Ajith Abraham received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Calicut in 1990, the M.S. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998, and the PhD degree in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2001. He is currently the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bennett University, India. Prior to this, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, and the Founding Director of the Machine Intelligence Research Laboratories (MIR Labs), USA, a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, connecting industry and academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment with a focus on artificial intelligence in health care applications. During the last 25 years, he has authored/co-authored more than 1,400+ research publications with more than 56,000 academic citations (H-index is more than 112 as per Google Scholar). He has given more than 200 plenary lectures and conference tutorials (in more than 20 countries). He was the Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing (which has over more than 200 members), from 2008 to 2021. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), from 2016 to 2021. He serves/served on the editorial board for over 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society Representing Europe, from 2011 to 2013
Sung-Bae Cho received a PhD degree in computer science from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Taejeon, Korea. He was an invited researcher of Human Information Processing research laboratories at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) institute, Kyoto, Japan, from 1993 to 1995, and a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia in 1998. He was also a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 2005 to 2006, and at King Mongkut’s University of Technology at Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2013. Since 1995, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, an Underwood distinguished professor from 2021, and a Yonsei Fellow from 2023. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man-machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life. Dr. Cho was the recipient of the Richard E. Merwin prize from IEEE Computer Society in 1993. He received several distinguished investigator awards from the Korea Information Science Society in 2005 and Gaheon Sindoricoh in 2017. He is also a recipient of the service merit medal from the Korean government in 2022. Currently, he is a Fellow of IEEE, AAIA and KAST (Korea Academy of Science and Technology).