Dr. Shahzaib Ashraf received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Sargodha, the M.S. degree in (fuzzy) mathematics from International Islamic University, Islamabad, and the Ph.D. degree from Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan. He is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. He also served the Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan, as an Assistant Professor. He has published 100 research articles with more than 3000 citations. He currently supervises four M.S. and four Ph.D. theses and has supervised four M.S. theses. Dr. Ashraf has published in high impact journals, including International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Soft Computing, and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Ashraf’s specialization is in fuzzy mathematics, spherical fuzzy sets, fuzzy decision support systems, computational intelligence, and soft computing.
Dr. Chiranjibe Jana is a researcher in the Department of Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming at Vidyasagar University, India. Dr. Jana’s research interests include fuzzy logic, fuzzy set, aggregation operators, BCK-algebra, topological space, fuzzy number, soft set, and congruence relation. He has published on a wide range of these research topics in journals such as International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Expert Systems, Granular Computing, IEEE Access, and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.
Valentina E. Balas is a Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is a member of the editorial boards of several national and international journals and evaluator expert for national, international projects, and PhD thesis. Dr. Balas is the Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs, and Projects in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).
Dr. Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in computational intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His main research directions involve computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling and granular computing, knowledge discovery and data science, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks, and control engineering. He is also an author of 18 research monographs and edited volumes covering various aspects of computational intelligence, data mining, and software engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is the editor-in-chief of Information Sciences, editor-in-chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Granular Computing, and Journal of Data Information and Management. He serves on the advisory board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
