Dr. Smita Rani Parija holds both a master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Communications from N.I.T. Rourkela. Her academic career highlights a strong interest in handling real-time issues pertaining to the industry-academia interface related to artificial intelligence techniques. Having spent more than 15 years exclusively working in the applied fields of communications, soft computing, and machine learning, Dr. Smita Rani Parija has firmly established her expertise. Her contributions span a prolific array of publications, including over 10 articles indexed in SCI and Scopus journals, encompassing more than 50 studies featured in journals and conferences indexed by Scopus. Her current areas of research include wireless communication, soft computing, sensor networks, signal processing, and artificial intelligence-machine learning.