Mitsuo Gen received his PhD in Engineering from Kogakuin University, PhD degree in Informatics from Kyoto University and is Senior Research Scientist at FLSI and Visiting Prof. at TUS. He was faculties at Ashikaga Institute of Technology for 1974-2003, at Waseda University for 2003-2010. He was visiting faculties at University of California at Berkeley for 1999.8-2000.3, Texas A&M University for 2000.1-3 & 2000.8-9, Hanyang University in S. Korea for 2010-2012 and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan for 2012-2014. His research field is Evolutionary Computation, Manufacturing Scheduling and Logistics Systems. He is coauthor of the following books: Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design, 1997 and Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Optimization, 2000, John Wiley & Sons, New York; Network Models and Optimization: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Approach, 2008 and Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms, 2010, Springer, London.

Prof. Arpan Kar is Associate Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research interests are in the domain of data science, digital transformation, internet ecosystems, social media and ICT-based public policy. He has authored over a 150 peer reviewed articles and edited 7 research monographs. He is the recipient of Research Excellence Award by Clarivate Analytics India (Web of Science) for highest research citations between 2015-2020. He is the recipient of Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Researcher Award for the highest count of ABDC A*/ABS 4/FT50 level publications in India between the period 2014 - 2019. In terms of teaching cases, he is the recipient of the Best Seller Award from Ivey Cases / Harvard Business Publishing in 2020. He is the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, published by Elsevier. He is also Associate / Coordinating Editor in International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Journal of Public Affairs, Information Systems Frontiers and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.  

He has received numerous awards from reputed organizations like Clarivate Research Excellence Award, Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Researcher Award, 3 International Federation of Information Processing best paper awards, ACM ICEGOV Best Research Paper Award, TCS Best Research Project Award, PMI Young Research Scholar Award, Association of Indian Management Schools Faculty Research Award, IIT Delhi Teaching Excellence award, Best Seller Award from Ivey/Harvard Case Publishing, and many more best paper awards in conferences. He has undertaken over 40 research, consultancy and training projects from national and international organizations. 

Prof. Arpan Kar is Associate Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research interests are in the domain of data science, digital transformation, internet ecosystems, social media and ICT-based public policy. He has authored over a 150 peer reviewed articles and edited 7 research monographs. He is the recipient of Research Excellence Award by Clarivate Analytics India (Web of Science) for highest research citations between 2015-2020. He is the recipient of Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Researcher Award for the highest count of ABDC A*/ABS 4/FT50 level publications in India between the period 2014 - 2019. In terms of teaching cases, he is the recipient of the Best Seller Award from Ivey Cases / Harvard Business Publishing in 2020. He is the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, published by Elsevier. He is also Associate / Coordinating Editor in International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Journal of Public Affairs, Information Systems Frontiers and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. 

He has received numerous awards from reputed organizations like Clarivate Research Excellence Award, Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Researcher Award, 3 International Federation of Information Processing best paper awards, ACM ICEGOV Best Research Paper Award, TCS Best Research Project Award, PMI Young Research Scholar Award, Association of Indian Management Schools Faculty Research Award, IIT Delhi Teaching Excellence award, Best Seller Award from Ivey/Harvard Case Publishing, and many more best paper awards in conferences. He has undertaken over 40 research, consultancy and training projects from national and international organizations. 

Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi is a senior lecturer of Supply Chain and Project Management in the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. His research interests include eco-innovation analysis, and supply chain performance evaluation using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). He has published over 60 refereed papers in many prestigious journals such as Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society, among others. In addition to serving as the editorial board member of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Management Decision, Reza is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Kiani Mavi has secured research grants from the Australian Institute of Project Management and iMOVE Collaborative Research Centre as the chief and participating investigator. 

Sankar Kumar Roy obtained M.Sc in Applied Mathematics in 1996 from Vidyasagar University and  Ph. D in 2003 from the Dept. of Mathematics. IIT, Kharagpur, India  Dr. Roy is serving as a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal from the year 2016 to till now.    He also served as a Head of his own department during 2013-2015.  He delivered a talk as an invited Speaker in the International Webinar, International Faculty Series on “Opportunities and Challenges for Data Sciences in the field of Natural Sciences in the Further” in the State Islamic University of North Sumatera, Jakarta, Indonesia on May 8, 2021. He was selected for awarding International Travel Fellowship for attending and contributing paper in ICIAM 2019, July 2019 at University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. He visited as a research scientist for delivering invited talks at the Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence   in the University of Granada, Spain in July 2019. He also visited and delivered talk at the Dept. of Operations Research and Statistics, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, July, 2019. He delivered a talk in Joint ORSC/EURO International Conference on Continuous Optimization, 2015, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, May, 2015. He visited three times in Bangladesh for delivering invited talk in Khulna University, 2015; in Rajshahi University, 2016; and Dhaka University, 2017. He delivered more than 30 invited lectures in India and Abroad. His research interests are mainly on Transportation Problem, Game Theory, Inventory Management and Facility-location Problem, and Bio-Mathematics. He has published more than 120 articles (most of the articles have been published in Q1/SCI/SCIE journals with good impact factors) in the area of Operations Research. His h-index is 29 and i-10 index is 77 with total citations 2387 (Google Scholar). Thirteen (13) Ph. D students have been awarded under his supervision, another 

Chefi Triki is a Senior Lecturer of Operations Research and Logistics Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Informatics from the University of Calabria (Italy). His major research interests lie in the field of optimization mainly in the context of logistics and resources management. He has published in top scientific journals and served as keynote speaker in a variety of international conferences. His research portfolio includes also several research grants that he led with success in Italy, Oman and Qatar. Along his carrier he was awarded several teaching, research and service recognitions for his academic commitment. Dr. Triki has a strong background in developing optimization tools for the network design with application to the transportation procurement, freight distribution, waste collection, groundwater management, manufacturing, etc. His teaching activities consists in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on logistics, simulation, informatics and optimization for engineering, mathematics, computer science, business and management science students.