Simon Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours BEng. Computer Systems degree and a PhD. Computer Science degree in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Simon is now working as an Associate Professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau. Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various IT posts in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore. Dr. Fong has published over 396 international conference and journal papers, mostly in the areas of Data-mining and metaheuristics. He is also one of the founding members of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Technology.Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He also holds a position of Adjunct Professor at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, he held an honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012–2015). He was awarded his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence , IGI Global, USA. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (SpringerNature), Data-Intensive Research(SpringerNature), Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier). He was an editorial board member of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier. He is having 35 authored books and over 300 publications in the area of medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE.Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an entrepreneur & researcher who has completed his graduation (B.Tech ) in Information Technology and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and completed his research in the areas of Cloud Computing and Cryptography in Medical imaging with a focus on analysis of the current Government Strategies and World forums needs in different sectors on security purposes. He has an experience of around 12 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. He is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently he is a Chairman of Computer Society of India (CSI) Udaipur Chapter and Secretary for Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Udaipur Professional Chapter. Further currently he is also the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria), He has presented and published more than 50 papers in National and International Journals/Conferences of IEEE and ACM. He has also edited more than 20 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. He has also organized more than 40 National and International Conferences and Workshops through ACM, Springer, IEEE across 5 countries including India, UK, Thailand, Europe. Apart from this academic involvement he is also associated with the Business and Industry Community across the globe. He is currently the Director of Emanant TechMedia (P) Limited which focuses on ICT and web-based services. With Global Knowledge Research Foundation his major work area is focussed on building & making effective linkages among bureaucrats, industry associations, Academic Leaders and regulatory authorities for effective connectivity for taking up common issues related to research in different sectors and has organized more than 20 Industry forum Events and recognised and felicitated Awards Ceremonies through his organizations in last 5 years. Liaisoning / communications with State as well as Central establishments along with corporate and Academics to take Industry and Government Sector together. He is majorly focusing on Academic Tie-ups for Medical, Engineering and management sectors, for the same he is representing the organization in many delegations to countries including USA, UK, Canada, Israel and visited more than 15 countries. He always looks forward and strives for Networking in various sectors with a focus on Education and Industry Sector.
