Dr. Pradeep N, working as Dean Academics and Professor and Head in Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science), Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere, Karnataka, India affiliated Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India. He is having 21 years of academic experience, which includes teaching and research experience. He has worked at various verticals starting from Lecturer to Professor. His research areas of interest include Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, and Knowledge Discovery Techniques. He is presently guiding FIVE research scholars on Knowledge Discovery and Medical Image Analysis. Also, he is co-guide for postdoc students registered in Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, and University of South Florida. He has successfully edited 10 books and they are published by various internationally reputed publishers which include IGI Publishers, USA, Springer, Elsevier, Nova, CRC, and De Gruyter. His 30 research articles has been published in refereed indexed journals and also authored 13 book chapters. He is a promising and prominent reviewer for various International Conferences and journals.
His Indian Patent application is published, German Patent and Australian Patent are granted. He is one of the copyright author/owners for 13 copyright proposals which are granted copyright by Copyright office, Government of India.
He has completed Short Term Post-Ph.D. Pilot Research Project from Thu Dau Mot University, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam in 2021.
He received Academic Recognition as Hon. D.Eng. (Honoris Causa) in June 2021 fromIranian Neuroscience Society-FARS Chapter (SM-FINSS) and Dana Brain Health Institute, Shiraz, Iran.
He has been appointed as Senior Member, Iranian Neuroscience Society-FARS Chapter (SM-FINSS) for a duration of TWO years (March 1st, 2021 to March 2nd, 2023).
He is also one of jury members to evaluate proposals submitted for QS Reimagine Education Awards, 2023.
He has been elevated to Senior Member in IEEE and has professional membership in IEEE, ACM, IEI, MISTE, and IAENG. Also, he is a Technical Committee Member for Davangere Smart City Limited, Davangere for evaluating ICT projects and Three committee member in Innovation Committee for City Innovations Exchange Program, Davangere Smart City Limited, Davangere under Smart Cities Mission.Sandeep Kautish is working as Professor & Dean-Academics with LBEF Campus, Kathmandu Nepal running in academic collaboration with Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation Malaysia. He is an academician by choice and backed with 17+ Years of work experience in academics including over 06 years in academic administration in various institutions of India and abroad. He has meritorious academic records throughout his academic career. He earned his bachelors, masters and doctorate degree in Computer Science on Intelligent Systems in Social Networks. He holds PG Diploma in Management also. His areas of research interest are Business Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Information Systems. He has 40+ publications in his account and his research works has been published in reputed journals with high impact factor and SCI/SCIE/Scopus/WoS indexing. His research papers can be found at Computer Standards & Interfaces (SCI, Elsevier), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (SCIE, Springer). Also, he has authored/edited more than 07 books with reputed publishers i.e. Springer, Elsevier, Scrivener Wiley, De Gruyter, and IGI Global. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at VIT Vellore (QS ranking with 801-1000) in 2019 for an International Virtual Conference. He filed one patent in the field of Solar Energy equipment using Artificial Intelligence in 2019. He is an editorial member/reviewer of various reputed SCI/SCIE journals i.e. Computer Communications (Elsevier), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Cluster Computing (Springer), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Springer), Multimedia Tools & Applications (Springer), Computational Intelligence (Wiley), Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS, International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IGI Global USA), International Journal of Image Mining (Inderscience). He has supervised one PhD in Computer Science as a co-supervisor at Bharathiar University Coimbatore. Presently two doctoral scholars are pursuing their PhD under his supervision in different application areas of Machine Learning. He is a recognized academician as Session Chair/PhD thesis examiner at various international universities of reputes i.e. University of Kufa, University of Babylon, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), University of Madras, Anna University Chennai, Savitribai Phule Pune University, M.S. University, Tirunelveli, and various other Technical Universities.
C. R. Nirmala works as professor and head, department of Computer Science and Engineering of BIET, Davangere has got 24 years of teaching experience in teaching, mentoring and guiding the students of UG, PG and research programs of CS & E department. She received her doctorate degree from Visvesvaray Technological University, Belgaum and carried out her research at BIET. She has completed her master’s degree from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surthkal in the year 2001 with first class and specialization in Computer Engineering and B.E in Electronics and Communication from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere in the year 1992 with first class. She started her career at Bharath Electronics Ltd, Bangalore as Trainee Engineer, then joined Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology as a lecturer in the department of E & C from 1995 and in CS and E dept from 2001. Acting as a single point of contact for Infosys Campus Connect, IBM Academic Activities, VMWARE IT Academy and ICT Academy India activities. IBM India Ltd, awarded her with prestigious “Drona” award, for 5 times for mentoring award-winning student projects in the annual national level software development contest- “The Great Mind Challenge” and for showing outstanding performance in the IBM academic initiative Activities in the institute. Infosys has felicitated with certificate of appreciation for outstanding performance in the Infosys campus Connect activities. Wipro Mission 10X team has recognized “Champion Trainer”. And from the institute she obtained the best teacher award for 10 times. Published and presented more than 30 papers in the International Conferences and journals like IEEE transaction, ACM and Other referred journals. 2 research scholars have been awarded with PhD Degrees and 5 research scholars are carrying out research under her guidance. 1 Indian patent has been filed in the area of wireless sensor networks and waiting for publishing. I1 book chapter is published in IGI Press on Wireless Sensor Networks.