Biographical note

Dr. Manoj Sahni is a dedicated and experienced Mathematics teacher and researcher with more than 18 years of experience and currently serving as an Associate Professor and the head of the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He has published more than 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters with reputed publishers like Springer, Elsevier, etc. He also serves as an advisory board member, a technical Committee member and a reviewer for many international journals of repute. He organized the 1st and 2nd International Conferences on Mathematical Modeling, Computational Techniques, and Renewable Energy on February 21–23, 2020, and February 06–08, 2021, respectively. He has organized many seminars, workshops, and short-term training programs at PDEU and various other universities. In addition, he is a member of many international professional societies, including the American Mathematical Society, Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, IAENG and many more.

Prof. José M. Merigó Lindahl is a professor in the School of Information, Systems and Modelling at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and a part-time full professor in the Department of Management Control and Information Systems at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Chile. He holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona. He also holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Lund University (Sweden). He has published more than 500 articles in journals, books and conference proceedings, including journals such as Information Sciences, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, European Journal of Operational Research. He has also published several books with Springer and with World Scientific. Recently, Thomson and Reuters (ClarivateAnalytics) have distinguished him as a highly cited researcher in Computer Science (2015-present).
Dr. Walayat Hussain is a professional academic, a researcher and a practitioner in computer science and information system with over 15 years of academic and industry experience. He worked as a lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, for four years. Walayat's research areas are Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, Forecasting, Cloud Computing, SLA Management and Decision Support System. His work has been published in different top-ranked reputable journals and conferences such as Future Generation Computer Systems, The Computer Journal (Oxford University), Information Systems, Computer & Industrial Engineering, IEEE Access, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, MONET, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TETCI, IJCS, FUZZ- IEEE, ICONIP. He is the associate editor of IET- Communications, an international journal, and has been a guest editor for several other international journals such as—Computer Networks, Forecasting, IEEE TETCI, WCMC, IJCS.
Dr. Ernesto León-Castro is a full professor at Universidad Autonoma of Baja California (Mexico) and an adjunct research professor at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepcion (Chile). He has Ph.D. in Management from University of Occidente. He also has a M.Sc. in Management from University of Occidente and another one in Laws from University Autonoma de Sinaloa. His interest in research is in aggregation operators, decision making, finance, economics, computational intelligence and other related topics. He has published many papers in different journals, books and proceedings, including journals such as Applied Soft Computing, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research. Also, he has been the guest editor in Special Issues in Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory and Springer Book Series.
Dr. Rajkumar Verma received a M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut (U.P.), India, in 2006 and a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics with a specialty in information theory and computational intelligence techniques from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Noida (U.P.), India, in 2014. He has authored over 70 research articles published in refereed international journals, including the International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Kybernetika, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Neural Computing and Applications, Informatica, Soft Computing, Cybernetics and Systems, Iranian Journalof Fuzzy Systems, Granular Computing, Applied Intelligence Review. Dr. Verma has also been a member of the scientific advisory committee of several international conferences and a reviewer in a wide range of refereed international journals. He is currently interested in information measures, aggregation operators, multiple attribute group decision making, computational intelligence techniques and computing with words.
Dr. Ritu Sahni is a dedicated and experienced Mathematics teacher and a researcher with more than 15 years who is actively involved with both undergraduate and postgraduate-level students. Presently, she is working as a visiting faculty at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. She worked with her students on various research-related problems and published their work in reputed journals such as Elsevier, Springer. She has published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed SCI, ESCI and Scopus indexed international journals and conferences. She has delivered talks and presented many research articles in various international conferences in India and abroad. Her research field includes Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, Numerical Methods, Fuzzy Decision-Making Systems and other allied areas. She is a devoted faculty member, a committed researcher, and enthusiastic about striving to improve the institution's educational offerings and research fields for societal growth.