PROF. AJITH ABRAHAM is currently serving as Vice Chancellor at Sai University, Chennai, India. He was the Vice Chancellor and founding dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Bennett University, Greater Noida; Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, FLAME University, Pune; and the founding director of the Machine Intelligence Research Laboratories (MIR Labs), USA. He received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Calicut in 1990, the M.S. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2001.  During the last 25 years, he has authored/co-authored more than 1,500+ research publications with more than 63,000+ academic citations, according to Google Scholar. He was the chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing (which has more than 200 members) from 2008 to 2021. He was the editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) from 2016 to 2021. He serves/served on the editorial board for over 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI. He served as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society representing Europe from 2011 to 2013.