Computer Intelligence Against Pandemics

ISBN-13: 9783110767667 / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str.

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Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FRSA (UK), FIET (UK), FIE (I), FIETE, LFOSI, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMAAIA, SMIETI] did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998, and 2000 respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure of 2018-2020. He has been inducted into the People of ACM hall of fame by ACM, the USA in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure of 2021-2023. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the Russian Academy of Engineering. He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK.

He is currently serving as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India during 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 88 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs and 19 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India) and (ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).

He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data P