Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision

Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma is an enthusiastic and motivating technocrat with 13 years of academic experience. He is strong at technical fixes and impresses by his ability to design solutions. Fostering innovation and providing a nurturing eco-system for budding entrepreneurs is his key thrust area. He lays strong emphasis on automation projects for society and industry. He has published more than 46 research papers in different national/international journals and conferences. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, image processing, pattern recognition and cryptography. He has organized 2 international conferences in 2017 and 2018. He has served as Organizing Secretary and is TPC member in number of conferences including IEEE and Springer. He is a reviewer in different journals of repute from Springer, Elsevier, IEEE and many more. Dr. Sharma has delivered guest lectures at different national/international conferences in India and abroad. Dr. Dhaka is an enthusiastic and motivating technocrat with 15 years of industrial and academic experience. In his able leadership, students have won many prizes at the national level, e.g. Aero India Drone Competition, Pravega at IISc Bengaluru and Innovative Research prize at IIT Bombay. He lays strong emphasis on automation projects for university, developed by students, and has been successful in deploying 6 such projects in university. He has served on various key positions including Director of Innovations, Dean of Academics, Chief Editor for International Journal and Head of Department. He has more than 80 publications in journals of great repute and guided 10 research scholars to earn Ph.D. His research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, image processing and pattern recognition. He has organized 6 international conferences supported by IEEE, ACM, Springer and Elsevier. He is invited by various universities and institutions to deliver keynote addresses and plenary talks. Dr. Dhaka has successfully executed Solar Photo-Voltaic Efficiency Prediction and Enhancement Project funded by SERB (DST, Government of India). Thinagaran Perumal is the recipient of the 2014 Early Career Award from the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society for his pioneering contribution in the field of consumer electronics. He completed his Ph.D. at Universiti Putra Malaysia, in the area of smart technology and robotics. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also currently appointed as Head of Cyber-Physical Systems in the university and also been elected as Chair of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Malaysia Chapter. His research interests are towards interoperability aspects of smart homes and the Internet of things (IoT), wearable computing, and cyber-physical systems. Thinagaran is also headingthe National Committee on Standardization for IoT (IEC/ISO TC / G/16) as Chairman since 2018. Some of the eminent works include proactive architecture for IoT systems; development of the cognitive IoT frameworks for smart homes and wearable devices for rehabilitation purposes. He is an active member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and its Future Directions Committee on Internet of Things. He has been invited to give several keynote lectures and plenary talk on the Internet of things in various institutions and organizations internationally. He has published several papers in IEEE conferences and journals and is serving as TPC member for several reputed IEEE conferences. He is an active reviewer for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Sensors Journal, and IEEE Transaction for Automation Science and Engineering, to name a few. He was elected as General Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics 2017 (ISCE17) held in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Nilanjan Dey, is an

Stochastic Investigation of Two-unit Redundant System with Provision of Different Repair Schemes.- A Workflow Allocation Strategy under Precedence Constraints for IaaS Cloud Environment.- Artificial Neural Network Analysis for Predicting Spatial Patterns of Urbanization in India.- Satellite Radar Interferometry for DEM Generation using Sentinel-1A Imagery.