Dr. Bikash is currently serving in the capacity of an associate professor since 2009 in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg (ECE), Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), Sikkim, India. He has served in the capacity of system analyst at M/s Envision Pvt. Ltd., Sikkim during 2004–2005 and as an assistant professor at SMIT from 2006 to 2009. He is currently the head of the Department (HoD) of the Dept of ECE, SMIT. He currently holds the positions of secretary of IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Kolkata Chapter, India, and secretary of Atomic and Molecular Interest Group (AIMG), Institute of Physics (IOP), UK. He is also the past treasurer of IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter, India, 2017- 19. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, international and national conferences. He has been engaged with projects worth INR 1.5 cores (Approx).Dr. Thuan-Dinh Do (IEEE Senior Member) received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Thuan worked as a senior engineer in the telecommunications industry at VinaPhone Mobile Network (the biggest cellular network provider in Vietnam) (2003–2009). Before joining the University of Mount Union, he worked as a research scientist at the University of Colorado Denver (2022), the University of Texas at Austin (2021), and as an assistant professor at Asia University (Taiwan) (2020–2021). Dr. Thuan was the recipient of the 2015 Golden Globe Award by Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (top ten outstanding scientists nationwide).Dr. Samarendra Nath Sur (M2016, SM’20) received M.Tech. degree in Digital Electronics and Advanced Communication from Sikkim Manipal University in 2012 and Ph.D. degree in MIMO signal processing from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, in 2019. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IEEE-IoT, IEEE Signal Processing Society and Institution of Engineers (India)(IEI). He has published more than 85 SCI/Scopus-indexed international journal and conference papers. He is also a regular reviewer of reputed journals, namely IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, IET, Wiley, etc. He is currently editing several books with Springer Nature, Elsevier, and Routledge, CRC Press. He is also serving as a guest editor for topical collection/special issues of the journals like Springer Nature, MDPI and Hindawi.Dr. Chuan-Ming Liu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), TAIWAN, where he was the Department Chair from 2013–2017. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2002 and joined the CSIE Department at Taipei Tech in the spring of 2003. In 2010 and 2011, he held visiting appointments with Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, and the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. He has services in many journals, conferences and societies as well as published more than 100 papers in many prestigious journals and international conferences. Dr. Liu was also the co-recipients of the best paper awards in many conferences, including ICUFN 2015, ICS 2016, MC 2017, WOCC 2018, MC 2019, WOCC 2021, TCSE 2022 and TANET 2023.
