Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving

Prof. Millie Pant (MP) is a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing (DAMSC), Saharanpur Campus of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, joint faculty at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and adjunct faculty at AIT Thailand, Bangkok. Her expertise is in optimization algorithms, soft computing techniques, image processing, and decision-making processes. She has published more than 200 research articles in various journals and conferences of national and international repute. She has more than 8000 Google Scholar citations, and her H-index is 44. She has supervised 14 Ph.D. students and currently 10 students are doing Ph.D. under her supervision. She has completed 4 bilateral sponsored projects with Germany and Russia, UK and Czech Republic and two national projects sponsored by DST and DRDO. She has conducted several short-term courses sponsored by Deloitte, TSW, DST, and QIP in the areas of optimization, evolutionary algorithms, and artificial intelligence. She is one of the founder chairs for SocProS conferences and has been the chair of several other conferences as well.

Dr. Kusum Deep, is a full Professor (HAG), with the Department of Mathematics as well as Joint Faculty at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Also, she is a Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University, UK, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and University of Wollongong, Australia. With B.Sc Hons & M.Sc Hons. School from Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, she is an M.Phil Gold Medalist. She earned her PhD from UOR (now Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) in 1988. She has been a national scholarship holder and a Post-Doctoral from Loughborough University, UK assisted by International Bursary funded by Commission of European Communities, Brussels.