Digital Twins for Sustainable Development

Dr. Shamik Tiwari is the Founding Dean of the School of Computer Science & Engineering at IILM University, Gurugram, and is recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier & Stanford University, 2023–2025) in Artificial Intelligence. With over 23 years of experience, he has led transformative initiatives in AI-driven education, research, and industry collaboration. His innovations include a non-invasive diagnostic tool for diabetic retinopathy funded by BIRAC–DBT, Government of India. A prolific researcher with 100+ publications, and a Fellow at CPRG, Dr. Tiwari continues to advance global AI research, policy, and innovation in computer science education.

Ferdous Sohel received PhD degree from Monash University, Australia. He is currently a Professor in Information Technology at Murdoch University, Australia. Prior to joining Murdoch University in 2015, he was a Research Assistant Professor/Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia. His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, digital agriculture, image processing, pattern recognition, scene understanding, and video coding. Prof Sohel is a recipient of several research grants worth more than $4.5million. Notably, he is a recipient of the prestigious Discovery Project and Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) funded by the Australian Research Council. He is a recipient of the Learning and Teaching grant on Work Integrated Learning and a Community grant for Invasive Ants detection and tracking from Australia’s national competitive pools. He has also won two WA State Govt. funded competitive grants on shark hazard mitigation and digital pathology to improve cancer diagnosis. He is a recipient of the VC’s Early Career Investigators award (UWA) and the best PhD thesis medal from Monash University. He has won several best paper awards. He is serving IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Signal Processing Letters as an Associate Editor. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Australian Computer Society and a senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. Anurag Jain is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IILM University, Gurugram. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and has over 22 years of academic experience across leading Indian universities, including UPES. His research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, and applied AI. He has authored over 80 publications with more than 1,900 citations (h-index 23). Dr. Jain led a BIRAC-funded project on non-invasive diabetic retinopathy diagnostics, supervised multiple Ph.D. and M.Tech students, and served on editorial and program committees for international journals and conferences.