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Jabalpur, India, in 1968. Earlier, he taught at Sambalpur University in India, American University in Beirut, Lebanon, University of Alberta, and York University, Canada, prior to coming to Orlando. His area of research is mathematical analysis, and he is the author of two books, two edited monographs and over 168 research papers. He referees articles for professional journals and serves as a member of editorial board of a number of journals.KOUICHI SAKURAI is a professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. He is concurrently working with the Institute of Systems & Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, as the chief of Information Security Laboratory, for promoting research cooperation among the industry, university and government under the theme "Enhancing IT-security in social systems". He has established research cooperation in the field of information security with Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy (the former director of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India). The first time Japan has partnered with the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI). Professor Sakurai has published more than 250 academic papers in cryptography and information security.

EKREM SAVAS is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey. In 2004, he received the American Honor Medal Award from the American Biographical Institute for his work in the field. He has published 2 books and over 280 international scientific publications, out of which 190 papers are published in SCI-indexed journals.



TANMOY SOM is a professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He completed his PhD from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India in 1986. He has successfully guided over 11 PhD students and published over 100 papers and several book chapters in reputed national and international journals, proceedings and edited books. He is editorial board member and reviewer of few reputed journals. He has delivered several invited talks at national and international conferences/seminars/refresher courses etc. His research interests are in functional analysis, optimization and mathematical modelling, fuzzy set theory, soft computing and image processing.