Mentors

PhD | ME | BE(Hons)| Fellow (Engineers Aust), Founder, KES International United Kingdom

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Intelligent and Interactive Systems

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Professor Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, Dr H.C., ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia), is with the Liverpool Hope University and the University of Arad. He was formerly with the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Canberra and Bournemouth University.
Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generates synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for the professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. 

Regional Economy at the Catholic University of La Plata UNESCO Chair in "Economic Systems and Human Rights" at the National University of La Plata Associate Researcher at the CESOT (Center for the Study of Sociology of Work), University of Buenos Aires.

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Educational Technology

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Dr. Francesco did his PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in economic sociology, ethical finance, and social economics. He is a full-time Professor of Regional Economy at the Catholic University of La Plata. Additionally, he also serve as the Director of the UNESCO Chair in "Economic Systems and Human Rights" at the National University of La Plata. He is also an Associate Researcher at the CESOT (Center for the Study of Sociology of Work) at the University of Buenos Aires. His primary focus lies in local development processes, particularly the construction of territorial identities that involve asserting rights (ontological reason) through associative forms of production and ethical finance tools. Throughout his career, he had published numerous books and scientific articles delving into concepts such as "Ethical social capital,""Economic socialization and democratization," "The principles of economic phenomenology," "Ontological reason of economy and demand for rights of economy," and "Meso-economic approach."

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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Intelligent and Interactive Systems

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Vasilios N. Katsikis is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Informatics at the Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He received his Diploma of Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, his MSc in Applied Mathematics as well as his PhD in Mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens. He has also worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Applied and Computational Mathematics under the financial support of the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). His research interests lie in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Computational Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra. He has published more than 80 journal papers in high-quality journals, 4 research books and 7 book chapters on the above-mentioned fields, and has a variety of other research activities. He also serves as a reviewer for several journals and congresses.

University of Pretoria

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Intelligent and Interactive Systems

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Rangan Gupta is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Pretoria. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut, USA. He conducts research in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics. His research has appeared in high impact factor international journals such as International Journal of Forecasting, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money,Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Forecasting, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quantitative Finance, Resources Policy.

Indian Institute of Management, Vishakhapatnam PhD (FPM IIM Bangalore), FCA, ACS, MFSM, B.Com.

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Intelligent and Interactive Systems

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Prof. Deepika Gupta is Assistant Professor in Strategy Area at IIM Visakhapatnam. She is the 2022-23 recipient of Visiting Research Fellowship from Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria. Johannesburg, South Africa (a triple crown accredited Institute). She was awarded the C K Prahalad Prashasti for Corporate and Social Strategy 2022 for research focus on Cultural Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property. This award was conferred by Re-THINK INDIA that honours eminent figures in Corporate & Social Strategy to celebrate their strategic contributions toward Aatmanirbhar Bharat. She is currently a member on AIB South Asia Chapter Leadership Team. She publishes and reviews for various national/ international conferences and reputed journals. She has almost 12 years of industrial experience in organizations like Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. She teaches courses like Competition & Strategy, Business Government & Society, Innovation and New Product Development, Corporate Governance, Legal Aspects of Business, Strategic Tax Management for various programs like PGP, PGPEx, PGPDGM and others at the Institute. She is active with MDP and FDP activities of the Institute. She continues to handle various administrative positions at the Institute.

NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Digital & Social Marketing

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Professor Jochen Wirtz is Vice Dean, MBA Programmes and Professor of Marketing at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an international fellow of the Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, an Academic Scholar at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) at Cornell University, US, and a Global Faculty of the Center for Services Leadership (CSL) at Arizona State University, US. Prior to this, Professor Wirtz held the positions of Associate Fellow at the Sad Business School, University of Oxford (2008–2013), Founding Member of the NUS Teaching Academy (2009–2015), and Founding Director of the Dual Degree UCLA–NUS Executive MBA Program (2002 to 2017). Prof. Wirtz did his PhD. From London Business School in the area of Services Marketing. His academic work focuses on service marketing and management, and he has written more than 200 book chapters, industry reports, and scholarly publications (incl. six features in Harvard Business Review). Professor Wirtz has won more than 50 awards for his excellence in research and instruction, including the prestigious Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award in 2019 (the highest honour given by the American Marketing Association (AMA) service community), the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) 2012 Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award (the highest honour given by AMS globally for teaching excellence), and the top university honour.

