KC Santosh is the Chair and an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota (USD). Before that, for 3 years (till 2020), he was the Graudate Program Director of Department of Computer Science (CS), USD. Dr. Santosh served School of Computing and IT, Taylor's University as a Visiting Associate Professor, for one year (2019/2020). Before joining USD, Dr. Santosh worked as a research fellow at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Santosh demonstrated expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing, data mining, and big data with various application domains, such as healthcare informatics and medical imaging, document imaging, biometrics, forensics, speech analysis, and Internet of Things. He published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles, 100 plus conference proceedings, and 11 book chapters. He authored 4 books, and edited 5 books, 14 journal issues and 6 conference proceedings. Dr. Santosh serves as an Editor-In-Chief for IJSIP and Associate Editor for multiple journals, such as Int. J. of Machine Learning & Cybernetics and IEEE Access. Dr. Santosh chaired more than 10 international conference events in the domain. His research projects are funded by multiple agencies, such as SDCRGP, Department of Education (DOE), and National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Santosh is the proud recipient of the President's Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019) and an award from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2014).

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Director of Lero and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick

Mike Hinchey is Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick, Ireland. Prior to joining Lero, Professor Hinchey was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory; he continues to serve as a NASA Expert. In 2009 he was awarded NASA's Kerley Award as Innovator of the Year. Hinchey holds a B.Sc. in Computer Systems from University of Limerick, an M.Sc. in Computation from University of Oxford and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge. The author/editor of more than 15 books and over 200 articles on various aspects of Software Engineering, at various times Hinchey previously held positions as Full Professor in Australia, UK, Sweden and USA. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Engineering Professional, Chartered Mathematician and Charted Information Technology Professional, as well as a Fellow of the IET, British Computer Society and Irish Computer Society. He is President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and Vice-Chair (and Chair-Elect) of IEEE UK & Ireland section. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: a NASA Journal and Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society.

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Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Singidunum University

Milan Tuba was born in Lucani in 1952. Completed primary and secondary education in Osijek. He received BS in Mathematics, MS in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science, MPh in Computer Science, PhD in Computer Science from University of Belgrade and New York University.

From 1983 to 1994 he was in the USA first as a graduate student as well as teaching and research assistant at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University and later as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union Graduate School of Engineering, New York. During that time, he was the founder and director of Microprocessor Lab and VLSI Lab, leader of scientific projects and supervisor of many theses.

Since returning from the USA in 1994, he has been a participant in the scientific projects of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, currently on the project Project III-44006. He was teaching more than 20 graduate and undergraduate courses, from VLSI Design and Computer Architecture to Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Image Processing, Calculus and Queuing Theory. His research interests include mathematical, queuing theory and heuristic optimizations applied to computer networks, image processing and combinatorial problems. Currently, mentor in a group of five students working in the field of heuristic optimization methods based on the intelligence of swarms. He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and a monograph.

Mr Tuba held ten plenary lectures at conferences at Harvard, Cambridge, Moscow, Paris and Istanbul. He is also a coeditor, a member of the editorial board, scientific committee member or a reviewer for several international journals and conferences. Member of international and scientific organizations: ACM, IEEE, AMS, SIAM and FNA.

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Moisés Toapanta is a professor in of Computer Science at the Salesian Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Coordinator research group: Computing, Security and Information Technology for a Globalized World “CSITGW”. He is an evaluator and accredited researcher of the Senescyt. He obtained his MSc. in ICT at the National Polytechnic School. He completed his doctoral stay at the Department of Information Technology and Communications of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena UPCT, Spain. He obtained the degree of PhD. in Information Technology at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Toapanta has published articles in indexed journals and conference proceedings of the IEEE. He has participated in conferences with papers in America, Europe and Asia. He has worked in public and private institutions at an operational, tactical and strategic level in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. His research areas are: Strategic alignment of ICT, distributed systems, networks, designs, security and cryptography.