Biographical note

Dr. Margarita N. Favorskaya is Professor and Head of Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation. Professor Favorskaya is a member of KES organization since 2010, the IPC member, and Chair of invited sessions of over 30 international conferences. She serves as Reviewer in international journals (Neurocomputing, Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, Pattern Recognition Letters, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), Associate Editor of Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, and International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, Honorary Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, Reviewer, Guest Editor, and Book Editor (Springer). She is the author/co-author of 200 publications and 20 educational manuals in computer science/engineering. She co-authored/co-edited seven books for Springer recently. She supervised nine Ph.D. candidates and is presently supervising four Ph.D. students. Her main research interests are digital image and videos processing, remote sensing, pattern recognition, fractal image processing, artificial intelligence, smart systems design, and information technologies.

Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain is with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation, and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies worldwide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generates synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. www.kesinternational.org 

Dr. Ilia S. Nikitin is Professor and Director ICAD RAS, Professor at Moscow aviation institute (MAI), a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, expert RAS, expert RSF, expert Minobrnauki RF. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His scientific interests are mathematical modeling, numerical methods in continuum mechanics, moving adaptive meshes, dynamics of elastoplastic media, fatigue fracture, durability of operation, and high-frequency loading. The main scientific results are the numerical methods for solving non-stationary problems of continuum mechanics on moving and adaptive grids, methods for calculating the stress state of elements of aircraft structures and assessing the durability for various fatigue failure modes, refined models of layered and block media with different sliding conditions at the contact boundaries, the problems of propagation, transformation and reflection of waves in such media, and models of sintering powder materials under thermomechanical and pulsed high-energy effects.