Honorary Chair  

 

Prof. Dr. Jochen Wirtz,
 NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) 

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Professor Jochen Wirtz is Vice Dean, MBA Programmes and Professor of Marketing at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an international fellow of the Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, an Academic Scholar at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) at Cornell University, US, and a Global Faculty of the Center for Services Leadership (CSL) at Arizona State University, US. Prior to this, Professor Wirtz held the positions of Associate Fellow at the Sad Business School, University of Oxford (2008–2013), Founding Member of the NUS Teaching Academy (2009–2015), and Founding Director of the Dual Degree UCLA–NUS Executive MBA Program (2002 to 2017). Prof. Wirtz did his PhD. From London Business School in the area of Services Marketing. His academic work focuses on service marketing and management, and he has written more than 200 book chapters, industry reports, and scholarly publications (incl. six features in Harvard Business Review). Professor Wirtz has won more than 50 awards for his excellence in research and instruction, including the prestigious Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award in 2019 (the highest honour given by the American Marketing Association (AMA) service community), the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) 2012 Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award (the highest honour given by AMS globally for teaching excellence), and the top university honour.

General Chair  

 

Prof. Monica Bianchini,
 Associate Professor
 Information Engineering and Mathematics Department
 University of Siena,Italy 

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Prof. Monica Bianchini received the Laurea cum laude in Mathematics and the Ph.D.degree in Computer Science from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. After receiving the Laurea, for two years, she was involved in a joint project of Bull HN Italia and the Department of Mathematics (University of Florence), aimed at designing parallel software for solving differential equations. From 1992 to 1998, she was a Ph.D. student and a Postdoc Fellow with the Computer Science Department of the University of Florence. Since 1999, she has been with the University of Siena, where she is currently an Associate Professor at the Information Engineering and Mathematics Department https://www.diism.unisi.it/en.
Monica’s main research interest are in the field of machine learning, with emphasis on neural networks for structured data, deep learning, approximation theory, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and image processing. M. Bianchini has authored more than one hundred and thirty papers, and has been the editor of books and special issues on international journals in her research field. She has been a participant in many research projectsfocused on machine learning and pattern recognition, founded by both Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), and University of Siena https://en.unisi.it/ .
Prof. Bianchini has been involved in the organization of several scientific events, including the NATO Advanced Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation (2001), the 8th AI*IA Conference (2002), the GIRPR 2012 Conference, the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (2017), and the International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Technologies (ICACIT 2021-22-23).Prof. Bianchini served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions onNeural Networks (2003-09), Neurocomputing (from 2002), and Int. J. ofComputers in Healthcare (from 2010). She is a permanent member of the Editorial Board of IJCNN, ICANN, ICPR, ICPRAM, ESANN, ANNPR, PerConAI,NCTA, and KES.

General Chair  

 

Prof. Dr. B.K.Mohanty,
 IIM Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 

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Dr. B.K.Mohanty is a Professor in the Decision Science Group at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. He received his M.Sc in Mathematics, from Berhampur University, Orissa, India and PhD in Operations Research, from IIT Kharagpur India. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow, he served at Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, as a member of Technical Staff , as an Associate Professor at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India and as Scientist at CFTRI Mysore, India. His research interests include Fuzzy Applications in MCDM, e-commerce and various functional areas of Management. To his credit, he has about 30 research publications in the journals of International repute. To name a few these include, Int. J. Systems Science, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Expert systems with Applications, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Computers and Operations Research etc.

Publication and Program Chair  

 

Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik,
 I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 

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Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 55 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.
Dr. SrikantaPatnaik is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convegence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals.  
He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA.
He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited more than 20 countries across the globe and visiting professors to some of the universities.

Program Chair  

 

Dr. Manoj Kumar Dash,
 IIITM, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India 

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Dr Manoj Kumar Dash, He had published more than 76 research paper in various journals of International and National repute. He is the author of five research books in International repute titled “Applying Predictive Analytics in Service Sector” , “Intelligent Techniques and Modeling Applications in Marketing Analytics”, and “Fuzzy Optimization and Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Digital Marketing” all published in IGI Global USA , “Applied Demand Analysis” and “Think New-Think Better: A case study of Entrepreneurship” published by Serial publication India and two text book on “Managerial Economics” published by Global Professional Publication United Kingdom, and edited five books till date. Beside regular faculty in Indian Institute of Information technology and Management Gwalior, he is also visiting faculty in Indian Institute of Management Indore Adjunct faculty in Lancaster University United Kingdom, visiting professor at Symbiosis Institute of Operation Management Nashik and G D Goenka World institute Gurgaon. He had conducted 26 Faculty Development Pogremame sponsored by AICTE, MHRD and IIITM on Multivariate Analysis, Econometrics, Research Methodology, Multi-Criteria Optimisation, Multivariate analysis in Marketing, SPSS software etc. He delivered lecture as resource person and Key note speaker in 67 pogrammeorganised by reputed institute in India, i.e;, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, IIITM Gwalior, ITS Mohan Nagar, SIOM Nashik, Utkal University and Berhampur University Orissa etc. He was involved as Chair Member in International Conference of Arts and Science held at Harvard University, Boston (USA), Seven Research scholars awarded their Ph.D Degree under his able guidance,He visited two countries USA and Cyprus for presenting paper in international conferences.

