This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2020), held on January 13–15, 2019 at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India and jointly organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. The book presents the latest research and results in various fields of machine learning, computational intelligence, VLSI, networks and systems, computational biology, and security, making it a rich source of reference material for academia and industry alike.
Debotosh Bhattacharjee is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University. He has published more than 250 journal articles and holds two US patents. Prof. Bhattacharjee has been granted sponsored projects with total funding of ca. INR 2 Crores. During his postdoctoral research, Dr. Bhattacharjee visited various universities in Europe and the USA. He is a life member of the ISTE and IUPRAI, and a senior member of the IEEE (USA).
Dipak K. Kole received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Bengal Engineering & Science University (now the IIEST), Shibpur, India, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, India. His research interests include the synthesis & testing of reversible circuits, social network analysis, digital watermarking and agricultural engineering. He has published more than 50 articles in journals and conference proceedings.
Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of IT at Techno International New Town, India, and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Reading, UK. Holding a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University (2015), he is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, and Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing. He is also the Indian Ambassador of the IFIP – the Young ICT Group.
Subhadip Basu received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jadavpur University in 2006, and has been working as a Full Professor at said department since 2017. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Iowa, USA, and University of Warsaw, Poland. He has also been an Honorary Research Scientist at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, since 2016. Dr. Basu has published over 200 research articles in the areas of pattern recognition and image processing and has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a DAAD Fellowship from Germany and a ‘Research Award’ from the UGC, Government of India. He is a senior member of the IEEE and life member of the IUPRAI (IAPR).
Dariusz Plewczynski’s interests are focused on functional and structural genomics. He is currently involved in several big data projects at three institutes: the Centre of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw (his main affiliation), Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (an international partner), and the Centre for Innovative Research at the Medical University of Bialystok (UMB). He is also participating in two large consortia projects, namely the 1000 Genomes Project (NIH, USA) and the biophysical modeling of chromatin three-dimensional conformation inside human cells using HiC and ChIA-PET techniques as part of the 4D Nucleome project (NIH, USA).
