Satchidananda DehuriDr. Satchidananda Dehuri is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India. Prior to this appointment, for a short stint (from Oct. 2012 to May 2014) hewas an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University, South Korea. He received his M.Tech. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Odisha in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He visited as a BOYSCAST Fellow to the Soft Computing Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea under the BOYSCAST Fellowship Program of DST, Govt. of India in 2008. In 2010 he received Young Scientist Award in Engineering and Technology for the year 2008 from Odisha Vigyan Academy, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Odisha. He was at the Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as a Visiting Researcher in 2002 and 2017. During May-June 2006 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Data Warehousing and Mining, Object Oriented Programming and its Applications in Bioinformatics. He has already published about 220 research papers in reputed journals and referred conferences, has published five text books for undergraduate and graduate students and edited more than ten books of contemporary relevance. Read More Read Less