Proceeding of First Doctoral Symposium on Natural Computing Research. DSNCR 2020.

Professor Dr. V. H. Patil is currently working as Professor & Head of Computer Engineering department with additional responsibility of Vice-principal at Matoshri College of Engineering & Research Centre Nashik. At Savitribai Phule Pune University, She is currently Chairman of Board of Studies,Computer Engineering (faculty of Science & technology). At Savitribai Phule Pune University, she is a member of various committees as-  Research & Recognition Committee, Academic Council and Faculty. She is recipient of various honors & awards. To name a few: “Best Teacher Award”, Savitribai Phule Pune University, “Significant Contribution Award”, Computer Society of India, Recipient of “Engineering Achievement Award” from Institution Engineers(India). She has authored 3 books in areas Discrete Mathematics, and Data Structures published by McGraw Hill & Oxford University Press respectively. These books are prescribed in syllabus at 70+ universities in India as well as internationally. She has 3 Patents (published) and 10 copyrights to her credit. She has 60+ papers to her credit, which are published at various national and international Journals and conferences. Her areas of special interest include educational development and reform Engineering Education to raise the prestige of the institute and every member of the teacher fraternity.

Nilanjan Dey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an Honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012–2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He has authored/edited more than 70 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press, and Springer and published more than 300 papers. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, and Associate Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, and Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis, CRC. His main research interests include medical imaging, machine learning, computer-aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) – Young ICT Group. Recently, he has been awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015–2017).