Dr. Rabindra Nath Shaw is currently working as Director, International Relations, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India. Before joining BIHER he has served also Galgotias University as Director, IR&C, He is an alumnus of the Applied Physics department, University of Calcutta, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE Industry Application Society, USA and Fellow of Nikhil Bharat Shiksha Parishad, India. Dr. Shaw is a global leader in organizing International conferences. His brand of world leading conference series includes IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), International Conference on Electronics & Electrical Engineering (ICEEE) , International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ICACIT) etc. He holds the position of Conference Chair, Publication Chair, and Editor for these conferences. These Conferences are held in collaboration with various international universities like Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, University of Malaya, University of Siena. Many world leaders are working with Dr. Shaw in these conferences. Most of these conferences are fully sponsored by IEEE Industry Applications Society, USA. He is also an expert in organizing International Seminars/Webinars/ Faculty Development Programme in collaboration with leading institutes across the world.His research interests include optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques for power systems, IoT applications, Renewable Energy, and Power electronics converters. He has published more than hundred twenty five papers in scopus/web of Science/ SCI indexed international journal/proceedings including high impact factor journals in the field of renewable energy. He has also published several edited books from Springer and Elsevier publishing houses. Dr. Shaw has worked on many national/ international patents. Dr. Shaw has successfully executed his duty in various positions like, Governing body member, Centre in Charge, NBA Coordinator, University Examination Coordinator, University MOOC’s Coordinator, University Conference Coordinator, and Faculty- In Charge, Centre of Excellence for Power Engineering and Clean Energy Integration. He has more than eleven years of teaching, research and administrative experience in leading institutes like Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Jadavpur University, Gargi Memorial Institute of Technology, Brainware Group of Institution, Dream Institute of Technology.
Dr. Sanjoy Das is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (A Central Government University), Amarkantak, M.P. (Manipur Campus), India. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, NewDelhi, India. Before joining IGNTU, he has worked as Associate Professor, School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India, July 2012 to September 2017, and also, as Assistant Professor G. B. Pant Engineering College, Uttarakhand, and Assam University, Silchar, from 2001 to 2008. His current research interest includes Mobile Ad hoc Networks and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, Distributed Systems, Data Mining. He has published numerous papers in international journals and conferences including IEEE and Springer
Dr. Vincenzo Piuri is Professor at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). He was Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Visiting Researcher at George Mason University, USA. He has founded a start-up company in the area of intelligent systems for industrial applications and is active in industrial research projects. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research and industrial application interests are artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, computational intelligence, pattern analysis and recognition, machine learning, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, distributed processing systems, Internet of things, cloud computing, fault tolerance, application-specific digital processing architectures, and arithmetic architectures. He published over 400 papers in international journals, international conference proceedings, and books. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Scientist of ACM. He has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), Member of the IEEE Board of Directors (2010–2012, 2015), and President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006–2007). He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013–2019).
Dr. Monica Bianchini received the Laurea cum laude in Mathematicsand 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 Associate Professor at the Information Engineering and Mathematics Department. Her main research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence and applications, machine learning, with emphasis on neural networks for structured data and deep learning, approximation theory, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and image processing. She has authored more than seventy papers and has been 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 (PAR scheme), and she 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), GIRPR 2012, the 25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, and the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2017. She served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2003-09), Neurocomputing (from 2002), and Int. J. of Computers in Healthcare (from 2010). She is Permanent Member of the Editorial Board of IJCNN, ICANN, ICPR, ICPRAM, ESANN, ANNPR, and KES.
