About the Author

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Prof. Mohammad Shorif Uddin completed his Ph.D. in Information Science at Kyoto Institute of Technology in 2002, Japan, Master of Technology Education at Shiga University, Japan in 1999, Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1991 and also Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Jahangirnagar University in 2013. He began his teaching career as Lecturer in 1991 at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET). He joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jahangirnagar University, and at present, he is Professor of this department. He served as Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jahangirnagar University from June 2014 to June 2017 and Teacher-in-Charge of the ICT Cell of Jahangirnagar University from February 2015 to December 2022. He holds two patents for his scientific inventions and has published around 200 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University New Delhi and Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University UK. He also holds visiting professorship at NIT Goa, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. His primary area of interest is Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure-based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published over 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is Section Editor (Editor-in-Chief) of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is also Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is General Secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.