Dr. Biplab Das presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. Dr. Das completed his Ph.D. from NERIST, Itanagar, India, in the year of 2014. Later, he pursued his postdoctoral research from University of Idaho, USA. He is the recipient of prestigious Bhaskara Advance Solar Energy (BASE) fellowship form IUSSTF and DST, Government of India. He is also awarded with “DBT Associateship” by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He has 14+ years of experience in teaching and research and published more than 120 of referred international/national journal/conference papers. Dr. Das is actively involved in 10 numbers of sponsored project to develop a solar thermal system for Northeast India, worth 0.268 billion INR, sponsored by SERB, DST, Ministry of Power, and the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of India.He has already completed eight sponsored projects. He has guided nine Ph.D. scholar, and he is guiding seven Ph.D. scholars. He has ongoing research activities in collaboration with Jadavpur University, India; IIT Guwahati, India; University of Idaho, USA; and Ulster University, UK.Dr. Ripon Patgiri received his bachelor’s degree from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, New Delhi, in 2009. He received his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2019. After M.Tech. degree, he joined as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2013. He has published numerous papers in reputed journals, conferences, and books. Also, he is awarded with several international patents. He is Senior Member of IEEE. He is Member of EAI and Lifetime Member of ACCS, India. Also, he is Associate Member of IETE. He was General Chair of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI 2018) and the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications (BigDML 2019). He is Organizing Chair of the 25th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2020) and the International Conference on Modeling, Simulations and Applications (CoMSO 2020). He is Convenor, Organizing Chair, and Program Chair of the 26th annual International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2020). He is also Editor in a multi-authored book, titled Health Informatics: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare, in the book series of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer. Also, he is writing a monograph book, titledBloom Filter: A Data Structure for Computer Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Bioinformatics and Beyond, Elsevier.Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay is Director of National Institute of Technology Silchar since December 2017. He is Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, where he has been serving since 1989. He is attached as Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Silchar. He has more than 300 publications in reputed journals and conferences. He has edited two books so far. His research interests are in the area of Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis, and Medical Imaging among others. He has organized several conferences and has been Program Committee Member and Area Chair in several reputed conferences. He has completed international funded projects with France, Japan, and Mexico. At the national level, he has been Principal Investigator of several consortium mode projects in the areas of machine translation, cross-lingual information access, and treebank development. At present, he is Principal Investigator of an Indo-German SPARC project with University of Saarlandes, Germany, on Multimodal Machine Translation and Co-PI of several other international projects.Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is Author of more than 300 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling, and Simulation. She is Editor-in Chief for International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and for International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Member in Editorial Board of several national and international journals, and is Evaluator expert for national, international projects, and Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Balas is Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in eight editions 2005–2020 held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair, and Member in Steering, Advisory, or International Program Committees. She is Member of EUSFLAT, SIAM, Senior Member of IEEE, Member in TC—Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), Chair of the TF 14 in TC—Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), and Member in TC—Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). Dr. Balas was past Vice President (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013–2015) and is Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM)—A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.Dr. Sukanta Roy is presently working as Head of Department and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Malaysia Campus. He has joined Curtin University, Malaysia Campus, in September2017. Prior to joining Curtin University, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in IRPHE, Aix Marseille University, France, from November 2015 to June 2017 on the variable pitch control of vertical axis wind turbines. Dr. Roy has also worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in LHEEA, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, from September 2014 to October 2015 through Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship (Asia to Europe) from European Commission on flow physics analysis of micro-wind turbines. Prior to working in France, he has completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India (2010–2014). Dr. Roy is Fellow of Advance Higher Education (HEA), UK, and award winner of Curtin Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning 2019. Dr. Roy presently supervising a number of Ph.D. and M.Phil. students and Recognized Reviewer for more than 10 reputed international journals. His research interests include Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wind Turbine Aerodynamics and Hydro-kinetic Turbines, Turbo-machinery, Renewable Energy, and Heat Transfer Applications.
