Bighnaraj Naik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Application, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (formerly UCE Burla), Odisha, India. He has published more than 100 research articles in various peer reviewed international journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has edited 10 books for publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and IGI Global. At present, he has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science and information technology. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and his areas of interest include data science, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, computational intelligence (CI), and CI’s applications in science and engineering. He has served as Guest Editor of various special issues of journals such as Information Fusion (Elsevier), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience), and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (Inderscience). He is an active reviewer of various journals from publishers including IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, and Inderscience. Currently, he is undertaking a major research project as Principal Investigator, which is funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.