Soft Computing and Medical Bioinformatics

Dr M Naresh Babu is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has edited 2 volumes and published 3 books and more than 18 papers in various international journals and conference proceedings. He is a life member of CSI, member of ISCA, and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests are in the area of computational systems biology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence in biomedical engineering, applications of intelligent system techniques, image processing, and social network analysis. Prof. Maode Ma obtained his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Currently, he is an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include network security and wireless networking. Dr. Ma has more than 320 international academic publications including over 150 journal papers and 170 conference papers. He has delivered 50 keynote speeches at various international conferences and has chaired over 80 international conferences. Dr. Ma is a fellow of IET, a senior member of the IEEE Communication and Education Societies, and a member of ACM. He is the Chair of the Singapore Chapters of the IEEE Education Society, and the ACM. He was an IEEE Communication Society distinguished lecturer from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Sasikumar Gurumurthy is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, at Sree Vidhyanikethan Engineering College in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has published more than 60 papers in various international journals, conference proceedings and edited research volumes. He is a member of 10 international forums including IAENG and CSI. His current interests include soft computing and artificial intelligence in biomedical engineering, human and machine interaction and applications of intelligent system techniques, new user interfaces, brain-based interaction, human-centric computing, fuzzy sets and systems, image processing, cloud computing, content-based learning and social network analysis.