Machine Learning and Data Science: Fundamentals and Applications

Written and edited by a team of experts in the field, this collection of papers reflects the most up-to-date and comprehensive current state of machine learning and data science for industry, government, and academia.

Machine learning (ML) and data science (DS) are very active topics with an extensive scope, both in terms of theory and applications. They have been established as an important emergent scientific field and paradigm driving research evolution in such disciplines as statistics, computing science and intelligence science, and practical transformation in such domains as science, engineering, the public sector, business, social science, and lifestyle. Simultaneously, their applications provide important challenges that can often be addressed only with innovative machine learning and data science algorithms.

These algorithms encompass the larger areas of artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, pattern recognition, natural language understanding, and big data manipulation. They also tackle related new scientific challenges, ranging from data capture, creation, storage, retrieval, sharing, analysis, optimization, and visualization, to integrative analysis across heterogeneous and interdependent complex resources for better decision-making, collaboration, and, ultimately, value creation.

Prateek Agrawal, PhD, completed his BTech in computer science engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India and MTech from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India. He also received his PhD from IKG-Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India. He has more than ten years of research and teaching experience. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the department of ITEC, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and also serves as an associate professor in the school of computer science engineering, Lovely Professional University, India. He has authored more than 50 research papers in various peer reviewed journals and conferences. He is a life member of IET research society. He is a reviewer and editorial member of many journals of high repute. He also served as technical program committee member of many international conferences.

Charu Gupta, PhD, graduated with her BE and MTech in computer science and engineering, with honors. She completed her doctoral degree at the Department of Computer Science, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. Presently serving as assistant professor at Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, she has over 10 years of teaching experience. She is a faculty coordinator (Delhi Section) of Free and Open Source Cell (FOSS cell) from the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), Govt. of Kerala, India. She is also the faculty co-ordinator of the e-Yantra Lab setup initiative (eLSI) in collaboration with IIT Bombay in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BPIT. She also has numerous papers in scientific and scholarly journals to her credit.

Vishu Madaan, PhD, received her BTech and MTech degrees in computer science engineering from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India and earned her PhD in computer science from IKG-Punjab Technical University, Punjab. She is an assistant professor with Lovely Professional University and has more than eight years of teaching and research experience. She has authored more than 30 research articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. She is also a member of IEEE and is a reviewer for many international conferences and technical journals.

Anand Sharma, PhD, received his PhD in engineering from MUST, Lakshmangarh, his MTech from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior and BE from RGPV, Bhopal. He has been working with Mody University of Science and Technology, Lakshmangarh for over 10 years and has more than 14 years of experience of teaching and research. He has pioneered research in the areas of information systems, information security, IoT, knowledge management and machine learning. He is the Vice-Chairman of CSI-Lakshmangarh Chapter and Student Branch Coordinator of CSI-MUST, student branch. He has authored or edited five books and has more than 70 papers in scientific and scholarly journals and conferences. He has organized more than 15 conferences, seminars, and workshops and is serving on the editorial boards of several journals as and is on the program committees of several international conferences.

Nisheeth Joshi, PhD, is an associate professor at Banasthali Vidyapith, India. He did his PhD in the area of natural language processing and is the recipient of the prestigious ISTE-U.P. Government National Award for Outstanding Work Done in Specified Areas of Engineering and Technology. He has authored several papers in scientific and technical journals and conferences. He has also been a mentor and consultant to various start-ups working in the areas of cognitive computing, natural language processing, speech processing, multimodal information retrieval and machine translation. He was also a consultant to C-DAC Pune where he developed the evaluation methodology for the Mantra Machine Translation System. This Machine Translation System is being used by Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament of India and Department of Official Languages, with the Government of India. In addition, he has two technology transfers and four copyrights to his credit.