Santosh Kumar Das received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India, in 2018, and completed his M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (erstwhile WBUT), West Bengal, India, in 2013. He is currently working as Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Science and Technology (Autonomous), Institute Park, Pallur Hills, Berhampur, Odisha, India. He has more than eight years of teaching experience. He has authored/edited three books with Springer in series as Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and Studies in Computational Intelligence. He has contributed more than 27 research papers. His research interests mainly focus on ad hoc & sensor network, artificial intelligence, soft computing and mathematical modeling. His h-index is 13 with more than 480 citations.
Sourav Samanta is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. He has completed M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from JIS College of Engineering, WBUT. He was Honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2014–2015). He has published about 45 research papers in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings including five book chapters in books published by Elsevier and Springer, respectively. He is Co-Editor of the book Design Frameworks for Wireless Networks published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Series. He is a regular reviewer of IEEE Access, IEEE Sensor Journals and other various international journals. He serves as a Program/Technical Committee member for AISI2015, ICMCTI-2017, A2ICS-2017 and PerCAA-2019 International Conferences. He is a member of Computer Society of India, Institution of Engineers (India), Soft Computing Research Society and International Association of Engineers. His research area includes bio-inspired computing, quantum machine learning and information security. He has an interest in interdisciplinary research.
Nilanjan Dey is an Asso. Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JIS University, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur Univeristy in 2015. He has authored/edited more than 70 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, Associated Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing – Young ICT Group and Senior member of IEEE.
Bharat S. Patel is Fellow at IEI, IETE and CSI. He is a member of CSI, International Red Cross, Association of British Scholars (a Division of British Council), British Business Group, GCCI, GESIA IT Association, and a founder member with Gujarat Innovation Society (GIS), ASSOCHAM and many more. He was Past Chairman of CSI, Ahmedabad, and Past Chairman of Gujarat State Centre of IEI. Currently, he is President with ABS (div. of British Council), Chairman, Startups Mission, and Chairman, Startup and Innovation, ASSOCHAM for Western council, Chairman, Academia and Research Publications committee, GESIA, Vice Chairman, Gujarat Innovation Society, and a council member and Chairman, CPDB, at The Institution of Engineers (India). He is Director and COO at Yudiz Solutions Pvt. Ltd. India.
Aboul Ella Hassanein is Founder and Head of the Egyptian Scientific Research Group (SRGE) and Professor of Information Technology at the Faculty of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University. Professor Hassanien has more than 1000 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and over 50 books covering such diverse topics as data mining, medical images, intelligent systems, social networks and smart environment. Prof. Hassanien won several awards including the Best Researcher of the Youth Award of Astronomy and Geophysics of the National Research Institute, Academy of Scientific Research (Egypt, 1990). He was also granted a scientific excellence award in humanities from the University of Kuwait for the 2004 Award and received the superiority of scientific in technology – University Award (Cairo University, 2013). Also he honored in Egypt as the best researcher in Cairo University in 2013. He was also received the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) prize on Technology (2014) and received the state Award of excellence in engineering sciences 2015. He holds the Medal of Sciences and Arts from the first class from President of Egypt in 2017.
