Biographical note

Vikrant Bhateja is Associate Professor in Department of Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology (UNSIET), Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is also serving as Head: Computer Sc. Engg. & Information Technology in the same university. He holds a doctorate in ECE (Bio-Medical Imaging) with a total academic teaching experience of 21 years with around 190 publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions; out of which 39 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. He has been Editor-in-Chief of IGI Global—International Journal of Natural Computing and Research (IJNCR) an ACM & DBLP indexed journal from 2017-22. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Life Member of CSI.

Preeti Patel has been educated in the United Kingdom and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science (1986), a M.Sc. in Database and Information Systems (1992) and a Ph.D. in Computing (2017) from UK universities. She is currently Head of Computer Science and Applied Computing at London Metropolitan University. Prior to entering the Higher Education sector, she worked within the IT industry for organisations including British Telecom, The Wellcome Foundation and General Electric Information Services. She has a keen interest in international education and has been previously involved with the NCC global programmes for a number of years and continues to work with international partners. She has been External Advisor and External Examiner at various UK universities, and regularly works with the UK QAA.

Milan Simic holds Ph.D., Masters and Bachelor of Electronics Engineering and Graduate Diploma in Education. He is currently with RMIT University, School of Engineering. At the same time, he is Professor: MB, Faculty of Business and Law, Belgrade, Serbia; Adjunct Professor: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), School of Computer Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India; Honorary Editor: KES Journal; Editor: International Transactions on Evolutionary and Metaheuristic Algorithms; Former Associate Director: Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering, RMIT University. He has comprehensive experience from industry (Honeywell Information Systems), Research institute and Academia, from Europe and Australia. For his innovations and other contributions, he has received prestigious awards and recognitions. He is Member of large number of engineering and science associations.