Biomedical Data Analysis and Processing Using Explainable (XAI) and Responsive Artificial Intelligence (RAI)

Dr. Ashish Khanna [M’19, SM’20] has expertise in Teaching, Entrepreneurship, and Research & Development with specialization in Computer Science Engineering Subjects. He received his Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in March 2017. He has completed his PDF from Internet of Things Lab at Inatel, Brazil. He completed his M. Tech. in 2009 and B. Tech. from GGSIPU, Delhi in 2004. He is part of AD Scientific World ranking report as a leading researcher. He has around 160 accepted and published research papers and book chapters in reputed SCI, Scopus journals, conferences and reputed book series including 82 papers accepted and published in SCI indexed Journals and Cumulative Impact Factor of above 300. He also has 5 published Patents to his credit. Additionally, He has co-authored, edited and currently editing around 37 books.  He is also serving as Series Editor in publishing houses like De Gruyter (Germany) of "Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis" series, Elsevier of “Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis” and CRC Press of “Intelligent Techniques in Distributed Systems: Principles and Applications”.  He is also acting as a consulting editor for Elsevier. His research interests include Distributed Systems and its variants (MANET, FANET, VANET, IoT), Machine learning, NLP and many more. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE System Council Best Paper Award. He is serving as convener/ General chair in some springer international conferences series like ICICC, ICDAM, DoSCI, ICCCN and many more. He is a senior IEEE member (SMIEEE) and an ACM member too. He has played a key role in promoting and initiating several startups and is also a startup consultant. He has also played the key role in promoting Smart India Hackathon at MAIT. He initiated the first ever of its kind event in India ``WHERE STARTUP MEETS INVESTOR '' in collaboration with Universal Inovator and SIIF SSCBS, DU under the banner of ICICC-2020 international conference. First time a Research based conference was conducted along with a Startup funding event. He also played a key role in India's first conference on Patents (ICIIP-2021) in association with UI and IGDTUW Delhi. He is serving as a consultant and mentor to some of the successful startups. He is also a key originator of Bhavya Publication house and Universal Inovator an Indian Research Lab. Google scholar index is 4000.

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 400 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. She is the Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to  International  Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national, international projects and PhD Thesis.

Dr. Balas is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in nine editions organized in the interval 2005-2020 and held in Romania and Hungary.

Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair, member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees and Keynote Speaker.

Recently she was working in a national project with EU funding support: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures - For Digital Integrated Circuits, 3M Euro from National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation. She is a member of European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and a Senior Member IEEE, member in Technical Committee – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), chair of the Task Force 14 in Technical Committee – Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in Technical Committee – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (responsible with Awards) of IFSA - International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015), is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India and recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).