Dr. Xiao-Jun Yang is a full professor of China University of Mining and Technology, China. He was awarded the 2019 Obada-Prize, the Young Scientist Prize (Turkey), and Springer's Distinguished Researcher Award. His scientific interests include: Viscoelasticity, Mathematical Physics, Fractional Calculus and Applications, Fractals, Analytic Number Theory, and Special Functions. He has published over 160 journal articles and 4 monographs, 1 edited volume, and 10 chapters. He is currently an editor of several scientific journals, such as Fractals, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Journal of Thermal Stresses, and Thermal Science, and an associate editor of Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Alexandria Engineering Journal, and IEEE Access.
Dumitru Baleanu is a professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania and a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Çankaya, University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Atomic Physics in 1996. His fields of interest include Fractional Dynamics and its applications, Fractional Differential Equations and their applications, Discrete Mathematics, Image Processing, Bioinformatics, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Physics, Soliton Theory, Lie Symmetry, Dynamic Systems on time scales, Computational Complexity, the Wavelet Method and its applications, Quantization of systems with constraints, the Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism, as well as geometries admitting generic and non-generic symmetries.
Dr. Hari M. Srivastava is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1965 while he was a full-time member of the teaching faculty at the Jai Narain Vyas University of Jodhpur, India. Dr. Srivastava has held (and continues to hold) numerous Visiting, Honorary and Chair Professorships at many universities and research institutes in different parts of the world. Having received several D.Sc. (honoris causa) degrees as well as honorary memberships and fellowships of many scientific academies and scientific societies around the world, he is also actively associated editorially with numerous international scientific research journals as an Honorary or Advisory Editor or as an Editorial Board Member. He has also edited many Special Issues of scientific research journals as the Lead or Joint Guest Editor, including the MDPI journal Axioms, Mathematics, and Symmetry, the Elsevier journals, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Journal of King Saud University – Science, the Wiley journal, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, the Springer journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Journal of Inequalities and Applications, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, and Boundary Value Problems, the American Institute of Physics journal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences journal, AIMS Mathematics, among many others. Dr. Srivastava has been a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly-Cited Researcher since 2015. Dr. Srivastava’s research interests include several areas of Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences, such as Real and Complex Analysis, Fractional Calculus and Its Applications, Integral Equations and Transforms, Higher Transcendental Functions and Their Applications, q-Series and q-Polynomials, Analytic Number Theory, Analytic and Geometric Inequalities, Probability and Statistics, and Inventory Modeling and Optimization. He has published 36 books, monographs, and edited volumes, 36 book (and encyclopedia) chapters, 48 papers in international conference proceedings, and more than 1450 peer-reviewed international scientific research journal articles, as well as Forewords and Prefaces to many books and journals.
