Bidyadhar Subudhi is working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa. Prof. Subudhi received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela (formerly REC Rourkela) in 1988, the Master of Technology degree in Control and Instrumentation from IIT Delhi in 1994 and PhD degree in Control System Eng. from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2002. He served as a Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in the NUS Singapore in 2005. Currently he serves as Professor, School of Electrical Sciences and Dean (Research & Development) in Indian Institute of Technology Goa. Prior to this, he was working as a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engg. in NIT Rourkela. He served as the Head of the Department, Electrical Engineering and Dean (Alumni Relation & Resource Generation); Chairman, Curriculum & Accreditation Committee; Head, Computer Centre at NIT Rourkela. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada and in Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Prof. Subudhi has been appointed as Distinguished Speaker by ACM for next three years (2020-2023). He was a recipient of the Prestigious Newton Fellowship of the Royal Academy of UK in the year 2015, and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award of the Odisha Bigyan Academy, Govt. of Odisha for his contribution to science and technology in the year 2013. He was awarded NITRAA Research Excellence Award in Electrical Sciences in 2019. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his distinguished contribution in Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IET (UK), Institution of Engineers (India), Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India) and senior Member, IEEE. He serves as a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Intelligent Control Group. He serves as an Associate Editor, IEEE Access and IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board. He collaborates with several foreign universities through international research grants. He has supervised 34 PhD students. He has published his research work in 130 reputed international journals and 70 conference papers. He has edited 3 books and contributed 13 book chapters. His research interests include Machine Learning and Adaptive Systems, Marine Robotics and Microgrid Systems.
G. R. Sinha (Fellow IETE, Fellow ISTE, SMIEEE) is working as Adjunct Professor at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB), India. Prior to IIITB, he was working as Professor at IIITB-mentored Myanmar Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) Mandalay Myanmar. He has been Visiting Professor (Online) in National Chung Hsing University Taiwan, University of Sannio Italy and Visiting Professor (Honorary) in Sri Lanka Technological Campus Colombo. He has published 293 research papers, book chapters and books at International and National levels; and edited 20 books in the field of Cognitive Science, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biometrics, Optimization Techniques, Sensors, Outcome based Education, Data Deduplication with Internationally reputed publishers Elsevier, IOP, Springer, Taylor & Francis, IGI. He owns two Australian patents. He is Associate Editor of five SCI/Scopus indexed journals and has been Guest Editor in various SCI journals. Dr Sinha has been ACM Distinguished Speaker in the field of DSP (2017-2021). He has been Expert Member for Vocational Training Program by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for Two Years. He has been contributing CSI Distinguished Speaker in the field of Image Processing since 2015. He also has served as Distinguished IEEE Lecturer in IEEE India council for Bombay section. He has received more than 12 National and International level Awards and Recognitions. He has delivered more than 60 Keynote/Invited Talks and Chaired many Technical Sessions in International Conferences across the world. He has been Vice President of Computer Society of India for Bhilai Chapter for two years. He is regular Referee of Project Grants under DST-EMR scheme of Govt. of India. He has been Expert Member of Professor promotion committee of German Jordanian university Jordan and Project Proposal evaluation committee of UK-Israel Research Grants. Dr Sinha has supervised 08 PhD Scholars, 15 M. Tech. Scholars, 100 UG level students and has been Supervising 01 more PhD Scholar. His research interest includes Biometrics, Medical/Biomedical Image Processing & Cognitive Science applications, Computer Vision, Outcome based Education (OBE) and Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes.