Prof. Zhengtao Yu, Ph.D., is the dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, the director of the Provincial Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, and the Chief Professor of KUST innovation team of Intelligent Information Processing. He is graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with Ph.D. on Computer Application Technologies in 2005. He visited Purdue University as a visiting scholar in 2009. He has over 100 publications in international journals and conferences and holds numerous patents and copyrights. He had won numerous awards including the first prize and the third prize of Yunnan Province Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award. Prof. Yu is specialized in natural language processing, information retrieval, and information extraction. His research interests include: Chinese corpus and Southeast Asia minority languages corpus construction, linguistic information processing,question-answering system, cross-language information retrieval, multi-lingual machine translation, and cross-language public opinion analysis. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 21 Ph. D. theses and more than 50 M. Tech. theses in the area of machine intelligence, soft computing applications, and re-engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 52 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik was Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project "Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot" sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhiand Major Research Project "Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods" sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on "Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology" published from Springer, Germany. John Wang, Ph.D., works in the Department of Information Management and Business Analytics at Montclair State University, USA. Having received a scholarship award, he came to the USA and completed his Ph.D. in operations research from Temple University. Due to his extraordinary contributions, Prof. Wang has been honored with two special range adjustments in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He has published over 100 refereed papers and more than ten books. He has also developed several computer software programs based on his research findings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management and International Journal of Applied Management Science. Also, he is Editor of Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization (five-volume), Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (six-volume), and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 1st (two-volume) and 2nd (four-volume). His long-term research goal is on the synergy of operations research, data mining, and cybernetics. Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JIS University, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He is an Adjunct Professor of 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 has authored/edited more than 90 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press, and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IGI Global), Associated Editor of IEEE Access, and International Journal of Information Technology (Springer). He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (Springer), Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier), Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis (CRC). His main research interests include medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of the International Federation for Information Processing-Young ICT Group and Senior member of IEEE
