JAMAL AMANI RAD is assistant professor at the Department of Cognitive Modeling, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Evin, Tehran, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in numerical analysis (scientific computing) from SBU in 2015. Following his Ph.D., he started a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at SBU in May 2016. He is currently focused on the development of mathematical models for cognitive processes in mathematical psychology, especially in risky or perceptual decision making. With H-index 18, he has published 64 research papers with 1032 citations. He also has contributed a chapter to the book, Mathematical Methods in Interdisciplinary Sciences, as well as published two books in Persian. He has supervised 11 M.Sc. theses and 3 Ph.D. theses. He has so far developed a good scientific collaboration with leading international researchers in mathematical modeling: E. Larsson and L. Sydow at Uppsala University, L.V. Ballestra at the University of Bologna, and E. Scalas at the University of Sussex. He is a reviewer of a few reputed journals as well as has organized quite a few international level conferences and workshops on deep learning and neural network.KOUROSH PARAND is professor at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in numerical analysis from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 2007. Professor Parand has published more than 220 research papers in reputed journals and conferences and has more than 3400 citations. His fields of interest include partial differential equations, ordinary differential equations, fractional calculus, spectral methods, numerical methods, and mathematical physics. Currently, he is working on machine learning techniques such as least squares support vector regression and deep learning for some engineering and neuroscience problems. He also collaborates, as a reviewer, with different prestigious international journals.SNEHASHISH CHAKRAVERTY is professor at the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, as a senior (higher administrative grade) professor and dean of Student Welfare. Earlier, he worked with the CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India. He had been visiting professor at Concordia University and McGill University, Canada, during 1997–1999, and the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, during 2011–2014. After completing his graduation from St. Columba’s College (now Ranchi University, Jharkhand, India), he did his M.Sc. (Mathematics), M.Phil. (Computer Applications), and Ph.D. from the University of Roorkee (now, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), securing the first position in 1992. Thereafter, he did his post-doctoral research at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK, and at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada.Professor Chakraverty is a recipient of several prestigious awards: Indian National Science Academy (INSA) nomination under International Collaboration/Bilateral Exchange Program (with the Czech Republic), Platinum Jubilee ISCA Lecture Award (2014), CSIR Young Scientist Award (1997), BOYSCAST Fellow (DST), UCOST Young Scientist Award (2007, 2008), Golden Jubilee Director’s (CBRI) Award (2001), INSA International Bilateral Exchange Award (2015), Roorkee University Gold Medals (1987, 1988) for securing the first positions in M.Sc. and M.Phil. (Computer Applications). His present research area includes differential equations (ordinary, partial, and fractional), numerical analysis and computational methods, structural dynamics (FGM, nano) and fluid dynamics, mathematical and uncertainty modeling, soft computing and machine intelligence (artificial neural network, fuzzy, interval and affine computations).With more than 30 years of experience as a researcher and teacher, he has authored 23 books, published 382 research papers (till date) in journals and conferences. He is on the editorial boards of various international journals, book series, and conference proceedings. Professor Chakraverty is the chief editor of the International Journal of Fuzzy Computation and Modelling, associate editor of the journal, Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment, and on the editorial board of several other book series and journals: Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies (Springer Nature), Coupled Systems Mechanics, Curved and Layered Structures, Journal of Composites Science, Engineering Research Express, and Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal. He also is a reviewer of around 50 international journals of repute, and he was the president of the Section of Mathematical Sciences (including Statistics) of “Indian Science Congress” (2015–2016) and was the vicepresident of Orissa Mathematical Society (from 2011–2013). He has guided 18 Ph.D. students and 9 ongoing. He has undertaken around 16 research projects as principal investigator funded by international and national agencies totaling about INR 1.5 crore. He also has successfully organized a good number of international and national conferences, workshops, and training programs.
