ICT: Applications and Social Interfaces

Chair of the Intelligent System Application Technical Committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligence Systems for Health, Co-Chair of the IEEE P2733 Standard on Intelligent systems design, with AI/ML, Member of the IEEE R8 Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee, and Project Liaison Officer of the IEEE UK and Ireland Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology. Dr Mahmud serves as an Associate Editor of the Cognitive Computation, IEEE Access, Brain Informatics, and Big Data Analytics journals. He also serves at many technical, programme and organisation committees of high-rank conferences including the local organising chair of IEEE- WCCI2020; general chair of BI2020; and programme chair of IEEE-CICARE2020.

Dr. Roshan Ragel is a full professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is a skilled university lecturer and researcher with a doctorate in computer science and engineering and a passionfor teaching, research and administration. His research interest is in the areas of fault-tolerant and dependable computing, accelerated and high-performance computing, wearable computing and synthesis of secure and reliable embedded processors. Prof. Ragel received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2007 and his BSc in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001. He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya December 2007 and a full professor since October 2017. Prof. Ragel has co-authored about 150 peer-reviewed articles in topics including Micro- Architectural Support for Reliability and Security in Embedded Processors (SoC), Internet of Things (IoT), Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures, Application Specific Processor Design, High-Performance Computing such as Hardware/Software Acceleration of Bioinformatics Algorithms, Wearable Computing, Format-Prese