Dr. Amit Kant Pandit is working as an Associate Professor and is Ex-Hod, DECE, in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra (India). He is a Senior member of IEEE and MIR labs member and has 19 years of academic experience.Mohamed Abouhawwash received the BSc and MSc degrees in statistics and computer science from Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He finished his Ph.D. in Statistics and Computer Science, 2015, in a channel program between Michigan State University, USA, and Mansoura University, Egypt. He is at Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (CMSE), Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Radiology, Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering (IQ), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt. In 2018, Dr. Abouhawwash is a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. His current research interests include evolutionary algorithms, machine learning, image reconstruction, and mathematical optimization. Dr. Abouhawwash was a recipient of the best master’s and Ph.D. thesis awards from Mansoura University in 2012 and 2018, respectively.Dr. Shubham Mahajan (Member, IEEE, ACM) received the B.Tech. degree from Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, the M.Tech. degree from Chandigarh University and Ph.D. degree with Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra, India. He is working as a Assistant Professor with Ajeenkya D Y Patil University, Pune. He has eight Indian, one Australian, one German Patent to his credit in the area of artificial intelligence and image processing. He has authored/coauthored more than 50 publications including peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His main research interests include image processing, video compression, image segmentation, fuzzy entropy, nature-inspired computing methods with applications in optimization, data mining, machine learning, robotics, and optical communication, and also received the ‘Best Research Paper Award’ from ICRIC 2019 (Springer, LNEE) and also received the Best Student Award-2019, IEEE Region-10 Travel Grant Award-2019, 2nd runner up prize in IEEE RAS HACKATHON-2019 (Bangladesh) and IEEE Student Early Researcher Conference Fund (SERCF-2020), Emerging Scientist Award-2021, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Professional Development Grant-2021. He was a Campus Ambassador for IEEE, IIT Bombay, Kanpur, Varanasi, Delhi and various MNC’s. He is constantly looking for collaboration opportunities with foreign professors and students.
