Dr. Satchidananda Dehuri is working as Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India, since 2013. He received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Odisha, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He visited as a BOYSCAST Fellow to the Soft Computing Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, under the BOYSCAST Fellowship Program of DST, Govt. of India, in 2008. In 2010, he received Young Scientist Award in Engineering and Technology for the year 2008 from Odisha Vigyan Academy, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Odisha. He was at the Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, as Visiting Scholar in 2002. During May–June 2006, he was Visiting Scientist at the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests include evolutionary computation, neural networks, pattern recognition, data mining, object-or