Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (responsible with 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 Recipient of the “Tudor Tanasescu” Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019). She edited more than 140 reputed Book volumes.
Dr. K Srujan Raju is currently working as Dean Student Welfare and Heading Department of Computer Science & Engineering at CMR Technical Campus. He obtained his Doctorate in Computer Science in the area of network security. He has more than 20 years of experience in academics and research. His research interest areas include computer networks, information security, data mining, cognitive radio networks and image processing, and other programming languages. Dr. Raju is presently working on two projects funded by Government of India under CSRI & NSTMIS, has also filed 7 patents and 1 copyright at Indian Patent Office, edited more than 14 books published by Springer Book Proceedings of AISC series, LAIS series, and other which are indexed by Scopus also authored books in C Programming & Data Structure, Exploring to Internet, Hacking Secrets, and contributed chapters in various books and published more than 30 papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Raju was invited as Session Chair, Keynote Speaker, Technical Program Committee Member, Track Manager, and Reviewer for many national and international conferences also appointed as Subject Expert by CEPTAM DRDO—Delhi & CDAC. He has undergone specific training conducted by Wipro Mission 10X & NITTTR-Chennai which helped his involvement with students which is very conducive for solving their day-to-day problems. He has guided various student clubs for activities ranging from photography to hackathon. He mentored more than 100 students for incubating cutting-edge solutions. He has organized many conferences, FDPs, workshops, and symposiums. He has established the Centre of Excellence in IoT, Data Analytics. Dr. Raju is Member of various professional bodies and received Significant Contributor Award and Active Young Member Award from Computer Society of India also served as Management Committee Member, State Student Coordinator, and Secretary of CSI—Hyderabad Chapter.