Biographical note

Nilanjan Dey (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech., M.Tech. in information technology from West Bengal Board of Technical University and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2005, 2011, and 2015, respectively. Currently, he is Associate Professor with the Techno International New Town, Kolkata and a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He has authored over 300 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and 40 authored books. His research interests include medical imaging and machine learning. Moreover, he actively participates in program and organizing committees for prestigious international conferences, including World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD) etc. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and Data-Intensive Research from Springer Nature and Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare from Elsevier etc. Furthermore, he was an Editorial Board Member Complex & Intelligence Systems, Springer, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier and he is an International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences etc. He is a Fellow of IETE and member of IE, ISOC etc. Himansu Das is working as an as Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He has received his B. Tech and M. Tech degree from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha, India. He has published several research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also edited several books of international repute. He is associated with different international bodies as Editorial/Reviewer board member of various journals and conferences. He is a proficient in the field of Computer Science Engineering and served as an organizing chair, publicity chair and act as member of program committees of many national and international conferences. He is also associated with various educational and research societies like IACSIT, ISTE, UACEE, CSI, IET, IAENG, ISCA etc., His research interest includes Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning. He has also 10 years of teaching and research experience in different engineering colleges. Bighnaraj Naik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Application, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (formerly UCE Burla), Odisha, India. He has published more than 100 research articles in various peer reviewed international journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has edited 10 books for publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and IGI Global. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science and information technology. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and his areas of interest include data science, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, computational intelligence (CI), and CI’s applications in science and engineering. He has served as Guest Editor of various special issues of journals such as Information Fusion (Elsevier), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience), and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (Inderscience). He is an active reviewer of various journals from publishers including IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, and Inderscience. Currently, he is undertaking a major research project as Principal Investigator, which is funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. Dr. Himansu Sekhar Behera is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Ph.D.) from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), India. His research and development experience includes over 19 years in academia spanning different technical Institutes in India. His research interests include Data Mining, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Intelligence and Distributed Systems. He has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers various international conferences and journals, as well as contributing several book chapters. He has edited 11 books and serves as an associate editor / member of the editorial board of various international journals and also guest edited 8 special issues on various topics of Inderscience and IGI Global Journals.