Dr Suresh Chandra Satapathy is a Ph.D in Computer Science Engineering, currently working as Professor of School of Computer Engg and Dean- Research at KIIT (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. He held the position of the National Chairman (Educational and Research) of Computer Society of India and is also a senior Member of IEEE. He has been instrumental in organizing more than 60 International Conferences in India as Organizing Chair and edited more than 80 Book Volumes from Springer LNCS, AISC, LNEE and SIST Series as Corresponding Editor. He is quite active in research in the areas of Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Cognitive Sciences. He has developed two new optimization algorithms known as Social Group Optimization (SGO) published in Springer Journal and SELO( Social Evolution and Learning Algorithm) published in Elsevier. He has delivered number of Keynote addresses and Tutorials in his areas of expertise in various events in India and abroad. He has more than 150 publications in reputed journals and conf proceedings. Dr. Suresh is in Editorial board of IGI Global, Inderscience, Growing Science journals and also Guest Editor for Arabian Journal of Science and Engg published by Springer. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IJIDSS from Inderscience and Associate Editor of KES Journal from IOS press.He is a visiting professor to number of reputed Universities like University of Leicester , London, NTU, Singapore, Duy Tan University, Vietnam, etc. He was awarded Leadership in Academia Award in India by ASSOCHEM for the year 2017.