Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Speaker: Day 1 - Friday, 18 July 2025

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Latifur Khan

Professor

Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, BCS, IET
Department of Computer Science
Director Big Data Analytics and Management Lab
University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Latifur Khan is currently a full Professor (tenured) in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA where he has been teaching and conducting research since September 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in August of 2000. Dr. Khan is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, IET, BCS, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He has received prestigious awards including the IEEE Technical Achievement Award for Intelligence and Security Informatics, IEEE Big Data Security Award, and IBM Faculty Award (research) 2016. Dr. Khan has published over 300 papers in premier journals and prestigious conferences. Currently, Dr. Khan’s research focuses on big data management and analytics, data mining and its application to cyber security, and complex data management including geospatial data and multimedia data. His research has been supported by grants from NSF, NIH, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), DOE, NSA, IBM, and HPE. More details can be found at www.utdallas.edu/~lkhan.

Keynote Speaker: Day 2 - Saturday, 19 July 2025

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Sushmita Mitra

Full Professor (HAG) at the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Fellow of TWAS, Fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to neuro-fuzzy and hybrid approaches in pattern recognition, Fellow of the INSA, Fellow of the IAPR, Fellow of the AAIA, and Fellow of the IASc, INAE and NASI India.
Recipient of prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2021.
Member, Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM.

Sushmita Mitra is a full professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. From 1992 to 1994 she was in the RWTH, Aachen, Germany as a DAAD Fellow. She was a Visiting Professor in the Computer Science Departments of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Meiji University, Japan; and Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark. Dr. Mitra received the National Talent Search Scholarship (1978-1983) from NCERT, India, the University Gold Medal in 1988, the IEEE TNN Outstanding Paper Award in 1994 for her pioneering work in neuro-fuzzy computing, the CIMPA-INRIA-UNESCO Fellowship in 1996, and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in 2018-2020. She was the INAE Chair Professor during 2018-2020. Dr. Mitra has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship, 2021.

Dr. Mitra is the author of the books ``Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing" and ``Data Mining: Multimedia, Soft Computing, and Bioinformatics" published by John Wiley, and ``Introduction to Machine Learning and Bioinformatics", Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, beside a host of other edited books. Dr. Mitra has guest edited special issues of several journals, is an Associate Editor of ``IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics", ``Information Sciences", ``Proceedings of the INSA", ``Computers in Biology and Medicine", ``IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems", ``Neural Networks", a Founding Associate Editor of ``Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIRE DMKD)", and a Senior Associate Editor of ``Sadhana". She has more than 150 research publications in referred international journals.

Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). She serves as a Member of the Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM, and a Member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Groups of CAETS and IAPR. Dr. Mitra is a Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), 2025-2028. She has visited more than 30 countries as a Plenary/Invited Speaker or an academic visitor. She served in the capacity of General Chair, Program Chair, Tutorial Chair, of many international conferences; was the Chair, IEEE Kolkata Section (2021-2022) and an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer. Her current research interests include data science, machine learning, soft computing, medical image processing, and Bioinformatics.