Pandian Vasant

Dr. Pandian Vasant Pandian Vasant is Research Associate at MERLIN Research Centre, TDTU, HCMC, Vietnam, and General Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing & Optimization. He holds PhD in Computational Intelligence from Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica (UNEM, Costa Rica), MSc (University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and BSc (Hons, Second Class Upper) in Mathematics (University of Malaya, Malaysia). His research interests include soft computing, hybrid optimization, innovative computing and applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentations, special issues Guest Editor, book chapters and General Chair of EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Penang, Malaysia (2016) and Bangkok, Thailand (2018). In the years 2009 and 2015, he was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). He has 30 years of working experience at the varies universities. Currently, he is General Chair of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization (https://www. icico.info/) and Member of MERLIN Research Centre (TDTU, Vietnam). Weblink: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pandian-Vasant; https://www.icico.info/