Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Agriculture, Volume 3

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University, New Delhi, and Visiting Faculty at Mathematics and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, UK. Dr. Bansal obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU, New Delhi, he worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV--Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His primary area of interest is swarm intelligence and nature-inspired optimization techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure-based optimization algorithm, spider monkey optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published more than 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the Section Editor (editor-in-chief) of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is the Series Editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS), Studies in Autonomic, Data-drivenand Industrial Computing (SADIC), and Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing (ISTC) published by Springer. He is also an Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is the General Secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.

Prof. Mohammad Shorif Uddin completed his Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.) at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2002, Master of Technology Education at Shiga University, Japan, in 1999, Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1991, and also Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Jahangirnagar University in 2013. He began his teaching career as Lecturer in 1991 at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET). In 1992, he joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jahangirnagar University, and at present, he is a Professor in this department. He served as Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jahangirnagar University from June 2014 to June 2017 and Teacher-in-Charge of the ICT Cell of Jahangirnagar University from February 2015 to April 2023. He worked as an Adviser at ULAB from September 2009 to October 2020 and at Hamdard University Bangladesh from November 2020 to November 2021. He undertook postdoctoral research at Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan, and Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, Chiba University, Japan, Bonn University, Germany, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research is motivated by applications in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and image security. He holds two patents for his scientific inventions and has published around 200 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he edited a good number of books and wrote many chapters. He delivered a remarkable number of keynotes and invited talks and also acted as General Chair or TPC Chair or Co-chair of many international conferences. He received the Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV2013), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the Best Presenter Award from the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2004), Warsaw, Poland. He was the Coach of Janhangirnagar University ACM ICPC World Finals Teams in 2015 and 2017 and supervised a good number of doctoral and master theses. He is a Fellow of IEB and BCS, a Senior Member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Access.

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal 是新德里南亞大學的副教授（高級職級），並擔任英國利物浦希望大學數學與計算機科學的訪問教員。Bansal 博士在印度理工學院魯爾基校區獲得數學博士學位。在加入新德里南亞大學之前，他曾在 ABV 印度信息技術與管理學院（Gwalior）和比爾拉科技學院（BITS Pilani）擔任助理教授。他的主要研究興趣是群體智慧和自然啟發的優化技術。最近，他提出了一種基於裂變-融合社會結構的優化算法——蜘蛛猴優化（SMO），該算法正在應用於工程領域的各種問題。他在各類國際期刊和會議上發表了超過 70 篇研究論文。他是由愛思唯爾出版的期刊 MethodsX 的版塊編輯（主編）。他還是由施普林格出版的書籍系列《智能系統算法（AIS）》、《自動化、數據驅動和工業計算研究（SADIC）》以及《可持續技術與計算創新（ISTC）》的系列編輯。此外，他還是由愛思唯爾出版的《人工智慧工程應用（EAAI）》和《ARRAY》的副編輯。他是軟計算研究學會（SCRS）的總幹事，並在本科和研究生階段獲得金獎。

Mohammad Shorif Uddin 教授於 2002 年在日本京都工藝大學獲得工程博士（Ph.D.），1999 年在日本滋賀大學獲得技術教育碩士，1991 年在孟加拉工程與科技大學（BUET）獲得電氣與電子工程學士，並於 2013 年在賈漢基爾納大學獲得工商管理碩士（MBA）。他於 1991 年在吉大港工程與科技大學（CUET）開始教學生涯，1992 年加入賈漢基爾納大學計算機科學與工程系，目前擔任該系教授。他於 2014 年 6 月至 2017 年 6 月擔任賈漢基爾納大學計算機科學與工程系主任，並於 2015 年 2 月至 2023 年 4 月擔任該校 ICT 小組的負責教師。他曾於 2009 年 9 月至 2020 年 10 月在 ULAB 擔任顧問，並於 2020 年 11 月至 2021 年 11 月在孟加拉哈姆達德大學擔任顧問。他在新加坡生物信息學研究所、日本豐田技術研究所、日本京都工藝大學、日本千葉大學、德國波恩大學和中國科學院自動化研究所進行了博士後研究。他的研究動機來自於人工智慧、機器學習、計算機視覺和影像安全等領域的應用。他擁有兩項科學發明專利，並在國際期刊和會議論文集中發表了約 200 篇研究論文。此外，他編輯了多本書籍並撰寫了多個章節。他發表了大量的主題演講和受邀演講，並擔任多個國際會議的總主席、程序委員會主席或聯合主席。他曾獲得 2013 年在孟加拉達卡舉行的國際資訊、電子與視覺會議（ICIEV2013）的最佳論文獎，以及 2004 年在波蘭華沙舉行的國際計算機視覺與圖形會議（ICCVG 2004）的最佳演講者獎。他是賈漢基爾納大學 ACM ICPC 世界總決賽隊伍的教練，並指導了多篇博士和碩士論文。他是 IEB 和 BCS 的院士，IEEE 的高級會員，以及 IEEE Access 的副編輯。