Novel AI and Data Science Advancements for Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19

Victor Chang, PhD, is a Professor of Business Analytics at the Department of Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. He will be involved in leading a New Research Centre. He has been a Full Professor of Data Science and Information Systems and Research Group leader at Teesside University. He was previously a Senior Associate Professor, Director of PhD and Director of MRes at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He was also a very active and contributing key member at Research Institute of Big Data Analytics, XJTLU, and an Honorary Associate Professor at University of Liverpool. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He is Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, Associate Editor of IEEE TII, Information Fusion, and JGIM, Scientific Report, IJBSR and IDD journals. He is a founding and Conference Chair of IoTBDS, COMPLEXIS, FEMIB and IIoTBDSC conferences. He authored 5 books and edited 2 and is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientist and expert in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/security/AI/IS, as he has experience to develop 10 different services for multiple disciplines. Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Basset is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, within the Faculty of Computers and Informatics, at Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc and Ph.D in operations research at the Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University. Dr. Abdel-Basset's research interests are in Optimization, Operations Research, Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Applied Statistics, Decision Support Systems, Robust Optimization, Engineering Optimization, Multiobjective Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks. He is currently working on the application of multi-objective and robust meta-heuristic optimization techniques. Dr. Abdel-Basset is an Editor or Reviewer for several international journals and conferences, and has published more than 100 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Muthu Ramachandran is currently a Cybersecurity, AI, and Blockchain Research Consultant at Forti5 Technologies, UK and a Professor Extraordinarius at University of South Africa (UNISA). Muthu is a certified IASME CE, ICA, IoT Cyber & IoT Assurance. Muthu is also an Editorial Board at Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY, USA) and International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI). Muthu has also been awarded as Top Blockchain Voices by LinkedIn. Previously, Muthu was a visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India and at University of Southampton. Muthu has 35+ years of experiences in teaching & research in both academia and in industrial settings. Muthu was also an Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK for 18 years. Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly eight years in industrial research with Philips Research Labs, Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK, and at DRDO, Hyderabad, India as a Senior Scientist working on real-time systems, software architecture, reuse, and testing. Currently, Muthu has established several Software Engineering Frameworks: Software Security Engineering, Cybersecurity Engineering, AI Ethics and Quality, IoT SE, Cloud SE, Blockchain in Healthcare, etc.

Muthu has authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers, with significant contributions to the fields of computer science, software engineering, service computing, Agile SE, and Cloud software engineering. He is a recognized senior member of IEEE and ACM, a Fellow of BCS, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Muthu has chaired and delivered keynote speeches at several conferences and workshops, including SE-CLOUD, SECE 2020 (IEEE COMPSAC), IoTBDS, DSC 2019-2022, and Complexis. He has actively participated in research projects across various domains of systems & software engineering, SPI for SMEs, emergency and disaster management systems, software components and architectures, software security engineering, and cloud computing. Nicolas G Green, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, with research primarily focusing on design and development of technology and systems for Lab-on-a-Chip and Point of Care applications in medicine and environmental science. He is an expert on electrical and optical techniques for the detection, measurement, characterization, classification and separation of biological cells, bacteria, viruses and biomolecules. He is also developing strategies for the application of machine learning for assisting medical experts and practitioners in diagnoses. Gary Wills, PhD, research project focuses on Secure Systems Engineering and applications for industry, medicine, and FinTech. Dr. Wills's work cross-discipline with colleagues from industry and academia. His research can be grouped under a number of themes: Machine learning, Internet of things, Blockchain, Security, Computational Finance, Data Protection, and Cloud Services. He has published widely on these topics, in books, book chapters, official reports, journal articles and conferences paper. Gary has co-edited a number of special issues, and regularly reviews articles for international journals.