Dr. Biplab Das is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. Dr. Das completed his Ph.D. from NERIST, Itanagar, India, in the year of 2014. Later, he pursued his postdoctoral research from University of Idaho, USA. He is the recipient of the prestigious Bhaskara Advance Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship from IUSSTF and DST, Government of India. He is also awarded with "DBT Associateship" by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He has 12+ years of experience in teaching and research and published more than 60 nos. of refereed international/national journal/conference papers. Presently, Dr. Das is actively involved in 08 nos. of ongoing sponsored projects to develop a solar thermal system for North East India, worth 0.268 billion INR, sponsored by SERB, DST, Ministry of Power, and the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of India. He is guiding 06 nos. of Ph.D. scholars. He has ongoing research activities in collaboration with Jadavpur University, India, IIT Guwahati, India, University of Idaho, USA, and Ulster University, UK. Dr. Ripon Patgiri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar. He has received his Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology Silchar. He has seven years of teaching and research experiences. Moreover, he has rich experiences in organizing conferences. He has published several journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. Also, he is editing several books. He is a senior member of IEEE. Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhay is Director of National Institute of Technology Silchar since December 2017. He is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, where he has been serving since 1989. He is attached as Professor, Computer Scienceand Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Silchar. He has more than 300 publications in reputed journals and conferences. He has edited two books so far. His research interests are in the area of natural language processing, machine translation, sentiment analysis and medical imaging among others. He has organized several conferences and has been the Program Committee member and Area Chair in several reputed conferences. He has completed international funded projects with France, Japan and Mexico. At the national level, he has been the Principal Investigator of several consortium mode projects in the areas of machine translation, cross-lingual information access and treebank development. At present, he is the Principal Investigator of an Indo-German SPARC project with University of Saarlandes, Germany, on Multimodal Machine Translation and the Co-PI of several other international projects. Prof. Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 300 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief to the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national and international projects and Ph.D. Thesis. Dr. Balas is the Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in eight editions 2005-2020 held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair and member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM, a senior member of IEEE, member in TC - Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), Chair of the TF 14 in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), and member in TC - Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). Dr. Balas was past Vice-President (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015) and is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.
