Pandian Vasant is a Research Associate at MERLIN Research Centre, TDTU in Vietnam. He holds a PhD in Computational Intelligence, an MSc in Engineering Mathematics, and a BSc in Mathematics. His research interests include soft computing, hybrid optimization, holistic optimization, innovative computing, and applications. J. Joshua Thomas is an Associate Professor at UOW Malaysia KDU Penang University College. He obtained his PhD (Intelligent Systems Techniques) from University Sains Malaysia, Penang, and master’s degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He is working with deep learning algorithms, specially targeting on graph convolutional neural networks and bidirectional recurrent neural networks for drug target interaction and image tagging with embedded natural language processing. His work involves experimental research with software prototypes and mathematical modeling and design. Elias Munapo holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics, an MSc in Operations Research, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from the National University of Science and Technology (N.U.S.T.) in Zimbabwe. Elias has vast experience in university education and has worked for five institutions of higher learning. He was a lecturer at Zimbabwe Open University, Chinhoyi University of Technology, and University of South Africa. He became a Senior Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and then joined North West University as an Associate Professor in 2016 and has been appointed as a Professor since January 2019.rofessor Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber is a Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, at Faculty of Engineering Management, in the Chair of Marketing and Economic Engineering. His research is on data mining, analytics, AI, machine learning, mathematics, operational research, finance, economics, optimization and optimal control, neuro-, bio-, and earth sciences, medicine, and development; he is involved in the organization of scientific life internationally.
