Dr. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh is Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, Geomatics engineering group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Remote Sensing) from IIT Roorkee. He has supervised 38 Masters and 14 Ph.D. students, and has published more than 100 papers in scientific conferences and reputed journals, as well as two scientific books in the area of Geomatics. He has been engaged in teaching, research and consultancy works in geomatics engineering for more than 33 years. His areas of interest include geomatics engineering, remote sensing, GPS, geodesy, AI, soft computations, automated system development and cognition.
Dr. Irineu da Silva is Associate Professor of civil engineering in the Department of Transportation Engineering at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Geodetic sciences from the Federal University of Lausanne. He has guided several Masters and Ph.D. students over the years, and has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and scientific conferences. He has also written two scientific books on Geomatics. Dr. da Silva's field of research is related to geomatics quality and geodetic structural monitoring. He has been invited as a keynote speaker in more than 20 scientific conferences, and he has been on the editorial board of several international journals. In 2007, he received the Order of Cartographic Merit from the Brazilian Society of Cartography.