Dr. S. Jyothi is Senior Professor and Head of the Department in Computer Science at Sri Padmavathi Women’s University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is also Secretary of SPMVV Society for Innovation Incubation Entrepreneurship (SSIIE) which has TBI & WBIF, Coordinator of CURIE-AI, National Innovation Startup Policy (NISP), Coordinator and Vice-President of Institute’s Innovation Council (IIC). She handled many administrative positions in the University. She is BOS Member of several Universities. She is NAAC peer team Member. Seventeen Ph.D.s and seven M.Phil.s were awarded and nine Ph.D. scholars are being guided under her supervision. More than 250 papers published and presented in international journals and conferences. 12 book chapters are published and 12 books are authored and edited by her. She has filed 2 patents and one international patent publication in her credit. She has conducted 3 international and 4 national conferences, 10 hands-on workshops & faculty development programmes and acted as Keynote Speaker, Invited Speaker and Session Chair of international and national conferences.
She has completed UGC, DBT major Projects and ISRO-NRSC consultancy projects and handling DBT major project. She is honoured and awarded Marquis Marque Lifetime achievement award, Venus Lifetime achievement award, Best Research award, AP State Best Teacher Award, Rashtriya Gaurav Award and Best Citizens of India Award. She acted as Editorial Board Member of international journals, Technical Committee Member of international conferences and Reviewer of many research papers for international journals and international conferences. She is Senior Member of IEEE, ACM and IACSIT, Fellow of ISCA, IETE & SSARSC, Member of IAENG & Gyancity Research Labs and Life Member of CSI, ISTE, ISCA, IFERP, IUPRAI and ISRS. Her research interest is in image processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, soft computing, data mining, big data analytics, bioinformaticsand hyperspectra image analysis.
Dr. D. M. Mamatha is Fulbright Scholar and Professor from the Department of Bioscience & Sericulture at Sri Padmavathi Women’s University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is the current Registrar of Sri Padmavati Women’s University. She obtained six major collaborative multidisciplinary research projects from DBT, DST and UGC to the tune of Rs. 250.56 lakhs (approximately) and completed three international research fellowships like Indo-US & Indo-Egypt and Fulbright Fellowship during the period 2010 to 2018. Her area of research is wide ranging on cloning, expression, rDNA technology, DNA barcoding and silk biomaterials. She had been to several countries, viz. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, Egypt, Nepal and USA on various academic, research and international collaborative assignments. Her relentless efforts made her to publish several international publications in Scopus journals with high impact factor and a high citation index of 1505. Her works speak about her scientific calibre, which had been appreciated and posted in UCDAVIS website by her mentor Prof. Bruce Hammock, Distinguished Professor and Well-Renowned Scientist upon her visit to UCDAVIS.
Apart from the ‘Fulbright award’, Dr. Mamatha received several significant awards like ‘Achievement award’ from WHO-UNESCO, ‘DBT-Young scientist Associateship’ award from Government of India, Twice received INSA-NASI-IAS ‘National science academies Summer research fellowship awards’ for the years 2009 and 2011, ‘Best Teacher award’ from The Lion’s club, ‘Best Research award’ from Indus foundation, and several ‘Best research paper’ and presentations awards which demonstrate her academic and research capacities. Her multidisciplinary research on automated identification of prawn species using DNA coding and neural networks has gained research team a national and international patent for the technology generated. Another thrust area is the ‘Development of Silk fibroin Biomaterials’ on the offing, where India has a large potential to hit in the coming years. She is currently guiding postdocs, Ph.D.s and M.Phil. scholars. One postdoc, two Ph.D.s, and one M.Phil. and several master’s course dissertations have been awarded under her guidance. She published 5 books and contributed 5 chapters to different books from reputed publishers.
Dr. Yu-Dong Zhang (Eugene) is Professor and Chair in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. He has Memberships in Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member and Fellow of IET. He has more than 400 publications with 12654 citations in Google Scholar with h index 62 and 8336 citations in Scopus with h index 52. His research interest includes deep learning, convolutional neural network, neural networks, biomedical image analysis, bio-inspired computing, pattern recognition, transfer learning, biomedical image analysis,etc. D
