Hybrid Computational Intelligence

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He was a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, and also served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He is the recipient of several coveted national and international awards. He received the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from the University of South America and the SEARCC International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He was appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure 2021-2023. He has co-authored six books, co-edited 75 books, and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. Vaclav Snasel's research and development experience includes over 25 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving artificial intelligence, multidimensional data indexing, conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web intelligence, data mining and applications to various real-world problems. He has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters. In 2003 he became a visiting scientist in the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2003 he has been vice-dean for Research and Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has been a full professor since 2006. Before turning into a full time academic, he was working with industrial companies where he was involved in different industrial research and development projects for nearly 8 years. He received Ph.D. degree in Algebra and Geometry from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and a Master of Science degree from Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Dr. Aditya Khamparia has expertise in teaching, entrepreneurship, and research and development of 11 years. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Satellite Centre, Amethi, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India in May 2018. He has completed his M. Tech. from VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India and B. Tech. from RGPV, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has completed his PDF from UNIFOR, Brazil. He has published around 105 research papers along with book chapters including more than 25 papers in SCI indexed Journals with cumulative impact factor of above 100 to his credit. Additionally, he has authored and edited eleven books. Furthermore, he has served the research field as a Keynote Speaker/Session Chair/Reviewer/TPC member/Guest Editor and many more positions in various conferences and journals. His research interest include machine learning, deep learning for biomedical health informatics, educational technologies, and computer vision. Ashish Khanna is Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain. His research interests include distributed systems, MANET, FANET, VANET, Internet of Things, and machine learning.