Dr. Aditya Kumar Singh Pundir has completed his Ph.D. in the area of Embedded and Reconfigurable Hardware with the title “Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Hardware Design using BIST Technique on SRAM”. He did his M.Tech. in VLSI Design from Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, and B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Rajasthan University, Jaipur. He is associated with Arya College of Engineering and I.T. as a professor and has more than twelve years of experience in the industry as well as academics. He has published ten Indian patents, two Australian innovation patents, two copyrights with a class of work software (Granted), authored several chapters and three books, and also authored more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed refereed journals including SCOPUS, SCI/ SCIE to his credit. He has worked as a session chair, conference steering committee member, editorial board member, and reviewer in international/national journals/ conferences. Dr. Anupam Yadav is an assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. His research area includes numerical optimization, soft computing, and artificial intelligence; he has more than ten years of research experience in the areas of soft computing and optimization. He has done a Ph.D. in soft computing from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, and he had worked as a research professor at Korea University. He has published more than twenty-five research articles in journals of international repute and has published more than fifteen research articles in conference proceedings. He has authored a textbook entitled “An introduction to neural network methods for differential equations”. He has edited three books which are published by AISC, Springer Series. He was the general chair, convener, and member of the steering committee of several international conferences. He is a member of various research societies. Dr. Swagatam Das received the B. E. Tel. E., M. E. Tel. E (Control Engineering specialization), and Ph.D. degrees, all from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is currently serving as an associate professor and the head of the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests include evolutionary computing and machine learning. He has published more than 300 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal from Elsevier. He has also served as or is serving as the associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and so on.
