Ambient Intelligence in Health Care

The book is a collection of research papers presented at the First International Conference on International Conference on Ambient Intelligence in Health Care (ICAIHC 2021) organized by Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University) University, Bhubaneswar, India, during April 15–16, 2022.

Tripti Swarnkar received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. She is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Application, Faculty of Engineering & Technology Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University. At present, he has more than 2 decades of teaching experience in the field of  Computer Science & Engineering. She is currently guiding six Ph.D. and two have already being awarded. Dr. Swarnkar's principal research interest is machine learning, Omics data analysis, and medical image analysis. Her aspiration is to work at the interface of these different fields or multidisciplinary environment. She is IEEE Senior Member and IEEE EMBS Member. She has organized many conferences as well as workshops successfully, currently chairing the Women in imaging session of IEEE ISBI-2022. She is also Principal Investigator of Multidisciplinary Project on “Validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based models in screening and diagnosis of diseases in routine clinical practices”, sponsored by Intel India.

Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph.D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 25 Ph.D. theses and more than 60 Master theses in the area of computational intelligence, 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 textbooks and 32 edited volumes and few invited chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision andRobotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany, Book Series on Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Book Series on Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (AMTCP), published from IGI Global, USA. He is Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS) and International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices, published from Inderscience Publishing House, England.

Dr. Pabitra Mitra is working as Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.  He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2005. He has published more than 141 research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed international journals, conferences, and chapters. He has served as Reviewer for various reputed journal publishers such as Springer, IEEE, and Elsevier. At present, he has 25 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science and engineering. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Member of Information Retrieval Society of India (IRSI) and Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He has guided more than 50 Ph.D. and M.Tech. students. His area of interest includes machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, information retrieval, and image and video processing.  He has received Royal Society UK India Science Network Award in 2006, Indian National Academy of Engineering Young Engineer Award in 2008, IBM Faculty Award in 2010, and Yahoo Faculty Award in 2013. He has completed 8 nos. of sponsored projects.

Dr. Sanjay Misra obtained Ph.D. in Information & Knowledge Engineering (Software Engineering) from University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain,  & M.Tech. degree in Software Engineering from MN National Institute of Technology, India. He is Full Professor (since Jan 2010) of Computer Engg & presently in Covenant University (Endowed Prof of Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems). He has 21 years of wide experience in academic administration and researches in various universities in Asian, European, and African environments. He previously held academic positions at FUT Minna (Nigeria) (as Head Department of Computer Engineering, Cyber security), Atilim University (Turkey), Subharati University, & UPTU (India). He is working (as Visiting/Collaborative Researcher) in various universities and with various research groups and industry around the world (Spain, Norway, Italy, France, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Argentina, Turkey, Singapore, Chili, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia, Nigeria, Myanmar, India, etc). His research area includes software engineering, web engineering, software quality assurance, intelligent systems, sustainability development goals, software measurement, software metrics, software process improvement, software project management, human factors in SE, GSD, XML, SOA, web services, and cognitive informatics, AI, ML, IoT, and analytics. He is the most productive researcher in whole Nigeria during 2012–2017, 2013–2018, 2014–2019, and 2015–2020(in all subjects/disciplines), in computer science no. 1 in whole country and no. 4 in whole continent (Africa).Totally around 500 articles with more than 400 co-authors around the world (majority of them in Web of Science), more than 105 in JCR/SCIE journals). He got several awards for outstanding publications (2014 IET Software Premium Award(UK)), and from TUBITAK-Turkish Higher Education, and Atilim University). He edited (with colleagues) 49 Lecture Notes in Computer Science(most reputed and old series of Springer) & 10 IEEE proceedings, and is Editor-in-Chief of a book series―Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management(Web of Science and SCOPUS), International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)-IGI Global(Web of Science, SCOPUS Indexed), and of 3 other journals―IJPS(Last IF-0.540), CJICT, and Editor in various SCIE journals. He is Organizing Chair of 3 annual int. symposiums―Software Engineering Process and Applications (2009-Continue: Springer), Software Quality (2009) (IEEE),(2011-Continue)(LNCS by Springer) & workshops―Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process (2009–continue: IEEE). He has delivered more than 100 keynote speeches/invited talks/public lectures in reputed conferences and institutes around the world (traveled around 60 countries).

Dr. Manohar Mishra is Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering Department, under the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives, and B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering in 2017, 2012, and 2008, respectively. He has published more than 50 research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed international journals, conferences, and chapters. He has served as Reviewer for various reputed journal publishers such as Springer, IEEE, Elsevier, and Inderscience. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering. He is Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently guiding four Ph.D. and Master scholar. His area of interest includes power system analysis, power system protection, signal processing, power quality, distribution generation system, andmicro-grid. He has served as Convener & Volume Editor of International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication and Computing Technology (IEPCCT-2019, IEPCCT-2021) and International Conference on Green Technology for Smart City and Society (GTSCS-2020). Currently, he is serving as Guest editor in different journals such as International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience Publisher) and International Journal of Innovative Computing and Application (Inderscience Publisher), Neural Computing and Application (Springer).