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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. Valentina E. Balas
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

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Prof. Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 190 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 the Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national and international projects. She was the General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications 2005-2016 held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Session Chair, and member in International Program Committee. She is a member of EUSFLAT, ACM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). Dr. Balas was Vice-president (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015) and is a Join Secretary of Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.

Prof. Dr. Andrew W. H. Ip
University of Saskatchewan

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Prof. Andrew W. H. Ip received his PhD from Loughborough University (U.K.), MBA from Brunel University (U.K.), MSc in Industrial Engineering from Cranfield University (U.K.), and LLB (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). Dr Ip was awarded in 2015 “Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury” and “Thailand Award for Best International Invention” in the 43rd International Exhibition of Geneva, and he was awarded the “Natural Science Award ” in 2013 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education of Mainland China. Dr. Ip is visiting professor of Civil Aviation University of China, South China Normal University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Honorary Fellow of the University Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group. He is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan and principal research fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a chartered engineer, senior member of IEEE and member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and members of various professional bodies in mechanical and electrical engineering. He is Editor in Chief of the journal of Enterprise Information System (SCI index), Taylor & Francis; Founder & Editor in Chief of International Journal of Engineering Business Management (ESCI & SCOPUS index), SAGE.

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. 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. Pramod Kumar Prusty
Dean Academics,
I.I.M.T, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

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Prof. Pramod Kumar Prusty is the Dean Academics of IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He has received his Ph.D degree from Utkal University, Vani Vihar on Accounting and Finance based topic. He has supervised five Ph.D Scholars. He is the Author of 35 Research Articles and 3 Test Books i.e., Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and also Advanced Cost and Management Accounting which are useful for CA , CMA and MBA Students. He has supervised more than 300 Projects in different Disciplines. Prof. Prusty has Chaired as Key Note Speaker in many Conferences within the Country. During his Professional Career Prof. Prusty has performed his job as a successful Academician and Administrator around 40 years in different Govt., Govt Autonomous Colleges including Ravenshaw and also in different reputed Educational Institutions as Prof.and Dean of Commerce.

Dr. Bishwa Ranjan Das
Head of the Department of MCA
IIMT, Bhubaneswar

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Dr. Bishwa Ranjan Das has completed MSc (Mathematics) and PGDCA from Sambalpur University in the year 1995-1997 and 1998 respectively. He has also completed MCA from IGNOU New Delhi in 2009 and subsequently ME (CSE) from Utkal University in 2012. He has been awarded with Ph.D. in Computer Science and IT from Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha, India in 2024. He has more than 24 years of teaching experience with major subjects in Computer Science and Engineering. His research areas are Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has published more than fifty research papers, apart from book chapters in various reputed international and national conferences and journals including Scopus, Elsevier, IEEE, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, and He has attended more than fifty seminars, workshops, FDPs, symposiums, and short-term courses in both online and offline mode at various reputed institutes, colleges, and universities like IIT, NIT, ISI and Central University.

Prof. (Dr.) Jagamohan Pattanayak
Dean (Administration & Student Welfare)
IIMT, Bhubaneswar

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Prof Dr Jagamohan Pattanayak is a prolific writer, poet and accomplished researcher. He has 8 research publications in National & State journals. He has been awarded PhD degree in participation and status change in development process, a study of tribal’s in koraput district, odisha. He was the research fellow of Tribal development Department, Ministry of welfare Govt of India. He is an illustrator in both Academics and Administration. With an exceptionally mentoring career leading to nearly four decades, he has held an administrative position as principal in Sri Jagannath Degree College, kaipadar khurda. Prof Pattanayak was conferred with prestigious award as best NSS programme officer, odisha for his selfless service to the society. Prof Pattanayak conferred with Law degree founded an institution to provide free legal service to the stranded people to establish their view. He has planted Twelve Thousand saplings over 7 acres of lands. He has attended 12 National Integration camps across India, he is being acclaimed by distinguished honour in social service being a counselor of IGNOW Odisha State Open University, he has been with students for continuous Learning.

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