Biographical note

Mukesh Saraswat is an Associate Professor at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India. Dr. Saraswat obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 03 Ph.D. students and presently guiding 04 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 70 journal and conference papers in the area of image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and soft computing. He was part of successfully completed project funded by SERB, New Delhi on image analysis and currently running one project funded by CRS, RTU, Kota. He has been an active member of many organizing committees for various conferences and workshops. He is also a guest editor of the Array, Journal of Swarm Intelligence, and Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics. He is one of the General Chairs of the International Conference on Data Science and Applications. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the Journal MethodsX. Heis also a series editor of the SCRS Book Series on Computing and Intelligent Systems (CIS). He is an active member of IEEE, ACM, CSI, and SCRS Professional Bodies. His research areas include Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, and Soft Computing.

Chandreyee Chowdhury is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, India. She has received M.E in Computer Science and Engineering in 2005 and PhD in 2013 from Jadavpur University. Her research interests include IoT in healthcare, indoor localization, and human activity recognition. She was awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by Erusmus Mundus in 2014 to carry out research work at Northumbria University, UK. She has served as technical program committee members of many international conferences. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals, book chapters and international peer-reviewed conferences. She is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Chintan Kumar Mandal is presently working in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He did his graduation and post-graduation in Computer Science and Engineering from Calcutta University followed by his PhD from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Prior to these, he did his Physics with Honours from Calcutta University. He has published papers in various journals and conferences. His areas of interest are Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics and Robotics.

Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS, Prof. Gandomi was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and a distinguished research fellow at BEACON center, Michigan State University, USA. Prof. Gandomi has published over three hundred journal papers and 12 books which collectively have been cited 31,000+ times (H-index = 81). He has been named as one of the most influential scientific minds and received Highly Cited Researcher awards (top 1% publications and 0.1% researchers) for five consecutive years, 2017 to 2021. He also ranked 17th in GP bibliography among more than 15,000 researchers. He has received multiple prestigious awards for his research excellence and impact, such as the 2022 Walter L. Huber Prize which is known as the highest level mid-career research award in all areas of civil engineering. He has served as associate editor, editor, and guest editor in several prestigious journals such as AE of IEEE TBD and IEEE IoTJ. Prof Gandomi is active in delivering keynotes and invited talks. His research interests are (big) data analytics and global optimisation.