Biographical note

Debasis Giri is at present Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India, prior to Professor (in Computer Science and Engineering) and Dean (in School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics) of Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He did his masters (M.Tech. and M.Sc.) both from IIT Kharagpur, India, and also completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India. He is tenth all India rank holder in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in 1999. He has published more than 100 papers in international journal/conference. His current research interests include Cryptography, Information Security, Blockchain Technology, E-commerce security and Design & Analysis of Algorithms. He is Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of many International Journals. He is also Program Committee Member of International Conferences. He is Vice-Chairman of the CSI Kolkata Chapter.

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca, Director of the BISITE Research Group (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) and President of the AIR Institute. He is Director of the IOT Digital Innovation Hub, President of the AIR Institute, and Principal Investigator of the Project funded by DIGIS3 (Digital Innovation Hub of Castilla y León). He is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. He was elected twice as Dean of the Faculty of Science, has been President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics association, and Academic Coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology of the University of Salamanca, as well as Researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain), and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK).

Swagatam Das earned his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, M.E. with a specialization in Control Engineering, and Ph.D. (Engineering) degrees from Jadavpur University, India, in the years 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. Presently, he also holds the position of Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI), TCG CREST, Kolkata, India. His research interests encompass deep learning and non-convex optimization, and he published over 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal by Elsevier. He is Member of the editorial board of Information Fusion (Elsevier), Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and so on. He currently serves as ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Debashis De is Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He received M.Tech. from the University of Calcutta, in 2002, and a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2005. He is Senior Member-IEEE, Fellow IETE, and Life Member CSI. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008 to 2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award both in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Belgium. He is Vice-chair of Dew Computing STC of the IEEE Computer Society. He published in 375 journals and 200 conference papers, fifteen books, and filed ten patents.