Marcin Paprzycki is Associate Professor in the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He has an M.S. from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a Doctor of Science from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of ACM, Senior Fulbright Lecturer, and IEEE CS Distinguished Visitor. He has contributed to more than 500 publications and was invited to the program committees of over 800 international conferences. He is on the editorial boards of 12 journals and a book series.
Sabu M. Thampi is Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), Technopark Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. His current research interests include cognitive computing, Internet of things (IoT), authorship analysis, trust management, biometrics, social networks, nature-inspired computing, and video surveillance. He has published papers in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings. He has authored and edited a few books. Sabu has served as Guest Editor for special issues in few journals and a program committee member for many international conferences and workshops. He has co-chaired several international workshops and conferences. He has initiated and is also involved in the organization of several annual conferences/symposiums. Sabu is currently serving as Editor for Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Connection Science, Taylor & Francis, Associate Editor for IEEE Access and International Journal of Embedded Systems, Inderscience, UK, and Reviewer for several reputed international journals. Sabu is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is Founding Chair of ACM Trivandrum Professional Chapter.
Sushmita Mitra is full Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. From 1992 to1994 she was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow. She was a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2004, 2007; Meiji University, Japan in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark in 2002, 2003. Dr Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing, the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996, and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in 2018-2020. She was the INAE Chair Professor during 2018-2020. Dr. Mitra is the author of the books ``Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing" and ``Data Mining: Multimedia, Soft Computing, and Bioinformatics" published by John Wiley, and ``Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics", Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, beside a host of other edited books. Dr Mitra has guest-edited special issues of several journals, is an Associate Editor of ``IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", ``Information Sciences", ``Fundamenta Informatica", and is a Founding Associate Editor of ``Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIRE DMKD)". She has more than 150 research publications in refereed international journals. Dr Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). She is an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer and the current Chair-Elect, IEEE Kolkata Section. She has visited more than 30 countries as a Plenary/Invited Speaker or an academic visitor, and served as General Chair and/or Program Chair of several international conferences. Her current research interests include data mining, pattern recognition, soft computing, medical image processing, and Bioinformatics.
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986.
She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to 1997, she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member of the Technical Staff a...
