Prof Wang Lipo
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Prof. Wang Lipo received the Bachelor degree from National University of Defense Technology (China) and PhD from Louisiana State University (USA).
His research interest is artificial intelligence/machine learning with applications to communications, image/video processing, biomedical engineering, and data mining. He has authored 320 papers, of which 110 are in journals. He holds a U.S. patent in neural networks. He has authored 2 monographs and edited 20 books. His work has been cited 7,800 times in Google Scholar.
He was/will be keynote speaker for 40 international conferences. He is/was Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of 30 international journals, including 4 IEEE Transactions, and guest editor for 10 journal special issues. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (2011-2016), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) (2010-2015), and the IEEE Biometrics Council. He served as CIS Vice President for Technical Activities and Chair of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, as well as Chair of Education Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was President of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) and received the APNNA Excellent Service Award. He was founding Chair of both the EMBS Singapore Chapter and CIS Singapore Chapter. He serves/served as chair/committee members of over 200 international conferences.

Mr. Aninda Bose
Executive Editor
Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences, Computational Intelligence, Energy
Springer Nature London


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Mr. Bose is presently working as Executive Editor with Springer Nature. Mr. Bose is part of the Global Acquisition Team at Springer Nature and responsible for acquisition of scientific content across the globe. He is responsible for acquisition of content in Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences. He has more than 26 years of industrial experience in marketing and different fields of publishing. Mr. Bose has completed Masters in Organic Chemistry from Delhi University and Masters in Marketing Research from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune. Mr. Bose has delivered more than 160 invited talks on Scientific Writing and Publishing Ethics in reputed Universities, International Conferences and Author Workshops. He has published books for secondary level in Chemistry and is a member of American Chemical Society, USA.

Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori
Professor (HAG)
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Indore, Simrol, Indore

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Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori received B.E. degree with honours in Electronics and Communication Engineering from RGPV, Bhopal, India, in 2001, M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2003 and 2008, respectively.
Before joining IIT Indore, India, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at Charles Delaunay Institute, UTT, France (20072008) and Assistant Professor at Communication Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India (2008-2009). He was Assistant Professor (2009-2013), Associate Professor (2013-2017), and Professor (2017-2023) at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore, where he has been Professor (HAG) since 2023. He was Visiting Professor at Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in July 2023; Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, University of Malta, Malta, from June 2023 to July 2023; Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Lab, Free University of Berlin, Germany, from July 2022 to September 2022; School of Medicine, Taylor’s University, Malaysia, from 2018 to 2019. Previously, he was Visiting Scholar at Intelligent Systems Research Center, Ulster University, Londonderry, UK, in December 2014.
His research interests include signal and image processing, biomedical signal processing, non-stationary signal processing, speech signal processing, brain-computer interface, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and internet of things in healthcare. He has supervised 23 Ph.D. theses and is currently supervising 11 Ph.D. theses. He has delivered more than 300 talks and lectures in conferences, workshops, short term courses, and academic events organized by various institutes. He has authored the textbook titled “Time-Frequency Analysis Techniques and their Applications” (CRC Press, 2023). He has 367 publications, which include journal articles (230), conference papers (96), books (11), and book chapters (30). He has also eight patents, including two granted (Australian patent and Indian patent) and six published (Indian patents). His publications have been cited ~19000 times with h-index of 75 according to Google Scholar.
He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, IETE, and IEI. He has been appointed as IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2026). He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2021-2024). Currently, he is Associate Editor of Electronics Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. He is also serving as Handling Editor of Signal Processing and Editor of IETE Technical Review journal.

