Prof. Leo Joskowicz
Head, Computer-Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory
School of Computer Science and Engineering and
The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
President, MICCAI Society
Fellow, ASME, IEEE, MICCAI Societies

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Prof. Joskowicz is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the founder and director of the Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory (CASMIP Lab). Prof. Joskowicz is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and MICCAI (Medical Image Processing and Computer Aided Intervention) Societies. He is the recipient of the 2010 Maurice E. Muller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Surgery by the International Society of Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery and the 2007 Kaye Innovation Award. He has published over 250 technical works including conference and journal papers, book chapters, and editorials. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the MICCAI and CAOS International Societies and has served on numerous related program committees. He is on the Editorial Boards of six journals, including Medical Image Analysis, Int. J. of Computer Aided Surgery, Computer Aided Surgery, and Nature Scientific Reports. He is the Co-Chair of the MICCAI 2020 conference in Lima, Peru.

Prof. Swagatam Das
Head Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit
ISI Kolkata, India

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Prof. Das has received the B. E. Tel. E., M. E. Tel. E (Control Engineering specialization) and Ph. D. degrees, all from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. Swagatam Das is currently serving as an associate professor and Head of the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests include evolutionary computing and machine learning. Dr. Das has published more than 300 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal from Elsevier. He has also served as or is serving as the associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and so on. He is an editorial board member of Information Fusion (Elsevier), Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer). Dr. Das has 24,500+ Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 73 till date. He has been associated with the international program committees and organizing committees of several reputed international conferences including NeurIPS, AAAI, AISTATS, ACM Multimedia, BMVC, IEEE CEC, GECCO, etc. He has acted as guest editors for special issues in journals like IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and IEEE Transactions on SMC, Part C. He is the recipient of the 2012 Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). He is also the recipient of the 2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award as the highest cited researcher from India in Engineering and Computer Science category between 2010 to 2014.

Prof. Rajesh Kumar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Robotics and Machine Analytics (RAMAN) Lab
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

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Prof. Rajesh Kumar received the Bachelor of Technology in Engineering degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 1994, Master of Engineering with honors in Power Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Systems from Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MREC, University of Rajasthan), India in 2005. He is currently Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Professor at Centre of Energy and Environment at Malaviya national Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
He has been Research Fellow (A) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore from 2009-2011. He has been Reader from 2005-2009, Senior Lecturer from 2000-2005 and Lecturer from 1995-2000 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology. He is the Founder of ZINE student innovative group. His background is in the fields of Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Power and Energy management, Robotics, Bioinformatics , Smart Grid and Computer Vision.

Prof. Ajit Kumar Verma
Professor(Technical Safety)
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences(FIN)
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund

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Prof. Ajit Kumar Verma is a Professor(Technical Safety), Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences(FIN) at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund and has been in Norway for the past eleven years. He was a Professor /Senior (HAG) scale Professor for around 15 years at IIT Bombay with the Reliability Engineering/Department of Electrical Engg. He was an adjunct at the University of Stavanger, Norway and has been a Guest Professor at the Luleå University of Technology for the past several years. He was awarded (2017) an honorary professorship and an Academic Excellence Award at Amity University, India among others including an adjunct at SCRIL, SAU, a distinguished professorship in Dehradun, an International Professorship at Manipal, India and also a Life Time Achievement award at IIT Madras by SRESA . He has supervised/co-supervised 39 PhDs and over 100 Masters theses ( IITB; HVL,Norway; LJMU,UK; WMG,UK, Univ of Gavle, Sweden) in the area of Electronic Systems Reliability, Software Reliability, Reliable Computing, Power Systems Reliability, Reliability Centred Maintenance , Soft Computing in RAMS for Complex Engineering Systems and Probabilistic Safety/Risk Assessment in process and power plants. He has executed various research projects in India to promote industry interface and has been course coordinator for industry CEPs like Reliability engineering, Six Sigma, Software Inspections, Competency Tracking System and Software Reliability for IT industries. He is a series editor of 5 Springer book series( Asset Analytics; Reliable and Sustainable Electric Power and Energy System Management; Fire Safety Engg and Management; Risk, Reliability and Safety Engineering; Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Multidisciplinary Applications ) and was Editor-in-Chief of two journals ie ‘International Journal of System assurance Engineering and Management’( EIC till 2022, now a Patron and founding EIC); ‘Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering’ ( currently an EIC) published by Springer and was the EIC of ‘Opsearch’ published by Springer. He is an author/ editor in over a dozen books and a book published by Springer in 2020 in his honour.

Mr. Aninda Bose
Executive Editor
Research Publishing – Books
Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences
Springer Nature Group
The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW

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Mr. Aninda Bose is presently working as Executive Editor with Springer Nature. Mr. Bose is part of the Global Acquisition Team at Springer Nature and responsible for acquisition of scientific content across the globe. He is responsible for acquisition of content in Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences. He has more than 26 years of industrial experience in marketing and different fields of publishing. Mr. Bose has completed Masters in Organic Chemistry from Delhi University and Masters in Marketing Research from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune. Mr. Bose has delivered more than 160 invited talks on Scientific Writing and Publishing Ethics in reputed Universities, International Conferences and Author Workshops. He has published books for secondary level in Chemistry and is a member of American Chemical Society, USA.

Dr. Steven L. Fernandes
Creighton University
California Plaza, Omaha, United States

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Dr. Fernandes began his postdoctoral research at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. There, he worked on NIH-funded projects. He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Central Florida. This research included working on DARPA, NSF, and RBC funded projects. His publications include research articles in highly selective artificial intelligence venues. Dr. Fernandes is Senior IEEE membership and AWS educator. His current area of research is focused on developing artificial intelligence techniques to extract useful patterns from big data. This includes robust computer vision applications using deep learning and computer-aided diagnosis using medical image processing.