Dr. Om Prakash Verma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering and a faculty member at the Centre of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, an M.Tech from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar, and a B.Tech from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. In addition to his academic contributions, Dr. Verma holds several key administrative positions at NIT Jalandhar, including Head of Internship, Centre for Training and Placement, Public Relations Officer, OSD to Director, and Deputy Proctor. Dr. Verma has previously served at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar; Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan; and Graphic Era University, Dehradun. His research focuses on Machine/Deep/Quantum Learning, Soft Computing & Optimization Techniques, Computer Vision, UAV and Anti-UAV Technologies, and Control Systems. He has published over 100+ research papers, authored a book published by Springer Brief, and edited 10+ Scopus indexed books published by Springer. He has also contributed to over 30+ conference proceedings and book chapters. Additionally, he has been associated with more than five funded research projects as PI/Co-PI. Dr. Verma is a Senior Member of IEEE and an active member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, ACDOS, ISOI, and STEM Research Society. He serves as an Associate Editor and editorial board member of several international journals. He is the founding chair of the SoCTA and MAiTRI international conference series and has been invited as a keynote speaker, session chair, and guest at numerous national and international conferences and workshops.
Prof. Lipo Wang received the Bachelor degree from National University of Defense Technology (China) and PhD from Louisiana State University (USA). He is presently with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interest is artificial intelligence for image and data processing. He has 400+ publications, 2 patents and 14,000+ Google Scholar citations. He was keynote speaker for 40+ international conferences. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. He is/was Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of 30+ international journals, including 2 other IEEE Transactions, and guest editor for 10+ journal special issues. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and the IEEE Biometrics Council. He served as CIS Vice President for Technical Activities and Chair of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, as well as Chair of Education Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was President of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA, renamed as APNNS – “Society”) and received the APNNA Excellent Service Award. He was founding Chair of both the EMBS Singapore Chapter and CIS Singapore Chapter.
Rajesh Kumar, (SMIEEE, Fellow IET(UK), Fellow IE(I), Fellow IETE, LMCSI, LMISTE) received the B.Tech. (Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, India, 1994, the M.E. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in Power Systems and Intelligent Systems from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 1997, and 2005 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore from 2009 to 2011. Currently, He is working as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesbu
