Optimization Techniques and Applications: Socpros 2025, Roorkee, India, February 24-26
暫譯: 優化技術與應用：Socpros 2025，印度魯爾基，2025年2月24-26日

Millie Pant is Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India. She specializes in data science and artificial intelligence, with significant contributions to optimization algorithms and their applications. She has a robust publication record and has guided numerous Ph.D. and M.Tech. students, reflecting her commitment to research and education in advanced mathematical and computational methods.
Kusum Deep is Full Professor (HAG) in the Department of Mathematics as well as Joint Faculty at the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India. Also, she is Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University, UK; University of Technology Sydney, Australia; and University of Wollongong, Australia. With B.Sc. Hons and M.Sc. from the Centre for Advanced Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, she is an M.Phil. Gold Medalist. She earned her PhD from the University of Roorkee, now the Indian Institute of Technology (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 the Commission of European Communities, Brussels. She has won numerous awards like the Khosla Research Award, the UGC Career Award, the Starred Performer of IITR Faculty, Best Paper Awards by the Railway Bulletin of Indian Railways, special facilitation in memory of late Prof. M. C. Puri, the AIAP Excellence Award. She is one of the four women from the IIT Roorkee to feature in the ebook, Women in STEM-2021, celebrating the contributions made by 50 Indian women in STEM published by the Confederation of Indian Industries. According to Stanford University, she falls within the top 2% of the scientists in the world for 2019 and 2020. In 2021, she bagged the prestigious POWER grant awarded by SERB-DST, the Government of India.
Atulya K. Nagar is the Foundation Chair Professor in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering as well as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom. He received a prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship for pursuing his doctorate (DPhil) in applied nonlinear mathematics, which he earned from the University of York (UK) in 1996. He holds BSc (Hons), MSc and MPhil (with distinction) in mathematical physics from the MDS University of Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA) and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). His research expertise is in the area of applied nonlinear analysis, natural computing and systems engineering.

Millie Pant 是印度羅爾基印度科技學院（Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India）應用數學與科學計算系的教授。她專注於數據科學和人工智慧，對優化算法及其應用有顯著貢獻。她擁有豐富的出版紀錄，並指導了許多博士和碩士學生，體現了她對於高級數學和計算方法研究及教育的承諾。

Kusum Deep 是印度羅爾基印度科技學院數學系的全職教授（HAG），同時也是梅赫塔家庭數據科學與人工智慧學院的聯合教員。她還是英國利物浦霍普大學、澳大利亞悉尼科技大學和澳大利亞伍倫貢大學的訪問教授。她擁有印度昌迪加爾旁遮普大學高級研究中心的榮譽理學士（B.Sc. Hons）和碩士（M.Sc.）學位，並且是M.Phil.金獎得主。她於1988年在羅爾基大學（現為印度科技學院IIT Roorkee）獲得博士學位。她曾獲得國家獎學金，並在英國拉夫堡大學擔任博士後研究員，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教職員之星表現獎、印度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。她是四位來自IIT Roorkee的女性之一，出現在電子書《女性在STEM-2021》中，該書慶祝了50位印度女性在STEM領域的貢獻，由印度工業聯合會出版。根據史丹佛大學的資料，她在2019年和2020年被列為全球前2%的科學家。2021年，她獲得了印度政府SERB-DST頒發的著名POWER獎助金。

Atulya K. Nagar 是英國利物浦霍普大學數學、計算機科學與工程學院的創始講座教授，以及研究副校長。他獲得了著名的英聯邦獎學金，以追求應用非線性數學的博士學位（DPhil），並於1996年在約克大學（University of York, UK）獲得該學位。他擁有印度拉賈斯坦邦阿傑梅爾的MDS大學數學物理學的榮譽理學士（BSc (Hons)）、碩士（MSc）和優異MPhil學位。他是數學及其應用學會（FIMA）和高等教育學院（FHEA）的院士。他的研究專長在於應用非線性分析、自然計算和系統工程領域。