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Professor Lakhmi C. Jain
PhD | ME | BE(Hons)| Fellow (Engineers Aust), Founder, KES International, United Kingdom

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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 generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES.

Prof. Margarita Favorskaya
Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Russian Federation

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Dr. Margarita N. Favorskaya is a Professor and Head of Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology., Russian Federation. Professor Favorskaya is a member of KES International since 2010, the IPC member and the Chair of invited sessions of over 30 international conferences. She serves as an associate editor of many internationals journals including Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, she is the author or the co-author of 200 publications and 20 educational manuals. Her main research interests are in the applications of artificial intelligence to solve real world problems.

Prof. Dr. Kazumi Nakamatsu
University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan.

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Prof. Dr. Kazumi Nakamatsu received the Ms. Eng. and Dr. Sci. from Shizuoka University and Kyushu University, Japan, respectively. He is a full Professor at School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Japan. His research interests encompass intelligent systems and their applications. He has developed some paraconsistent annotated logic programs called ALPSN (Annotated Logic Program with Strong Negation), VALPSN (Vector ALPSN), EVALPSN (Extended VALPSN) and bf-EVALPSN (before-after EVALPSN) recently, and applied them to various intelligent systems such as a safety verification-based railway interlocking control system and process order control. He is an author of over 150 papers and 20 book chapters, and 10 edited books published by prominent publishers. Kazumi Nakamatsu has chaired various international conferences, workshops and invited sessions, and he has been a member of numerous international program committees of workshops and conferences. He serves as Founding Editor of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems and editorial board member of many international journals. He has contributed numerous invited lectures at international workshops, conferences, and academic organizations. He also is a recipient of many conference paper awards.

Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik
I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 55 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.
Dr. SrikantaPatnaik is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convegence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals.
He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA.
He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited more than 20 countries across the globe and visiting professors to some of the universities.

Prof. Lei Zhang
Professor,
Tongji University, China.

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Prof. Lei Zhang is a professor in Tongji University, China. He is an expert in artificial intelligence and data processing. Prof. Zhang Lei received his doctorate in circuit and system from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. In 2010, he left Tsinghua University as a postdoctoral fellow and visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College of Technology, St. Petersburg's Peter the Great Polytechnic University, the University of Rome, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc. He once served as the director of Shanghai Key Laboratory and Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory. Now, he is the director of the Institute of Trusted Autonomous Intelligence, the Chinese director of the BRICS Joint Research Institute for Spatiotemporal Data, and senior members of the Chinese Computer Society and the Chinese Electronics Society. He published nearly 150 academic papers, authorized nearly 40 invention patents, and won 7 provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards. He created ISCT international conferences and editorial boards for multiple international journals.

Prof. Dr. Vipul Jain
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Dr Vipul Jain is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management atVictoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as a French Government researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in theEuropean project I* PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from UK. Vipul has more than 85 archival publications to his credit in high impact factorjournals, as well as conference papers and books chapters, is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, and an Editorial Board member forseven international journals. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of Logistics and Supply Chain management in an exhaustive study entitled “Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11” conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, TechnischeUniversität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as a scientific and advisory committee member for various international conferences. He was the Programme Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Programme at IIT Delhi, and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programmes/Training Programmes for Senior Managers andExecutives of Public and Private Organisations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Prof. Andrey Tyugashev
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Samara State Technical University, Russia

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Andrey Tyugashev, Doctor of Science. Professor Tyugashev is a member of IEEE. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Samara State Aerospace University, Russia, in 1997 and has been a habilitated professor since 2008 after receiving the Doctor of Science degree. In 2014-2021 he headed the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of Samara State Transport University. Currently he works as a professor at the CS Department of Samara State Technical University and as a professor at the Technology Automation Department of the Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolyuov. Prof. Tyugashev is an official member of the Register of Scientific and Technical Experts of the Russian Federation, and his areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, software engineering, real-time systems, etc.)He is Associate Editor of KES Scientific Journal, Associate Editor of International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (UK, Scopus, IOS Press), Advisory Editor of International Journal of Reasoning Based Intelligent Systems (UK). Prof. Tyugashev is a reviewer of articles published by Elsevier (Scopus), reviewer of the journal Archives of Advanced Engineering Science, invited reviewer in Horizon Publishing.

