Ghose, Mrinal Kanti: - Prof. (Dr.) Mrinal Kanti Ghose (Former Sr. Scientist, ISRO), presently a retired academician cum researcher, served the GLA University, Mathura, UP as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Applications for the period 01/06/2020 to 30/06/2023, preceded by one year short-term assignment as Professor in Computer Applications in Sikkim (Central) University, Gangtok, Sikkim for the period July 2017 to July 2018. Before joining the Sikkim University, he served as the Dean (Academics) and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering in Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majhitar, Sikkim, India from 2014 to 2017. Dr. Ghose headed the Computer Science & Engineering Department for the period 2006 to 2014. During that period, he had also carried out additional responsibilities of Dean (R & D) and Head, SMU-IT respectively. Prior to this, Dr. Ghose worked in the internationally reputed R & D organization Indian Space Research Organisatio (ISRO) during 1981 to 1994 at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum in the areas of Mission simulation and Quality & Reliability Analysis of ISRO. Launch vehicles and Satellite systems and during 1995 to 2006 at Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre, ISRO, IIT Campus, Kharagpur in the areas of RS & GIS techniques for the natural resources management. During his stay at ITT Campus Kharagpur, he was also worked as Adjunct Professor in Reliability Engineering Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and was on deputation for 3 years to Assam (Central) University, Silchar, Assam, as Controller of Examinations, and founder -- head of the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Ghose started his academic career as Teaching Asst. in Maths in Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Silchar during the period 1979 to 1981. His areas of research interest are Geo-Informatics, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Software Engineering, Networking & Information Security, Robotics, System Reliability & Quality Assurance, Simulation & Modelling, Optimization Techniques, Applied Statistics and Analytical Bio -Informatics. As on date, Dr. Ghose has produced 25 Ph.Ds in Computer Science & Engineering and allied areas and published more than 300+ research/technical papers mainly in various peer reviewed international journals and a few in national journals including 75 SCl/Scopus publications and attended/presented several international/ national conferences. His Scopus Author ID is13310067900, Orcid ID is 0000-0002-9240-0444 and Researcher ID is F-9733-2018. Dr. Ghose has chaired a number of national/international conference sessions and conducted quite a number of Seminars, Workshop and Training program in the above areas. Till date, 10 sponsored projects worth of Rs.1 corer funded by ISRO, AICTE and DST have been successfully completed by him. Dr. Ghose also contributed as research consultants to various reputed organizations like IIT Chennai, ITT Kharagpur, WRI, Trichy, SCIMST, KELTRON, HLL, and ER&DC (S), Trivandrum, Assam University, Silchar, Assam and Vidyasagar University, West Midnapore, West Bengal etc.
Muniasamy, M. Anandhavalli: - M. Anandhavalli Muniasamy is an associate professor at King Khalid University (KKU). She completed a PhD from the Sikkim Manipal University, Computer Science Department, India. Her areas of interest are data mining, data analytics, artificial intelligence, soft computing, and data science. She has published more than 40 research publications in highly reputed international journals and book chapters. She had attended and presented at more than 30 national and international conferences. She is the principal investigator and co-principal investigator in the university-funded research projects, as well as the principal investigator for the funded project from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), India. She has been a manuscript reviewer for renowned international journals for the past 10 years, as well as a PhD thesis reviewer for several universities. Several journals and conferences have invited her to give guest lectures and serve as an editorial board member. She is a member of the International Association of Engineers, the Computer Society of India (CSI), and the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology. Presently, she is interested in applying artificial intelligence techniques, particularly machine learning and deep learning, to the analysis of various data sets and its analysis.
