Swagatam Das received his B. E. Tel. E., M. E. Tel. E (Control Engineering specialization) and Ph. D. degrees, all from Jadavpur University, India, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. Currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, his research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. Dr. Das has published more than 300 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal from Elsevier. He has also served as or is serving as an associate editor of various journals, including Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Information Sciences, IEEE Access, and so on. He is an editorial board member of numerous other journals, including Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, and Artificial Inte
