Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Challenges and Applications

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He was a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, and also served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He is the recipient of several coveted national and international awards. He received the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from the University of South America and the SEARCC International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He was appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure 2021-2023. He has co-authored six books, co-edited 75 books, and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit.

Vaclav Snasel's research and development experience includes over 25 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving artificial intelligence, multidimensional data indexing, conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web intelligence, data mining and applications to various real-world problems. He has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters. In 2003 he became a visiting scientist in the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2003 he has been vice-dean for Research and Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has been a full professor since 2006. Before turning into a full time academic, he was working with industrial companies where he was involved in different industrial research and development projects for nearly 8 years. He received Ph.D. degree in Algebra and Geometry from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and a Master of Science degree from Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

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.