Prof. G. R. Sinha
Vice Chancellor, GSFC University Vadodara, Gujarat, India


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Dr. G R Sinha (PhD, Fellow IETE, Fellow IEI, SMACM, SMIEEE) is Vice Chancellor of GSFC University Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Prior to this, he was Professor at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB). He served as Professor at Myanmar Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) Mandalay Myanmar on deputation in friendship project between Government of India and Government of Republic of Myanmar. He has been Visiting Professor at University of Sannio Benevento Italy 03 times; and also, in National Chung Hsing University Taiwan. He has been Visiting Professor (Honorary) in Sri Lanka Technological Campus Colombo. He has published 329 research papers, book chapters and books at International and National levels and 27 Edited books in the field of Cognitive Science, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biometrics, Optimization Techniques, Sensors, Machine Learning, Outcome based Education, Data Deduplication with Internationally reputed publishers Elsevier, IOP, Springer, Taylor & Francis, IGI. He owns two Australian patents and one German patent. He is Associate Editor of five SCI/Scopus indexed journals and has been Guest Editor in various SCI journals, such as IET Electronics Letters, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, International Journal of Biometrics. He has been in top 2% of Scientists and Researchers of the World in the field of Image Processing in Standford and Elsevier database for the last 02 consecutive years. He has teaching and research experience of 26 years. He has been Dean of Faculty and Executive Council Member of CSVTU and currently a member of Senate of MIIT. Dr Sinha has been ACM Distinguished Speaker in the field of DSP (2017-2021). He has been Expert Member for Vocational Training Program by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for Two Years (2017-2019); Chhattisgarh Representative of IEEE MP Sub-Section Executive Council (2014-2017); Distinguished Speaker in the field of Digital Image Processing by Computer Society of India (2015). He served as Distinguished IEEE Lecturer in IEEE India council for Bombay section.
He is recipient of many Awards and recognitions: ACM Senior Member Award 2023, Mentor in IEEE India Council 2023, Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022 by National Institute of Technology Raipur; Recognition by Rector of Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University, The Republic of Union of Myanmar (2022); Honor by Sanatan Samaj Myanmar for Social Services (2022); Certificate of Recognition for Volunteering in ACM Hyderabad Deccan Chapter (20202021); TCS Award 2014 for Outstanding contributions in Campus Commune of TCS; Rajaram Bapu Patil ISTE National Award 2013 for Promising Teacher in Technical Education by ISTE New Delhi; Emerging Chhattisgarh Award 2013; Engineer of the Year Award 2011; Young Engineer 1 Award 2008; Young Scientist Award 2005; IEI Expert Engineer Award 2007; ISCA Young Scientist Award 2006 Nomination; GOLD Medal for first position in university in M.Tech.; Deshbandhu Merit Scholarship for 05 years and received Best Paper Awards in 3 International Conferences.
He has delivered more than 75 Keynote/Invited Talks and Chaired many Technical Sessions in International Conferences across the world such as Singapore, Taiwan, Mauritius, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Irvine, Italy and India. His Special Session on “Deep Learning in Biometrics” was included in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2017. He is also member of many National Professional bodies like ISTE, CSI, ISCA, and IEI. He is member of various committees of the University and has been Vice President of Computer Society of India for Bhilai Chapter for two consecutive years.
He has been Publication Chair in ADCOM 2022 and General Chair of International Conference on Intelligent Commuting and Communication 2022. He is Editorial Board Member of Progress in Biomedical Engineering, IOP Publishing UK.
Dr. Sinha is Director of GUIITAR Council of GSFC University, section 8 company. He is Consultant of various Skill Development initiatives of NSDC, Govt. of India and an upcoming British University in Myanmar. He is regular Referee of Project Grants under DST-EMR scheme and several other schemes of Govt. of India. He received few important consultancies supports as grants and travel support. He has been Expert Member of Professor promotion committee of GermanJordanian university Jordan and Project Proposal evaluation committee of UK-Israel Research Grants. He has been appointed as Member of IQAC by MIIT Mandalay, Myanmar (July 2022December 2024) and Member of Board of Examiner in University of Mauritius (2022-2023). He is advisor to upcoming New Next University in Mandalay Myanmar. Dr. Sinha is Academic Council and Research Council Member of many universities. He has travelled to Singapore, Myanmar, Shri Lanka, Mauritius, Italy, UAE, Qatar and UK for his professional contributions. Dr Sinha has supervised 09 PhD Scholars, 15 M. Tech. Scholars, 100 UG level students. His research interest includes Biometrics, Medical/Biomedical Image Processing, Cognitive Science, Computer Vision, Outcome based Education (OBE) and ICT tools for developing Employability Skills.

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal
Associate Professor, South Asian University, India


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Dr. Bansal is an Associate Professor at South Asian University New Delhi and Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University UK. Dr. Bansal has obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU New Delhi he has worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His Primary area of interest is Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems from engineering domain. He has published more than 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the editor in chief of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS) and Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing (SADIC) published by Springer. He is the editor in chief of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI) published by Inderscience. He is also the Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is the general secretary of Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG level.

Dr. Rajeev Kanth
Principal Lecturer (Yliopettaja- in Finnish)
Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland


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Dr. Rajeev Kanth received a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Information and Communication Technology from the University of Turku, Finland, in 2013. He has been working as a Principal Lecturer (Yliopettaja- in Finnish) at the Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, where he focuses on teaching and research on the Internet of Things (IoT). He has been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computing, University of Turku, Finland, and a Visiting Professor at Hebei University of Environmental Engineering, China. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE. Previously, he worked at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India, and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, where he was a researcher and a senior research scientist, respectively. He has over 25 years of experience working in academic and research institutions. His current research interests include the Internet of Things, big-data analytics, artificial intelligence, and wireless cloud and edge computing. He has published more than 95 scientific articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and refereed computer science and communication technology journals. Some of the recent and ongoing research and development projects are UCNDRONE (funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education), VLEFACT (EU Erasmus Plus-funded project), and AIQUSEC (Business Finland).