Proceedings of Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics

Dr. Mufti Mahmud is an associate professor of Cognitive Computing at the Computer Science Department of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. He has been the recipient of the top 2% cited scientists worldwide in computer science (2020), the NTU VC outstanding research award 2021, and the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Mahmud is the coordinator of the Computer Science and Informatics research excellence framework unit of assessment at NTU and the deputy group leader of the Cognitive Computing and Brain Informatics and the Interactive Systems research groups. His research portfolio consists of GBP 3.3 million grant capture with expertise that includes brain informatics, computational intelligence, applied data analysis, and big data technologies focusing on healthcare applications. He has over 15 years of academic experience and over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Mahmud is the general chair of the Brain Informatics conference 2020, 2021, and 2022; Applied Intelligence and Informatics conference 2021 and 2022; Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics 2022; a chair of the IEEE CICARE symposium since 2017 and was the local organizing chair of the IEEE WCCI 2020. He will serve as one of the general chairs of the 31st edition of the ICONIP conference to be held in Auckland (NZ) in 2024. He is the section editor of the Cognitive Computation, the regional editor (Europe) of the Brain Informatics Journal , and an associate editor of the Frontiers in Neuroscience. During the year 2021-2022, Dr. Mahmud has been serving as the vice-chair of the Intelligent System Application and Brain Informatics Technical Committees of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), a member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligence Systems for Health, an advisor of the IEEE R8 Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee, the publications chair of the IEEE UK and Ireland Industry Applications Chapter, and the project liaison officer of the IEEE UK and Ireland SIGHTCommittee, the secretary of the IEEE UK and Ireland CIS Chapter, and the social media and communication officer of the British Computer Society's Nottingham and Derby Chapter.
Claudia Mendoza-Barrera is a scientific-researcher at the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP, 2016 to present). Her research focuses on the manufacture, characterization, and bioconjugation of biomaterials at micro and nanoscales through physical and chemical routes for biomedical applications, as well as the manufacture and characterization of biosensors of specific affinity. She was a visiting scholar at NESAC/BIO, Chemical Engineering, and Bioengineering Department, University of Washington (2004-2006, Seattle, USA). She received her Ph.D. (2002), M.Sc. (1996), and bachelor's (1995) degrees in Physics in the areas of Biomaterials and Theoretical Physics, respectively, from the Department of Physics of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAVIPN, Mexico) and BUAP (Mexico). She was a fellow of the Organization of American States for postdoctoral studies abroad (2004-2006) and the president and editor of the board of the Mexican Society of Science and Technology of Surfaces and Materials (2013-2014 and 2011-2012, respectively) and Mexican representative of the IUVSTA (2014-2016). She has been a member of the Mexican System of Researchers since 2003; she supervised over 30 doctoral, master's, bachelor's, and engineering thesis; she has more than 35 indexed articles and peer-reviewed publications as first author or responsible author and the presentation of more than 100 works in national and international congresses as invited talk, talk or poster.
Dr. M. Shamim Kaiser is currently working as a professor at the Institute of Information Technology of Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Applied Physics Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in 2010. His current research interests include data analytics, machine learning, wireless network and signal processing, cognitive radio network, big data and cyber-security, and renewable energy. He has authored more than 100 papers in different peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Access Journal , guest editor of Brain Informatics Journal and Cognitive Computation Journal . Dr. Kaiser is a life member of Bangladesh Electronic Society, Bangladesh Physical Society. He is also a senior member of IEEE, USA, and IEICE, Japan, and an active volunteer of the IEEE Bangladesh Section. He is the founding chapter chair of the IEEE Bangladesh Section Computer Society Chapter. Dr. Kaiser organized various international conferences such as ICEEICT 2015-2018, IEEE HTC 2017, IEEE ICREST 2018, BI2020.
Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a senior scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, 2005, December, on supramolecular electronics. From 2005 to 2007, he was ICYS Research Fellow NIMS, Japan, and, 2007, is now a permanent scientist in NIMS, Japan. He has ten patents on building artificial organic brain, big data, molecular bot, cancer and Alzheimer drug, fourth circuit element, etc. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting scientist in MIT, USA, on biorhythms. He worked in World Technology Network, as a WTN fellow, (2009-continued); he received Hitachi Science and Technology Award 2010, Inamori Foundation Award 2011-2012, Kurata Foundation Award, Inamori Foundation Fellow (2011), Sewa Society International SSS Fellow (2012), Japan; SSI Gold medal (2017).
Kanad Ray (senior member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in physics from Calcutta University and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India. He has been a professor of Physics and Electronics and Communication and is presently working as the head of the Department of Physics, Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Rajasthan (AUR), Jaipur, India. His current research areas of interest include cognition, communication, electromagnetic field theory, antenna and wave propagation, microwave, computational biology, and applied physics. He has been serving as an editor for various Springer book series. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (the Netherlands: IOS Press). He has been visiting professor to UTM and UTeM, Malaysia, and a visiting scientist to NIMS, Japan. He has established MOU with UTeM Malaysia, NIMS Japan, and University of Montreal, Canada. He has visited several countries, such as the Netherlands, Turkey, China, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, South Africa, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, for various academic missions. He has organized various conferences, such as SoCPROS, SoCTA, ICOEVCI, TCCE, as a general chair and steering committee member.
Eduardo Lugo received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Autonomous University of Morelos State (UAEMor), Mexico. His research involved experimental and theoretical studies of porous silicon nanostructures. He is a pioneer in making photonic structures based on nanostructures. He was a professor in the Department of Physics at the Autonomous University of Morelos State and later at the Center for Energy Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Center for Future Health at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, and later at the Photonic Systems Group in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He was an associate researcher of the same institution as well. Currently, he is an associate researcher at Faubert Laboratory, School of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, and a visiting professor at two Mexican Universities (BUAP and UV). It has contributed with over 90 peer-reviewed publications (articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters) and 36 international patents and patent applications from photonics to human performance, and the NeuroTuner product development. He is a co-founder of Sage Sentinel Company.