Dr. Tripathy received his Ph.D. degree in 1983. During his student career, he received 3 gold medals for standing first at graduation level, standing first at postgraduate level, and being adjudged as the best postgraduate of the year from Berhampur University, Odisha. He has the distinction of receiving the national scholarship at PG level, UGC (Govt. of India) fellowship for pursuing his research, DST (Govt. of India) fellowship for pursuing M. Tech. (Computer Science) in Pune University, and the SERC fellowship (DOE, Govt. India) for joining IIT Kharagpur as a visiting fellow. As recognition of his distinguished research in the field of Mathematics, he was included by American Mathematical Society as a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and later honored with an honorary membership of American Mathematical Society in 1992. A year later, he was selected as a reviewer for Zentralblutt fur Mathematik (Germany). At present, Dr. Tripathy is a reviewer for over 100 international journals from all top publishing houses world over. He has published over 600 research articles in several international journals, proceedings of international conferences, edited research volume chapters, and national conference proceedings. Some of his publications are in journals like Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Society, Ind. Jour. Pure & Appl. Mathematics, Journal of Educational Technology and Society, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Kybernetes, World Applied Sciences Journal, International Journal of Communication Systems, Journal of Web Engineering and Evolutionary Intelligence, only to name a few. As an evidence of his research supervising ability, Prof. Tripathy has supervised over 52 candidates for Ph.D. degrees, M. Phil. degrees, and M. Tech./ M. S. by research degrees. Dr. Tripathy is a member of more than 20 professional bodies likea senior member of IEEE, a senior member of ACM, a senior member of IRSS, a senior life member of CSI, Indian Academy of Mathematics, IEEE Communication Society, Indian Mathematical Society, ACM Compute News group, Indian Science Congress Association, International Science and Technology group, and IEEE fuzzy logic society. He has evaluated the Ph.D. thesis of several universities from India. He has been sanctioned with three research projects from central agencies of India.
Pawan Lingras is a graduate of IIT Bombay with graduate studies from University of Regina. He is currently a professor and a director of Computing and Data Analytics at Saint Marys University, Halifax. He is also internationally active having served as a visiting professor at Munich University of Applied Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar, as a research supervisor at Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, as a scholar-in-residence, and as a Shastri Indo-Canadian scholar. He has delivered more than60 invited talks at various institutions around the world. He has authored more than 210 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co-authored three textbooks and co-edited two books and eight volumes of research papers. His academic collaborations/co-authors include academics from Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Poland, Tunisia, UK, and USA. His areas of interests include artificial intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, web intelligence, and intelligent transportation systems. He has served as the general co-chair, the program co-chair, the review committee chair, the program committee member, and a reviewer for various international conferences on artificial intelligence and data mining. He is also on editorial boards of a number of international journals. His research has been supported by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada for twenty-five years, as well as other funding agencies including NRC-IRAP and MITACS. His total research and development grants as of May 2020 exceed $2.5 million with $2 million coming in the last five years. He has collaborated with more than 25 companies on projects ranging from feasibility studies to product development. He has supervised 135 research students (1 PDF, 9 Ph.D., 77 Master's, 48 UG). He has coached highly successful academic teams for computer programming as well as software development competitions. He has also served on the NSERC's Computer Science peer-review committee. He has been awarded an Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, Student Union's Faculty of Science Teaching Award, and President's Award for Excellence in Research at Saint Mary's University.
Prof. Arpan Kar is Amar S Gupta Chair Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Within IIT Delhi, he shares a joint appointment in the Department of Management Studies and School of Artificial Intelligence. Administratively he is theChair o