Dr Mehdi Toloo
Department of Business Analytics and Operations, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Mehdi Toloo is a Reader in Business Analytics at Surrey Business School, UK. He also holds a Full Professor position in Systems Engineering and Informatics at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Before that, he was a Full Professor in Operations Management at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Areas of interest include Operational Analytics, Operations Research/Management, Decision Analysis, Performance Evaluation, Multi-Objective Programming, and Mathematical Modelling. He has contributed to numerous international conferences as a chair, keynote speaker, presenter, track/session chair, workshop organizer, and member of the scientific committee.
Mehdi has lots of experience in leading and collaborating on many successful research projects: (1) Performance evaluation in the presence of unclassified factors, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2019-2022. Budget: 172,000 € (Principal Investigator), (2) Economies of Scope in Network Data Envelopment Analysis Models, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2017-2019. Budget: 126,000 €, (Principal Investigator), (3) Multiple Criteria Decision Making Modelling: Novel Weighting Methods and Hybrid Approaches, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2017-2018. Budget: 70,000 €, (4) Selective Measures in DEA: Theory and Applications, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2016-2018. Budget: 106,000 €, (Principal Investigator), (5) Examining Allocative Efficiency Through Network Data Envelopment Analysis, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, Budget: 65,000 €, (6) Research Team for Modelling of Economic and Financial Processes at VŠB-TU Ostrava, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic. European Social Project, 2013-2015. Budget: 1,180,000 €.
Mehdi acts as an editor for Computers & Industrial Engineering (ELSEVIER), Decision Analytics (ELSEVIER), Healthcare Analytics (ELSEVIER), Journal of Business Logistics (WIELY), RAIRO-Operations Research (EDP Sciences), Mathematics (MDPI), and Central European Journal of Operations Research (SPRINGER).
He has written fifteen books and his research mainly has been published in top-tier (4*/3*) journals including European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA, Energy, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Annals of Operations Research.

Prof. (Dr.) Himansu Sekhar Moharana
Principal & Director (R&D) , IIMT Bhubaneswar.,
I.I.M.T, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

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Prof. (Dr.) Himanshu Sekhar Moharana is currently working as Principal in Interscience Institute of Management and Technology, Bhubaneswar. Prior to this he had worked in the capacity of a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Dean Academics in HIT, Khurda, Dean Research in DRIEMS, Cuttack and GIFT, Bhubaneswar. He passed his Master of Engineering (Hons) from NITTTR, Chandigarh (Now NITTTR University) under Thapar University, Patiala and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Utkal University working, Bhubaneswar. He passed his LLB and LLM in Labour laws from MS Law College (Now MS Law University) Cuttack, Odisha and MBA in Operations Management from IGNOU, New Delhi. He has 33 years of longstanding experience in Industry and Academia inclusive of 18 years of Research and Consultancy. He has guided many M.Tech and a Ph.D.scholar. He is a trainer of MSME, Govt. of India and deliver talks on specialized training programmes of Materials and Production Management by the said Organisation. He worked as a Committee Member of OSC, IE (I), Bhubaneswar for session 2010-2012. He has published many papers in International/ National Journals of repute, many of them are Scopus/ SCI indexed and presented many Research papers in National/ International Seminars/Conferences as Keynote speaker and organized a numerous FDPs. He is an eloquent speaker in the domain of Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping, Supply Chain Management etc. During his career, he has been awarded with 12 (twelve) number of State Awards for his contribution in the field of research in Engineering and Technology. He is a Fellow Member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, a Senior Member of 4M Society of India & Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education.

Dr. Sumant Kumar Mohapatra
Asso. Professor Dept. of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Trident Academy of Technology (TAT), Bhubaneswar

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Dr. Sumant Kumar Mohapatra is working as Asso. Professor in the department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at Trident Academy of Technology (TAT), Bhubaneswar. He obtained his Ph. D from SoA University, M. Tech from BPUT, Odisha and B. Tech from Utkal University, Odisha. He has over 21 years of teaching experience with 7+ year of research. His research area includes Bio-Medical Signal Processing, IoT, AI/ML, DL, Cloud Computing, Image Processing, Wireless Communication etc. Dr. Mohapatra has published more than 80 numbers of research publications in various refereed journal and conferences in his credits. Currently, he is working as Prof. in-charge of NBA and NAAC department coordinator. He is the life member of ISTD, IETE, and ISTE.

Dr. Kaliprasanna Swain
Dept. of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Trident Academy of Technology (TAT), Bhubaneswar

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Dr. Kaliprasanna Swain is working as Asso. Professor in the department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at Trident Academy of Technology (TAT), Bhubaneswar. He obtained his Ph. D from BPUT, Odisha, M. Tech from KIIT University and B. Tech from BPUT, Odisha. He has over 21 years of teaching experience with 7+ year of research. His research area includes optical and photonics technology, embedded systems, IoT, AI/ML etc. Dr. Swain has published more than 22 number of SCI, 12 Scopus, 32 conference articles, 8 Book chapters, 6 patents in last 5 years. Aside this, he has been honored 2 times by University Foundation Day Research Award in the year of 2019 and 2022. Currently, 2 number scholars are continuing their PhD work under his guidance. Currently, he is working as Prof. in-charge of NBA and NAAC departmental coordinator. Beside this, he is as acting as reviewers in various refereed journals including International Journal of Computers