Vinit Kumar Gunjan is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CMR Institute of Technology Hyderabad (Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad).  Vinit Kumar Gunjan is Active Researcher, published research papers in IEEE, Elsevier & Springer Conferences, authored several books, and edited volumes of Springer series, most of which are indexed in SCOPUS database. Vinit Kumar Gunjan was awarded with the prestigious Early Career Research Award in the year 2016 by the Science Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology Government of India.

Dr. Jacek M. Zurada (SM'85, F'96, LF'14) is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, where he served as Department Chair and Distinguished University Scholar. He was Professor at Princeton University, Northeastern University, Auburn University, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Chile, Santiago, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, the University of Marie-Curie, Paris, France, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.