Auteur: Balachandran K.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is a professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. He recently completed his post-doctoral research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in sentiment analysis. He is an associate editor for Springer »s Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal. He has published over a hundred research papers in various international journals/conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited twelve books in the area of computer science. Also, he has been serving as General Chair of the Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS), the International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT), the International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Solutions for Current Challenges in Engineering & Technology (ICSISCET) and the IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Communications (In C4). His research interests include nature-inspired algorithms, swarm intelligence, soft computing, and computational intelligence.   Dr. Balachandran is formerly Professor and Head of CSE at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India. He has 38 years of experience in Research, Academia, and Industry. He served as Senior Scientific Officer in the Research and Development Unit of the Department of Atomic Energy for 20 years. His research interest includes Data Mining, Artificial Neural Networks, Soft Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. He has published more than fifty articles in well-known SCI/SCOPUS-indexed international journals and conferences and attended several national and international conferences and workshops. He has authored/edited four books in the area of computer science.  Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University New Delhi and a Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science Liverpool Hope University UK. He also holdsa visiting professorship at NIT Goa, India. Dr. Bansal obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU New Delhi, he worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His Primary area of interest is Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure-based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published over 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the Section Editor (editor-in-chief) of the journal Methods X published by Elsevier. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS), Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing (SADIC), and Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing (ISTC) published by Springer. He is also the Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY, published by Elsevier. He is the general secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.  Professor Kim, formerly Dean of Engineering College of Korea University, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with the thesis title “Optimal replacement/rehabilitation model for water distribution systems”. Prof. Kim’s major areas of interest include Smart Water Management Systems and Micro Water Grid Systems in Smart Cities, Design and Management of Water Distribution Systems, Maintenance and Management Techniques of Urban Drainage Systems, Real-time Management of Urban Water Systems Involving  Smart Monitoring, Telemetered Systems, and Sensor Networks, Development of Alarm System against Urban Flood, Development of Optimal Decision Making Systems about  Management of Water Supply and Sewage Networks. His publication includes “A New Heuristic Optimization Algorithm: Harmony Search”, Simulation, February 2001, Vol. 76, pp 60-68, cited over 7, 200 times by other journals of diverse research areas.  He has been awarded the National Study Abroad Scholarship, Korean Ministry of Education, 1985.05; Quentin Mees Research Award, Arizona Water and Pollution Control Association 1994.03, Korea Water Resources Association Achievement Award 2005.12; National Emergency Management Agency Achievement Award 2007.11; Korea Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs Award 2012.02, KSCE-Springer Award, 2013.12, Songsan Grand Prize (Academic) by KSCE, 2019.10, Order of Science and Technological merit, 2021.04, K-water Grand Academic Prize, 2022.12. He has been on the faculty of the School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at Korea University since 1993 and is now the professor emeritus. He has hosted international conferences, including APHW 2013, ICHSA 2014 & 2015, HIC 2016, HIC 2018, ICHSA 2019, ICHSA 2020, and ICHSA 2022, and has given keynote speeches at many international conferences, including AOGS 2013, GCIS 2013, Soc Pros 2014 & 2015, SWGIC 2017, RTORS 2017, ICHSA 2020, ICCIS 2020, and FSACE 2021. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2017.