Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Urban Planning From Virtual to Reality

Dr. Mohammad Saif Wajid received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, India, and Masters's Degree from BBD University, India. He is currently enrolled as a Full-Time researcher at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, Mexico. He works as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Texas, San Antonio, USA. His research includes potential applications of Digital Twin, Knowledge Graph, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, and Neutrosophy, touching areas such as Violence Detection, Healthcare Systems, Dense Captioning of images/ videos, and DTWIN for Smart cities.

Prof. Hugo Terashima-Marin, (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. in informatics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, in 1998. He is a Full Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences and the Research Group Leader with a strategic focus on intelligent systems. His research interests include computational intelligence, heuristics, metaheuristics, and hyper-heuristics for combinatorial optimization, characterization of problems and algorithms, constraint handling and applications of artificial Intelligence, and machine learning.

Dr. Mohd Anas Wajid is an Assistant Professor at GLA University, Mathura, India, in the Department of Computer Science & Application. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has keen interest in Soft Computing, Machine Learning, Data Science, Information Retrieval, and Neutrosophy.

Prof. Aasim Zafar is a Senior Professor at the Computer Science Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He holds a Master's in Computer Science and Applications and obtained the degree of Ph. D. in Computer Science from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. His research areas and special interests include Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Software Engineering, Information Retrieval, E-Systems, e-Security, Virtual Learning Environments, Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing, Knowledge Management Systems, and Web Mining. His areas of teaching interest include Computer Networks, Network Security, Software Engineering, E-Systems, Database Management Systems and Computer Programming.

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He received his Undergraduate Degree (B-Tech in Computer Science and Engineering) with Distinction in 2012, received his Postgraduate Degree (M-Tech in Information Security) with Distinction in 2015 and Doctorate Degree (PhD Computer Science and Engineering) in 2021 from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India.