Biographical note

Ajay Kumar Vyas is an Associate Professor & Head of Department, at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Adani University, Ahmedabad, India. He is a fellow member of IETE, a senior member of IEEE, a life member of ISTE, a senior member of IACSIT (Singapore) and the Internet Society (USA), and a senior member of the Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, USA. He is a certified peer reviewer with the Elsevier Researcher Academy and the Publons Academy. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of several peer-reviewed journals. He earned his Ph.D. from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, India. He is the author of several research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, book texts on Digital Electronics published by Book India Publication, and many book chapters. Dr. Vyas is a distinguished expert serving as a Topical Advisory Panel Member of Photonics Journal. Dr. Vyas's multifaceted contributions across various prestigious journals underscore their profound expertise and commitment to advancing knowledge and innovation in their respective domains. Dr. Vyas has also published five edited books on ML, blockchain for suitable development, AI of renewable energy systems, RF Circuits For 5G Applications: Contemporary Trends & Opportunities, and Precision Agriculture for Sustainability Use of Smart Sensors, Actuators, and Decision Support Systems relevance with international Publishers.

Narendra Khatri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechatronics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Agri-drones) at the World Bank and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, a New Delhi-sponsored project under NAHEP-CAAST-DFSRDA, Centre of Excellence for Digital Farming Solution for Enhancing Productivity Using Robots, Drones, and AGVs at VNMKV, Parbhani, India. He was awarded a research fellowship on a project titled “Smart Embedded Control System for Energy Independent Wastewater Treatment Plant”. Dr. Khatri is a Senior Member of IEEE, LM-ISTE, and Faculty Advisor IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Student Branch Manipal. He has published various International Journal articles and conference papers. He has been granted with a Indian patent, 9 Indian design registrations, and 2 Indian patents published. He is a peer reviewer of IEEE Systems, Elsevier's Water Research, Environmental Pollution and Bioavailability, Journal of Water Process Engineering, MDPI's Sustainability, Agriculture, etc. Dr. Khatri was awarded the best paper presentation award at IEEE conferences viz. ICCIKE-2023 and ICATCS-2023.He has also worked as publication chair (RCAAI-2022, MIT Manipal) and publicity chair (ICIBT-2022, BIT Mesra, Ranchi) for international conference.

Sunil Kumar Jha is an Associate Professor & Associate Dean of Research at Adani University, Ahmedabad, India. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the VBS Purvanchal University, India, in 2003 and 2005 respectively, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University, India, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyushu University, Japan, and Hanyang University, Korea. From February 2015 to September 2017, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Information Science and Technology, Macedonia, and the University of Information Technology and Management, Poland. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He is the author of 2 book chapters and more than 80+ SCI articles in the journal of repute. He is actively working as a reviewer of several reputed journals. His research interests include chemical sensors, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition applications, and health informatics. He worked as publication chair and program committee member of several international conferences.