Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte Editor

Lalit Mohan Goyal received BTech (Hons.) in computer engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; MTech (Hons.) in information technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi; and PhD in computer engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has 16 years of teaching experience in the area of theory of computation, parallel and random algorithms, distributed data mining, and cloud computing. He is currently with the Department of Computer Engineering, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India. He is currently working on the project sponsored by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi. He has published research papers in SCI indexed and Scopus indexed journals and conferences. He is a reviewer of many reputed journals and conferences.

Tanzila Saba earned her PhD in document information security and management from Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2012. She won the best student award in the Faculty of Computing, UTM for 2012. Currently, she is serving as an Associate Chair of Information Systems Department in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her primary focuses of research focuses in recent years are medical imaging, pattern recognition, data mining, MRI analysis, and soft-computing. She has above 200 publications that have above 5000 citations with h-index 46. Her mostly publications are in biomedical research published in ISI/SCIE indexed. Due to her excellent research achievement, she is included in Marquis Who’s Who (S & T) 2012. Currently, she is an editor and reviewer of reputed journals and on the panel of TPC of international conferences. She has full command of a variety of subjects and taught several courses at the graduate and postgraduate levels. On the accreditation side, she is a skilled lady with ABET and NCAAA quality assurance. She is the senior member of IEEE. Dr. Tanzila is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Lab at PSU and active professional members of ACM, AIS, and IAENG organizations. She is the PSU WiDS (Women in Data Science) ambassador at Stanford University and Global Women Tech Conference. She earned the best researcher award at PSU for consecutive 4 years. She has been nominated as a Research Professor at PSU since September 2019.

Amjad Rehman is a Senior Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Lab, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD and Postdoc from Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with specialization in Forensic Documents Analysis and Security with honors in 2010 and 2011, respectively. He received the Rector Award 2010 for best student in the university. Currently, he is PI in several funded projects and also completed projects funded from MOHE, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia. His keen interests are in data mining, health informatics, and pattern recognition. He is author of more than 200 ISI journal papers, conferences and is a senior member of IEEE with h-index 44.

Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte graduated in operational research from the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria. She received dual MSc in mathematics, decision and organization from Paris Dauphine University, France, and in computing and applications from Sorbonne Paris 1 University, France, and PhD in bioinspired algorithms (artificial intelligence) from the Computer Science Department, Toulouse 1 University Capitole, France, in 2011. She was an Assistant Professor with the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University. She was also an Associate Researcher with the Department of Computer Science, Toulouse 1 University Capitole, France. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Associate Director of Software Engineering and Cyber Security Master Programs, and Vice-Chair of the ACM Professional Chapter at Prince Sultan University. She has written several articles and has attended various specialized international conferences. She has also participated in several research projects. Her research interests include combinatorial optimization, metaheuristics, artificial intelligence and especially bioinspired algorithms applied to multidisciplinary domains, algorithms analysis and design, bioinformatics, data mining, machine and deep learning, biometric identification, natural language processing, and software engineering.