Mihir Narayan Mohanty is currently working as Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research (FET), Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He has received his M.Tech. degree in Communication System Engineering from the Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Applied Signal Processing. He is Fellow of IE (I), and IETE. Also, he is Member of many professional societies including IEEE, IET, etc. He has 25 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 300 papers in different journals, conferences including book chapters. He has authored two books. He is Successive Reviewer of manuscripts from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, IGI Global, etc. His areas of research interests include applied signal and image processing, speech processing, antenna, and intelligent signal processing.Swagatam Das earned his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, M.E. with a specialization in Control Engineering, and Ph.D. (Engineering) degrees from Jadavpur University, India, in the years 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is currently Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU) of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is also serving as Professor-in-Charge of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD) of his institute for the term 2024–26. He previously held the position of Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI), TCG CREST, Kolkata, India, from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024. His research interests encompass deep learning and non-convex optimization, and he has published over 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Das is Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal by Elsevier.
