Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FRSA (UK), FIET (UK), FIEI (I), FIETE, LFOSI, FSCRS, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMAAIA, SMIETI] is currently serving as a Senior Researcher in the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of the Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb, Croatia. He is a co-author of 7 books and the co-editor of 115 books and has more than 450 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has two PCTs and 21 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several international conferences. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Soft Computing Journal, Senior Editor of IEEE Access, and Associate Editor of several reputed journals, including Evolutionary Intelligence, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, and IET Quantum Communications.Indrajit Pan, a Fellow of IETE, has received his B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering with Honors from The University of Burdwan (2005) and M. Tech. in Information Technology from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (2009). He was the recipient of University Medal in his Masters. He obtained Ph.D. in Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in 2015. His current research interest includes community detection, cloud computing, influence theory and digital microfluidic biochip. He joined RCC Institute of Information Technology in 2006 and now serving as the Professor in Information Technology Department.Leo Mršić, Vice Rector for Science and Research at Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb, Croatia. His professional, scientific, and expert work spans technical sciences (computer science) and social sciences (information sciences and economics), bridging digital technology development with social and economic challenges. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. He obtained a Master’s degree in Business Informatics, focusing on data models for market analysis, and a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Sciences, specializing in graph theory and advanced analytical systems for market forecasting. Author of 100+ scientific papers and several international patents.Jan Platos is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and, since 2025, the Vice-rector for Research, Science and Doctoral studies, VSB-TUO, Czech Republic. He's focused primarily on the industrial applications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, industrial data processing, text processing, data compression, bioinspired algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, data structures, and data prediction. He's authored more than 280 scientific publications in journals and conferences.Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee is currently serving as the Associate Professor & Head of the Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) Department at the Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is also the Professor-in-Charge of the R&D and Consultancy Cell & Nodal Officer of the IPR Cell at BIT. Since 2024, he has also worked as a Remote Researcher in the Internet of Things & Applications Lab (ITHACA) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. Dr. Banerjee is also serving as an Adjunct Research Faculty member under the Lincoln Global Postdoctoral Researcher (LGPR) Programme at Lincoln University College, Malaysia. He is the former Remote Research Fellow of the Cognitive Computing and Brain Informatics Research Group (CCBI) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. Dr. Banerjee did his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in the Department of Computer Science. He also completed the Post Graduate Diploma in IPR & TBM from MAKAUT, WB. He has 21 years of teaching and research experience and has completed one IEI-funded project. He is the present Secretary-cum-Treasurer of the ISTE WB Section and Secretary of the IETE, Kolkata Centre. He is the Immediate Past Secretary of the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter. Dr. Banerjee is also elected as the Vice Chairman Cum Chairman Elect in the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter for the year 2025-2027.
