Professional Activities

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

— Rabindranath Tagore

1) Editorial Activities:

·   Founding Editor-in-Chief, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier (2011 - 2023)

(2022 JCR Impact Factor 10)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2023 - ) (2022 JCR Impact Factor 10.4)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2022 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 16.497)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2020 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 19.118)

·   Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier (2017 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 8.518)

·   Editorial Board Member, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (2019 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 8.263)

·   Editorial Board Member, Information Fusion, Elsevier (2020 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 17.564)

·   Associate Editor, Information Sciences, Elsevier (2010 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 8.233)

·   Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, Elsevier (2013 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 5.779)

·   Editor, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2013 - ) (2021 JCR Impact Factor 7.802)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2014 - 2015)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2013 - 2016)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, (2013 - 2015)

·   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A (2011 - 2012).

·   Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation on Differential Evolution.

·   Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part - C on Engineering Applications of Memetic Computing. 

  2) Conference Activities:

• • • • International Program Committee Member:

• • • • • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019 – 2022), (CORE A* Ranking)

        • ICML – International Conference on Machine Learning (2022 – 23) (CORE A* Ranking)

        • NeurIPS -  Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2020 – 2021) (CORE A* Ranking)

        •  ICLR -  International Conference on Learning Representations, (2022 – 25) (CORE A* Ranking)

        •  ACM Multimedia – ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2020 - 21 (CORE A* Ranking)

        •  AISTATS - Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, (2020 - 2023) (CORE A Ranking)

        •  GECCO – Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference, 2016 – 18. (CORE A Ranking)

        •   BMVC – British Machine Vision Conference, 2020 – 21,

        •   IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2010 - 2018. (CORE B Ranking)

• • • Senior Program Committee Member, AAAI 2024, (CORE A* Ranking)

• • • • Program Chair, Winter School on Deep Learning (WSDL) 2023, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• • • • General Chair, International Conference on Advances in Data-driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2022), BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Sept. 23 – 25, 2022.

• • • • General Chair, Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS) 2023, IEEE GRSS, 27 – 29 January, 2023.

• • • • Co-organizer of Special Session & Competition on Real-World Multiobjective Constrained Optimization at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation  (CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, 28 June -01 July 2021 and at Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 2021), Lille, France, 10-14 July 2021.

• • • • Co-organizer of Special Session & Competitions on Real-World Single Objective Constrained Optimization at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC  2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July 2020 and at Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July 2020.

• • • • General Co-chair, SEMCCO 2019 & FANCCO 2019 - 7-th Joint International Conferences on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2019) & Fuzzy And Neural Computing Conference (FANCCO 2019), Maribor, Slovenia, EU, 10-12 July 2019.

• • • • General Co-Chair, The 6th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) and the 2nd BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence, June 26 – 29, Beijing, China, 2015.

• • • • Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE), Under IEEE SSCI 2015, South Africa.

• • • • Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2015, Dec. 7 - 10, Cape Town, South Africa.

• • • • General Co-Chair, 6-th Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference, (SEMCCO), Proceedings on Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 18 - 20 Dec, 2015, Hyderabad, India.

• • • • Co-chair of Symposium on Differential Evolution, under IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014, Dec. 9 – 12, 2014 Orlando, Florida, U. S. A.

• • • • Competitions Chair, IEEE WCCI (World Congress on Computational Intelligence) 2014, Beijing, China.

• • • • Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE CEC (Congress on Evolutionary Computation) 2013, Mexico.

• • • • Keynote-Tutorial Chair, SSCI 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 16 – 19-th April, 2013, Singapore.

• • • • General Co-chair of third Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO), 2012, 20 - 21 Dec, 2012, Bhubaneswar, India.

• • • • Program Co-chair of the second Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference  (SEMCCO), 2011, 18 - 21 Dec, 2011, Vizag, India.

• • • • Program Co-chair, Symposium on Swarm Intelligence and Differential Evolution in conjunction with INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFT COMPUTING, (ISAISC), Zakopane, Poland, 29 April - 3 May 2012.

• • • • Co-chair of Symposium on Differential Evolution, under IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2011, April 11 – 15, 2011 Halle aux Farines, Paris, France.

• • • • Co-chair of Competition on testing evolutionary algorithms on real-world problems, under IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, June 5-8, 2011.

• • • • Program Co-chair of Eighth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) 2010, 1 – 4 Dec., 2010, Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kanpur.

• • • • Program Co-chair of International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), 2010, 16 – 19 Dec, 2010, Chennai, India.

• • • • Program Co-chair of International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Computing and Applications (BICA-2009), Bhubaneswar, India December 21-22, 2009.

3) Membership in Professional Bodies:                                   

 ·          Senior Member, IEEE

·         Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence (CI) Society

4) Regular Reviewer of the following international journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing.

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

• Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press.

• Machine Learning, Springer.

• Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier.

• Pattern Recognition, Elsevier.

• Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

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