Seifedine Kadry is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Norrof University College, in Norway. He has a Bachelor’s degree in 1999 from Lebanese University, MS degree in 2002 from Reims University (France) and EPFL (Lausanne), PhD in 2007 from Blaise Pascal University (France), HDR degree in 2017 from Rouen University. At present, his research focuses on data Science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics. He is an ABET program evaluator for computing, and ABET program evaluator for Engineering Tech. He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE, and Fellow of IACSIT. He is a distinguished speaker of IEEE Computer Society.Dr. Shubham Mahajan is a respected academic and researcher, and a member of well-known professional organizations like IEEE, ACM, and IAENG. He completed his B.Tech. from Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, his M.Tech. from Chandigarh University, and his Ph.D. from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Haryana.Dr. Mahajan has made strong contributions in the fields of artificial intelligence and image processing. He holds nineteen Indian patents, along with one Australian and one German patent. He has published more than 103 research papers in national and international journals and conferences, including 55 in SCIE journals and 48 indexed by Scopus. He has also edited 10 Scopus-indexed books. His research areas include image processing, video compression, image segmentation, fuzzy entropy, nature-inspired algorithms, optimization, data mining, machine learning, robotics, and optical communication. He won the Best Research Paper Award at ICRIC 2019 (Springer LNEE series).Throughout his career, Dr. Mahajan has received many awards, such as the Best Student Award (2019), IEEE Region-10 Travel Grant (2019), 2nd runner-up in IEEE RAS Hackathon (2019, Bangladesh), IEEE SERCF (2020), Emerging Scientist Award (2021), and the IEEE SPS Professional Development Grant (2021). He also received the Excellence in Research Award in 2023.Beyond research, Dr. Mahajan has contributed to the academic community in many ways. He has worked as a Campus Ambassador for IEEE at top institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIT Varanasi, and IIT Delhi, as well as for several multinational companies. He is active in promoting international research collaborations and serves on Technical Program Committees and Editorial Boards of various international conferences and journals.
