Dr. Sartajvir Singh is currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer at the Center of Excellence in Socio-Environmental Sustainability for River Sand Mining (SENSRS) and Project Director (ICSSR Project) at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. He is a digital image analyst with expertise in remote sensing and earned his PhD in Electronics & Communication Engineering (Outstanding Thesis Awardee, 2018) after completing his M. Tech (Gold Medalist) and B.Tech with Distinction. He is a Registered Indian Patent & Trademark Agent and a DGCA-approved drone operator, with 70+ innovations (35+ patents granted) and 90+ SCI/Scopus-indexed publications. He has secured over four Crore (INR) research funding, received multiple fellowships, held editorial positions, and is an IEEE Senior Member, advancing electronics, image processing, and geospatial intelligence.Dr. Vishakha Sood is working as Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, Punjab. She has been awarded with Women Scientist (WoS-A) Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India for three years i.e., 2022-2025. She received her PhD in 2020 for “Detection of Snow/Ice over North Indian Himalayas using satellite imagery. She has received the M. Tech and B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University (in 2008) and M. Tech from Punjab Technical University (in 2011). She has also done MBA (Human Resource) from Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) Deemed to be University in 2010. She received the "Outstanding Performance Award" in CESA-FIESTA 2023 Symposium from IIT, Ropar. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field of academics, research and administration. She has authored many SCI-indexed articles (IEEE, T&F, ELSEVIER, and SPRINGER), SCOPUS indexed book chapters and holds many inventions. Her research interests include satellite sensors, remote sensing, and digital image analysis. She is IEEE Senior Member and active member of various societies as Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Punjab Science Congress (Punjab Academy of Sciences) and IEEE Sensors council, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Digital Library and IEEE Women in Engineering. She is editing various Special Issues in the Journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMAS) –Springer and Frontiers in Earth Sciences and in addition, various books with Elsevier.Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Ampatzidis is an Associate Professor leading a research and extension precision agriculture engineering program at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee, Florida. He received his B.S. in Agriculture Science in 2002 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece, with a major in row crops and ecology. After completing his bachelor’s degree, he enrolled in the Agricultural Engineering department and completed his M.S. in 2005 with an emphasis on precision agriculture and robotics. At the same time, he completed his second bachelor’s degree in Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering in 2008 (AUTH). He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from AUTH in 2010 with an emphasis on precision agriculture and automation for specialty crops. His current research focuses on the mechanical harvesting of specialty crops, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, precision agriculture, smart machines (e.g., smart spraying technologies), UAVs, and machine systems.
