Valentina E. Balas is Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre and of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects at “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She is author of 350+ 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 of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), and… Read More

Alfred M. Bruckstein, born in Sighetu Marmatiei – Maramures, Transylvania, Romania, in 1954, received his BSc and MSc degrees at the Technion, Haifa, in 1976 and 1980, respectively and then earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in Stanford University, California in 1984, his advisor being Professor Thomas Kailath.  

From October 1984 he has been with the Technion, where he now holds of the Ollendorff Chair in Science, in the Computer Science Department.  His research interests are in Ants and Swarm Robotics, Signal and Image Processing, Image Analysis and Synthesis, Pattern Recognition, and various aspects of… Read More

Pethuru Raj, PhD is working as a chief architect and Vice President at the Edge AI Division at Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. (JPL) Bangalore. Previously. worked in IBM global Cloud center of Excellence (CoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, I have gained more than 22 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai and continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, I was granted a… Read More

Mandar Bhatavdekar  is a Global Head of Data & Analytics service practice in Tata Consultancy Services. His focus areas include driving business strategy, elevating the brand TCS in Data, Analytics & AI world, by bringing in thought leadership, improving our analyst positioning and customer mindshare. With a rich, multi-disciplinary experience within TCS from Services to Products, Sales to Delivery, across diverse industries, he is able to bring in TCS' diverse value to customers.  He is a certified Enterprise Architect and had led many complex & transformational engagements. He had earlier led the product… Read More

Prof. CK Ho is the Vice Chancellor of the Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation. He is also a Fellow at the Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University, China. His research interest includes computational intelligence, machine learning, artificial intelligence and trustworthy computing. 

He has been an ICT consultant over the past 15 years, bringing research into industrial practice. Prof. Ho has experience working with clients from numerous industries and government agencies where he led the design, development and delivery of solutions spanning the areas of intelligent services,  IT master planning, network fault analysis, data analytics, policy… Read More

Prof. P. G. Sankaran is serving as the Vice Chancellor of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi. He is a highly accomplished academic and researcher with expertise in the field of Statistics. Prof. Sankaran's contributions to academia and research are truly exceptional. Prior to assuming the role of Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sankaran served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor at CUSAT from 2017 to 2023. He is a distinguished Senior Professor in the Department of Statistics at CUSAT. Prof. Sankaran's leadership extends to his role as the Director of the Centre for Population Studies at CUSAT

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Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS, Prof. Gandomi was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and a distinguished research fellow at BEACON center, Michigan State University, USA. Prof. Gandomi has published 350+ journal papers and 14 books which collectively have been cited 43,000+ times (H-index = 93). He has been named as one of the most influential scientific minds and received the Highly Cited Researcher award (top 1% publications and 0.1%… Read More

With an extensive career spanning three decades, Aditya Kumar Sinha has consistently demonstrated progressive and impactful leadership in a variety of esteemed institutions, including National Research Labs, premier National Institutes, and leading IT organizations. His multifaceted roles throughout his distinguished professional journey have significantly contributed to advancing research, technology, education, global recognition, market presence, branding, revenue growth, performance enhancement, and quality standards.

Operating both at a national level and across thirty-five countries worldwide, Aditya has skilfully managed a multisite, multifunctional team overseeing the development and maintenance of eight diverse portfolios, which encompass:

· Research… Read More

Ramesh Srinivasan, currently heads the Data & Analytics for AWS Business unit. He leads number of Product COE's with focus of Data engineering and analytics. He creates and maintains a Technical Road map for the Product COE teams and support projects by participating in architecture design reviews. He contributes to creating & reviewing Solution architecture, communication of architectural assumptions, requirements, and designs to both technical and non-technical audience. Ramesh effectively contribute to the initial assessment of the feasibility of business requirements and ensure that the implemented solution complies with given functional specifications, coding guidelines, and… Read More

Prashant Joshi, Founder & Director of Leap & Scale, is a seasoned technologist with an extensive experience in building products, software platforms, and solutions systems using the Internet of Things (IoT) architectures. His expertise spans the development of high-performance and scalable software systems for interdisciplinary applications such as Telemetry, Telematics, Instrumentation, Healthcare, Asset Tracking, and Resource Management. Prashant has actively engaged with Internet and Mobile Standards organizations, including OMA, IETF, and Bluetooth SIG, and has a solid background in Embedded and Smart Platforms like LiMo and Tizen. In academia, he has contributed as an Adjunct/Guest/Visiting Professor at prestigious… Read More