Emerging Electronics and Automation

Moncef Gabbouj is Professor of Information Technology at the Department of Computing Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, and signal processing. Dr. Gabbouj is a Fellow of the IEEE and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is member of the Academia Europaea, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Shyam Sudhir Pandey completed his PhD from, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India in 1997 and came to Japan as postdoctoral fellow (1998-2001). He was JSPS post-doctoral fellow from 2001-2003 (Soft-actuators & Artificial Muscles) and Knowledge Cluster invited researcher from 2003-2007 (Protein Biochips). He received National Technology Award from NRDC India in 2005 for the development of Glucose Biosensors, which are currently being manufactured and marketed. He joined the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyu550presentations in domestic and International conferences and 30 patents in India, Japan Europe and USA. His research interests deal with the Dye-Sensitized and Organic Solar Cells, Quantum Chemical Calculations, Organic Electronics & optoelectronics, Organic Conducting Polymers, Biosensors and Protein Biochips.

Hari Krishna Garg (HKG) received BTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, MEng & PhD from Concordia University, Montreal, PQ, Canada, & MBA from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. Previously he was faculty at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Syracuse University. Currently, he is with the ECE Department at the National University of Singapore. His interests and passion encompass all things ‘enterprise’. He has founded many start-ups with a mixed record of success. HKG writes Hindi poems & croons a song or two from Bollywood. 

Ranjay Hazra, Senior IEEE Member completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India in 2016 in the area of Communication Systems. His research interests include 5G and beyond communication, Signal & Image Processing, Medical Imaging, and Blockchain Technology. He has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, India since 2016. He has been awarded 2 International Patents till date. He is the Chief Investigator of 2 Govt. funded research projects of which one is funded by MeiTy and the other by SPARC, MoE. He is also the recipient of the SIRE fellowship from SERB, DST, India for the year 2023-24. He has published 45 research articles and supervised 3 PhD students to date.