Vikrant Bhateja is the associate professor in the Department of ECE, SRMGPC, Lucknow (U.P.), and also the dean (Academics) in the same college. He is doctorate in ECE (Bio-Medical Imaging) with a total academic teaching experience of 18 years with around 180 publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions, out of which 31 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. He has been instrumental in chairing/co-chairing around 30 international conferences in India and abroad as publication/TPC chair and edited 45 book volumes from Springer Nature as a corresponding/co-editor/author on date. He has delivered nearly 20 keynotes, invited talks in international conferences, ATAL, TEQIP and other AICTE sponsored FDPs and STTPs. He is Editor-in-Chief of IGI Global-International Journal of Natural Computing and Research (IJNCR) an ACM and DBLP indexed journal since 2017. He has guest edited special issues in reputed SCIE indexed journals under Springer Nature and Elsevier.

K. V. N. Sunitha completed her B.Tech. in ECE from ANU, M.Tech. in CS from REC Warangal in 1993 and Ph.D. in CSE from JNTU Hyderabad in 2006. She has 29 years of teaching experience and 13 years of research experience. She is working as Founder Principal, BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad, since August 2012. She received “Academic Excellence Award” by  G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science in 2005, “Best computer Science Engineering Teacher Award for the year 2007”  by ISTE in 2008, “Best Faculty Award” in Academic Brilliance Awards, 2013 at New Delhi, “Distinguished Principal Award” by CSI Mumbai in 2017 at IIT Bombay, received Deewang Mehtha “Women in Education Award” in 2017.  She was felicitated for outstanding contribution and achievements in the field of Engineering in Women Engineers Meet 29th Indian Engineering Congress, IEI held at Visveswaraiah Bhavan, Hyderabad on 18 December 2014. She received “Engineer of the year 2019 Award” by IEI, Telangana in 2019. She received “Acharya Ratna”–National Award for life-time achievement for the year by Indian servers in association with IT Association of AP, Telangana IT Association, in 2019. She has guided 9 Ph.Ds. and currently guiding 8 research scholars. She authored 5 text books, published more than 150 papers.

Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987 and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From October 1994 to March 2004, he was an associate professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor with the college of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is also a visiting professor with the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China. He was a visiting professor with the Oxford University, Oxford, UK, in 2003 and a visiting professor with Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 2010. His research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. image processing, IEEE Trans. SMC, pattern recognition. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award, Outstanding Chinese Oversea Scholar Fund of Chinese Academy of Science. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects.

Yu-Dong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, China, in 2010. He worked as postdoc from 2010 to 2012 and a research scientist from 2012 to 2013 at Columbia University, USA. He served as Professor from 2013 to 2017 in Nanjing Normal University, where he was the director and founder of Advanced Medical Image Processing Group in NJNU. From 2017, he served as Full Professor in Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK. His research interests are deep learning in communication and signal processing, medical image processing. He was included in “Most Cited Chinese researchers (Computer Science)” from 2015 to 2018. He won “Emerald Citation of Excellence 2017”, and “MDPI Top 10 Most Cited Papers 2015”. He was included in top scientist list in “Guide2Research”. He is now the editor of Scientific Reports, Journal of Alzheimer‟s Disease, International Journal of Information Management, etc. He is the senior member of IEEE and ACM. He has conducted and joined many successful academic grants and industrial projects, such as NSFC, NIH, EPSRC, etc.