Operational Research for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environments

Joshua Thomas received his PhD. degree from University Sains Malaysia (USM), School of Computer Sciences, in 2015. He worked as research assistant at the Artificial Intelligence Lab in University Sains Malaysia. His research interests include scheduling algorithms, machine learning algorithms, data analytics, deep learning, and visual analytics, and Chemoinformatics. Dr. J. Joshua has authored several publications in leading international conferences and journals. Some of his research work were published in conferences including, IEEE, ICONIP, IVIC, IV, COMPSE, ICO. He has funded external, internal, short term research grants and industry collaborative projects. He has been invited as plenary speaker at IAIM2019, delivered, conduct Workshop's (IVIC19) at International conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE), and invited as guest editor for JVLC-Elsevier, IJDSA-Springer, IJCC-IGI-Global, IJIRR-Inderscience. Pandian Vasant (H index: 34) holds PhD in Computational Intelligence (UNEM, Costa Rica), MSc (UMS, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and BSc (Hons) in Mathematics (MU, Malaysia). His research interests include Soft Computing, Hybrid Optimization, Innovative Computing and Applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentation, special issues guest editor, book chapters (293 publications indexed in Research-Gate). In the year 2009 and 2015, Professor Pandian Vasant was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal of Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). He has 30 years of working experience at the universities. Currently he is an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy Optimization & Engineering, and Member of AMS (USA), NAVY Research Group (TUO, Czech Republic) and Senior Research Associate at MERLIN Research Center (TDTU, Vietnam).