Mr. Pratik Thantharate | Artificial Intelligence | Editorial Board Member

Mr. Pratik Thantharate | Artificial Intelligence | Editorial Board Member

Paycor | United States

Pratik Thantharate is a distinguished researcher and Principal Software Engineer whose work spans Agile Software Development, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Cloud Computing, and Code-to-Cloud Security. With dual master’s degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems, he has established a strong research portfolio integrating automation, security, and large-scale distributed architectures. His expertise includes CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, infrastructure as code, observability frameworks, and privacy-preserving systems for modern software ecosystems. Pratik has authored peer-reviewed publications, contributed book chapters, and published impactful research in prominent venues across Elsevier, IEEE, and MDPI. His innovations explore energy-efficient UAV optimization, federated learning for cybersecurity, Zero-Trust blockchain architectures, advanced observability mechanisms for DevOps, and heuristic genetic algorithms for automated vulnerability detection. He has also contributed two patents focused on intelligent monitoring and advanced security analytics for DevSecOps environments. In addition to his research outputs, Pratik has served on numerous technical program committees and peer-reviewed over a hundred scholarly articles across international conferences and journals. His scholarly influence continues to grow, with Scopus indexing showing 128 citations across 119 citing documents, 9 documents, and an h-index of 5. Google Scholar metrics reflect 46 citations, an h-index of 4, and an i10-index of 2. His research aims to advance secure, reliable, and high-performance software delivery by integrating next-generation DevOps automation, AI-driven cybersecurity, and privacy-aware computing frameworks to meet emerging industry and academic challenges.

Profile

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Featured Publications

Thantharate, P., Thantharate, A., & Kulkarni, A. (2024). GREENSKY: A fair energy-aware optimization model for UAVs in next-generation wireless networks. Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation, 3(1), 100130.

Thantharate, P., & Thantharate, A. (2023). ZeroTrustBlock: Enhancing security, privacy, and interoperability of sensitive data through ZeroTrust permissioned blockchain. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 7(4), 165.

Thantharate, P., & Anurag, T. (2023). CYBRIA: Pioneering federated learning for privacy-aware cybersecurity with brilliance. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Communities.

Thantharate, P. (2023). IntelligentMonitor: Empowering DevOps environments with advanced monitoring and observability. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, 800–805.

Thantharate, P. (2023). GeneticSecOps: Harnessing heuristic genetic algorithms for automated security testing and vulnerability detection in DevSecOps. Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics.

Fan Fangfang | Artificial Intelligence Awards | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Fan Fangfang | Artificial Intelligence Awards | Best Researcher Award

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University, United States

👩‍🔬 Dr. Fangfang Fan is a dedicated researcher currently serving as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. She earned her Ph.D. in 2013 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her work focuses on emotion regulation, mental health, and neural electrophysiology signal processing. With over a decade of experience in academic and research fields, Dr. Fan has made remarkable contributions to domains like domain adaptation, generative adversarial networks, and deep learning.

Publication Profile

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Education

🎓 Dr. Fangfang Fan completed her Ph.D. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013, focusing on advanced computational methods in neural and emotional studies.

Experience

💼 Currently, Dr. Fan is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Over the years, she has gained extensive expertise in cross-domain learning, audio-visual emotion recognition, and neural signal analysis, contributing significantly to innovative research and applications in these areas.

Awards and Honors

🏆 While specific awards are not mentioned, Dr. Fan’s impactful research, which includes 141 citations and an h-index of 6, highlights her esteemed recognition in the scientific community.

Research Focus

🔬 Dr. Fan’s research encompasses emotion regulation and mental health, neural electrophysiology signal processing, domain adaptation, and generative adversarial networks. Her innovative approaches extend to deep learning techniques, decision boundaries, and audio-visual data analysis, advancing fields like medical imaging, sleep classification, and emotion recognition.

Conclusion

🌟 Dr. Fangfang Fan’s impactful career as a researcher and her extensive publications contribute to diverse areas, from computational neuroscience to medical imaging. Her dedication to advancing knowledge in emotional health and neural systems continues to inspire innovation in the field.

Publications

A review of automatic sleep stage classification using machine learning algorithms based on heart rate variability
Published in: Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2025.
Cited by: 0 articles.

Comparative Analysis of Single-Channel and Multi-Channel Classification of Sleep Stages Across Four Different Data Sets
Published in: Brain Sciences, 2024, Vol. 14(12), Article 1201.
Cited by: 0 articles.

A joint STFT-HOC detection method for FH data link signals
Published in: Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 2021, Vol. 177, Article 109225.
Cited by: 1 article.

Computer Vision for Brain Disorders Based Primarily on Ocular Responses
Published in: Frontiers in Neurology, 2021, Vol. 12, Article 584270.
Cited by: 6 articles.

Embedding semantic hierarchy in discrete optimal transport for risk minimization
Published in: ICASSP Proceedings, 2021.
Cited by: 6 articles.

Image2Audio: Facilitating semi-supervised audio emotion recognition with facial expression image
Published in: CVPR Workshops, 2020, pp. 3978–3983.
Cited by: 38 articles.

Classification-aware semi-supervised domain adaptation
Published in: CVPR Workshops, 2020, pp. 4147–4156.
Cited by: 38 articles.

Unimodal regularized neuron stick-breaking for ordinal classification
Published in: Neurocomputing, 2020, Vol. 388, pp. 34–44.
Cited by: 43 articles.

Two-Dimensional New Communication Technology for Networked Ammunition
Published in: IEEE Access, 2020, Vol. 8, pp. 133725–133733.
Cited by: 2 articles.

Research on recognition of medical image detection based on neural network
Published in: IEEE Access, 2020, Vol. 8, pp. 94947–94955.
Cited by: 0 articles.