Biografisk notat

Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Vice Chancellor at Sai University, Chennai. Before joining Sai University, he held the position of vice chancellor at prominent institutions and was also the founding director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a non-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence with headquarters in Seattle, USA. Dr. Abraham has completed research projects valued at over $110 million as an investigator or co-investigator from the United States, the European Union, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, China, and Australia. He has worked in a multidisciplinary setting for more than 35 years and has authored or co-authored more than 1,500+ research publications in artificial intelligence and related applications in the industry. A handful of his publications have been translated into Chinese and Russian, and one of his books has been translated into Japanese. The Scopus database has approximately 1,400 papers indexed, whereas the Thomson Web of Science has over 1,000 publications indexed. In addition to other esteemed universities, Dr. Abraham has worked with researchers from MIT (USA), the University of Cambridge (UK), Harvard University (USA), and Oxford University (UK). According to Google Scholar, Dr. Abraham possesses over 63,000 scholarly citations with an H-index of over 118. He has delivered over 250 conference plenary talks and tutorials in more than 20 countries. From 2008 to 2021, Dr. Abraham chaired the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing, which had more than 200 members. From 2011 to 2013, he represented Europe as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society (USA). Dr. Abraham is continuously listed in the Stanford/Elsevier list, highlighting the top 2% of the most cited scientists across the globe. Based on 2024 data, ScholarGPS listed Dr. Abraham as one of the world’s top 0.01% cited scientists in the engineering and computer science fields. From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Abraham worked as the chief editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) at Elsevier, New York. EAAI is one of the oldest journals (founded in 1988) in the artificial intelligencedomain. Additionally, he sat on the editorial boards of more than 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI. Dr. Abraham received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2001), a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1998), and a B.Tech (Hons) degree from the University of Calicut in 1990. 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.