Women in Soft Computing
暫譯: 軟體計算中的女性

Dr. Vanita Garg, received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, studying Applied Mathematics. She teaches at Galgotia University, specializing in Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Her research areas include Operational Research, Unconstrained Optimization Problems, Constrained Optimization Problems, and Biogeography Based Optimization Algorithm.

Dr. Kusum Deep, is a full Professor, with the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University, UK and University of Technology Sydney, Australia. With B.Sc Hons & M.Sc Hons. School from Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, she is an M.Phil Gold Medalist. She earned her PhD from UOR (now IIT Roorkee) in 1988. She has been a national scholarship holder and a Post Doctoral from Loughborough University, UK assisted by International Bursary funded by Commission of European Communities, Brussels. She has wonnumerous awards like Khosla Research Award, UGC Career Award, Starred Performer of IITR Faculty, best paper awards by Railway Bulletin of Indian Railways, special facilitation in memory of late Prof. M. C. Puri, AIAP Excellence Award. She has authored two books, supervised 20 PhDs, and published 125 research papers. She is a Senior Member of ORSI, CSI, IMS and ISIM. She is the Executive Editor of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, Inderscience. She is Associate Editor of Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms, Elsevier and is on the editorial board of many journals. She is the Founder President of Soft Computing Research Society, India. She is the General Chair of series of International Conference on Soft Computing for Problems Solving (SocProS). Her research interests are Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence and nature inspired optimization techniques and their applications.

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 400 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. She is the Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is evaluator expert for national, international projects and PhD Thesis. Dr. Balas is the Head of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Head of the Department of International Relations in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in ten editions organized in the interval 2005-2022 and held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair, member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees and Keynote Speaker. Recently she was working in a national project with EU funding support: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures - For Digital Integrated Circuits, 3M Euro from National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation. She is a member of European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and a Senior Member IEEE, member in Technical Committee - Fuzzy Systems (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), chair of the Task Force 14 in Technical Committee - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in Technical Committee - Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). She is member in theCommittee of IEEE Romania Section as Volunteers Training Coordinator and vice chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter - CIS 11. During the interval 2021-2022 she was a member of IEEE European Public Policy Committee Working Group on ICT. From May 2023 Dr. Balas is associate member of Romanian Academy of Scientists. Dr. Balas was past Vice President (awards) of IFSA - International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015), is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India. She is the recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019) and "Stefan Odobleja" Prize from Romanian Academy of Scientists (2023).

Dr. Vanita Garg 於印度理工學院魯爾基分校獲得應用數學博士學位。她目前在 Galgotia 大學任教，專注於自然啟發的優化技術。她的研究領域包括運籌學、無約束優化問題、有約束優化問題以及基於生物地理的優化算法。

Dr. Kusum Deep 是印度理工學院魯爾基分校數學系的全職教授，同時也是英國利物浦霍普大學和澳大利亞悉尼科技大學的訪問教授。她在昌迪加爾的旁遮普大學高級研究中心獲得理學士榮譽學位及理學碩士榮譽學位，並且是 M.Phil 金獎得主。她於1988年在 UOR（現為 IIT 魯爾基）獲得博士學位。她曾獲得國家獎學金，並在英國拉夫堡大學進行博士後研究，該研究由歐洲共同體委員會資助的國際獎學金支持。她獲得了多項獎項，如 Khosla 研究獎、UGC 職業獎、IITR 教職員星級表現獎、印度鐵路鐵路公報最佳論文獎、紀念已故 M. C. Puri 教授的特別表彰以及 AIAP 卓越獎。她著有兩本書，指導了20位博士生，並發表了125篇研究論文。她是 ORSI、CSI、IMS 和 ISIM 的高級會員。她是《國際群體智慧期刊》（International Journal of Swarm Intelligence）的執行編輯，也是《群體與進化算法》（Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms）的副編輯，並在多個期刊的編輯委員會中任職。她是印度軟計算研究學會的創始會長，也是系列國際會議「解決問題的軟計算」（SocProS）的總主席。她的研究興趣包括進化算法、群體智慧和自然啟發的優化技術及其應用。

Valentina E. Balas 目前是羅馬尼亞「奧雷爾·弗拉伊庫」大學工程學院自動化與應用軟體系的全職教授。她在提米什瓦拉理工大學獲得應用電子學和電信的優等博士學位。Dr. Balas 在同行評審的期刊和國際會議上發表了超過400篇研究論文。她的研究興趣包括智能系統、模糊控制、軟計算、智能傳感器、信息融合、建模和模擬。她是《國際先進智能範式期刊》（International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms）和《國際計算系統工程期刊》（International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering）的主編，並且是多個國內外期刊的編輯委員會成員，還擔任國家和國際項目及博士論文的評估專家。Dr. Balas 是奧雷爾·弗拉伊庫大學智能系統研究中心的負責人，也是該大學國際關係系的負責人。她曾擔任國際研討會「軟計算與應用」（SOFA）的總主席，該會議在2005年至2022年間舉辦了十屆，地點在羅馬尼亞和匈牙利。Dr. Balas 參加了許多國際會議，擔任組織者、榮譽主席、會議主席，並在指導、顧問或國際程序委員會中任職，還擔任主題演講者。最近，她參與了一個由歐盟資助的國家項目：BioCell-NanoART = 新型生物啟發的細胞納米架構 - 用於數字集成電路，該項目由國家科學研究與創新機構提供300萬歐元的資金支持。她是歐洲模糊邏輯與技術學會（EUSFLAT）的成員，工業與應用數學學會（SIAM）的成員，以及 IEEE 的高級會員，並在 IEEE 計算智能學會的模糊系統技術委員會中任職，擔任新興技術技術委員會的 Task Force 14 主席，並在軟計算技術委員會中任職。她是 IEEE 羅馬尼亞分會志願者培訓協調員及 IEEE 計算智能學會分會 - CIS 11 的副主席。在2021年至2022年間，她是 IEEE 歐洲公共政策委員會 ICT 工作組的成員。自2023年5月起，Dr. Balas 成為羅馬尼亞科學院的副會員。Dr. Balas 曾擔任 IFSA - 國際模糊系統協會理事會的前副主席（獎項）（2013-2015），並是跨學科數學論壇（FIM）理事會的聯合秘書，該論壇是一個多學科學術機構，位於印度。她是羅馬尼亞科學院頒發的「圖多爾·塔納斯庫獎」（2019年）和羅馬尼亞科學院頒發的「斯特凡·奧多布列亞獎」（2023年）的獲得者，以表彰她在軟計算方法領域的貢獻。