Prof. John K. Schueller received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1983. He is a generalist with some concentration in manufacturing and in off-highway vehicles and equipment. He is a Fellow of ASABE, IAABE, and SAE and holds Founder, Life, and/or Senior Member status in ASME, EurAgEng, IEEE, ISAE, and SME. Prof. Schueller is the Chair Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and serves on the Management Committee of the Club of Bologna. His awards, including the Kishida, Magoon, Pinckney, Teetor, and Vasey, have primarily been for his work in high-speed machining of metal alloys, precision agriculture, international activities, and teaching. He has previously been employed by Gilson Brothers Company, Purdue University, Texas A&M University, Caterpillar, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden, and Kyoto University. 

Prof. Ganesh Bora is Fayetteville State University’s (FSU) associate vice chancellor for research and innovation. Professor Bora joined FSU after working at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the national data science and biological engineering program leader. He represented the USDA at the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) committee of the National Science and Technology Council of The White House. Before his time at the USDA, Professor Bora was a tenured faculty member at Mississippi State University and North Dakota State University. Additionally, he has collaborated on projects with nine different countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Professor Bora holds a PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He is involved in various professional activities, including serving as an engineering program evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET). Additionally, he has been an active member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for 20 years and has chaired the Executive Committee on Global Engagement. Furthermore, Bora is a recognized U.S. expert on smart farming and agricultural machinery in the International Standard Organization (ISO).

Dr Burnett is working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and a senior scientist with Rivers of Life Aquatic Health Services in Pietermaritzburg South Africa. His main theme is to improve fish abundances by mitigating multiple stressors impacting fish abundances and populations available to fishers. Dr Burnett co-developed the Southern African Inland Fish Tracking Programme (FISHTRAC) and is now applying the programme to water resource management in South Africa. He is involved in using fish telemetry techniques to monitor the efficacy of fishways on instream barriers, a first for the region. In addition, he has been evaluating the inland fisheries potential on rivers and impoundments with a focus on the conservation of iconic and threatened native fish species in the region. He supervises and leads a team of upcoming freshwater ecologists through applied research projects at UKZN.  

Dr. Sajid Nisar earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Science with majors in Robotics from Kyoto University. His research interests include development of robots for surgery, innovative mechanism design, haptics for medical and mobility-applications, and soft manipulator design.Previously, Dr. Nisar was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research. He also served as team lead in a nationally-funded project on realization of a surgical robotic trainer and simulator and senior mechanical engineer at the National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad. He received Japan’s JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists, and Kyoto University’s GSS Fellowship for global survivability studies. He was awarded with IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter’s Young Award 2019 for his research published at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’19). With numerous other distinctions and achievements in his career, he also holds the Engineering Dean’s Award 2018 from Kyoto University.

Dr Santosh Pitla is an Associate Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of NEBRASKA-LINCOLN. He received a Ph.D. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, from the University of Kentuck and an M.S., in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from, the University of Kentucky. His Areas of Research and Professional Interest are in the field of Fluid Power Hydraulics, Embedded Control Systems & Sensors, and Controls for Agri-Industries. 

Sruti Das Choudhury is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resourceswith courtesy appointment in the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,USA. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an Early Career Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick, UK. She was awarded the Bachelor ofTechnology in Information Technology from the West Bengal University of Technology, and the Master of Technology in Computer Science and Application from the University of Calcutta,India in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She worked as a Lecturer in Calcutta Institute of Engineering & Management in Kolkata, India (2005-2010). She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Warwick, UK in 2014. Her research focus is on computer vision, data science, biometrics, and image-based plant phenotyping analysis.

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Patrons:

• Honourable Vice Chancellor, University of Calcutta
• Mr Magesh Ethirajan, Director General, C-DAC
• Ms Sunita Verma, Scientist G and Group Coordinator- R&D in Electronics Group, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India

Advisory Committee Chair:

• Mr. Aditya Kumar Sinha, Director, C-DAC, Kolkata

Advisory Committee:

