Dr. Sandeep Kumar is currently a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. He recently completed his post-doctoral research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in sentiment analysis. He is an associate editor for Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal. He has published more than eighty research papers in various international journals/conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited seven books in the area of computer science. Also, he has been serving as General Chair of the Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022 and 2023), the International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2021, 22, and 23). His research interests include nature-inspired algorithms, swarm intelligence, soft computing, and computational intelligence. Dr. Saroj Hiranwal, Associate Course Coordinator at BITS and Lecturer-Higher Education in the Faculty of IT at Victorian Institute of Technology, Adelaide Campus, South Australia, has contributed to machine learning, artificial intelligence, and real-time systems. Saroj's research interests include high-performance scientific computing, cloud computing, and network security. She is also working in the evolving and increasingly important fields of image processing, data analytics, and edge computing, which promise to pave the way for the evolution of new applications and services in healthcare, agriculture, smart cities, education, marketing, and finance. Her research has appeared in numerous prestigious journals and conferences, and she has written more than 50 research papers. During this tenure, Saroj started her academic career in 2006 and was promoted to various positions, including senior lecturer, reader, and professor. Saroj received a Bachelor of Engineering from the School of IT, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, in 2004, a Master of Technology in IT in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering & Technology in 2014. Dr. Ritu Garg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, since Feb 2008. Dr. Garg has received her Ph.D in the area of Grid Computing from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. Her primary area of research includes Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Fault Tolerance, Security and Data sciences. She has published more than 70 research papers in international journals and conferences mainly in the area of energy management and reliability in grid computing, cloud computing and IoT. She has supervised four Ph.D thesis and 27 M.Tech dissertations. She has acted as TPC member of various international conferences. She is an active reviewer of many reputed journals of the IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, InderScience etc. She has organized many STCs, FDPs and International Conferences. She is working on MeitY, Government of India, New Delhi sponsored project entitled "Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and related Technology)" under 'Drone Applications' work theme worth Rs 2.5 Cr. Dr. Sunil Dutt Purohit is an Associate professor of Mathematics at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, India. He also holds a non-resident postdoctoral fellowship at the Lebanese American University's Beirut campus. He did his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, India. He was awarded the University Gold Medal for being topper in M.Sc. Mathematics and awarded Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellow of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. His research interests include special functions, basic hypergeometric series, fractional calculus, geometric function theory, mathematical analysis and modelling. He's credited more than 230 research articles and eight books so far. He has delivered number of talks at foreign and national institutions. He is a Life Member of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Academy of Mathematics (IAM), Soft Computing Research Society, India (SCRS) and Society for Special Functions and their Applications, and Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He has also contributed in designing and redesigning the syllabus of engineering mathematics for UD and PG course work.
