Biographical note

Dr. Ajith Abraham is a Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bennette University. He is the director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Australia. MIR Labs are a not-for-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, Web intelligence, Web services, and data mining. He is the Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Sujata Dash holds the position of Professor at the Information Technology School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University, Dimapur Campus, Nagaland, India, bringing more than three decades of dedicated service in teaching and mentoring students. She has been honoured with the prestigious Titular Fellowship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, United Kingdom. As a testament to her global contributions, she served as a visiting professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Manitoba, Canada. With a prolific academic record, she has authored over 200 technical papers published in esteemed international journals, and conference proceedings, and edited book chapters by reputed publishers Serving as a reviewer and Associate Editor for approximately 15 international journals. Dr. Subhendu Kumar Pani received his Ph.D. from Utkal University, Odisha, India in the year 2013. He is working as a professor at Krupajal Engineering College under BPUT, Odisha, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience His research interests include Data mining, Big Data Analysis, web data analytics, Fuzzy Decision Making and Computational Intelligence. He is the recipient of 5 researcher awards. In addition to research, he has guided two PhD students and 31 M. Tech students. He has published 150 International Journal papers (100 Scopus index). His professional activities include roles as Book Series Editor (CRC Press, Apple Academic Press, Wiley-Scrivener), Associate Editor, Editorial board member and/or reviewer of various International Journals. He is an Associate with no. of the conference societies. He has more than 250 international publications, 5 authored books, 25 edited and upcoming books; 40 book chapters into his account. He is a fellow in SSARSC and a life member in IE, ISTE, ISCA, and OBA.OMS, SMIACSIT, SMUACEE, CSI. LAURA GARCÍA-HERNÁNDEZ received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, in 2007, and the European Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Córdoba, Spain, and also from the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2011. She has been an Invited Professor during a semester in the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Area of Project Engineering at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her primary areas of research are engineering design optimization, intelligent systems, machine learning, user adaptive systems, interactive evolutionary computation, project management, risk prevention in automatic systems, and educational technology. In these fields, she has authored or co-authored more than 70 international research publications. She has given several invited talks in different countries. She has realized several postdoctoral internships in different countries with a total duration of more than two years. She received the prestigious National Government Research Grant ‘‘José Castillejo’’ for supporting their post-doc research during six months in the University of Algarve, Portugal. She has been an Investigator Principal in two Spanish research projects and has also been an Investigator Collaborator in some research contracts and projects. She is an Expert Member of ISO/TC 184/SC working team and the National Standards Institute of Spain (UNE). Moreover, she is a member of the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA Spain). Considering her research, she received the Young Researcher Award granted by the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA), Spain, in 2015. Additionally, she received two times the General Council of Official Colleges Award at prestigious International Conference on Project Management and Engineering both 2017 and 2018 editions. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Assurance and Security. Also, she is an Associate Editor in the following ISI Journals: Applied Soft Computing, Complex & Intelligent Systems, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.