Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems

Ashutosh Kumar Dubey is an associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Ashutosh is also a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ingenium Research Group Lab, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.. He has more than 14 years of teaching experience. His research areas are Data Mining, Health Informatics, Optimization, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Object-Oriented Programming.

Dr. Abhishek Kumar is a professor and post-doctorate fellow in computer science at Ingenium Research Group, based at Universidad De Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. He has been teaching in academia for more than 8 years, and published more than 50 articles in reputed, peer reviewed national and international journals, books, and conferences. His research area includes artificial intelligence, image processing, computer vision, data mining, and machine learning.

Umesh Chandra Pati is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, India. He has authored/edited two books and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He has also guest-edited special issues of Cognitive Neurodynamics and International Journal of Signal and Imaging System Engineering. Dr. Pati has filed 2 Indian patents. Besides other sponsored projects, he is currently associated with a high value IMPRINT project “Intelligent Surveillance Data Retriever (ISDR) for Smart City Applications, an initiative of the Ministries of Education, and Housing and Urban Affairs in the Government of India. His current areas of research include Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Automation, and Instrumentation Systems.

Professor Fausto works as Professor at Universidad De Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, UK, Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute. He has published more than 150 papers and is author and editor of 31 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, Intech, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega). He is Editor of 5 Int. Journals, Committee Member more than 40 Int. Conferences. He has been Principal Investigator in 4 European Projects, 6 National Projects, and more than 150 projects for Universities, Companies, etc. His main interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Maintenance, Management, Renewable Energy, Transport, Advanced Analytics, Data Science. He is an expert in the European Union in AI4People (EISMD), and ESF and Director of www.ingeniumgroup.eu.

Dr. Vicente García-Díaz is a Software Engineer and has a PhD in Computer Science. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oviedo. He is also part of the editorial and advisory board of several journals and has been editor of several special issues in books and journals. He has supervised 80+ academic projects and published 80+ research papers in journals, conferences and books. His research interests include decision support systems, Domain-Specific languages and eLearning.

Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is working as Assistant Professor at Chitkara University School of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India on the adsorption of nitrate and fluoride from water. Also, he has done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in the teaching of Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Disaster Management and Design Thinking to the undergraduate engineering students. His research interests include water quality surveillance, climate change, water treatment, river ecosystem, soil health maintenance, engineering education, phytoremediation and waste management. He has published > 86 research papers in various prestigious journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis etc.) including some book chapters and conferences. He is also the editor of 20 books with Elsevier, Springer, NOVA and Wiley. Additionally, he is also one of the series editors of Elsevier and Nova publisher on energy sustainability and e-waste management, respectively. Further, in his credit, 12 patents have been granted by the Government of India on multidisciplinary topics. He is also working on 04 Government sponsored projects (worth ~16 million INR) on phytoremediation, adsorption, capacity building, organic farming, leachate treatment, agro-waste management etc.