Affiliation: School of Computer Science & Engineering, VIT-AP University

Dr. Sachi Nandan Mohanty received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015 (with an MHRD scholarship) and completed his postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2019. He has authored or edited 42 books published by IEEE-Wiley, Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, NOVA, and DeGruyter. His research interests include data mining, big data analysis, cognitive science, fuzzy decision-making, brain-computer interfaces, cognition, and computational intelligence.

Dr. Mohanty has received numerous honors, including four Best Paper Awards during his PhD, the Best Thesis Award from the Computer Society of India, and the Prof. Ganesh Mishra Memorial Award at the 61st Annual Technical Session. He has guided nine PhD scholars and 23 postgraduate students and published over 120 articles in reputed international journals. He has received funding and travel awards from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, a Senior Member of IEEE, an Ambassador to the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), and a member of IETE and CSI. Dr. Mohanty reviews for Elsevier and Springer journals such as Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Artificial Intelligence Review, and Spatial Information Research. He serves as general chair for the ICISML and AIHC conferences and is the editor-in-chief of Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning Applications. He has delivered keynote talks and chaired sessions internationally, including in the USA, Paris, Slovakia, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Malaysia, and Germany.