Biographical note

Harish Sharma is an associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He has worked at Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, and Government Engineering College Jhalawar. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Computer Engineering from Government Engineering College, Kota, and Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is the secretary and one of the founder members of Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a lifetime member of Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He is an associate editor of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI) published by Inderscience. He has also edited special issues of the many reputed journals like Memetic Computing, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Intelligence, etc. His primary area of interest is nature inspired optimization techniques. He has contributed in more than 105 papers published in various international journals and conferences.

Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty is an associate professor at the University of Stavanger. His current research and development work is in the field of applied Blockchains, Big Data, Large-Scale Machine Learning, and Data Privacy. He has an interest in real-world problems, especially development of privacy enabled data-driven services in smart energy, health care, and smart city domains. Antorweep completed his Ph.D. in 2015 with a thesis on Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Along with having a background in applied research in data-driven solutions, he is also involved in mentoring, teaching, and supervision.

Dr. Shahid Hussain is working at University of Canberra as an associate professor of Biomedical Robotics. Prior to that, he has worked as a lecturer at University of Wollongong, Australia. Dr. Hussain has obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013. His research interests include assistive and rehabilitation robotics, compliant actuation of robots, robot mechanism design and optimization, nonlinear dynamics and control of robotic systems, human–robot interaction, biomechanical modeling, engineering education, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). Dr. Hussain has published more than 65 papers in the prestigious journals of the field.

Dr. Rajani Kumari is currently an assistant professor at IBS, Bangalore, Off-Campus Centre of ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) University, India. Previously she was an assistant professor at IIIM, Jaipur, and St. Xavier’s College Jaipur, CHRIST University. She received the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2015, the M.C.A. and B.C.A. from University of Rajasthan in 2010 and 2006, respectively. She has published more than forty research papers in various international journals/conferences and participated in many national and international conferences and workshops. She edited some special issue in Taylor & Francis and Inderscience journals including Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences (JIOS) and International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS). Her research interests include Nature-Inspired Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Computational Intelligence.