9th MDPI Guest Editor Club | Computer Science & Mathematics Session

School of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA ;Darren A. Narayan received his BS in mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton and later received his MS and PhD degrees in mathematics from Lehigh University developing his research area in graph theory. He joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2000 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2010. In addition, he has had visiting appointments at the University of South Carolina and the University of Rochester. He has had over 100 papers accepted for publication, and he has received over $1.8 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (US) supporting both innovations in teaching and undergraduate research. He is the recipient of two national teaching awards from the Mathematical Association of America.

College of Sciences, Northeastern University, China;Dr. Tao Liu is a Professor at the College of Sciences, Northeastern University, China, where he also serves as a doctoral supervisor in Mathematics and a master’s supervisor in Applied Statistics. He received his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology and conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and applied mathematics, with applications spanning geophysics, oceanography, finance, and medicine. Dr. Liu has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed SCI journals and more than 30 EI-indexed articles, and has led six provincial/ministerial-level research projects alongside multiple industry-funded initiatives. He serves as a Reviewer for the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Reviews, an Editorial Board Member of Axioms and TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics, and a Topic Advisory Panel Member of Mathematics. He has also served as a Guest Editor for four Special Issues: two in Axioms and two in Mathematics. In addition, he is a Member of the Asian Council of Science Editors, has served on the editorial boards of over 30 EI-indexed conference proceedings, and regularly reviews for more than 50 SCI journals.

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tezpur University, India;Dr. Pradip Debnath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Tezpur University, India. He has been recognised among the World’s Top 2% Scientists, as listed by Stanford University and published by Elsevier, for two consecutive years, 2023 and 2024. He served as a remunerative Associate Editor for the Mathematics section of Heliyon, an Elsevier/Cell Press journal, and is an active member of the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), Research in Mathematics (Taylor & Francis), PLOS ONE, and the TWMS Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics, among others. Previously, Dr. Debnath held faculty positions as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Science and Humanities at Assam University, Silchar, and in the Department of Mathematics at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), India. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. His primary research interests include fixed point theory, functional analysis, soft computing, and mathematical statistics. He has published over 80 research papers in internationally reputed journals and reviewed more than 500 manuscripts for over 82 international journals. He also reviews for Mathematical Reviews, published by the American Mathematical Society. As a lead editor/author, Dr. Debnath has published over 12 books with esteemed publishers such as Springer, CRC Press, De Gruyter and World Scientific. He actively collaborates with leading mathematicians from countries including Canada, Serbia, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Spain, and Tunisia. Additionally, he is a Topical Advisory Panel Member for the journals Axioms and Fractal and Fractional. He has served as a Guest Editor for several special issues across different journals, including Research in Mathematics, Symmetry, Axioms, and Contemporary Mathematics.