Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, Dr H.C., ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia), is with the Liverpool Hope University and the University of Arad. He was formerly with the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Canberra and Bournemouth University.Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES.His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents. Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D., D. Sc. is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 400 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings; 20 books; 48 book chapters; 20 patents. He had been the principle investigator of 52 research projects. At present he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR). Editor in chief of Intern. Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science. Editorial board member of: Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health. Member of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Intern. Engineering and Technology Institute. He has been a plenary speaker at more than 30 international scientific conferences and symposia. In 2009-2012, Dr. Yonghang Tai studied in Yunnan Normal University and got his bachelor’s degree. He received his Ph. D on Computer Science from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has hosted 4 Fund projects including Deakin University Postgraduate Research Full Scholarship, Yunnan Education Commission, Yunnan Natural Science Foundation, Yunnan Education Commission. He has published more than 30 papers, 5 of which has been indexed by SCI. He is the Co-Editor of International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices and Machine learning and data analytics. His research interests include VR/AR/MR in surgical simulation, Physic-based rendering, Medical image processing.Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and PhD at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and in 1992 she got the title Senior Researcher. At present, she is the Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks, CNC and programmable controllers. She has more than 180 publications, among which: 34 journal papers, 21 book chapters, and 5 patents. She was the PI and Co-PI of 48 scientific research projects. R. Kountcheva was the plenary speaker at 16 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She edited several books published in Springer SIST series and is a member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and is a Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group.
