Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta, CanadaBio: Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in computer science, the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering, and the D.Sci. degree in systems science from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, in 1977, 1980, and 1984, respectively.,He is a Professor and the Canada Research Chair of computational intelligence with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is also with the System Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He has authored 15 research monographs covering various aspects of computational intelligence, data mining, and software engineering. His current research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling, granular computing, knowledge discovery and data mining, fuzzy control, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks, relational computing, and software engineering.,Prof. Pedrycz was a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, the Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Center for Soft Computing, the Killam Prize, and the Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is intensively involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and the International Journal of Granular Computing (Springer). He currently serves as a member of a number of editorial boards of other international journals and is a Former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part A: Systems and Humans. He is a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. |
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Zulqarnain Baloch
Faculty of Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology
Bio: Dr. Zulqarnain Baloch obtained his degree in Veterinary Medicine in 2008 at the University of Veterinary and Animal Science, Lahore Pakistan. He then finished his PhD on Environmental Biology (Microbiology) in 2016 at the Kunming University of Science and Technology. After holding a Post-doctoral position at the South China Agricultural University for 3 years, Dr. Baloch started a Faculty Research Fellow position at the College of Veterinary Medicine of the South China Agricultural University in November 2017. He is now a Full Professor at Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China. During his research career he has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters and given more than 3 oral presentations in international conferences and workshops. In the last three years, he was part of the scientific advisory committee of three international conferences and is currently supervising M.sc students in different research areas. Dr. Zulqarnain Baloch and his group have conducted research on epidemic of infectious diseases and antibiotic resistant microbes in the world. His contribution in Molecular Biology especially molecular virology and animal model development has been recognized at home and abroad and his research work has been published in more than 90 peer reviewed research papers in International SCI Journals with an overall impact factor of more than 510.0 of citation of 6210.
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| Faez Iqbal KhanXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ChinaBio: Dr. Faez Iqbal Khan is currently serving as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Biological Sciences at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Chemistry (Bioinformatics) from Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Dr. Khan has obtained Bachelors and Masters degrees in Biomedical Science and Bioinformatics, respectively.Throughout his career, Dr. Khan has conducted research and teaching across esteemed institutions such as Rhodes University (South Africa), South China University of Technology, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His main areas of research focus on Protein engineering, Protein folding, drug design, and Protein dynamics.Dr. Khan established wide-ranging collaborations with BRICS countries and mentored several postgraduate students. He has authored over 70 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, which are well cited. |
