Anand Paul is an Associate Professor with the Biostatistics and Data Science Program at Louisiana State University Health Science Center. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 2010. His research focuses on Big Data Analytics and Mathematical Modelling of Machine Learning models, He has done extensive work on Big data/IoT based Smart Cities. Dr. Paul is the founder and director of the Centre for Resilient and Evolving Intelligence at Kyungpook National University, South Korea, where he served from 2012 to 2024. He has been recognized as one of the top 2% scientists globally by both Stanford University and Elsevier Publisher for the years 2021 and 2022. He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2015 and has held editorial roles in prestigious publications including Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Smart Vehicles and Smart Transportation (IGI Global) from 2019 to 2021, and as Associate Editor in IEEE Access, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, ICT Express, PeerJ Computer Science, ACM Applied Computing Reviews, Cyber Physical Systems (Taylor & Francis), and International Journal of Interactive Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Paul also served as the track chair for Smart Human-Computer Interaction in ACM SAC from 2014 to 2019.