Dr. João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001 and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). João Tavares is a co-editor of more than 60 books and co-author of more than 50 book chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents.
Dr. Souvik Pal is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sister Nivedita University (Techno India Group), Kolkata, India. Prior to that, he was associated with Brainware University, Kolkata, India; JIS College of Engineering, Nadia; Elite College of Engineering, Kolkata; and Nalanda Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. Dr. Pal received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. He has more than a decade of academic experience. He is an author or co-editor of 14 books from reputed publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, and Wiley. He is serving as a series editor for "Advances in Learning Analytics for Intelligent Cloud-IoT Systems, " published by Scrivener Publishing (Scopus-indexed) and "Internet of Things: Data-Centric Intelligent Computing, Informatics, and Communication, " published CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA. Dr. Pal has published a number of research papers in Scopus / SCI-indexed international journals and conferences.
Dr. Vassilis C. Gerogiannis holds a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics, as well as a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. He is a full-time professor and head of the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Thessaly in Greece. His academic subject is "Analysis and Design of Systems and Projects with emphasis on Decision Making." In the recent past, he was a full-time professor in the Department of Business Administration at the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece He is also a visiting professor at foreign Higher Education Institutes/Universities. He acts as a guest editor, member of the editorial board and reviewer in international journals. He serves as program chair, member of the organization/technical committee and invited speaker in international conferences. He has received the "best paper award" in two international conferences. His research interests include Software Engineering, Project Management and Decision Making.
Dr. Bui Thanh Hung received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2010 and in 2013. He is currently a researcher at Data Science Laboratory, Faculty of Information Technology, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has completed 2 projects and published 16 journals, 19 book chapters, 36 International conference papers and 16 domestic conference papers. He had four best paper awards of FICTA 2018, RICE 2020, ICAIAA 2021, and CIEMA 2022. He was selected as Excellent Scientific Researcher of Thu Dau Mot University in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and got CIEMA Research Excellence Awards 2022. He is a reviewer of many reputed journals and conferences. He is also a keynote speaker of many domestic and international conferences. His main research interests are natural language processing, machine learning, machine translation, text processing, data analytics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
