Biographical note

Dr. Janmenjoy Nayak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, India. He has presented over 100 research articles in reputed international journals, conferences and books. 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. Danilo Pelusi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Teramo, where he received his PhD in Computational Astrophysics. He is an Editor of books for Springer and Elsevier, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, and IEEE Access, and was an Associate Editor of International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. He is a Guest Editor for Elsevier, Springer, and Inderscience journals and keynote speaker in several IEEE conferences; he is also an editorial board member of many journals. His research interests include fuzzy logic, neural networks, information theory, machine learning, and evolutionary algorithms. Asit Kumar Das is Professor of Computer Science and Technology, at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, Howrah. He is also the Head of the Center of Healthcare Science and Technology of the Institute. His area of research interest includes data mining and pattern recognition, social networks, bioinformatics, machine learning and soft computing, text, audio and video data analysis.