AI, Edge and IoT-based Smart Agriculture

Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academics, Research, Incubation, and International Relations at Bennette University. He is also the Founding Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a global non-profit scientific network that connects academia and industry to support research and innovation. He is also serving as Vice Chancellor of Sai University, Chennai.

His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), network security, Web intelligence, sensor networks, and data mining. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing and has held editorial leadership roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Abraham earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia. Sujata Dash is a Professor of Information Technology at Nagaland University, India, and an IEEE Senior Member, with over three decades of academic and research experience. She holds a PhD in Computational Modeling and has also completed postdoctoral research at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where she later served as a Visiting Professor. Her research spans machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, natural language processing, and IoT, with applications across healthcare, data science, and smart systems. Dr. Dash has an extensive publication record with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and CRC Press, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. She has delivered keynote lectures and chaired sessions at numerous international conferences and has received several awards, including the Global Distinguished Award (IEEE IAS, 2023), Outstanding Scientist Award, and Best Researcher Award. Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues is affiliated with the Federal University of Piaui and serves as Leader of the Center for Intelligence at Fecomercio/CE, Brazil. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate) and ranked no. 1 among computer science researchers in Brazil by Research.com. He is also the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA) research group (CNPq), a Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and President of the Scientific Council at ParkUrbis - Covilha Science and Technology Park. Prof. Rodrigues has held several leadership roles within IEEE, including Director for Conference Development on the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Board of Governors, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Technical Activities Committee Chair for the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Region, and Past Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees on eHealth and Communications Software. He has also served as a Steering Committee member of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community and as Publications Co-Chair. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications and serves on the editorial boards of several high-impact journals, primarily within IEEE. He has acted as General Chair and Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for numerous international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. A very prolific author, he has received multiple Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards from the IEEE Communications Society, along with several best paper awards. He is a member of the Internet Society, a Senior Member of ACM, and a Fellow of AAIA and IEEE.

Biswaranjan Acharya received his MCA degree from IGNOU, New Delhi, India, in 2009, and his MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela, Odisha, India, in 2012. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha, India. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Jagadguru Kripalu Institute of Technology, Jagadguru Kripalu University, Cuttack, Odisha, India. He has over ten years of academic experience at reputed institutions, including Ravenshaw University and KIIT Deemed to be University, as well as industry experience as a software engineer.

Dr. Acharya is an active research article author for internationally recognized journals and holds over 50 patents. He also serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include multiprocessor scheduling, data analytics, computer vision, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. He is an active member of several professional and academic organizations, including IEEE, IACSIT, CSI, IAENG, and ISC.

Subhendu Kumar Pani received his PhD from Utkal University, Odisha, India, in 2013. He currently serves as Principal of Krupajal Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, India, and has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. A prolific author, he serves as Series Editor for CRC Press' Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence, Apple Academic Press' AAP Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, and Wiley-Scrivener's Intelligent Data Analytics for Terror Threat Prediction, and is actively involved as an associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer for several international journals. He also contributes to national and international conference communities. His research interests include data mining, big data analytics, web data analytics, fuzzy decision-making, and computational intelligence. He is a Fellow of SSARS (Canada) and a Life Member of several professional bodies, including IE, ISTE, ISCA, OBA, OMS, SMIACSIT, SMUACEE, and CSI. He has received multiple research awards in recognition of his contributions.