Firuz Kamalov is an associate professor of mathematics at Canadian University Dubai, UAE. He received his PhD at University Nebraska - Lincoln in 2011, where he was an Othmer Fellow. His research interests include functional analysis, applied mathematics, statistical learning, and time series forecasting. He is the managing editor of Gulf Journal of Mathematics and an associate editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. Dr Kamalov is a recipient of multiple research grants totalling over USD 1 million. R Sivaraj is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He has published 55 manuscripts in SCI/SCOPUS indexed journals which includes several Q1/Q2 journals. He has served as a Guest Editor for several journals and book series including The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Trends in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, and AIP Conference Proceedings. He has published a book in Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York. He has organized several international conferences and workshops to promote research in India and UAE.  Ho Hon Leung is an associate professor at UAE University. He received his PhD in mathematics from Cornell University in 2011 and his BSc from Imperial College London in 2006. His research interests lie in the intersections of geometry, algebra and combinatorics. He is also interested in fluid dynamics and mathematics education.