Författare: Tarun Kumar Sharma

Dr. Millie Pant is an Associate Professor, Department of Applied Science and Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. She has supervised 16 Ph.D.s in the area of numerical optimization, operations research, soft computing and swarm intelligence techniques with applications to various engineering design problems, image processing, computer vision, supply chain management. She has 181 research publications to her credit. She is PI and Co-PI in 2 DST and MHRD sponsored projects. She has edited 7 volumes of Conference Proceedings AISC series of Springer of So CPros Conference series since 2017 and 2 volumes of Conference Proceedings AISC series of Springer of So CTA Conference series. She is an Associate Editor in International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, Inderscience, and Guest Editor in several international journals like International Journal of Memetic Computing, Springer, International Journal of Collaborative Engineering, Inderscience. She is a reviewer in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Applied Soft Computing, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Neural Network Works, Information science. She has acted as General Chair, Program Chair, Session and Track Chair in many national and international conferences. She has delivered Guest Lectures in the field of swarm intelligence, nature inspired computing, computational intelligence in institution of national and international repute like National University of Singapore, Singapore, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, Brisbane, Australia, Zakopane, Poland, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, ABV-IIITM Gwalior, MANIT, Bhopal, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, NIT, Assam. She has international collaboration with MIRS Lab, USA, Liverpool Hope University, UK, and Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, Paris, France. She is a founder member of So CPros, So CTA, and RAACE Conference series. Dr. Tarun Kumar Sharma is Professor at Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun. He worked at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Rajasthan, India.  He holds Ph.D. in Soft Computing from India Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has supervised 2 Ph.D.s. He has 77 research publications to his credit. He is one of the founding member of So CTA series. He acted as General Chair of RAACE 2017, Program Chair in So CTA 2016, Organizing Secretary in So CPros 2015, and PC member in So CPros 2014 and So CPRos 2013. He has edited 3 volumes of Conference Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer Publication and 2 edited books in Asset Analytics, Springer. He is Guest Editor in several international journals like IJACI, IJAIP, IJSIR, IJAMC, IJAEC, IJISDC, and IJPD. He is a member in the editorial board of national and international journals. He has acted as session and track chair in many national and international conferences. He has delivered Guest Lectures in the field of swarm intelligence, nature inspired computing, and computational intelligence in the institution of national and international repute. He is a founder member of So CTA and RAACE Conference series. He is a member of IET, IANEG, CSTA, and MIRS Lab. Dr. Rajeev Arya received the Engineering Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Government Engineering College, Ujjain, (RGPV University, Bhopal) India, and the Master of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Patna, India. His current research interests are in wireless communication, ant colony optimization & soft computing techniques, cognitive radio, signal processing, communication systems & circuits design. He has publishedmany articles in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the ISRD and the IAENG. He is an active reviewer in many reputed international journals. Dr. Bikash Chandra Sahana is an Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Patna, India. He has supervised 10 M.Tech. and 32 B.Tech. students in the area of signal processing, optimization, soft computing and swarm intelligence techniques with applications to various engineering design problems, image processing and compression, computer vision, geophysical signal processing, filter design. He has 21 research publications in journals and conferences. He is a reviewer in IEEE access. He has delivered Guest Lectures in the field of geophysical signal processing, nature inspired computing, computational intelligence in the institution of national and international repute. Dr. Hossein Zolfagharinia is an award-winning Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Global Management Studies department at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. He received his Undergraduate and Master”s Degrees in Industrial Engineering. Following this, he earned his Ph.D. in Operations and Supply Chain Management from the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. In addition to his academic background, he has more than four years of professional work experience as a business method analyst in the oil and drilling industry. Furthermore, he gained experience in the area of Supply Chain Management through managing several projects in trucking and maritime transportation companies in the past (e.g., Logikor Inc., Global Spatial Technology Solutions (GSTS) Inc.). Dr. Zolfagharinia’s two main research interests are in: (1) investigating the benefits of collaboration in supply chain management with a focus on logistics and transportation, (2) applying operations management techniques in a healthcare context. Heis the author of a book chapter and several top-tier refereed journal articles. These journals include: European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research: Part B and Part E, International Journal of Production Economics, and Operations Research for Health Care. He frequently presents his work at scholarly/professional conferences at both the national and international levels (e.g., Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), Annual meeting of Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), and Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)). He is the recipient of the 2017-2018 Dean”s Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activity Award. He has received over $250, 000 in the form of research grants, scholarships, and fellowships. These include Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-Institutional Grant (SSHRC-SIG), Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), the Best OGS Research Proposal, and the Ontario Institute of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (OIPMAC) Achievement Excellence, and he is the provisional winner of Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Canada Paper Competition.