Dr. Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Technology Management and Engineering, NMIMS University, Chandigarh Campus, Mumbai, India. Prior to joining NMIMS University, Dr. Kumar was associated with Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Wakanaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Birla institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience, has published over 120 research papers in reputed journals, edited more than eight books, and has presented at various national and international conferences. His primary area of research includes medical informatics, meta-heuristic algorithms, data clustering, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition, medical data analytics.Dr. Pardeep Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Wakanaghat. With more than 17 years of extensive experience in higher education, Dr. Kumar has served as Executive General Chair of 2016 Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) and 2024 Eighth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) , Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Robust and Secure Data Hiding Techniques for Telemedicine Applications", Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal, Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Recent Developments in Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing for Big Data", published in International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking", published in International Journal of Information and Computer Security. Dr. Kumar is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal. Dr. Kumar’s research focus includes machine & deep learning optimized Internet of Things (IOT) solutions to real life complex problems; blockchain, Internet of Things, data science and artificial intelligence for smart cities including AI driven health and medical informatics, big data analytics.Ming Dong is currently a full professor and the Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science and the co-director of the Data Science and Business Analytics MS program and the AI, Big Data & Analytics Group at Wayne State University. He is also the director of the Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Lab.Dr. Dong's areas of research include deep learning, data mining, and computer vision with applications in health informatics and automotive industry. His research is funded by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, State of Michigan, Private Foundations (e.g., Michigan Health Endorsement Fund, Epilepsy Foundation) and Industries (e.g., APB Investment, Ford Motor Company). He has published over 100 technical articles in premium journals and conferences in related fields, e.g., TMI, TMM, TPAMI, TKDE, TNN, TVCG, TC, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, IEEE ICDM, ACM MM, MICCAI, AMIA and WWW. He is/was an associate editor of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the American Statistical Association (ASA) Data Science Journal (since 2018), Journal of Smart Health (Since 2016), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2008-2011), and Pattern Analysis and Applications (2007-2010), and served in many conference program committees and US National Science Foundation panels. He also served as senior research consultant in Baidu Inc. in 2008.