• Dr Aloknath De, Chairman, NSC (AgriEnIcs)
• Mr Pramod Kumar Meherda, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), MoA&FW
• Dr Atmakuri Ramakrishna Rao, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), ICAR-IASRI
• Mr Tara Shanker, Special Invitee, NSC (AgriEnIcs), MeitY
• Prof. Nabarun Bhattacharyya, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), MAKAUT
• Dr Vijay Makhija, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), INFAH
• Dr Sudeep Marwaha, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), ICAR-IASRI
• Mr Ronit Kumar, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), NEC India
• Dr Gaurav S. Kasbekar, Member, NSC (AgriEnIcs), IIT-Bombay
• Prof. Prabir Pal, Ex-Scientist H, BARC
• Dr S. A. Pasupathy, Professor, KCT
• Dr Dip Narayan Ray, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur
• Mr Naresh Kantoor, Managing Director, Enconsys Pvt. Ltd.
• Prof. Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Jadavpur University
• Dr Nagahanumaiah, Director, CMTI, Bangalore
• Prof. (Dr.) Nazir Ahmad Ganai, Vice Chancellor, SKUAST Kashmir
• Dr A. K. Singh, Vice Chancellor, RLB Central Agricultural University, Jhansi
• Dr R. N. Chatterjee, Director, DPR, Hyderabad
• Prof. Dheeraj Kumar, Professor, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
• Dr Ajoy Mondal, Principal Scientist, NDRI, Kalyani
• Dr Basanta Kumar Das, Director ICAR – CIFRI, Barrackpore
• Dr Nachiket Kotwaliwale, Director, CIPHET, Ludhiana
• Prof. Philip G. Bradford, Director, CSP, University of Connecticut, USA
• Prof. Ganesh Bora, Associate Vice Chancellor, Fayetteville State University, USA
• Dr Osamu Tabata, Professor, Kyoto University of Advanced Science
• Dr D.K. Shahi, Dean, Agriculture, BAU, Ranchi
• Col. A.K. Nath (Retd), Executive Director, C-DAC Pune
• Mr Jerry Daniel J, Scientist G, C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram
• Dr S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Bengaluru
• Cdr L R Prakash (Retd), Centre Head, C-DAC, Chennai
• Ms Lakshmi Eswari P. R., Centre Head, C-DAC, Hyderabad
• Mr Vijay Kumar Sharma, Centre Head, C-DAC, Mohali
• Dr Sasikumar M., Executive Director, C-DAC, Mumbai
• Mr N K Jain, Centre Head, C-DAC, Delhi
• Mr Vivek Khaneja, Executicve Director, C-DAC, Noida
• Mr Jitesh Choudhary, Centre Head, C-DAC, Silchar
• Mr Asok Bandyopadhyay, Associate Director, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Ritesh Mukherjee, Associate Director, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Biswajit Saha, Associate Director, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Ms Mina Hiteshkumar Desai, JD, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Dr Arti Noor, Senior Director, C-DAC, Noida
• Dr Andrew Park, Professor, Trinity Western University, Canada
• Dr Jurgen seitz, Professor, DHBW, Germany
• Dr Nabeeh Kandalaft, Professor, Grand Valley State University, USA
• Dr Babak Esfandiari, Professor, Carleton, Canada
• Dr Detlef Streitferdt, Professor, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
• Dr Lanier Watkins, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Dr Sruti Das Choudhury, Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
• Ms Avimita Chatterjee, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:

• Dr Alokesh Ghosh, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti, University of Calcutta

Program Chairs:

• Dr Amitava Akuli, Joint Director, C-DAC Kolkata
• Dr Subhankar Mukherjee, Project Manager C-DAC, Kolkata
• Dr Himadri Nath Saha, Professor, University of Calcutta

Technical Program Chairs:

• Prof. Soumya Sen, Professor, University of Calcutta
• Mr Sanjay Kumar Choudhury, Joint Director, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Dr Souvik Pal, Sr. Project Engineer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Ritesh Dhote, Joint Director, C-DAC, Patna
• Dr Om Krishan Singh, Scientist-D, MeitY
• Mr Kamlesh Kumar, Scientist-D, MeitY
• Dr (Ms) Sangeeta Semwal, Scientist 'D' MeitY
• Dr Manash Chanda, Asso. Prof., Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
• Dr Swarnil Roy, Asso. Prof., Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
• Dr Kalyan Biswas, Asso. Prof., MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah.

Financial Chair:

• Mr Umesh Singh, Chairman Finance Committee, C-DAC Kolkata
• Dr Subrata Sarkar, Principal Engineer, C-DAC Kolkata

Proceeding Editor:

• Dr Hena Ray, Joint Director, C-DAC Kolkata
• Dr Himadri Nath Saha, Professor, University of Calcutta
• Dr Philip G. Bradford, Director, CSP, University of Connecticut, USA

Publication Committee:

• Dr Bipan Tudu, Professor Jadavpur University
• Dr Syed Zameer Hussain, Professor, SKUAST Kashmir
• Dr Jaspal Singh, Joint Director, C-DAC, Mohali
• Dr Hari Babu Pasupuleti, Associate Director ,C-DAC, Bangalore
• Dr Santosh Sam Koshy, Joint Director, C-DAC, Hyderabad
• Dr Arun Jana, Joint Director, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Anish Sathyan, Joint Director, C-DAC, TVM
• Mr Shashipal Singh, Joint Director, C-DAC, Pune
• Mr Gopinath Bej, Principal Technical Officer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Sangit Saha, Senior Technical Officer, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Tarun Kanti Ghosh, Project Engineer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Soumik Layek, Knowledge Associate, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Angshuman Chakraborty, Project Assistant, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Prasanta Das, Technical Support Staff, C-DAC, Kolkata

Local Arrangement Committee:

• Mr Devdulal Ghosh, JD, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Abhra Pal, JD, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Tamal Dey, Project Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Ravi Sankar, Project Engineer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Tapas Sutradhar, Senior Technical Officer, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Sabyasachi Majumdar, Project Assistant, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Subhajit Bhar, Research Scholar, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Soumyadeb Bhattacharyya, Sr. Research Scholar, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Arindam Niyogi, Research Scholar, C-DAC Kolkata
• Mr Varun Pramod Shrotri, Project Engineer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Debabrata Doloi, Technical Support Staff, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Ms Debkana Bhattacharjee, Software Developer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Sandeep Kumar, Project Engineer C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Santanu Kamilya, Research Scholar, DAC, Kolkata
• Ms Ranjita Chakraborty, Technical Support Staff, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Ms Aparna Pramanik, Technical Support Staff, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Anupam Biswas, Technical Support Staff, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Tapas Parua, Software Engineer, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Mr Somenath Das, Project Assistant, C-DAC, Kolkata
• Ms Dola Gupta, Women Scientist, University of Calcutta
• Dr Anindita Sarkar, Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
• Ms Runa Ganguli, Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
• Ms Somoballi Ghoshal, Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
• Mr Sanoar Hossain, Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
• Mr Arpan Murmu, Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta
• Ms Prapti Ganguly, Research Scholar, University of Calcutta
• MD. Tausif Mallick, Research Scholar, University of Calcutta