Suman Lata Tripathi completed her PhD in the area of microelectronics and VLSI from MNNIT, Allahabad. She was also a remote post-doc researcher at Nottingham Trent University, London, UK in 2022. She is a Professor at Lovely Professional University with more than 19 years of experience in academics. She has published more than 89 research papers in refereed journals and conferences. She has also published 13 Indian patents and 2 copyrights. She has organized several workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students. She has worked as a session chair, conference steering committee member, editorial board member, and peer reviewer in international/national conferences. She received the Research Excellence Award in 2019 and Research Appreciation Award in 2020, 2021 at Lovely Professional University, India. She also received funded projects from SERB DST under the scheme TARE in the area of Microelectronics devices. She has edited or authored more than 15 books in different areas of Electronics and electrical engineering. Her areas of expertise includes microelectronics device modeling and characterization, low power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design of testing, and advanced FET design for IoT, Embedded System Design, reconfigurable architecture with FPGAs and biomedical applications. Dr. Kolla Bhanu Prakash is a Professor and Research Group Head in the CSE Department, KL University, India. His current research interests include Deep Learning, Data Science, Smart Grids and Image Processing. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. Janmenjoy Nayak is an Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of Computer Science, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha, India. He has been a Gold Medallist in Computer Science twice in his career, and has been awarded the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Research Fellowship from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (at both Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow level) and Best Researcher Award from Jawaharlal Nehru University of Technology, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh for the academic year 2018-19. He has received many other awards from national and international academic agencies. Dr. Nayak has edited 19 books and 8 special issues on the applications of computational intelligence, soft computing, and pattern recognition, which have been published by Springer and Inderscience. He has published more than 190 refereed articles in various book chapters, conferences, and peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Inderscience, Springer, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and others. He has also served as a reviewer for more than 100 journals and conferences produced by the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and Inderscience. He has 11 years of experience in both teaching and research. Dr. Nayak is a senior member of the IEEE and a life member of societies such as the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS), the Computer Society of India (CSI India), the Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS), the Orissa Mathematical Society (OMS), and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong. He has successfully conducted and is associated with 14 internationally renowned series conferences such as ICCIDM, HIS, ARIAM, CIPR, and SCDA. His areas of interest include data mining, nature-inspired algorithms, and soft computing.
