Prof. (Dr.) Xiao-Zhi Gao

School of Computing, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
University of Eastern Finland Finland

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Prof. Xiao-Zhi Gao received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He obtained his D.Sc. (Tech.) de-gree from the Helsinki University of Technol¬ogy (now Aalto University), Finland in 1999. He is now working as a professor of data science at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Prof. Gao has published more than 500 technical papers on refer-eed journals and international conferences, and his current Google Scholar H-index is 55. His research interests are nature-inspired computing methods (e.g., neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence, and artificial immune systems) with their applications in optimization, data mining, machine learning, networking, control, signal processing, and industrial electronics.

Prof. (Dr.) Samarendra Dandapat

Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam, India


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Prof. Samarendra Dandapat is a distinguished Professor (HAG) in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, where he has been a faculty member since 1997. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur (Ph.D.) and IIT BHU (M.Tech), his expertise lies at the intersection of Biomedical Signal Processing and Medical Image Computing, with a focus on cardiovascular signals and AI-driven healthcare diagnostics. Beyond his research, which includes over 200 published papers, he has been a pivotal administrative leader, serving as the Dean of Administration at IIT Guwahati and the Founder Dean of IIT Patna. He currently leads the Center for Sports and Healthcare Engineering, bridging advanced engineering with medical technology.

Dr. Om Prakash Verma

Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar
Punjab, India


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Dr. Om Prakash Verma is presently associated with Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India since January 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. He has almost 11 years of teaching experience. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, M.Tech. from Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar and B.E. from Dr. B R Ambedkar University Agra. He is presently working on ISRO Sponsored Project as a PI. He has edited a book on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications and has been a potential reviewer of several International Journals of high repute. He has published more than 30 research papers in SCI/Scopus/ESI indexed Journals. He has published recently published a paper in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, (IF: 12.110). He has guided 4 M.Tech Students and supervising 6 PhD Students.

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.

Prof. Nilanjan Dey

Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India .
Visiting Fellow, WC Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Reading, UK.


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Prof. Nilanjan Dey (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech., M.Tech. in information technology from West Bengal University of Technology and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2005, 2011, and 2015, respectively.
Currently, he is Professor with the Techno International New Town, Kolkata and a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He has authored over 380 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, and 40 authored books. His research interests include medical imaging and machine learning. Moreover, he actively participates in program and organizing committees for prestigious international conferences, including World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD) etc.
He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and Data-Intensive Research from Springer Nature and Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare from Elsevier etc. Furthermore, he was an Editorial Board Member of Complex & Intelligence Systems, Springer, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier and he is an Editorial Board Member of IEEE Data Descriptions, International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences etc.
He is a Fellow of IETE and member of IE, ISOC etc.

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).

Dr. Koushik Guha

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
National Institute of Technology Silchar


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Dr. Koushik Guha is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Techno India under West Bengal University of Technology, India, and his M.Tech. degree in Elec-tronics and Communication Engineering (RF & Microwaves) from The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. He obtained his PhD from National Institute of Technology Silchar with a doctoral thesis titled “Design and Modeling of RF MEMS Shunt Switch.” Recently, he has also been appointed as a Visiting Professor at University of Trento, Italy.
His research interests include MEMS/NEMS, Bio-MEMS, medical instrumentation, smart sensing systems, energy harvesting, IoT sensors, and VLSI design. He has published over 200 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, authored five books and more than 45 book chapters, and holds seven patents. Dr. Guha has successfully led and executed several national and international research projects funded by Department of Sci-ence and Technology and Department of Biotechnology, along with international collabora-tions with institutions in Italy, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland), and Indo-Russia joint research programmes.
Under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology funded Chip-to-Startup (C2S) programme, his team co-developed a neural amplifier front-end IC for brain–machine interface applications, which was recognised among the Top 20 “Made in India” chips un-veiled by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, during SEMICON India 2025.
Dr. Guha has received several prestigious recognitions including the Distinguished Faculty Award 2021, the IETE R. S. Khandpur Award 2022, and the ISSS–IISc Young Scientist Award 2021. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of INAE, and Fellow of IETE. He also serves as Associate Editor of Microsystem Technologies (Springer Nature), Editor of IETE Journal of Research (Taylor & Francis), and a member of the Editorial Board of Scien-tific Reports (Springer Nature).
Dr. Guha has inspired and nurtured a strong passion for research among students and facul-ty. He currently leads the National MEMS Design Centre at National Institute of Technolo-gy Silchar and, as Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, has been instrumental in strengthening the department’s research ecosystem, international collaborations, and global academic visibility. Under his leadership, the department has wit-nessed significant academic and research progress and continues to emerge as a strong con-tributor to cutting-edge research in electronics, MEMS, and interdisciplinary technologies.

Dr. Manoj Kumar

Department of Electronics Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dhanbad


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Dr. Manoj Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology(Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. Before joining IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, he completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and his M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. His current research interests include graph machine learning, graph coarsening, optimization algorithms, KV Caching Compression,and federated learning. He has published papers in top-tier AI/ML conferences and journals, including ICML, JMLR, TMLR, ACM TKDD, UAI, WWW, MICCAI, NeurIPS, and others.

Dr. Deepak Gupta

Research Scientist, National Library of Medicine (NLM),
National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA


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Dr. Deepak Gupta is a Research Scientist at the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, USA. His work focuses on developing AI systems for healthcare, particularly at the intersection of natural language processing and multimodal learning. He is interested in how machines can better understand and generate medical information for consumers by combining signals from text, images, and video.
His research has explored problems such as medical question answering, evidence-grounded generation, and multimodal reasoning, with the goal of making AI systems more reliable and useful for real-world healthcare and scientific applications. He has published in leading conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and COLING, as well as journals including Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Scientific Data. In addition to his research contributions, he is actively involved in the broader research community. He has served in organizational and leadership roles, including as an Area Chair for conferences such as COLING and LREC, and has chaired sessions at venues like International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. He is also a lead organizer of the CL4Health workshop and has contributed to advancing community efforts in biomedical NLP and AI.

Dr. Firos A

Department of Computer science and Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi (Central) University, Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh

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Dr. Firos A is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India, where he has been serving since 2010. Prior to his academic career, he gained industry experience working in multinational companies (MNCs) in roles such as Software Developer, which provided him with strong practical insights into real-world computing systems.
His research interests include Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and their applications in decision-making and smart systems. He has authored more than 100 research publications indexed in SCI, Scopus, UGC CARE, and other peer-reviewed journals, reflecting his significant academic contributions.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of IEI, highlighting his professional recognition and engagement with leading engineering and technology communities.
In addition to his publication record, he has actively contributed to the academic community as a member of editorial boards and as a participant in numerous conferences and seminars. His work spans interdisciplinary domains such as decision-making systems, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, and he is also actively involved in various research projects. Furthermore, he has supervised over 40 students across undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programs, demonstrating his commitment to teaching, mentorship, and academic excellence.