Prof. Deepali Virmani is professor and HOD B.Tech Programmes at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-Technical Campus, affiliated to GGSIPU, New Delhi. Dr. Deepali Virmani has received her Ph.D Computer Science from Delhi University and M.Tech. degree in Information Technology, from GGSIPU, and B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from MDU, India. She has an innovative work experience of more than 22 years in both research and academics. She has published more than 120 research papers in international journals/National journals/International conferences of repute (SCIE/ESCI/SCOPUS). She works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving sensor networks, web intelligence, data mining and intelligent information retrievSal systems and machine learning applied to various real-world problems. Dr. Virmani has more than 2400 academic citations index as per Google Scholar with H index 17. She has guided more than 70 B.Tech Projects. Presently, she is guiding many Ph.D. scholars registered with reputed universities like GGSIPU, Galgotias and UPTU. She has organized 3 AICTE sponsored International Conferences with proceedings in Springer LNNS series and ESCI Taylor and Francis Journal as a convenor. She is the associate editor of journal Open Computer Science De Grutyer and also on the reviewer board of various IEEE transactions, Elsevier and Springer journals. She has organized many professional activities like FDPs (20), workshops, expert lectures, seminars (100+) in her tenure as Head of the Department of CSE at Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has been the session chair in National/International conferences. Her papers have won Best Paper Award at various International Conferences. She has won Best Researcher Award and Best Faculty Award at BPIT. She has been awarded Excellence in Research Award by International Research Awards on New Science Inventions, Best Head of the Department Award by ULA, Excellence in Research by Global Research Foundation She has also served as a convenor of Optical Communication Committee for GGS Indraprastha University (IPU) B.Tech syllabus designing committee. 5 Innovative patents, patent number 2020102338, 2020102618, 2020102631, 2020103341, 2020103768, designed by her have been granted by Australian Government. She has also published 7 national patents with Intellectual property rights, India.
Oscar Castillo holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation "Soft Computing and Fractal Theory for Intelligent and Manufacturing"). He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, he is serving as Research Director of Computer Science and head of the research group on Hybrid Fuzzy Intelligent Systems. Currently, he is President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and Past President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). Prof. Castillo is also Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE). He also belongs to the Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems of IEEE and to the Task Force on "Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Systems". He is also a member of NAFIPS, IFSA and IEEE. He belongs to the Mexican Research System (SNI Level 3). His research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Control, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. He has published over 300 journal papers, 10 authored books, 60 edited books, 300 papers in conference proceedings, and more than 300 chapters in edited books, in total more than 1080 publications (according to Scopus) with h index of 88 and more than 26000 citations according to Google Scholar. He has been Guest Editor of several successful Special Issues in the past, like in the following journals: Applied Soft Computing, Intelligent Systems, Information Sciences, Soft Computing, Non-Linear Studies, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, JAMRIS and Engineering Letters. He is currently Associate Editor of the Information Sciences Journal, Journal of Engineering Applications on Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Complex Intelligent Systems, Granular Computing Journal and Intelligent Systems Journal (Wiley). He was Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Soft Computing and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He has been elected IFSA Fellow in 2015 and MICAI Fellow in 2016. Finally, he recently received the Recognition as Highly Cited Researcher in 2017 and 2018 by Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science.
Valentina Emilia 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 270 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, international projects and PhD Thesis. Dr. Balas is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in eight editions 2005-2018 held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair and member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM 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 past Vice-president (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015) and is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.
Dr. Ahmed A. Elngar is an Associate Professor and Head of the Computer Science Department at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Egypt. Dr. Elngar is also, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computer Information Technology, American University in the Emirates, United Arab Emirates. Also, Dr. AE is Adjunct Professor at School of Technology, Woxsen University, India. Dr. AE is the Founder and Head of the Scientific Innovation Research Group (SIRG). Dr. AE is a Director of the Technological and Informatics Studies Center (TISC), Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University. Dr. AE has more than 150 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and over 35 books covering such diverse topics as data mining, intelligent systems, social networks, and smart environment. Dr. AE is a collaborative researcher He is a member of the Egyptian Mathematical Society (EMS) and International Rough Set Society (IRSS). His other research areas include the Internet of Things (IoT), Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence. Big Data, Authentication, Cryptology, Healthcare Systems, Automation Systems. He is an Editor and Reviewer of many international journals around the world. Dr. AE won several awards including the Young Researcher in Computer Science Engineering", from Global Outreach Education Summit and Awards 2019, on 31 January 2019 (Thursday) in Delhi, India. Also, he awards the Best Young Researcher Award (Male) (Below 40 years)", Global Education and Corporate Leadership Awards (GECL-2018).
