Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FIET(UK), FIEI, FIETE, LFOSI, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMAAIA, SMIETI, LMCSI, LMISTE] is currently serving as a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He also serves as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. Before this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He was the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is the recipient of several coveted awards, including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India, in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He was an ACM Distinguished Speaker for 2018-2020. He was inducted into the People of ACM Hall of Fame by ACM, the USA, in 2020. He was the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2021-2023. He is a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He is a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 100 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. Dr. Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee is currently serving as HoD in the CSE (AI and ML) Department at the Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Additionally, he is also Professor-in-Charge, R&D and Consultancy Cell, and Nodal Officer of the IPR Cell of BIT. Dr. Banerjee did his Post-doctoral Fellowship at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in the Department of Computer Science. He also completed the P.G. Diploma in IPR and TBM from MAKAUT, West Bengal. He has teaching and research experience spanning 19 years and has completed one IEI-funded project. He is present Secretary-cum-Treasurer of the ISTE WB Section and Secretary of the CSI, Kolkata. He is also ExeComm Member of the IETE, Kolkata. He has published over seventy papers in various international publications. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief of AJAC, USA; Editorial Board Member of the IJTE (UGC-CARE Journal); and Series Editor for Advances in Disruptive Technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence, published by CRC Press, USA. Mario Köppen studied Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received his Master's degree in Solid-State Physics in 1991. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals, and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as Chair or Member of the program committee, including the WSC online conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is Founding Member of the World Federation of Soft Computing and since 2016 Editor-in-Chief of its Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal. In 2006, he became JSPS Fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, in 2008 Professor at the Network Design and Research Center (NDRC), and in 2013 Professor at the Graduate School of Creative Informatics of the Kyushu Institute of Technology, where he is conducting now research in the fields of soft computing, especially for multi-objective and relational optimization, digital convergence, and human-centered computing.
