Prof. Rajendra Prasad Yadav is currently working as a Professor-HAG in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He has more than four decades of teaching and research experience. He was instrumental in starting new B.Tech, M.Tech courses and formulating Ph.D Ordinances for starting research work in Rajasthan Technical University(RTU) Kota and other affiliated Engg colleges as Vice Chancellor of the University. He has served as HOD of Electronics and Comm. Engg., President Sports and Library, Hostel warden, Dean Student Affairs at MNIT Jaipur. At present he is also the Chief Vigilance Officer of MNIT Jaipur since 2015. Prof. Yadav received the Ph.D degree from MREC Jaipur and M.Tech degree from IIT Delhi. Under his supervision 15 Ph.D students have received Ph.D degree, 7 students are working for their Ph.D degree. Forty M.Tech students have carried out their dissertation work under his guidance. He has published more than 200 peer review research papers which has received 1150 citations. His research interest are Error Control Codes and MIMO-OFDM, RF and Antenna Systems, Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems, Optical Switching and Materials, Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Network, Device Characterization and MEMS, Cognitive Radio Networks. Dr. Satyasai Jagannath Nanda is an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur since June 2013. Prior to joining MNIT Jaipur he has received the PhD degree from School of Electrical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar and M. Tech. degree from Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg., NIT Rourkela. He was the recipient of Canadian Research Fellowship- GSEP, from Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Intern. Trade (DFAIT), Govt. of Canada for the year 2009-10. He was awarded Best PhD thesis award at SocPros 2015 by IIT Roorkee. He received the best research paper awards at SocPros-2020 at IIT Indore, IC3-2018 at SMIT Sikkim, SocPros-2017 at IIT Bhubaneswar, IEEE UPCON-2016 at IIT BHU and Springer OWT-2017 at MNIT. He is the recipient of prestigious IEI Young Engineers Award by Institution of Engineers, Govt. of India in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering for the year 2018-19. Dr. Nanda is a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has received travel and research grants from SERB, UGC, CCSTDS (INSA), INAE. Till date he has published 40 SCI/SCOUPUS Journal articles and 50 international conference proceedings which received almost twelve hundred citations. He is the in-charge of Digital Signal and Image Processing (DSIP) Lab. at MNIT Jaipur. Under his supervision at MNIT Jaipur six researchers have awarded PhD and five researchers are continuing their research work. Along with it he has supervised 22 M. Tech thesis. Dr. Nanda is co-coordinator of Electronics and ICTAcademy at MNIT Jaipur which is a set-up of Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India of Grant 10 Crore. Dr Prashant Singh Rana is presently working as Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab. He received his both PhD and MTech from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior. His areas of research are Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Bioinformatics and Optimization. He has published more than 70 research papers in different journals and conferences. He completed five projects sponsored by DST, ICMR, NVIDIA and one projects are going on. He published 10 patents. He guided seven PhD students and 18 Masters students. Dr Lim is a faculty in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is holding a concurrent appointment as a Deputy Director for the M.Sc in Financial Engineering and the Centre for Financial Engineering, anchored at the Nanyang Business School.He is a versatile researcher with diverse interests, with research focus in the areas of computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, finance, algorithms for UAVs and memetic computing. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Memetic Computing published by Springer. He is also the Series Editor of the book series by Springer titled "Studies in Evolutionary Learning and Optimization".
