Dr. Padmalaya Nayak is working as a Professor and the Head of the department, CSE/IT, at Gokaraju Lailavathi Engineering College, Hyderabad, under Osmania University, Hyderabad. Prior to that, she was working as a professor in the department of CSE at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, since 2009. She obtained her doctoral degree from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2010, and her master’s in CSE from the University of Madras in 2002. She has 23 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks. She has published more than 80 research papers in various peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences. She has also contributed 7 book chapters, one Indian Patent, and one Australian Patent to her credit. Prof. Nayak is the editor of two books published by Taylor and Francis.Dr. Satchidananda Dehuri is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science , Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India since 2013. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Odisha in 2006. He visited as a BOYSCAST Fellow to the Soft Computing Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, under the BOYSCAST Fellowship Program of DST, Government of India in 2008. In 2010, he received Young Scientist Award in Engineering and Technology for the year 2008 from Odisha Vigyan Academy, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Odisha. In 2021, he received TARE Fellowship from SERB, DST, Government of India for three years to carry out intensive research on Higher Order Neural Networks for Big Data Analysis at host Institute, ISI Kolkata and Parent Institute, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore.Prof. Ashish Ghosh is presently the Director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar. He has already published more than 300 research papers in internationally reputed journals and refereed conferences and has published eleven books. His current research interests include data science, big data analysis, machine learning and data mining, image and video analysis, computational intelligence, neural and evolutionary computation, and bioinformatics. Dr. Ghosh received the prestigious Young Scientists Award in Engineering Sciences from the Indian National Science Academy in 1995, and in computer science from the Indian Science Congress Association in 1992.Prof. Sung-Bae Cho received the B.S. degree in computer science from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Taejeon, Korea. He was an invited researcher of Human Information Processing research laboratories at Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) institute, Kyoto, Japan, from 1993 to 1995, and a visiting scholar at University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, in 1998. He was also a visiting professor at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 2005 to 2006, and at King Mongkut’s University of Technology at Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2013. Since 1995, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, a underwood distinguished professor from 2021, and a Yonsei Fellow from 2023. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man-machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life.
