Soft Computing: Theories and Applications: Proceedings of SoCTA 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 425, Band 425) - Softcover

Dr. 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 and 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 to 2011. He has been Reader from 2005 to 2009, Senior Lecturer from 2000 to 2005, and Lecturer from 1995 to 2000 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology. He is 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. Chang Wook Ahn received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Information and Communications, GIST, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea. From 2007 to 2008, he was Research Professor at GIST. From 2008 to 2016, he was Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. He is currently Director of MEMI (Meta-Evolutionary Machine Intelligence) Lab and Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea. His research interests include genetic algorithms/programming, multi-objective optimization, evolutionary neural networks, and quantum machine learning. He has been Guest Edited various thematic issues in journal of repute. 

Dr. Tarun K. Sharma holds Ph.D. in Soft Computing in 2013 from IIT Roorkee. Since June 2020, he is associated with Shobhit University, Gangoh, Saharanpur, as Professor and Head of CSE and Dean―School of Engineering & Technology. Earlier, he worked with Amity University Rajasthan as Associate Professor and Head―Department of Computer Science & Engineering / IT as well as Alternate Director―Outcome. He has supervised 2 Ph.D., 7 M.Tech. dissertations, several MCA and B.Tech. projects. He has over 80 research publications in his credit. He has been to Amity Institute of Higher Education Mauritius on deputation. He has availed grants from Microsoft Research India, CSIR, New Delhi, and DST New Delhi to visit Australia Singapore, and Malaysia, respectively. He is Founding Member of International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA Series) and Congress on Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (CAMSE). He has edited 5 volumes of Conference Proceedings published by AISC series of Springer (SCOPUS) Publication and two edited books with Asset Analytics, Springer.