Dr. Anupam Yadav is an assistant professor of the Department of Mathematics at Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. His research area includes numerical optimization, soft computing and artificial intelligence; he has more than ten years of research experience in the areas of soft computing and optimization. Dr. Yadav has done a Ph.D. in soft computing from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, and he had worked as a research professor at Korea University. He has published more than twenty-five research articles in journals of international repute and has published more than fifteen research articles in conference proceedings. Dr. Yadav has authored a textbook entitled “An introduction to neural network methods for differential equations.” He has edited several books which are published by AISC, LNDECT Springer Series. Dr. Yadav was the general chair, convener and member of the steering committee of several international conferences. He isa member of various research societies. Dr. Gaurav Gupta is an assistant professor and department chair of Mathematics at the Wenzhou Kean-University, Wenzhou, China. He has 13 years of teaching and research experience. From 2007 to 2010, he worked for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He obtained more than $120,000 in grant funding from Wenzhou-education bureau. His research focus is in the area of data analytics, image processing, computer vision and soft computing. Dr. Gupta has published 31 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has guided two Ph.D. students, 9 Masters dissertations and 3 undergraduate projects. He has participated and contributed in many conferences and workshops as keynote speaker, technical committee and session chair. Dr. Puneet Rana is working as an assistant professor of Mathematics at the Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, China. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience. He has received his Ph.D. degree in the field of applied mathematics with specialization in “nanofluids” from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2013. His research interest includes nanotechnology, soft computing, numerical methods, thermal stability analysis, etc. He was awarded “research fellowship” for pursuing higher education by CSIR, India and travel grant for attending various international conferences by INSA and DST, India. He has also guided two Ph.D. students in the field of “nanotechnology” and published more than 60+ research papers in international journals and conferences of high impact with more than 1800+ Google and Scopus citation. He was also invited to the school of mathematical sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, for collaborative research work. One of his papers is recognized by Science-Direct as a most cited paper published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Elsevier, in 2012. He has participated and contributed in many conferences and workshops as a keynote speaker and technical committee member. He served as a reviewer of several Top ISI journals including Scientific reports, Physics of fluids, IJHMT, IJTS and many more. Prof. Kim, the dean of Engineering College of Korea University, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with the thesis title “Optimal replacement/rehabilitation model for water distribution systems.” Prof. Kim’s major areas of interest include: optimal design and management of water distribution systems, application of optimization techniques to various engineering problems and development and application of evolutionary algorithms. He has been the faculty of School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at Korea University since 1993 and is now serving as the dean of Engineering College. He has hosted international conferences including APHW2013, ICHSA 2014 & 2015 and HIC 2016 and has given keynote speeches at many international conferences including AOGS 2013, GCIS 2013, SocPros 2014 & 2015, SWGIC 2017 and RTORS 2017. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2017.
