Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence

Dr. Somen Dey obtained his (PhD) degree in the area of Operations Management and Manufacturing Strategy from the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His primary research interests include operations management, supply chain management, organization, and manufacturing strategy, strategic information systems (IS), production planning and control, operations research and optimization techniques. He also has secondary research interests in data mining, machine learning algorithms, knowledge discovery database (KDD) applications in manufacturing and production planning and control. He was the recipient of the Best Track Paper Award in Operations Management in 7th Annual Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, IEOM, April (11th-13th) 2017, Rabat Morocco.

Vidyapati Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He completed his Master's in Engineering in Production Engineering in 2018 and Bachelor's in Technology in Mechanical Engineering in 2016. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked for 1.7 years as a project assistant at the CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research. He has published research in SCI/Scopus indexed journals and conference proceedings, and has obtained both an Australian and Indian patent for his innovative research. His research area includes Rehabilitation Robotics, Biomedical devices, and the application of soft computing tools in solving optimization and decision-making problems. Dr. Dilip Kumar Pratihar is a Professor (HAG Scale) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur, India and former Professor-in-charge of the Centre for Excellence in Robotics. He received his BE (Hons.), M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. from various Indian institutions, as well as post-doctoral study at universities in Japan and Germany. He has received multiple awards, including the University Gold Medal, INSA Teachers' Award, Technologist of the Year Award, and Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has made significant contributions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in fields such as Industrial Automation, Robotics, Health Care, and Education Technology. He has published several books and hundreds of publications in reputed journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is a regular reviewer for several international journals and a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He has filed patents and received 1 copyright. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of ASME, and a Member of AMM. Dr. Vibhav Prakash Singh is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MNNIT Allahabad. He has earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi (India) in 2018, M. Tech. (CSE) from IIIT Gwalior (India) in 2011 and B. Tech (IT) from UPTU, Lucknow (India). He has approx. 10 years of experiences in various academic /research organizations. He is an active reviewer and board member of various International Journals and Conferences. He has contributed more than 60 research papers in International Journals, and Conferences. His working research areas are Medical Image Analysis, Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Data Mining Dr. Sardar M N Islam is Director, Sustainable Growth Program, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. He is also associated with the Financial Modelling Program and the Law and Economics Program there. He has published more than 10 books and research monographs and many technical papers in Finance, Economics, Corporate Governance, and E-Commerce.