Subhadip Basu is a Full Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, where he joined in 2006. He received his PhD from Jadavpur University and did his postdocs from University of Iowa, USA, and University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr Basu also held an honorary position as a Research Scientist at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the Co-Founder and Honorary Advisor of INFOMATICAE, a technology startup headquartered in Kolkata, India. He is the Founding member of SDSA (Social Data Science Alliance), an international AI watchdog, led by Turing Awardee Dr. Yoshua Bengio. Dr. Basu has also worked in reputed International Institutes like, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan, Bournemouth University, UK, University of Lorraine, France, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland and Hannover Medical School, Germany. Dr Basu has 250+ international research publications in the areas of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Image Analysis etc., He has edited 10+ books, received two US patents, supervised 15 PhD students and received several major research grants from UGC, DST and DBT, Govt. of India. Dr Basu is the recipient of the ‘Research Award’ from UGC, Govt. of India in 2016. He also received the DAAD Senior-Scientist fellowship from Germany, Hitachi Visiting-Research fellowship from Japan, EMMA and CLINK Visiting-Researcher fellowships from the European Union, BOYSCAST and FASTTRACK Young-Scientist fellowships from DST, Govt. of India. He is the past Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society Kolkata, a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM and life member of IUPRAI.