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Anirban Bandyopadhyay Editor & Author

Dr. Kanad Ray is a Professor and Head of the department of Physics at the Amity School of Applied Sciences Physics Amity University Rajasthan (AUR), Jaipur, India. He has obtained MSc & PhD degrees in Physics from Calcutta University & Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India. In an academic career spanning over 25 years, he has published and presented research papers in several national and international journals and conferences in India and abroad. He has authored a book on the Electromagnetic Field Theory. Prof. Ray’s current research areas of interest include cognition, communication, electromagnetic field theory, antenna & wave propagation, microwave, computational biology, and applied physics. He has served as Editor of Springer Book Series such as AISC, LNEE etc. and an Associated Editor of Journal of Integrative Neuroscience published by IOS Press, Netherlands. He has established an MOU between his University and University of Montreal, Canada for various joint research activities. He has also established MOU with National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan for joint research activities and visits NIMS as a visiting Scientist. He had been visiting Professor to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Malaysia. He had organized international conference series such as SoCTA, ICOEVCI as General Chair. He is a Senior Member, IEEE and an Executive Committee member of IEEE Rajsthan.  He has visited Netherlands, Turkey, China, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, South Africa,Japan, Malaysia, Thailand,Singapore  etc. for various academic missions.

Dr. Krishna Chandra Roy is working as Principal in Kautilya Institute of Technology & Engineering, Jaipur with 22.04 years of academic experience. He received M.Tech in the Electrical Engineering Department from NIT Patna and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (Under the MHRD, Govt. of India) Itanagar. He has worked as Principal, Dean (Engg.), PG Coordinator and HOD of various Engineering Colleges and University. He supervised many Ph.D Thesis and M.Tech. Dissertation. He has organized Workshop, FDP, Seminar, Conference and Research program as Coordinator who has fully funded by MHRD and AICTE New Delhi. He has published and presented more than 110 research papers in renowned National and International Journals and conferences. He has published White research papers and patents and also published two books. He is a member of various National and International technical board & committees like International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology, Computer Society of India, Indian Society of Technical Education, Institute of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, and Indian Science Congress Association.

Er. Sandeep Kumar Toshniwal working as Registrar & HOD, ECE in Kautilya Institute of Technology & Engineering, Jaipur with 16 years of academic experience. He received M.Tech in Digital Communication from MNIT, Jaipur and pursuing Ph.D in Electronics & Communication from JK Laxmipat University,Jaipur.. He supervised many M.Tech. Dissertation. He has organized Workshop, FDP, Seminar, Conference and Research program as Coordinator. He has published and presented about 25 research papers in renowned National and International Journals and conferences.

Harish Sharma is an Associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota in Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He has worked at Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University Kota, and Government Engineering College Jhalawar. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech degree in Computer Engg. from Govt. Engineering College, Kota and Rajasthan Technical University, Kota in 2003 and 2009 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from ABV - Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India.

He is secretary and one of the founder members of Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a life time member of Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He is an Associate Editor of “International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI)” published by Inderscience. He has also edited special issues of the journals “Memetic Computing” and “Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence”. His primary area of interest is nature inspired optimization techniques. He has contributed in more than 45 papers published in various international journals and conferences.

Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He completed his PhD in Supramolecular Electronics at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was an independent researcher, as an ICYS research fellow at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS, Japan, where he worked on the brain-like bio-processor building. In 2008, he joined as a permanent scientist at NIMS, working on the cavity resonator model of human brain and design-synthesis of brain-like organic jelly. From 2013 to 2014 he was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He has received several honors, such as the Hitachi Science and Technology award 2010, Inamori Foundation award 2011–2012, Kurata Foundation Award, Inamori Foundation Fellow (2011–), and Sewa Society international member, Japan. He has patented ten inventions (i) a time crystal model for building an artificial human brain, (ii) geometric-musical language to operate a fractal tape to replace the Turing tape, (iii) fourth circuit element that is not memristor, (iii) cancer & alzheimers drug, (iv) nano-submarine as a working factory & nano-surgeon, (vi) fractal condensation based synthesis, (vii) a thermal noise harvesting chip, (viii) a new generation of molecular rotor, (ix) spontaneous self-programmable synthesis (programmable matter) (x) Fractal grid scanner for dielectric imaging. He has also designed and built multiple machines and technologies, (i) THz-magnetic nano-sensor (ii) a new class of fusion resonator antenna etc. Currently, he is building time crystal based artificial brain using three ways, (i) knots of darkness made of fourth circuit element, (ii) integrated circuit design, (iii) organic supramolecular structure.