Prof. Xiao-Zhi Gao received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He obtained his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland, in 1999. He has been working as Professor at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland, since 2018. He is also Guest Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, and Shanghai Maritime University, China. His current research interests are nature-inspired computing methods with their applications in optimization, data mining, machine learning, control, signal processing, and industrial electronics. Prof. Shailesh Tiwari currently works as Director, Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India. He is an alumnus of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. His primary areas of research are software testing, implementation of optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques in various problems. He has published more than 80 publications in International Journals and in Proceedings of International Conferences of repute. He is edited Scopus, SCI, and E-SCI-indexed journals. He has also edited several books published by Springer. He has organized several international conferences under the banner of IEEE and Springer. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE). Dr. Munesh C. Trivedi currently works as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Agartala, Tripura, India. He has published 20 text books and 80 research publications in different international journals and proceedings of international conferences of repute. He has received Young Scientist and numerous awards from different national as well international forums. He has organized several international conferences technically sponsored by IEEE, ACM, and Springer. He is on the review panel of IEEE Computer Society, International Journal of Network Security, Pattern Recognition Letter and Computer & Education (Elsevier's Journal). He is Executive Committee Member of IEEE UP Section, IEEE India Council, and also IEEE Asia Pacific Region 10. Prof. Pradeep Kumar Singh is currently working as Professor and Head in the department of CS at Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad, UP. He is a life membership of CSI, IEI and promoted to a senior member grade from CSI and ACM. He is Associate Editor of the (IJISMD), IJAEC, IGI Global USA, SPY, Wiley IJISC, a scientific peer-reviewed journal. He is recently appointed as Section Editor, Discover IoT, Springer Journal. He has published 106 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has edited a total 16 books from Springer and Elsevier. He has Google Scholar citations 944, H-index 18, and i-10 Index 31. His recently published book titled Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges in Current Scenario's from Springer has reached to 11000 downloads in last few months. Dr. Krishn K. Mishra is currently working Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. His primary area of research includes evolutionary algorithms, optimization techniques and design, and analysis of algorithms. He has also published more than 50 publications in international journals and in proceedings of internal conferences of repute. He is serving as a program committee member of several conferences and also edited Scopus and SCI-indexed journals. He is also member of reviewer board of Applied Intelligence Journal, Springer.
