Pawan J. LingrasPawan Lingras is a graduate of IIT Bombay with graduate studies from the University of Regina. He is currently a Professor and the Director of Computing and Data Analytics at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. He is also involved with a number of intenational activities, having served as a visiting professor at Munich University of Applied Sciences and IIT Gandhinagar, as a research supervisor at Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, as a University Grants Commission (India) Scholar-inResidence, and as a Shastri Indo-Canadian scholar. He has delivered more than 35 invited talks at various institutions around the world. He has authored more than 200 research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has also co-authored three textbooks, and co-edited two books and eight volumes of research papers. His academic collaborations/ co-authors include academics from Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Poland, Tunisia, the U.K. and USA. His areas of interests include artificial intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, web intelligence and intelligent transportation systems. He has served as a general co-chair, program co-chair, review committee chair, program committee member and reviewer for various international conferences on artificial intelligence and data mining. He is also on the editorial boards of a number of international journals. His fundamental research has been supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada for twenty-five years, and the applications of his research to the industry are supported by a number of funding agencies, including NSERC, the Government of Nova Scotia, NRC-IRAP and MITACS. Read More Read Less