Program Chair  

 

Prof. Dr. Uma Sankar Mishra,
 Central University of Rajasthan, India 

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Professor and Head (Dept. of Management) and Dean (School of Commerce and Management, School of Engineering & Technology), Central University of Rajasthan. Ten Research scholars awarded their Ph.D Degree under his able guidance. His  subject areas of Teaching are Marketing Management, Research Methodology, ConsumerBehaviour, Service Marketing. He has more than 80 research papers published in indexed journals out of which 53 are Scopus Indexed. He has been delivering in institutions like NIT, Meghalaya; Central University of Punjab, Central University of Rajasthan, Kota state University, MLS University, Udaypur, Balaji University, Pune, Utkal University, Sambalpur University, SOA University, ASBM as research person.

Programme Co-Chair  

 

Prof. Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav,
 Professor of Marketing,
 Fore School of Management, New Delhi 

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Dr. Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav is presently Professor of Marketing at Fore School of Management. His teaching and research interests include Marketing Management, Services Marketing, Research Methodology, Marketing Research, Marketing Analytics, and Tourism Concepts-Economics-Marketing. He is a professionally acquired trainer for quantitative and qualitative research software and into trainings of SPSS, Jamovi, MAXQDA, NVIVO, and Bibliometric Analysis. He has published research papers to many journals of repute, starting from A in ABDC, Scopus, ABS and WOS. He has been associated with University of Liverpool, UK, BITS-Pilani, and Taylor’s University, Malaysia as an adjunct faculty. He served on various committees of Syllabus and course designing and Member of expert committees on teaching, training and research effectiveness.

Organising Chair  

 

Prof. Dr. R. N. Subudhi,
 School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 

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Prof. Subudhi is presently a Senior Professor in the area of Quantitative Methods – Decision Sciences, with over 33 years of teaching experience at University level. He has served earlier at Berhampur University, VIT B-School of VIT University, and KIIT School of Rural Management (KSRM), for their MBA programmes. He has done FDPM from IIM Ahmedabad. He received Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) award of CSIR, Govt. of India, for his doctoral research.
He is an active member of many reputed international academic society, like: American Society of Engg. Mgmt (ASEM), ISA-RC (International Sociology Association ‘Research Methodology’ Sec.), IFORS, ORSI, ICA and ICAS (Int. Conv. of Asian Scholars).He has published/ edited 10 books and authored over 70 research papers. He is an active member of many professional academic bodies and also member of ‘Board of Studies’ of different Universities. Presently, in charge of editing, KIIT Management Research Journal – Parikalpana.

Organising Co-Chair  

 

Dr. Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi,
 IIMT, Bhubaneswar, India 

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Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi received his PhD (Engineering and Information Technology) in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing from Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India in 2016. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology, I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar India. His research interests include computational intelligence, soft computing, data science, optimization techniques, data mining and reengineering.

Finance Chair  

 

Prof. Dhananjaya Sarangi,
 IT Expert, World Skill Center, Bhubaneswar, India 

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DhananjayaSarangi is a Professor of Computer Science and Applications of Interscience Institute of Management and Technology (IIMT), Bhubaneswar,Odisha since April 2019. He received his MCA degree from NIT, Rourkela in 1989. He is having 30 years of rich experience as Head of IT invariousreputedMNCs both in India & abroad. Professor Sarangi was Head of IT of HindalcoIndustries, Aditya Birla Group company located at Hirakud, Odisha for both its Smelter & Power plant and then relocated to Malaysia as Head of IT for its Palm Oil Edible Oil and Oleo Chemical division. Subsequently professor Sarangi moved to Singapore as Head of Business Information System of Palm Oil Business of RGE Pte Ltd Singapore. Professor Sarangi has vast experience mainly focused on IT Strategy, IT Project Management, IT Planning & Governance, IT Infrastructure Management, Business Transformation, Change Management, People Management, IT Policy & Security, Vendor Management, ERP implementation etc.. He has undergone various training& seminars from reputed institute like NTU-Singapore, IIM-Kolkata, NITIE-Mumbai, Human Synergistic International- Bangalore, NityoInfotech-Singapore. Currently Professor Sarangi is continuing his PhD from Birla Global University (BGU), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Professor Sarangi has travelled various countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam & Australia.

Finance Co-Chair  

 

Eng. Bin Hu,
 Changsha Normal University 

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Bin Hu  engineer and a counsellor  at Changsha Normal University, ACM Member, IEEE Member, he is the guest editor of EI-indexed journals: International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems (IJRIS) and International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM), the editorial board member of International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS) and International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS), and the technical editor of International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology (IJCCT). He published many articles in high standard journals like Knowledge-based System(KS), Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Control (JIFS), Enterprise Information System(EIS),  Financial Innovation(FI) and etc. He worked for China Mobile，Hunan Branch as a senior manager both in marketing and Technology. Which makes him a youth expert both in Education and Administration.