Statistical Modeling in Machine Learning

Tilottama Goswami has received a BE degree with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur; and an MS degree in Computer Science (High Distinction) from Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. She was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad. Presently, Dr. Goswami is Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India. She has, overall, 23 years of experience in academia, research, and the IT industry. Her research interests are computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. She has been granted an Australian patent for her research work. Dr. Goswami has been conferred with the Distinguished Scientist Award by IJIEMR-Elsevier SSRN, Vijayawada, India. She is also a recipient of the Women Researcher Award, awarded by the REST Society for Research International, India. Dr. Goswami is the recipient of University Grants Commission- Basic Scientific Research (UGC-BSR) Fellowship (under the Government of India). She has been awarded the Star Team Award for developing efficient software for GeoMedia (GIS), leading to complete customer satisfaction at Hexagon (Intergraph), Hyderabad. She is Editorial Board Member of two international journals and has contributed editorial articles and chapters in Scopus-indexed books. Dr. Goswami is an IEEE Senior Member in IEEE CIS/GRSS Chapter Hyderabad Section. She is presently serving as Chairperson of ACM Hyderabad Deccan Professional Chapter and has also served as ACM-W Chair. Dr. Goswami is an active researcher and contributes to society by delivering workshops and guest lectures, participating as technical program committee, tutorial chair, and reviewer in international conferences and journals. She has delivered more than 20 invited talks in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, statistical methods, computer vision, and color image processing. Dr. Goswami has been convener for international events such as Distinguished Lecture Series, AI Webinar Series, Workshops, and Conclaves. Dr. Goswami actively maintains her industry engagement through industry exchange program and project consultancy on applications of AI in various problem domains. Dr. G R Sinha is a Professor at Myanmar Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) Mandalay, Myanmar. To his credit are 255 research papers, book chapters, and books, including Analysis of Medical Modalities for Improved Diagnosis in Modern Healthcare, Biomedical Signal Processing for Healthcare Applications, Brain and Behavior Computing, and Data Science and Its Applications from Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Advances in Biometrics from Springer, and Cognitive Informatics, Volumes 1 and 2, AI-Based Brain Computer Interfaces, and Data Deduplication Approaches from Elsevier Academic Press. He was Dean of Faculty and an Executive Council Member of CSVTU and has served as Distinguished Speaker in the field of Digital Image Processing for the Computer Society of India. His research interests include Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Image Analysis, Biomedical Signal Analysis, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Computer Vision, and Cognitive Science.