Varsha Bendre Editor

Dr. Swati V. Shinde has completed Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded. She has a total 22 years of teaching experience and currently she is working as a Professor of Computer Engineering and Dean-Research & Developments in Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCoE), Pune. She has worked as a HOD-IT for seven years in PCCoE. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Soft Computing, Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic. She has published 85+ research papers in reputed conferences and journals. Two of these are published in the prestigious SCI indexed Science Q1 Elsevier journals. She received the five Best Paper Awards in different IEEE Conferences. She has filed five research patents. She has received the DST grant of almost Rs. 36 lakhs for the research project. She also has received the research grant of SPPU University, Pune, International FDP grant by SPPU and also the conference grant by AICTE. She is the certified trainer and ambassador of NVDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. She was conferred with the "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Women Achievers Award" by IItechBanglore. She was awarded the Indo Global Engineering Excellence Award by Indo Global Chamber of Commerce Industries and agriculture. She has delivered 20+ research talks in various workshops, STTPs, etc. Currently she is a SPPU approved PhD supervisor and guiding four PhD research scholars.

Prof. Dr. P. N. Mahalle is a senior member IEEE and is Professor and Head of Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. He completed his Ph. D from Aalborg University, Denmark and continued as Post Doc Researcher at CMI, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has 22 + years of teaching and research experience. He is a member of the Board of Studies in Computer Engineering, Ex-Chairman Information Technology, SPPU and various Universities and autonomous colleges across India. He has 9 patents, 200+ research publications (Google Scholar citations-2020 plus, H index-21 and Scopus Citations are 986 with H index -14) and authored/edited 40+ books. He is editor in chief for IGI Global –International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis, Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, Inter-science International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global – International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence. His research interests are Machine Learning, Data Science, Algorithms, Internet of Things, Identity Management and Security. He is a recognized PhD guide of SSPU, Pune, and guiding 7 PhD students in the area of IoT and machine learning. Recently, four students have successfully defended their PhD. He is also the recipient of "Best Faculty Award" by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. He has delivered 200 plus lectures at national and international level. He is also the recipient of the best faculty award by Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Dr. Varsha Bendre received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Saint Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati and M.E degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2000 and 2010 respectively. After M.E, she completed her Ph.D. in the area of Nanotechnology and Low Power VLSI from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, and Maharashtra, India in Jan 2020. The area of her research work is analog circuit design at very deep submicron technology using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors. She has published 5 research papers in various SCI/Scopus indexed journals and 30 research papers in peer reviewed international conferences. She has a total teaching experience of 18 years and is currently working as an Associate Professor at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune. She has worked as a reviewer of various SCI listed journals such as International Journal of Electronics and Letters for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. She also worked as a reviewer for various international conferences like The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS-2020), International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2020, (ICPC –2020), IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communication (MicroCom2016), 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Engineering (Confluence 2016) and International Conference on Computing, Communication, Control and Automation (ICCUBEA 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Oscar Castillo holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation "Soft Computing and Fractal Theory for Intelligent and Manufacturing"). He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, he is serving as Research Director of Computer Science and head of the research group on Hybrid Fuzzy Intelligent Systems. Currently, he is President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and Past President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). Prof. Castillo is also Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE). He also belongs to the Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems of IEEE and to the Task Force on "Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Systems". He is also a member of NAFIPS, IFSA and IEEE. He belongs to the Mexican Research System (SNI Level 3). His research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Control, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. He has published over 300 journal papers, 10 authored books, 50 edited books, 300 papers in conference proceedings, and more than 300 chapters in edited books, in total more than 1000 publications (according to Scopus) with h index of 82 and more than 23000 citations according to Google Scholar. He has been Guest Editor of several successful Special Issues in the past, like in the following journals: Applied Soft Computing, Intelligent Systems, Information Sciences, Soft Computing, Non-Linear Studies, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, JAMRIS and Engineering Letters. He is currently Associate Editor of the Information Sciences Journal, Journal of Engineering Applications on Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Complex Intelligent Systems, Granular Computing Journal and Intelligent Systems Journal. He was Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Soft Computing and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He has been elected IFSA Fellow in 2015 and MICAI Fellow in 2016. Finally, he recently received the Recognition as Highly Cited Researcher in 2017 and 2018 by Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science.