Information Engineering and Mathematics Department University of Siena, Italy

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Intelligent Computing

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Prof. Monica Bianchini received the Laurea cum laude in Mathematics and the Ph.D.degree in Computer Science from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. After receiving the Laurea, for two years, she was involved in a joint project of Bull HN Italia and the Department of Mathematics (University of Florence), aimed at designing parallel software for solving differential equations. From 1992 to 1998, she was a Ph.D. student and a Postdoc Fellow with the Computer Science Department of the University of Florence. Since 1999, she has been with the University of Siena, where she is currently an Associate Professor at the Information Engineering and Mathematics Department. Monica’s main research interest are in the field of machine learning, with emphasis on neural networks for structured data, deep learning, approximation theory, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and image processing. M. Bianchini has authored more than one hundred and thirty papers, and has been the editor of books and special issues on international journals in her research field. She has been a participant in many research projects focused on machine learning and pattern recognition, founded by both Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), and University of Siena. Prof. Bianchini has been involved in the organization of several scientific events, including the NATO Advanced Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation (2001), the 8th AI*IA Conference (2002), the GIRPR 2012 Conference, the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (2017), and the International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Technologies (ICACIT 2021-22-23).Prof. Bianchini served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2003-09), Neuro computing (from 2002), and Int. J. ofComputers in Healthcare (from 2010). She is a permanent member of the Editorial Board of IJCNN, ICANN, ICPR, ICPRAM, ESANN, ANNPR, PerConAI,NCTA, and KES.

IIM Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Decision Science & Management

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Dr. B.K.Mohanty is a Professor in the Decision Science Group at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. He received his M.Sc in Mathematics, from Berhampur University, Orissa, India and PhD in Operations Research, from IIT Kharagpur India. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow, he served at Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, as a member of Technical Staff , as an Associate Professor at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India and as Scientist at CFTRI Mysore, India. His research interests include Fuzzy Applications in MCDM, e-commerce and various functional areas of Management. To his credit, he has about 30 research publications in the journals of International repute. To name a few these include, Int. J. Systems Science, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Expert systems with Applications, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Computers and Operations Research etc.

IIITM, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Digital & Social Marketing

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Dr Manoj Kumar Dash, He had published more than 76 research paper in various journals of International and National repute. He is the author of five research books in International repute titled “Applying Predictive Analytics in Service Sector” , “Intelligent Techniques and Modeling Applications in Marketing Analytics”, and “Fuzzy Optimization and Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Digital Marketing” all published in IGI Global USA , “Applied Demand Analysis” and “Think New-Think Better: A case study of Entrepreneurship” published by Serial publication India and two text book on “Managerial Economics” published by Global Professional Publication United Kingdom, and edited five books till date. Beside regular faculty in Indian Institute of Information technology and Management Gwalior, he is also visiting faculty in Indian Institute of Management Indore Adjunct faculty in Lancaster University United Kingdom, visiting professor at Symbiosis Institute of Operation Management Nashik and G D Goenka World institute Gurgaon. He had conducted 26 Faculty Development Pogremame sponsored by AICTE, MHRD and IIITM on Multivariate Analysis, Econometrics, Research Methodology, Multi-Criteria Optimisation, Multivariate analysis in Marketing, SPSS software etc. He delivered lecture as resource person and Key note speaker in 67 pogrammeorganised by reputed institute in India, i.e;, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, IIITM Gwalior, ITS Mohan Nagar, SIOM Nashik, Utkal University and Berhampur University Orissa etc. He was involved as Chair Member in International Conference of Arts and Science held at Harvard University, Boston (USA), Seven Research scholars awarded their Ph.D Degree under his able guidance,He visited two countries USA and Cyprus for presenting paper in international conferences.