Signal Processing, Telecommunication & Embedded Systems: Automation and Sustainability Applications

Vikrant Bhateja is an associate professor in Department of Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology (UNSIET), Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is also serving as the head: Computer Sc. Engg. & Information Technology in the same university. He holds a doctorate in Bio-Medical Imaging (ECE) with a total academic teaching experience of 21 years with around 190 publications in reputed international conferences, journals, and online book chapter contributions; out of which 40 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. He has been instrumental in chairing/co-chairing around 30 international conferences in India and abroad as a publication/TPC chair and edited 55 book volumes from Springer Nature as a corresponding/co-editor/author on date. He has delivered nearly 25 keynotes, invited talks in international conferences, ATAL, TEQIP, and other AICTE sponsored FDPs and STTPs. Xin-She Yang is a reader in Modelling and Simulation as well as Optimization at Middlesex University London, with more than 25 years’ experience in teaching and research. He got his D.Phil. in Applied Mathematics from Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, in 1998. He then worked at Cambridge University Engineering Department and later as a senior research scientist at Mathematics and Scientific Computing Division of UK’s National Physical Laboratory. He is also an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2021), fellow of Asian Computational Intelligence Society (2023), and fellow of Soft Computing Research Society (2025). He is the co-editor for Springer’s book series: Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and has been on editorial boards of multiple international journals, such as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) and Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier). He is also a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College. Wendy Flores-Fuentes received the master’s degree in engineering from Technological Institute of Mexicali in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in science, applied physics, with emphasis on Optoelectronic Scanning Systems for SHM, from Autonomous University of Baja California in June 2014. She has more than 115 publications which include journal articles in Elsevier, IEEE Emerald and Springer, book chapters and books in Intech, IGI global and Springer, proceedings articles in IEEE. She has been a panel reviewer of Taylor and Francis, IEEE, Elsevier, and EEMJ (Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi). Currently, she is a full-time professor-researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California at the Faculty of Engineering. Paladuga Satish Rama Chowdary is currently serving as the vice principal and head, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam. He obtained his M.E. from Andhra University and Ph.D. from Department of ECE, JNTUK Kakinada, in the field of Fractal Antennas. He currently holds the position of Executive Committee Member of IEEE Vizag Bay Section. He has 20 years of professional experience. His research interests are computational electromagnetics, fractal antennas, and image processing. He has published two patents in the field of IoT and ML. He had published 40 journal and conference papers indexed by SCOPUS and SCIE. He co-edited proceedings of third and fifth ICMEET Conferences. He has also chaired several technical and special sessions in international conferences like FICTA, Soft Computing Informatics, ICMEET-2017, IC3T. He is a senior member of IEEE, life member of Instrument Society of India, ICSES, and Soft Computing Research Society.

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