Applied Information Processing Systems: Proceedings of ICCET 2021

Dr. Brijesh Iyer received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 2015. He is Associate Professor in the University Department of E&TC Engineering at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere (A State Technological University). He is a recipient of INAE research fellowship in the field of Engineering. He had 02 patents to his credit and authored over 50 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals and conference proceedings. He had authored 05 five books on curricula as well as cutting-edge technologies like sensors and healthcare technology. He has served as Program Committee Member of various international conferences and Reviewer for various international journals. His research interests include RF front-end design for 5G and beyond, IoT and biomedical image/signal processing.

Dr. Debashis Ghosh is presently working as Full Professor and Head of the Department of E&CE Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He had earned his B.E., M.Sc.(Engineering) and Ph.D. from MNIT, Jaipur, IISC Bangalore in the year 1993, 1996 and 2000, respectively, in the area of E&CE Engineering as a major. He was working as Visiting Professor to the many reputed overseas Technological Institutes/Universities. He is a recipient of “Excellence in Teaching” award of Multimedia University, Malaysia, in the year 2007. He has a vast experience of handling research and consultancy projects at IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee to his credit. He had published several research papers in various journals and conferences of international and national repute. His area of interest includes communication systems & signal processing, cognitive radio & sensor networks, image & video processing, computer vision & pattern recognition.

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling and simulation. She is Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Editorial Board Member of several national and international journals and Evaluator Expert for national and international projects and Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Balas is Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair and Member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees. Now she is working in a national project with EU funding support: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures - For Digital Integrated Circuits, 3M Euro from National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation. She is Member of EUSFLAT and SIAM, Senior Member of IEEE, Member in TC – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), Chair of the TF 14 in TC – Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS) and Member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). Dr. Balas was past Vice-President (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015), is Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India, and a recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).