Kusum DeepKusum Deep is a Professor, with the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Born on August 15, 1958, she pursued B.Sc Hons and M.Sc Hons. School from Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. A M.Phl Gold Medalist, she earned her PhD from IIT Roorkee in 1988. She was awarded UGC National Merit Scholarship and UGC National Education Test Scholarship. She carried out research at Loughborough University, UK during 1993-94, under an International Post Doctorate Bursary funded by Commission of European Communities, Brussels. She was awarded the Khosla Research Award in 1991; UGC Career Award in 2002; Starred Performer of IIT – Roorkee Faculty continuously from 2001 to 2005; best technical paper, Railway Bulletin of Indian Railways for 2005; special facilitation in memory of late Prof. M. C. Puri during 40th Convention of Operations Research Society of India held at New Delhi in 2007. She has nearly 60 research publications in refereed International Journals and more than 52 research papers in International / National Conferences. She is on the editorial board of a number of International and National Journals. She is a Senior Member of Operations Research Society of India, IEEE, Computer Society of India, Indian Mathematical Society and Indian Society of Industrial Mathematics. She is on the Expert Panel of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Recently she has been nominated as a member of the Seneta of IIT Roorkee. Dr. Deep is having International Collaboration with Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK and Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA. Her areas of specialization are numerical optimization and their applications to engineering, science and industry. Currently she is working on Evolutionary Computations, particularly, Genetic Algorithms, Memetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization and their applications to solve real life problems. She has co-authored a book entitled Optimization Techniques by New Age Publishers New Delhi in 2009 with an International edition by New Age Science, UK. She successfully organized (as convener) an International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, held at IIT Roorkee campus during December 20-22, 2011. She is the General Chair of two forthcoming Conferences: Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving Dec 28-30, 2012, Jaipur, India and 7th Her research interests include Numerical Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization, etc. Read More Read Less