Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain, Ph.D., Dr. h.c., M.E., B.E. (Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia), is with the University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. He was formerly with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation, and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generates synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the areas of KES. Dr. Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and PhD at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1992 she got the title Senior Researcher. At present, she is the Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks,CNC and programmable controllers. She has more than 220 publications and 5 patents (EU and USA). R. Kountcheva was the plenary speaker at 23 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She was a co-editor of more than 10 books published in Springer SIST series and of several Special issues for Symmetry MDPI. She is a member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and is a Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group. Prof. Wenfeng Wang Editor-in-chief of IJANS and IJEEE; EBM of Nature - Scientific Reports; General chair of the World Conference on Intelligent and 3D Technologies; Reviewer of many SCI journals, including some top ones - Nature Computational Science, Expert System with Applications, Water Research, Science China-Information Sciences, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, etc.; Plenary/Keynote speakers of many international conferences - AMICR2019, IACICE2020, NAMSP2021, AMMCS2021, ICCEAI2021, AICS2021, 3DIT-MSP&DL2020, CSAMCS 2021, AMMCS2021, ICPEM2021, ATAMI2021, ICRDET2022 and etc. Prof. Srikanta Patnaik has received his Bachelor in Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla (presently VSSUT, Burla) in 1989, MBA from Sambalpur University in 1991 and Ph. D. (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has served at University College of Engineering, Burla and Fakir Mohan University and SOA University for more than 30 years. Presently, Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, which is an AICTE approved management institute. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, 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 3 text books and edited more than 100 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, IOS Press and SPIE. Dr. SrikantaPatnaik is the 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, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convegence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS). He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on "Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology" published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA. Prof. Patnaik is a Guest Professor to Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha and Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China and visiting professors to some of the B-Schools of Europe and South East Asia. Prof. Patnaik is awarded with MHRD Fellowship by the Government of India, for the year 1996. He is nominated for MARQUIS Who's Who for the year 2004 and nominated as International Educator of the Year 2005 by International Biographical Centre, Great Britain. He ahs been awarded with the certificate of merit for the best paper entitled "Face recognition by ANN using wavelet Transform Coefficients" by The Institute of Engineers (India) for the year 2004-05. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited various countries such as Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Algeria, Thailand and Vietnam for delivering Key note addresses at various conferences and symposiums.
