Dr. Nibaran Das is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata where he joined in 2006. He received his M.E. in CSE , and Ph.D. in Engineering in 2005 and 2012, both from Jadavpur University and did his postdocs from University of Evora, Portugal. His research interests include artificial intelligence, deep learning, document and medical image processing. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications in these fields and published nine books/edited volumes in the domains. Professor Das has been recognized with several accolades, including the Best Volunteer Award from the IEEE Kolkata Section in 2015 and the 3rd Excellence Award at the International Document Information Processing School (IDIPS) in 2016. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM. Presently he is the chairperson of IEEE Kolkata Section, Computer Society Chapter and associate editor of Sadhana Journal. He is the principal supervisor of anongoing project and complete six as principle/co-principle investigator Sponsored by SERB and other organization. He has been a member of the advisory/program/organizing committees of different reputed International conferences and workshops.
Dr. Esra Kahya Ozyirmidokuz graduated from Erciyes University Control and Computer Engineering Department. She continued with Business Administration master program. In her thesis, she developed an innovative fuzzy expert system aimed at evaluating job application forms. Her Ph.D. thesis was in a carpet manufacturing firm techniques which was an online software system specialized in analyzing machine downtime and error data, utilizing advanced techniques in data mining and machine learning. She worked at Bournemouth University as a visiting researcher in 2015 and in 2019. She worked in the Computer Technologies Department of Kayseri Vocational College between 2005 and 2018 in the Business Administration Department from 2019 to 2022, in Industrial Engineering Department from 2023 to 2025. Her expertise is in management information systems. Currently, she is a part of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. She heads the Interdisciplinary Graduate Management Information Systems Master's Program and Erciyes University HappyCrowd Research Group.
Dr. Swagata Mandal is at present an assistant professor at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College(Autonomous) in West Bengal, India. He received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communication from West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) in 2011 and his M.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Communication Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University (Deemed University), now Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, Howrah, India, in 2013. He has done his doctoral research on the Development of FPGA-based Error Resilient Self-Triggered Readout Chain for CBM Experiment atVariable Energy Cyclotron Centre Kolkata, 20013 2017. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Computer Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during 2017 2018. He is the recipient of the DGFS-PhD fellowship for pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, in 2013.
Prof. Lale Özbakir received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University. She pursued her graduate studies at Erciyes University, focusing on Industrial Engineering with an emphasis on Operations Research. Her doctoral thesis was titled Modeling, Analysis, and Solution of Multi-Objective Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problems Using Heuristic Methods. Prof. Özbakir currently heads the Industrial Engineering Department at Erciyes University. She has a publication record with over a hundred publications.
