Professor Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, Dr H.C., ME, BE (Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia), is with the Liverpool Hope University and the University of Arad. He was formerly with the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Canberra and Bournemouth University. Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES.
Roumiana Kountcheva got her M.Sc. and PhD at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and in 1992 she got the title Senior Researcher. At present, she is the Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia. She had postgraduate trainings in Fujitsu and Fanuc, Japan. Her main scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, pattern recognition, image tensor representation, neural networks, CNC and programmable controllers. She has more than 200 publications and 5 international patents (EU and USA). R. Kountcheva was the plenary speaker at 25 international scientific conferences and scientific events. She edited several books published in Springer SIST series and is a co-editor of Special issues for Symmetry MDPI. She is a member of international organizations: Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition, International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and is a Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group.
Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is presently working as director of Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised 32 Ph. D. Theses and more than 60 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 3 text books and more than 100 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, SPIE, IOS Press and others. Dr. Patnaik is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published by Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published by Springer, Germany. He is the Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. Prof. Patnaik is a Guest Professor to Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha and Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China and visiting professors to some of the B-Schools of Europe and South East Asia. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited various countries such as Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Algeria, Thailand and Vietnam for delivering Key note addresses at various conferences and symposiums.