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Sajid Umair is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad Pakistan (2017) and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Agriculture, Peshawar Pakistan (2014), where he was awarded a Merit Certificate for securing second position. His research interests include 3D point cloud processing and compression, Gaussian Splatting processing and compression, graph signal processing and compression, multimedia communication and compression, deep learning model compression and acceleration, neural network/model compression, deep learning for compression and learning-based compression, and low-resolution and quality enhancement. His earlier research during his M.S. focused on mobile multimedia processing, non-linear media editing and compression, digital reporting, and mobile cloud computing. He has published extensively in journals, conferences, and edited volumes. He is the author/editor of three internationally recognized books published by IGI Global, USA: (1) (IGI Global, USA, 2017; Scopus-indexed), (2) , and (3) . In recognition of his academic and research achievements, he has received several prestigious awards and research funding, including the Chancellor’s Research Grant Award from the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) in 2026, the RINGS Research Award supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, since 2022, and research funding from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA, since 2022. He was also awarded the fully funded US–Pakistan Knowledge Corridor Ph.D. Scholarship by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. He has additionally received multiple awards, including the prestigious Chief Commissioner Award from the Pakistan Boy Scouts Association.

Kiran Butt earned her PhD in Library and Information Sciences from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2025). She is currently serving as Senior Librarian at the Federal Board of Revenue (Headquarters), Islamabad, where she is responsible for strategic planning, reference and research services, library automation, and collection development. Dr. Butt has over a decade of experience in academic and special libraries, serving in senior roles. Her work has focused on strategic library management, e-library development, information literacy, and capacity-building trainings. Her research contributions span a wide range of areas including librapreneurship, leadership, information seeking behavior, digital libraries, artificial intelligence in librarianship, information retrieval, user experience, web based library services, and knowledge management. She has published in reputed journals. Dr. Butt has been recognized with several research grants (2023–2025) and academic distinctions, including a Silver Medal in her Master’s degree. She has also organized and contributed to multiple national-level conferences and training workshops. Her professional and research interests include artificial intelligence in libraries, entrepreneurship in librarianship, knowledge management, scholarly communication, information literacy, and emerging roles of librarians in the digital era.