Anand J Kulkarni holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Optimization from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, an MS in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Regina, Canada, a Bachelor of Engineering from Shivaji University, India and a Diploma from the Board of Technical Education, Mumbai. He worked as a Research Fellow at Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada. Anand worked with Symbiosis International University, Pune, India for over six years. He is currently working as a Professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at MITWPU, Pune, India. His research interests include optimization algorithms, multi-objective optimization, continuous, discrete, and combinatorial optimization, swarm optimization, and self-organizing systems. Anand pioneered optimization methodologies such as Cohort Intelligence, Ideology Algorithm, Expectation Algorithm, and Socio Evolution & Learning Optimization Algorithm. Anand is the founder of Optimization and Agent Technology Research Lab and has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals, chapters, and conferences along with 5 authored and 10 edited books. Anand is the lead series editor for Springer and Taylor & Francis as well as the editor of several Elsevier journals. He also writes on AI in several newspapers and magazines. Anand has delivered expert research talks in countries such as the USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and France.