Dr. Vinit Kumar Gunjan is an associate professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at CMR Institute of Technology Hyderabad (Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad). An active researcher, published research papers in IEEE, Elsevier & Springer Conferences, authored several books and edited volumes of Springer series, most of which are indexed in SCOPUS database. He was awarded with the prestigious Early Career Research Award in the year 2016 by Science Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology Government of India. He was involved as an organizer in many technical and non-technical workshops, seminars and conferences of IEEE and Springer. During the tenure, he had an honour of working with top leaders of IEEE and awarded with best IEEE Young Professional award in 2017 by IEEE Hyderabad Section.
Dr. Jacek M. Zurada (SM’85, F’96, LF’14) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, where he served as the department chair and a distinguished university scholar. He was a professor at Princeton University, Northeastern University, Auburn University, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Chile, Santiago, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, the University of Marie-Curie, Paris, France, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.