Editors

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University New Delhi and Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University UK. He also holds visiting professorship at NIT Goa, India. Dr. Bansal obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU New Delhi, he worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His Primary area of interest is Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published over 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the Section Editor (editor-in-chief) of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS), Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing (SADIC), and Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing (ISTC) published by Springer. He is also the Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and  ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is the general secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.

Prof. Joong Hoon Kim, formerly Dean of Engineering College of Korea University, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with the thesis title “Optimal replacement/rehabilitation model for water distribution systems”. Prof. Kim’s major areas of interest include: Smart Water Management Systems and Micro Water Grid Systems in Smart Cities, Design and Management of Water Distribution Systems, Maintenance and Management Techniques of Urban Drainage systems, Real-time Management of Urban Water Systems Involving  Smart Monitoring, Telemetered Systems, and Sensor Networks, Development of Alarm System against Urban Flood, Development of Optimal Decision Making Systems about  Management of Water Supply and Sewage Networks. He has been awarded with National Study Abroad Scholarship, Korean Ministry of Education, 1985.05, Quentin Mees Research Award, Arizona Water and Pollution Control Association 1994.03, Korea Water Resources Association Achievement Award 2005.12, National Emergency Management AgencyAchievement Award 2007.11, Korea Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs Award 2012.02, KSCE-Springer Award, 2013.12, Songsan Grand Prize (Academic) by KSCE, 2019.10, Order of Science and Technological merit, 2021.04, K-water Grand Academic Prize, 2022.12. He has been the faculty of School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at Korea University since 1993 and is now the professor emeritus. He has hosted international conferences including APHW 2013, ICHSA 2014 & 2015, HIC 2016, HIC 2018, ICHSA 2019, ICHSA 2020, and ICHSA 2022, and has given keynote speeches at many international conferences including AOGS 2013, GCIS 2013, SocPros 2014 & 2015, SWGIC 2017, RTORS 2017, ICHSA 2020, ICCIS 2020, and FSACE 2021. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2017.

Prof. Atulya K. Nagar holds the Foundation Chair as Professor of Mathematical Sciences, and he is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Liverpool Hope University (UK). He has been the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Science, and Founding Head of the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, which he established at the University. He received a prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship for pursuing his doctorate (DPhil) in Nonlinear Mathematics, which he earned from the University of York (UK) in 1996. He holds BSc (Hons in Mathematics and Physics), MSc (Pure and Applied Mathematics), and MPhil (with distinction- Relativistic Cosmology) from the MDS University of Ajmer (India). Prior to joining Liverpool Hope in Sept. 2001, he was with the Department of Mathematical Sciences and later at the Department of Systems Engineering at Brunel University, London. Prof Nagar has experience in UK and Indian HE-landscape, and he has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee) and University of Madras (India), and has lectured at Indian Universities such as the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR); and BITS Pilani. He is an internationally respected scholar working at the cutting edge of applied mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and systems engineering, with his research expertise spanning both mathematical and computational methods for nonlinear, complex, and intractable problems arising in science, engineering, and industry. He has edited volumes on Applied Mathematics and Intelligent Systems/AI. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC) and serves on editorial boards for a number of prestigious journals; he is a co-editor for two Springer Book series: Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS); and Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing (ISTC). He is well published with over 500 publications in prestigious publishing outlets. Prof Nagar sits on a number of strategic UK-wide research bodies, such as the JISC Research Strategy group; UKRI’s Talent Panel College; and Advisor for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC). He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA); and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).