Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is presently working as Director of International Relation and Publication of SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University. He received his Ph. D. on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 25 Ph. D.
Theses and 60 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering and has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 52 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. He is the Editor-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 International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Control, published by MUK Publication, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence 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. Dr. Patnaik is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, CSI, and Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS). Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D.
, D. Sc. is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 420 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings; 20 books; 48 book chapters; 20 patents. At present he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of IAPR). Editor in chief of Intern.
Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science. Editorial board member of: Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies; Member of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Intern. Engineering and Technology Institute. He has been a plenary speaker at more than 30 international scientific conferences and symposia and edited several books published in Springer SIST series.
In 2009-2012, Dr. Yonghang Tai studied in Yunnan Normal University and got his bachelor''s degree. He received his Ph. D on Computer Science from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has hosted 4 Fund projects including Deakin University Postgraduate Research Full Scholarship, Yunnan Education Commission, Yunnan Natural Science Foundation, Yunnan Education Commission. He has published more than 30 papers, 5 of which has been indexed by SCI. He is the Co-Editor of International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices and Machine learning and data analytics. His research interests include VR/AR/MR in surgical simulation, Physic-based rendering, Medical image processing.
Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and PhD at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and in 1992 she got the title Senior Researcher. At present, she is the Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks, CNC and programmable controllers. She has more than 180 publications and 5 patents. R.
Kountcheva was the plenary speaker at 21 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She edited several books published in Springer SIST series and is a member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and is a Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group.