Kalyanmoy Deb

Kalyanmoy Deb received Facebook Research Grant on Multi-objective Co-evolutionary Leaning (Sep 2020). Kalyanmoy Deb received IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in 2018. His Research interests are Non-linear Optimization, Many and Multi-objective Optimization, Metamodeling, Constraint Handling, Engineering Design, Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Innovization, Neural Networks, Data-mining and Machine learning.

Rajkumar Buyya

Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012-2016.

Anand Nayyar

Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh Bhagat University in 2017 in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Swarm Intelligence and Network Simulation. He is currently working in School of Computer Science-Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam as Professor, Scientist, Vice-Chairman (Research) and Director- IoT and Intelligent Systems Lab. He has 18 Australian Patents, 6 German Patents, 4 Japanese Patents, 33 Indian Design cum Utility Patents, 1 USA Patent, 3 Indian Copyrights and 2 Canadian Copyrights to his credit. Awarded 44 Awards for Teaching and Research.

Siba K. Udgata

Professor, School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. Currently Siba K. Udgata is working on projects involving Wi-Fi sensing, Internet of Things, Sensor network and machine learning.

Valentina Emilia Balas

Co-organizing the Summer School “SOFT COMPUTING” 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Arad, General Co-Chair of the International Workshop IEEE SOFA 2005, IEEE SOFA 2007, IEEESOFA 2009, IEEE SOFA 2010, IEEE SOFA 2012, SOFA 2014, SOFA 2016, SOFA 2018 andSOFA 2020. President of General Association of Engineering from Romania (AGIR), Arad branch.President of Association of Automation and Instrumentation from Romania (AAIR), Arad branch.President of Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics (SRAIT), Aradbranch.

Arijit Roy

Currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, (IITP). Prior to join IITP, He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City . He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Parallel Computing and Optimisation Group,the University of Luxembourg during 2021-2022. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in the Smart Wireless Applications and Networking Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research area is Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensor-Cloud with Healthcare, Agriculture, Smart traffic, and UAV Networks applications. After completion of his B. Tech, he worked as a “Network Engineer” in IntecInfonet, New Delhi. He also co-founder and director of SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd.

Aditya Kumar Sahu

Research areas of Multimedia Forensics, Digital Image Watermarking, Image Tamper Detection and Localization, Image Steganography, Reversible Data Hiding, Convolution Neural Network based Data hiding, Deepfake detection, Information Security and Image Processing. Listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021 by Elsevier and Stanford University.

Anandarup Mukherjee

Anand works with the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (DIAL) of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Research Associate at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and PdRA member at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is a member of IEEE and ACM, and also serves as the Vice-chair of IEEE-P1954 Standards Committee, Associate Editor of Springer Nature’s PPNA and is an Area expert in IEEE ComSoc SIG on IoT for e-Health.

Ayan Mondal

Ayan Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Engineer at Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France. His research works are published in prestigious IEEE Transactions, Journals, and conferences such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM. Dr. Mondal also served as a reviewer in several prestigious IEEE/ACM Transactions, Journals, and Conferences.

Tamoghna Ojha

Tamoghna Ojha is currently an Assistant Professor (Grade-I) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh, India. Previously, He was an ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Andrea Passarella at the Ubiquitous Internet Research Unit at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of National Research Council (CNR), Italy. His current research interests are in Edge and Aerial Computing, Wirelessly Powered IoT, 6G Network, Sensor-Cloud. You can find more about me on Web of Science Portal and Vidwan portal.

Satendra Kumar

Satendra Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. Dr. Kumar earned his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2021. He received his M. Tech. (Gold Medal) and B. Tech. (First Class Honors) degrees from the National Institute of Technology, Raipur in 2014 and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow in 2012, respectively. His research interests include wireless networks, game theory, network economics, mechanism design, and machine learning.

Sudip Misra

Sudip Misra, a distinguished IEEE Fellow and Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, holds a Ph.D. from Carleton University, Canada. With over 500 publications, including 200+ journal papers, he has garnered numerous prestigious awards, such as the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award. His expertise spans various fields, recognized by his fellowships in esteemed organizations like INAE and NASI. Renowned for his keynote lectures worldwide, he's also extensively involved in editorial roles for international journals and conference committees. Dr. Misra's remarkable contributions epitomize excellence in academia and research, shaping global discourse in technology and innovation.

Abdul Sattar

Abdul Sattar is a thought leader in the space of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. Prof. Sattar successfully established the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), a cross-disciplinary research centre at Griffith University, and was appointed as its founding director in 2003, and served until end of 2015. Under his direction, IIIS gained international recognition and achieved notable growth in publications, HDR completions, and prestige. As a director, he has driven operational plans to fulfil Griffith University's strategic objectives while maintaining an active research profile, publishing over 250 papers and supervising 35 PhD students.

Feroze Mohammed

Feroze Mohammed has extensive work experience in various executive and leadership roles. Feroze is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer at Cognida.ai since January 2022. Prior to that, he worked at Hitachi Vantara from January 2011 to December 2021, where he has held multiple positions, including Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, and Senior Vice President.

Anil Goyal

Anil Goyal is an accomplished data scientist and researcher with a strong track record of leadership and innovation. In his current role as Principal Data Scientist at Housing.com (Gurgaon), he leads and shapes the data science team’s direction to align with business objectives. His collaboration with cross-functional teams has led to the successful implementation of ML solutions for various problems including 3D virtual tour generation, fraud detection, recommendation engines, and price prediction.

Prasant Mohapatra

Prasant Mohapatra currently serves as the Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida. Previously, he held positions including Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis. At UC Davis, he served as Dean, Vice-Provost of Graduate Studies, Associate Chancellor, Interim Vice-Provost, CIO, and Department Chair of Computer Science, also holding the Tim Bucher Family Endowed Chair Professorship. He joined USF in 2023.

Rama Krishnan Angarai Ganesan

Rama Krishnan Angarai Ganesan heads the Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering Lab at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He received the Manthan Award 2014 and Manthan Award 2015, for his projects 'Gift of New Abilities' and 'Madhura - The Gift of Voice' respectively. He is also one of the Founder Directors of RaGaVeRa indic Technologies Pvt Ltd, a deep tech startup incubated by IISc and a mentor of the startup, "Bhashini AI Services Pvt. Ltd."