Dr. Prachi Manoj Joshi is working as Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at BRACT'S, VIIT, Pune, India. She obtained her B.E., MTech degree in Computer Engineering from COEP (College of Engineering, Pune), University of Pune, India. She has completed her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in the area of Machine Learning from COEP, University of Pune. She has experience of 15+ years in academics and research. She has co-authored book on Artificial Intelligence (PHI) and written book chapters for Research Methodology, published by CRC. She has successfully supervised a plethora of projects at graduate and post-graduate level encompassing the domains of Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Machine Learning. Her research interests include Information Retrieval and Incremental Machine Learning and has multiple research publications to her credit. Dr. Parikshit Narendra Mahalle is a senior member IEEE and is Professor and Head of Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. He completed his Ph. D from Aalborg University, Denmark and continued as Post Doc Researcher at CMI, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has 22 + years of teaching and research experience. He is a member of the Board of Studies in Computer Engineering, Ex-Chairman Information Technology, SPPU and various Universities and autonomous colleges across India. He has 9 patents, 200+ research publications (Google Scholar citations-2092 plus, H index-21 and Scopus Citations are 1000 plus with H index -15) and authored/edited 40+ books with Springer, CRC Press, Cambridge University Press, etc. He is editor in chief for IGI Global -International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis, Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, Inter-science International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global - International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence. His research interests are Machine Learning, Data Science, Algorithms, Internet of Things, Identity Management and Security. He is a recognized PhD guide of SSPU, Pune, and guiding 7 PhD students in the area of IoT and machine learning. Recently, four students have successfully defended their PhD. He is also the recipient of "Best Faculty Award" by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. He has delivered 200 plus lectures at national and international level. He is also the recipient of the best faculty award by Cognizant Technology Solutions.
