Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academics, Research, Incubation, and International Relations at Bennette University. He is also the Founding Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a global non-profit scientific network that connects academia and industry to support research and innovation. He is also serving as Vice Chancellor of Sai University, Chennai. His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), network security, Web intelligence, sensor networks, and data mining. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing and has held editorial leadership roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Abraham earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia. Sujata Dash is a Professor of Information Technology at Nagaland University, India, and an IEEE Senior Member, with over three decades of academic and research experience. She holds a PhD in Computational Modeling and has also completed postdoctoral research at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where she later served as a Visiting Professor. Her research spans machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, natural language processing, and IoT, with applications across healthcare, data science, and smart systems. Dr. Dash has an extensive publication record with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and CRC Press, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. She has delivered keynote lectures and chaired sessions at numerous international conferences and has received several awards, including the Global Distinguished Award (IEEE IAS, 2023), Outstanding Scientist Award, and Best Researcher Award. Subhendu Kumar Pani received his PhD from Utkal University, Odisha, India, in 2013. He currently serves as Principal of Krupajal Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, India, and has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. A prolific author, he serves as Series Editor for CRC Press’ Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence, Apple Academic Press’ AAP Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, and Wiley-Scrivener’s Intelligent Data Analytics for Terror Threat Prediction, and is actively involved as an associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer for several international journals. He also contributes to national and international conference communities. His research interests include data mining, big data analytics, web data analytics, fuzzy decision-making, and computational intelligence. He is a Fellow of SSARS (Canada) and a Life Member of several professional bodies, including IE, ISTE, ISCA, OBA, OMS, SMIACSIT, SMUACEE, and CSI. He has received multiple research awards in recognition of his contributions. LAURA GARCÍA-HERNÁNDEZ received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, in 2007, and the European Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Córdoba, Spain, and also from the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2011. She has been an Invited Professor during a semester in the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Area of Project Engineering at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her primary areas of research are engineering design optimization, intelligent systems, machine learning, user adaptive systems, interactive evolutionary computation, project management, risk prevention in automatic systems, and educational technology. In these fields, she has authored or co-authored more than 70 international research publications. She has given several invited talks in different countries. She has realized several postdoctoral internships in different countries with a total duration of more than two years. She received the prestigious National Government Research Grant ‘‘José Castillejo’’ for supporting their post-doc research during six months in the University of Algarve, Portugal. She has been an Investigator Principal in two Spanish research projects and has also been an Investigator Collaborator in some research contracts and projects. She is an Expert Member of ISO/TC 184/SC working team and the National Standards Institute of Spain (UNE). Moreover, she is a member of the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA Spain). Considering her research, she received the Young Researcher Award granted by the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA), Spain, in 2015. Additionally, she received two times the General Council of Official Colleges Award at prestigious International Conference on Project Management and Engineering both 2017 and 2018 editions. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Assurance and Security. Also, she is an Associate Editor in the following ISI Journals: Applied Soft Computing, Complex & Intelligent Systems, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
