MOHAMMAD ASHRAF is Chairman and Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. He is also Dean, the Faculty of Science, AMU, Aligarh, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from AMU, and started teaching at the Department of Mathematics, AMU, in the year 1986. He had made substantial contributions to ring theory and algebras, linear algebra, coding theory, graph theory, and cryptography. He proved several exemplary results and published them in internationally reputed journals. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has organized several International conferences and edited five edited volumes and conference proceedings. Professor Ashraf has successfully completed many major research projects from the UGC, DST, and NBHM, India. He had visited several foreign countries to deliver plenary and invited lectures at international conferences and seminars. He had been Visiting Scientist for many years in the University of Maribore, Slovenia, under the bilateral exchange program supported by Slovenian–Indian joint working group on scientific and technological co-operation under the auspices of the DST, India, and the Ministry of Higher Education Science & Technology (MHEST), Republic of Slovenia. Together with all the above achievements, Prof. Ashraf is Editor and Managing Editor of many reputed international mathematical journals and life member of several mathematical societies. ASMA ALI is Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. She joined the Department of Mathematics at AMU, in 1995, as a faculty member and has been serving the department since then. She was awarded Senior Research Fellowship from UGC, New Delhi, and successfully completed her PhD in 1991. Professor Asma has made valuable contributions in her field of research and has published a number of papers in reputed international journals, which are being cited in India and abroad. Very recently, she has been selected for LEAP (Leadrership Academicians Programme) under MHRD scheme Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), domestic training at CALEM, India, 16–30 December 2019, and foreign training from 15–22 February 2020 at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Asma Ali has received honor of recognition for her contribution and achievements as successful professional by the International Society of Women in Science and has been a council member of Indian Mathematical Society. She is also a life member of many organizations including American Mathematical Society and Indian Science Congress.VINCENZO DE FILIPPIS is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Messina, Italy. He received his PhD degree in mathematics (in 1999) from the University of Messina. He is an author and coauthor of more than 100 research papers published in several journals of repute and has been on research visits to several institutions in Europe and Asia. His research interests include ring theory, theory of associative algebras, and linear and multilinear algebra. His theoretical work is primarily aimed at studying the structure of algebras satisfying functional identities. He has delivered many invited and plenary lectures at international conferences on algebraic structures. A coeditor of various edited volumes, he is member of the Italian Mathematical Society (UMI) and the National Society of Algebraic and Geometric Structures and their Applications (GNSAGA-INDAM).
