Författare: D. Karthika Renuka

L. Ashok Kumar, Ph D, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PSG of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 175 papers in international and national journals and received 26 awards for his Ph D project on wearable electronics at national and international levels. He has created eight Centres of Excellence at PSG in collaboration with government agencies and industries such as the Centre for Audio Visual Speech Recognition and the Centre for Excellence in Solar Thermal Systems. Twenty-three out of 27 of his products have been technologically transferred to government funding agencies. D. Karthika Renuka, Ph D, is a professor at PSG of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. Her main areas of study focus on data mining, evolutionary algorithms, and machine learning. She is a recipient of the Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM. She has organized two international conferences on The Innovation of Computing Techniques and Information Processing and Remote Computing. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ph D, is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland. His studies focus on multimodal machine learning, abusive/offensive language detection, bias in natural language processing tasks, inclusive language detection, and multilingualism. He has published many papers in international journals and conferences. He is an associate editor of the journal Expert System with Application and an editorial board member for Computer Speech & Language. Thomas Mandl, Ph D, is a professor of Information Science and Language Technology, University of Hildesheim, Germany. His research interests include information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and internationalization of information technology and he has published more than 300 papers on these topics. He coordinated tracks at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), the European information retrieval evaluation initiative. Thomas Mandl is the co-chair at FIRE, the evaluation initiative for Indian languages, since 2020 and coordinates the HASOC track on hate speech detection.