Biographical note

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He was a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, and also served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He is the recipient of several coveted national and international awards. He received the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from the University of South America and the SEARCC International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He was appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure 2021-2023. He has co-authored six books, co-edited 75 books, and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. Dr. Naba Kumar Mondal is a Professor in Environmental Science, Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India. He completed his post graduate in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry and doctorate degree in Environmental Science from Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan. He has published his research work in more than 200 reputed international and national journals. His primary research interest are Adsorption Chemistry by low cost adsorbents, Water quality degradation and management in Arsenic and Fluoride affected areas of West Bengal, Indoor Air Pollution and Human Health, Nanotechnology and Mosquito control, Mobile tower radiation and Human health, and Teacher Education. Dr. Mondal has delivered several invited talks and key note addresses in national and international conferences of high repute. Jan Platos received a Ph.D. in computer science in 2010. He became a Full professor in 2021 at the Department of Computer Science. Since 2021, he has been Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-TUO. He has co-authored more than 240 scientific articles published in proceedings and journals. His primary fields of interest are machine learning, artificial intelligence, industrial data processing, text processing, data compression, bioinspired algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, data structures, and data prediction. Vaclav Snasel's research and development experience includes over 25 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving artificial intelligence, multidimensional data indexing, conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web intelligence, data mining and applications to various real-world problems. He has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters. In 2003 he became a visiting scientist in the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2003 he has been vice-dean for Research and Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has been a full professor since 2006. Before turning into a full time academic, he was working with industrial companies where he was involved in different industrial research and development projects for nearly 8 years. He received Ph.D. degree in Algebra and Geometry from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and a Master of Science degree from Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Pavel Krömer, Ph.D. graduated in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEECS) of VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. He worked as an analyst, developer, and trainer in a private company between 2005 and 2010. Since 2010, he has worked at the Department of Computer Science, FEECS of VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. In 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. In 2015, he was awarded the title Assoc. Professor of Computer Science. He was Researcher at the IT4Innovations (National Supercomputing Center) between 2011 and 2016 and has been a member of its scientific council since February 2017. Since 2017, he has been the Vice Dean for External Affairs at FEECS. Since 2018, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE. In his research, he focuses on computational intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, soft computing and real-world applications of intelligent methods. In this field, he has also contributed to a number of major conferences organized by the IEEE and ACM.