Soft Computing Techniques and Applications

​Dr. Samarjeet Borah is currently working as Professor in the Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim Manipal University (SMU), Sikkim, India. Dr. Borah handles various academics, research and administrative activities. He is also involved in curriculum development activities, board of studies, doctoral research committee, IT infrastructure management etc. along with various administrative activities under SMU. Dr. Borah is involved with three funded projects in the capacity of Principal Investigator/Co-principal Investigator. The projects are sponsored by, AICTE (Govt. of India), DST-CSRI (Govt. of India) and Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Fund. Dr. Borah is involved with various journals of repute and book volumes as Editor/Guest Editor.Dr. Ratika Pradhan is working as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology since July 1999. She received Ph.D. from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU) in 2011 andM.E. (CSE) from Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, in 2004. Her areas of research interest are digital image processing, remote sensing, and GIS. She has published 25 journal papers, and 5 conference papers. Dr. Pradhan also completed few research projects funded by All India Council for Technical Education, Govt. of India.Nilanjan Dey is an Asst. Professor in the Deptt. of IT at Techno International New Town, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, and Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, SpringerNature. He is the Indian Ambassador of IFIP – Young ICT Group. Dr. Phalguni Gupta received his Doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1986. He started his carrier in 1983 by joining in Space Applications Centre (ISRO) Ahmedabad, India as a Scientist. In 1987, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He is a Professor in the department. Currently, he is the Vice Chancellor of GLA University, Mathura. He has published about 300 papers in International Journals and Conferences. He is also an author of 2 books and 14 book chapters. He has dealt with several sponsored and consultancy projects which are funded by the Government of India. Some of these projects are in the area of Biometrics, System Solver, Grid Computing, Image Processing, Mobile Computing, and Network Flow. He has established the Biometrics Lab at IIT Kanpur.

• Scene Character Recognition with Morphological Filtering and HOG Features.- Rice Disease Detection and Monitoring Using CNN and AR Enabled Application.- Air Quality Prediction Using Artificial Neural Network.- Crime Rate Prediction Using Machine Learning and Data Mining.- Fraud Rate Prediction in E-Banking Systems Using Machine Learning and Data Mining: A Perspective in Bangladesh.- Novel User Preference Recommender System Based on Twitter Profile Analysis.- Cycloconverter-fed Capacitor-Start-Capacitor-Run Induction Motor Drive: Simulation Analysis.- Simulation and Analysis of Seven-Level Voltage Source Inverter.- Study of Protection, Fault and Condition Monitoring of Induction Motor.- Aerodynamic Modelling and Analysis of Wind Turbine.