Data-Driven Environmental Intelligence

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya earned his Bachelor's in Physics, Bachelor's in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Master's in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2008. He also received the PhD (Habilitation) degree from VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, in 2023. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Master's. He is the recipient of several coveted awards, including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India, in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the Southeast Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for 2018-2020. He was inducted into the People of ACM Hall of Fame by ACM, the USA, in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2021-2024. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK. He is currently serving as a Senior Researcher in the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb, Croatia. Before this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He was the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, from 2018 to 2019. Before this, he was a Professor of Information Technology at the RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Before this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India, from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India, from 2001 to 2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 106 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has two PCTs and 20 patents to his credit. He has been a member of several national and international conferences' organizing and technical program committees. He is the founding Chair of several international conferences like International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP), Doctoral Symposium on Intelligence Enabled Research (DoSIER), the International Conference on Human-Centric Smart Computing (ICHCSC), International Conference on Computers, Information Processing and Advanced Education (CIPAE), International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Human Machine Collaboration ICISHMC), and Doctoral Symposium on Human Centered Computing (HUMAN). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India), ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic, and WIN 6.0 2025 (Kolkata, India. He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals, including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues of several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of the IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series(s) Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI) and Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis (IBDA), Computational Intelligence and Applications, Quantum Machine Intelligence, Intelligent Data Driven Technology for Sustainable Environment, and Advances in Disruptive Technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence, Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding, and Tracts on Human Centered Computing. His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks, and quantum computing. He is a life fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), India, a life fellow of the International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India, and a fellow of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS), India. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is the founding President of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Kolkata, and the Immediate Past Chairman of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.

Jan Platos received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2006. Since 2017, he has been the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-TUO. He has co-authored more than 200 scientific articles published in proceedings and journals. His citation report consists of 338 citations and an H-index of 10 on the Web of Science, 800 citations and an H-index of 14 on Scopus, and 1213 citations and an H-index of 17 on Google Scholar. His primary fields of interest are text processing, data compression, bioinspired algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, data structures, and data prediction.

Soumyadip Dhar holds his B.E.; M.E., and PhD degrees from The University of Burdwan and MAKAUT, respectively. He also holds the position of Associate Professor in the department of IT of the RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. His current research interest includes Image/video processing& analysis, soft computing, computer vision, machine intelligence, and data security. He has contributed to several prestigious journals, international conferences, and edited books.

Naba Kumar Mondal, a distinguished academician in Environmental Science at The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, is renowned for his dedicated service to education, research, and environmental advocacy. Prof. Mondal successfully conducted twelve (12) major projects funded by various organizations. Till now, nineteen (19) scholars have received their Ph.D. degrees under the direct supervision of Prof. Mondal. The main research areas, like water pollution and remediation, nanoparticle synthesis and application, indoor air pollution, and mobile phone radiation, were conducted in Prof. Mondal's laboratory. Apart from the research activities, Prof. Mondal also discharges his responsibility as a potential reviewer of many international peer-reviewed journals.

Ivan Zelinka is currently working at the Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He graduated consequently at the Technical University in Brno (1995 - MSc.), UTB in Zlin (2001 - PhD), and again at the Technical University in Brno (2004 - assoc. prof.) and VSB-TU (2010 - professor). Before his academic career, he was employed as a telecommunications technician, computer specialist (HW+SW), and a Commercial Bank (computer and LAN supervisor). During his career at UTB, he proposed and opened 7 different lectures. He has also been invited for lectures at numerous universities in different EU countries, plus the role of the keynote speaker at the Global Conference on Power, Control and Optimization in Bali, Indonesia (2009), Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (2011), Halkidiki, Greece, and IWCFTA 2012, Dalian, China. ICAISC Poland, INTELS Russia. His expertise is mainly unconventional algorithms and cybersecurity. He is and was the responsible supervisor of 3 grants of fundamental research of the Czech grant agency GACR, co-supervisor of the grant FRVS - Laboratory of parallel computing. He was also working on numerous grants and two EU projects as a member of the team (FP5 - RESTORM) and supervisor (FP7 - PROMOEVO) of the Czech team and supervisor of international research (funded by the TACR agency) focused on the security of mobile devices (Czech - Vietnam). Currently, he is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and in total, he has been the supervisor of more than 40 MSc. and 25 Bc. diploma thesis. Ivan Zelinka is also the supervisor of doctoral students, including students from abroad. He was awarded the Siemens Award for his PhD thesis, as well as by the journal Software News for his book about artificial intelligence. Ivan Zelinka is a member of the British Computer Society, Editor in Chief of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (http://www.springer.com/series/10624), Editorial Board of Saint Petersburg State University Studies in Mathematics, and a few international program committees of various conferences and international journals. He is the author of journal articles as well as of books in the Czech and English languages, and one of three founders of the TC IEEE on big data http://ieeesmc.org/about-smcs/history/2014-archives/44-about-smcs/history/2014/technical-committees/204-big-data-computing/. He is also the head of the research group NAVY http://navy.cs.vsb.cz.

Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee is currently serving as the Head of the Department in the Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) Department at the Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is also the Professor-in-Charge, R&D and Consultancy Cell & Nodal Officer of the IPR Cell of BIT. Since 2024, he has also worked as a Remote Researcher on the Internet of Things & Applications Lab (ITHACA) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is the former Remote Research Fellow of the Cognitive Computing and Brain Informatics Research Group (CCBI) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. Dr. Banerjee did his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in the Department of Computer Science. He also completed the Post Graduate Diploma in IPR & TBM from MAKAUT, WB. He has teaching and research experience spanning 20 years and has completed one IEI-funded project. He is a member of the CSI, IEEE, ISTE, IEI, ISOC, IAENG, and a fellow of IETE. He is the present Secretary-cum-Treasurer of the ISTE WB Section and Secretary of the IETE, Kolkata Centre. He is the Immediate Past Secretary of the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter. Dr. Banerjee is also elected as the Vice Chairman Cum Chairman Elect in Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter for the year 2025-2027.

Abhijit Das has received his B.Tech. (IT) from the University of Kalyani, M. Tech. (IT) from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Department of CSE, Jadavpur University, India. Dr Das has over 20 years of Teaching and Research Experience and more than 60 publications and five edited books of international repute. Presently, he is serving as a Professor in the Department of IT, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He had been the Head of the Department of IT (Jan 2018- Jan 2020) and has convened various committees at an institutional level. Prof. Das has organized and chaired various international conferences, workshops, and seminars. He has served as a resource person in various institutes and universities and television channels at the state and national levels. Currently, six scholars are working with him on different research topics like IoT, e-Waste Management, Data Science, Quantum Computing, Object Oriented Categorization, etc. Dr Das has published 10 patents (2 granted) and 11 copyrights to date. He serves as a reviewer for many reputed journals and is a professional member of IETE (Fellow), IEEE (Senior Member), ACM (Senior Member), and CSI (Life Member). Abhijit is a professional singer, lyricist, and composer as well, and frequently performs in All India Radio Kolkata, Doordarshan Kolkata, and in various private television channels in India, and has more than 30 music albums, singles, and title tracks to his credit.