Biographical note

Xin-She Yang obtained his D.Phil. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and subsequently worked at the Cambridge University and the National Physical Laboratory (UK) as a Senior Research Scientist. He is currently a Reader in Modeling and Optimization at Middlesex University London and an Adjunct Professor at Reykjavik University (Iceland). He is also an elected Bye-Fellow at Cambridge University and the IEEE CIS Chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. He was included in the “2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers” list.

R. Simon Sherratt was born near Liverpool, England, in 1969. He is currently a Professor of Biosensors at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, UK. His main research area is signal processing and personal communications in consumer devices, focusing on wearable devices and health care. Professor Sherratt received the 1st place IEEE Chester Sall Memorial Award in 2006, the 2nd place in 2016 and the 3rd place in 2017.

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology, Techno India College of Technology, India. He has authored/edited more than 75 books with Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers. Dr. Dey is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence; a Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (STNIC); and a Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier.

Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an Entrepreneur & Researcher who has completed his Masters’ and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE,CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria), He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Joshi has also edited more than 40 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. Dr. Joshi has also organized more than 50 national and international conferences and programs in association with ACM, Springer, IEEE to name a few across different countries including India, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand, Egypt, and many more.