International Conference on
Recent Advancements in Artificial Intelligence ( ICRAAI-2026 )
Organized by
Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering
Poornima University, Jaipur, India
( 19-20 June, 2026)
All Accepted and Presented Papers of the conference will be published in Scopus Indexed Springer Book series "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” (https://www.springer.com/series/15179).

Editorial Chairs:

Dr. Richi Nayak

1. Name: Dr. Richi Nayak
Affiliation: School of Computer Science and QUT Centre for Data Science
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Dr. Richi Nayak is a professor of computer science at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane Australia. Her current research interests include machine learning, text mining, personalization, automation, and social network analysis. She was awarded the 2016 WiT (Women in Technology) Infotech Outstanding Achievement Award for exemplary service to the field of data analytics. With a proven track record, she has successfully overseen and delivered over 30 industry-related projects, attracting a total income of over $15 million. She has an extensive portfolio of more than 250 refereed publications, attracting over 4,200 citations, with an h-index of 33 and an i10-index of 115 as of June 2023. She received the Masters in Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, and the PhD degree in computer science from the Queensland University of Technology.


Dr. Namita Mittal

2. Dr. Namita Mittal
Country: India
Official Email Id: nmittal.cse@mnit.ac.in
Affiliation: MNIT, Jaipur, India

Dr. Namita Mittal is working as Associate Professor of in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MNIT Jaipur and currently also holds the position of Head of the Department and coordinator, ISRO RACS at MNIT Jaipur. She is a recipient of Career Award for Young Teachers (CAYT) by AICTE. Her Current research areas are Data Science, Information Retrieval, Data Mining and NLP. She has published several research papers in reputed international conferences and journals, and two books in Springer Publication. She is also a member of review committees for Refereed journals/ conferences. She has been granted one patent of “The Smart Gait Analyzer”. She is Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ACM, CCICI, and SCRS. She has conducted various FDPs/Conferences/Workshops like Ph.D. Colloquium FIRE 2017, GIAN Course on Advances on Data and Web Analytics 2017 and AI and Information Retrieval 2022., International Workshop on Text analytics and Retrieval (WI 2018), and WIRe (FIRE Track 2020). She is guiding 7 PhD students currently and 8 PhD have been awarded under her guidance. One PhD scholar is receiving prestigious PMRF scholarship


Dr. Ajay Khunteta

3. Dr. Ajay Khunteta
Country: India
Official Email Id: dean.fce@poornima.edu.in
Affiliation: Poornima University, Jaipur

Dr Ajay Khunteta is an accomplished professional with a rich background in academia and research, spanning over 22 years. Currently serving as a Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering at Poornima University in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, he has made significant contributions to the field.
His expertise lies in the areas of AI, Cloud Computing, Data Security, and Distributed Systems. With a passion for guiding and mentoring students, Dr. Ajay Khunteta has successfully supervised 46 M.Tech dissertations and 6 PhD theses on various topics related to AI and Cloud technology. He has authored and co-authored over 106 research papers in esteemed international journals and conferences. He has completed many Research and MODROB project grants from prestigious organizations such as AICTE and DST. He is also the member of the editorial board of several journals and served as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. In addition to his academic achievements, he is actively involved in organizing conferences sponsored by IEEE and Elsevier at Poornima University.

Dr. Hari Mohan

4. Dr. Hari Mohan Pandey
Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Email-id: hpandey@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Hari Mohan Pandey is in data science and artificial intelligence at school of technology Bournemouth University, UK. His research area includes artificial intelligence, soft computing techniques, natural language processing, language acquisition, machine learning, deep learning and computer vision. He is the author of various books in computer science engineering included “State of the Art on Grammatical Inference Using Evolutionary Method", published by Elsevier. He has published over 120 scientific papers in reputed journals and conferences. He is serving in the editorial board of reputed journals (including Neural Networks Elsevier, Applied Soft Computing Elsevier, Swarm and Evolutionary Computing Elsevier, Neural Computing and Applications Springer, IEEE Transactions of Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Neurocomputing Springer, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and Knowledge Based Systems Elsevier) as action editor, associate editor, and guest editor. He has been given the prestigious award “The Global Award for the Best Computer Science Faculty of the Year 2015” for completing INDO-US project “GENTLE”, award (Certificate of Exceptionalism) from the Prime Minister of India and award for developing innovative teaching and learning models for higher-education. In past, He worked as a sr. lecturer in computer science department at Edge Hill University. He also worked as a research fellow machine learning at the school of technology at Middlesex University London where He worked on a European Commission project- DREAM4CARS.


Important Dates:

Description Dates
Last Date of Paper Submission 26 March 2026
Acceptance Notification 15 May 2026
Last date of Registration 10 June 2026
Conference Dates 19-20 June 2026
Paper Submission Click Here for Submission
Email-id for Paper Submission: icraai2026@poornima.edu.in