Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, Dr H.C., ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia), is with the Liverpool Hope University and the University of Arad. He was formerly with the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Canberra and Bournemouth University.Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, and e-healthcare.Roumen Kountchev is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. He has 400 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings; 20 books; 48 book chapters; 20 patents. He had been the principle investigator of 52 research projects. At present, he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR). He is Editor-in-Chief of Intern. Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science. He is the editorial board member of Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health. He is Member of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Intern. Engineering and Technology Institute. He has been a plenary speaker at more than 30 international scientific conferences and symposia.Kun Zhang, Ph.D., is Master's Supervisor. He is Professor in Hainan Tropical Ocean University. He is Visiting Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Resources Utilization in the South China Sea, Hainan University; Guest Master's Supervisor in Tianjin Science and Technology University. He is Visiting Scholar at the Harbin Institute of Technology; he has high-level talents in Hainan Province, “Top Talents,” and “Nanhai Masters” youth project talents in Hainan Province; he is a candidate in the third level of Hainan province "515" Engineering; senior Member of Chinese Computer Society (CCF) and China Electronics Association (CIE); he is the member of ACM and IEEE; Hainan Province Science and Technology Expert, Guangdong Province Science and Technology Expert, Sanya City Information Construction Expert, Sanya City Contracted Theoretical Expert; he is the host of Key Laboratory of visual computer in Sanya. More than 160 papers have been published so far, including 20 SCI indexes published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Access, Cluster Computing, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, etc. Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and in 1992. Presently, she is Vice President of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks, CNC and programmable controllers. She has more than 180 publications, among which: 34 journal papers, 21 book chapters and 5 patents. She was the PI and Co-PI of 48 scientific research projects. She was the plenary speaker at 16 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She edited several books published in Springer SIST series and is a member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) and is Honorary Member of the Editorial Board of the non-profit peer-reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group.
