Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelor in Physics, Bachelor in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Master in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998, and 2000 respectively. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2008. He completed a habilitation thesis from VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2023. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Master. 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 has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure of 2018-2020. He was inducted into the People of ACM Hall of Fame by ACM, the USA in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure of 2021-2023. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK. He is currently serving as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. 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, from 2017-2019. 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 (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was a Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India, from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India, during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 98 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has two PCTs and 19 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India), ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic). He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals, including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing. His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks, and quantum computing. He is a life fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), India, a life fellow of the International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is the founding President of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Kolkata, and the Chairman of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong. Ivan Cruz-Aceves received an M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2009 from the Leon Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Guanajuato with Summa Cum Laude distinction in 2014. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the Centre for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT) in 2014 as part of the program "Investigadores por México" at the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). He is currently a full-time researcher of Computer Science, and He is the author of more than 30 international conference papers, 35 papers in journals (JCR), international book chapters, and 10 transfer technologies to the medical area involving medical image processing and analysis. His areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence focused on stochastic and Evolutionary Computation with applications to medical image and video processing and analysis. Dr. Arpan Deyasi is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, INDIA. He has more than 17 years of professional experience in academia and industry. His work spans around in the field of semiconductor nanostructure and semiconductor photonics. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers and edited 8 books. He is associated with different International and National Conferences in various aspects and is also Guest Editor of a few renowned journals. He is a senior member of IEEE, Vice-Chair of IEEE Electron Device Society (Kolkata Chapter), and member of IE(I), Optical Society of India, IETE, ISTE, ISVE, etc. Ms. Pampa Debnath is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, INDIA. She has more than 16 years of professional teaching experience in academics. Her research interest covers the area of Microwave devices, High-frequency antennas, SIW, and RGW-based circuits. She has already served as the technical chair and session chairs of several IEEE, Springer, and other International Conferences and coordinated several Faculty Development Programmes, Workshops, Laboratory and Industrial visits, seminars, and technical events under the banner of IEEE and The Institution of Engineers (INDIA) Kolkata section. She is a reviewer of a few journals of repute and some IEEE, Springer, and other national and international conferences. She is a member of The Institute of Engineers (IE), The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), International Association for Engineers (IAENG). Rajarshi Mahapatra received a Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, and a postdoctoral degree from the CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France. In his postdoctoral research, he was engaged in FP7 Call4 BeFEMTO and Greentouch projects. He is presently serving as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur. He also served as Dean (Academics) of IIITNR. Earlier, he had worked for Collins Aerospace, Hyderabad, on software-defined radio and electronic warfare. Dr. Rajarshi Mahapatra has worked extensively in the domain of physical layer design and analysis of a wireless communication system. He worked in the fields of cognitive radio, 5G and 6G communication, heterogeneous wireless communication, molecular communication, and energy-efficient communication. His team designed and developed software-defined radio and direction-finding systems for EW applications in Collins Aerospace. industry. He has about 18 years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He has guided PhD scholars in the area of wireless communication. He has published several research papers in various refereed Journals and IEEE Journals. He is a regular reviewer of premier IEEE Transactions and other peer-reviewed Journals and IEEE conferences. He has been organizing many workshops on 5G in recent years. He has also developed several high-value research labs, including the 5G test bed. He has successfully completed and undertaken high-value sponsored projects in the field of communication systems. He has been awarded a National scholarship, an MHRD scholarship for research, and an EU-FP7 fellowship for a European project. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Communication Society. His research interests include 5G & and beyond communication, machine learning for communication, molecular communication, intelligent reflecting surfaces, and optical access networks.
