Dr. Utku Kose is an Associate Professor at Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey. He received his PhD from Selcuk University, Turkey, in the field of computer engineering. He has more than 100 publications to his credit, including Deep Learning for Medical Decision Support Systems, Springer; Artificial Intelligence Applications in Distance Education, IGI Global; Smart Applications with Advanced Machine Learning and Human-Centered Problem Design, Springer; Artificial Intelligence for Data-Driven Medical Diagnosis, DeGruyter; Computational Intelligence in Software Modeling, DeGruyter; Data Science for Covid-19, Volumes 1 and 2, Elsevier/Academic Press; and Deep Learning for Medical Applications with Unique Data, Elsevier/Academic Press, among others. Dr. Kose is a Series Editor of the Biomedical and Robotics Healthcare series from Taylor & Francis/CRC Press. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine ethics, artificial intelligence safety, optimization, chaos theory, distance education, e-learning, computer education, and computer science.
Dr. Ashish Khanna has 16 years of expertise in teaching, entrepreneurship, and research and development. He received his PhD from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, and completed a post-doc degree at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil. He has published around 40 SCI-indexed papers in 'IEEE Transactions', and in other reputed journals by Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley, with a cumulative impact factor of above 100. He has published around 90 research articles in top SCI/Scopus journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is co-author or editor of numerous books, including 'Advanced Computational Techniques for Virtual Reality in Healthcare' (Springer), 'Intelligent Data Analysis: From Data Gathering to Data Comprehension' (Wiley), and 'Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Challenges and Applications' (Elsevier). His research interests include distributed systems, MANET, FANET, VANET, Internet of Things, and machine learning. He is one of the founders of Bhavya Publications and the Universal Innovator Lab, which is actively involved in research, innovation, conferences, start-up funding events, and workshops. He is currently working at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain.
Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum laude in applied electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and for international conferences. Her research interests cover intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, as well as an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. Dr. Balas is the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Center and the Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects at the “Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She served as the General Chair for nine editions of the International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA) organized in 2005–2020 and held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as organizer, honorary chair, session chair, member in steering, advisory or international program committees, and keynote speaker. Now she is working on a national project funded by the European Union: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures. She is a member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, the chair of Task Force 14 of the IEEE Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, a member of the IEEE Soft Computing Technical Committee. She is also the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).