CHARUSAT organised third International Conference on Soft Computing and Engineering Applications

The 2021 and third International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp2021) was organised at Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, India in December. The theme of the conference was "Soft Computing for Smart Nation" and was technically sponsored by Springer, USA and financially co-sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and GujCOST, Govt. of Gujarat. 
Surendra Patel (President, CHARUSAT) and Dr. M. C. Patel (Secretary, CHAMOSPKM) were the chief patrons of the conference. Conference patron was Dr R V Upadhyay (Provost, CHARUSAT). Dr. Atul Patel (Dean/Principal, CMPICA, CHARUSAT) and Dr. Pawan Lingras (Professor, Saint Mary's University, Canada) were the general chairs of the conference. Dr. K. K. Patel (Asst. Professor, CMPICA, CHARUSAT) was the Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair of the conference. Dr. Gayatri Doctor (Professor, CEPT University, Ahmedabad), and Dr. Deepak Garg (Professor, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India) were the TPC co-chairs of the conference.
icSoftComp2021 provided an excellent international forum to the researchers, academicians, students, and professionals in the areas of computer science and engineering to present their research, knowledge, new ideas and innovations. It exhibited an exciting technical program and also featured high-quality workshops, keynote and six expert talks from prominent research and industry leaders. 
The keynote speech was given by Dr. V. Susheela Devi (Principal Research Scientist, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore, India). Speeches by experts included Dr. Ashish Ghosh (Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI Kolkata, India), Dr. Massimiliano Cannata (Professor in engineering geomatics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland - SUPSI, Switzerland), Dr. Shailesh Kumar (Chief Data Scientist, CoE AI/ML at Jio, Hyderabad, India), Dr. Vishnu Pendyala (San José State University, San José, CA, USA), Dr. Kiran Trivedi (Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Ahmedabad, India) and Dr. Pritpal Singh (Jagiellonian University, Poland).
Researchers from 15 countries presented 33 research papers in 10 technical sessions. All selected and presented papers will be published as proceedings with Springer, USA in their prestigious Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, ISSN: 1865-0929. More than 315 participants registered and attended the conference.