Biographical note

Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FIETE, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMIETI, LMCSI, LMOSI, LMISTE, MIET (UK), MIAENG, MIRSS, MIAASSE, MCSTA, MIDES, MIISIP] did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of the coveted Adarsh Vidya Saraswati Rashtriya Puraskar in 2016, Distinguished HoD and Distinguished Professor wards conferred by Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017 and Bhartiya Shiksha Ratan Award conferred by Economic Growth Foundation, New Delhi in 2017.  He received the NACF-SCRA, India award for Best Faculty for Research in 2017. He received Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America in 2017. He is alsothe recipient of the South East Asia Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year at Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2017. He is currently the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is also serving as the Dean (Research and Development and Academic Affairs) of the institute. He is a co-author of 4 books and the co-editor of 8 books and has more than 170 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got a patent on intelligent colorimeter technology.

Dr. Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He has completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing 7 international patents including 4 US patents. Prof. Chaki had been quite active during 2009-2015 towards developing international standards for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing as a memberof Global Directory (GD) member for ISO-IEC. Besides editing nearly 30 book volumes, Nabendu has authored 7 text and research books and has more than 160 Scopus Indexed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed systems, image processing and software engineering.  Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering in U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.

Mr. Debanjan Konar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology. He is also pursuing his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi. He is currently associated with the Quantum Inspired Soft Computing research community in India and abroad. His important researchcontribution include in the field of quantum computing, rough set theory, natural language processing (NLP). He has published in esteemed International journals and conference. He is recognized reviewer of the Journal of Applied Soft Computing. He is a member of IEEE and Computer Society of India.

Mr. Udit Kr. Chakraborty achieved his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology and Sikkim Manipal University in 2000 and 2009, respectively. At the time of compilation of this volume, he awaits his thesis defense from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata in the field of Intelligent Learner Computer Interaction. He has 14 years teaching experience prior to which he spent 3 years with the industry working on security systems and telemedicine implementations. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of soft computing, machine learning, natural language processing and theory of computation. Udit has also co-authored a book on soft computing.

Dr. Tejbanta Singh Chingtham, PhD, is a Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He has 18 years of teaching experience in Computer Science & Engineering and his areas of interest include robotics, computational intelligence, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, etc. He has large number of publications both in Journals and Conferences beside he has also served as Associate Editor of many journals and as Technical Programme Committee of many International Conferences of high repute. He has also involved in execution of projects with grant from AICTE, MHRD and Microsoft Research India (MSRI). Currently, he is on board of International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Robotics.