Dr. Ajith Abraham is a Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bennette University. He is the director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Australia. MIR Labs are a not-for-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, Web intelligence, Web services, and data mining. He is the Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Sujata Dash is a Professor of Computer Science at North Orissa University in the Department of Computer Science, Baripada, India. She is a recipient of Titular Fellowship from Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK and was a visiting professor of Computer Science Department of University of Manitoba, Canada. She has published more than 160 technical papers as well as textbooks, monographs and edited books. She is a member of international professional associations and is a reviewer and editorial board member for multiple international journals. Her current research interest includes Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Bioinformatics, Fuzzy sets and systems, Rough sets, Soft Computing and Intelligent Agents. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues is a professor at the Federal University of Piaui, Brazil, and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal. He is the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA) research group (CNPq), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis - Covilha Science and Technology Park. He has been general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. He has authored or coauthored over 800 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, 3 books, 2 patents, and 1 ITU-T Recommendation. He had been awarded several Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a member of the Internet Society, a senior member ACM, and Fellow of IEEE. Biswa Ranjan Acharya is an academic currently associated with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University along with pursuing PhD in computer application from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha, India. He received MCA in 2009 from IGNOU, New Delhi, India and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in the year of 2012 from Biju Pattanaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha, India. He is also associated with various educational and research societies like IEEE, IACSIT, CSI, IAENG, and ISC. He has industry experience as a software engineer. He currently is working on research in multiprocessor scheduling along with fields such as Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and IOT. Subhendu Kumar Pani received his Ph.D. from Utkal University Odisha, India. He has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience His research interests include data mining, big data analysis, web data analytics, fuzzy decision making and computational intelligence. He is a fellow in SSARSC and life member in IE, ISTE, ISCA, OBA.OMS, SMIACSIT, SMUACEE, CSI.
