, GMDH-type neural networks, robust and reliability-based design and optimization using evolutionary algorithms.

Dr. Praveen Malik is a Professor in the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. in with a specialization in Wireless Communication and Antenna Design. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 technical research papers published in leading journals and conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc. Some of his research findings are published in top-cited journals. He has also published three edited/authored books with International Publishers. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and guiding students leading to Ph.D. He is an Associate Editor of different Journals. His current interest includes Microstrip Antenna Design, MIMO, Vehicular Communication, and IoT. He was invited as Guest Editors/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals, invited for keynote Speaker in many International Conferences held in Asia and invited as Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair in many International Conferences. He has been granted two design patents and a few are in pipelines. 

Mahsa Rahimbeigi was graduated in bachelor of Automotive Engineering in 2017 and later in master of Applied Mechanical Engineering in 2021 from The Iran University of science and technology. She startet her career in 2017 as an industrial engineer in Bon Ghete Company up to 2019.She is currently working in Neev Company as an expert engineer. It should be mention that Neev is a company that its main activity is in production of oil and gas equipment.in Neev Company, She is responsible for issuing engineering certificates .She is also a member of Automotive Simulation and Optimal Design research laboratory in IUST.Her research interests are elastomeric compounds, experimental investigations and research about tires. She is really interested in learning new industrial and automotive designing soft wares for improving its operation.