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Avishek Adhikari, Ph.D., M.Sc. (Gold Medalist), is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Presidency University, Kolkata. He has received the President of India Medal, ISCA Young Scientist Award, and the NANUM Fund from the International Mathematical Union. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute. He is the founding Secretary of the Institute for IMBIC with branches in Sweden and Japan, and served as Treasurer of the Cryptology Research Society of India. He was the Eastern Zonal coordinator for M.Sc. and Ph.D. scholarship exams by the National Board of Higher Mathematics and has held post-doctoral positions at INRIA-Rocquencourt, France, and as a Visiting Scientist at Linkoping University, Sweden, and the ISI. He has authored six textbooks and edited two research monographs, including five publications with Springer. With over 75 publications and contributions to twelve research projects, including international collaborations, he has also supervised ten Ph.D. students and focuses his research on Algebra, Graph Theory, and Cryptology.

Ashis SenGupta is an Emeritus Scientist of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, at IIT-Kharagpur, and serves as an Advisor/Consultant at the ISI, Kolkata. He is an Adjunct Professor at Augusta University, Georgia, a Distinguished Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey and Advisor, Analythium, Canada; and Chairman/Expert of various Committees, SERB-DST, India. He has been a Visiting Professor worldwide including at Stanford University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California, USA; Concordia University, Canada; also at Belgium, Sweden, Germany, and Israel. He holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and has guided over 17 Ph.D. scholars in India, Turkey, and the USA. With more than 120 publications, including 13 books and volumes, a former Editor-in-Chief of Environmental and Ecological Statistics and JISPS, he has led three major projects funded by the Government of India and has received numerous awards, including two Lifetime Achievement awards and the Distinguished Statistician award. He served as VP of the International Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, President of the International Indian Statistical Association (India chapter)/, elected President of the Mathematical Sciences section of the Indian Science Congress in 2011-2012 and Elected Member of International Statistical Institute. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India; ISPS; AIIA; and American Statistical Association -currently the only statistician in India with this recognition.

Erik Trell, retired as Professor Emeritus from Linköping University, was an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Malmö General Hospital, University of Lund, Sweden, from 1968 to 1982. He earned his Ph.D. on pulmonary hypertension in 1972. From 1973 to 1982, he established the new Department of Preventive Medicine at Malmö General Hospital, gaining international recognition for his innovative work on alcohol disorders, prediabetes, tobacco-related cancer, inclusion of the female birth year cohorts and the mammographic unit and the development of the world's first online interactive computer monitoring system. All these contributions led to his appointment as Professor and Chief of the new Department of Family Medicine at Linköping University in 1986. After retiring in 2006, he continued as Professor Emeritus and served as a district doctor in Karlstad. The Health University gave him various projects, including planning the new Medical Faculty of Heraklion University, and the Mediterranean Health Research Program on Crete. He advanced online decentralized maternal and child health care systems in the Bhorugram desert community in India. He has over 450 medical publications and 40 in mathematics/physics, with 156 medical papers searchable on PubMed.