Dr. Hari M. Srivastava is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1965 while he was a full-time member of the teaching faculty at the Jai Narain Vyas University of Jodhpur, India. Dr. Srivastava has held (and continues to hold) numerous Visiting, Honorary and Chair Professorships at many universities and research institutes in different parts of the world. Having received several D.Sc. (honoris causa) degrees as well as honorary memberships and fellowships of many scientific academies and scientific societies around the world, he is also actively associated editorially with numerous international scientific research journals as an Honorary or Advisory Editor or as an Editorial Board Member. He has also edited many Special Issues of scientific research journals as the Lead or Joint Guest Editor, including the MDPI journal Axioms, Mathematics, and Symmetry, the Elsevier journals, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Journal of King Saud University – Science, the Wiley journal, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, the Springer journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Journal of Inequalities and Applications, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, and Boundary Value Problems, the American Institute of Physics journal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences journal, AIMS Mathematics, among many others. Dr. Srivastava has been a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly-Cited Researcher since 2015. Dr. Srivastava’s research interests include several areas of Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences, such as Real and Complex Analysis, Fractional Calculus and Its Applications, Integral Equations and Transforms, Higher Transcendental Functions and Their Applications, q-Series and q-Polynomials, Analytic Number Theory, Analytic and Geometric Inequalities, Probability and Statistics, and Inventory Modeling and Optimization. He has published 36 books, monographs, and edited volumes, 36 book (and encyclopedia) chapters, 48 papers in international conference proceedings, and more than 1450 peer-reviewed international scientific research journal articles, as well as Forewords and Prefaces to many books and journals. Dr. Geeta Arora is currently a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. She earned her Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee, India in 2011. Her research interests include Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Wavelets. She has over eleven years of teaching experience and published around 50 research papers in both international and national Journals. She has authored 10 book chapters in national and international publications. Dr. Arora is the author of a two introductory mathematics books, Quick Calculations in Mathematics and Essential Statistics. Her area of applied research is the development of numerical methods and statistics. Dr. Firdous A. Shah earned his post-graduate degree in pure mathematics from the University of Kashmir and a PhD in applied mathematics from the Central University, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Kashmir, South Campus, India. His research interests include the theory of wavelets, time-frequency analysis, abstract harmonic analysis, sampling theory and applications of wavelets to signal processing and mathematical biology. He is the author/co-author of over 200 journal articles and has co-authored two books with Prof. Lokenath Debnath (University of Texas) on wavelet transforms and their applications, published by Birkhauser, Springer. Recently, he has authored another book entitled Wavelet Transforms: Kith and Kin, published by CRC Press. He has received numerous research grants from NBHM and SERB-DST, Govt. of India. He serves as an editorial board member of several reputed journals and is a lifetime member of several academic societies.
