This book is a collection of best-selected research papers presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cyber Physical Systems (CICPS), organized by Government College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University, India, in January 2026. The book covers recent research in advanced heuristics, real-time systems, artificial intelligence, cyber security, and big data analytics.

Sarbani Roy is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She obtained her MTech in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Calcutta, India in 2002. She received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2008. She was awarded Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research fellowship in 2013-2014 and joined the research program at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. Her research interests include AI for Social Good, Climate Change, IoT-Cloud, and Data Science. She has published SCI/SCIE journals including IEEE and ACM Transactions, Scientific Reports Nature and conferences, several of which are in reputed international venues.

Sunirmal Khatua is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta since 2010. Before joining University of Calcutta, he served as a Lecturer at the School of Mobile Computing and Communication, Jadavpur University since 2008 and as an R&D engineer with Tejas Networks India Ltd since 2006. He was the recipient of the Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Fellowship from Digital India Corporation, Government of India for the duration of 2018 to 2023. He is also the recipients of the prestigious Gold Medal as well as the University Medal from Jadavpur University in 2006. His research interests include optimization algorithms in cloud computing, wireless sensor networks, and high-performance computing.

Dr. Soumya Sen is an Assistant Professor in A K Choudhury School of Information Technology and also Teacher-In-Charge of 1st Year of 4 Year B.Tech. under University of Calcutta. He has been granted with 3 international patents in USA, Japan and South Korea and also 3 Indian copyrights. Dr. Sen has authored 2 books and also successfully supervised 3 Ph.D. students. He has published around 135 research papers in international peer reviewed journals and conferences. Dr. Sen acted as a reviewer of many international journals and organized many international conferences as Program chair and Convenor. His research interest areas are Data Warehouse, Machine learning, Generative AI, Business Intelligence, Distributed Database etc.

Paramita Dey received her Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2021. She has been acting as a faculty in the Department of IT since 2008. Also, She is the PG and PhD Coordinator of the institute. Her current research interests include Distributed computing, Machine Learning, Social network analysis, IOT and Sustainable Development. She reviewed several papers of Elsevier, Springer, ACM and IEEE journals.

Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim has worked for 35 years in MIMOS (Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia. MIMOS is the government applied and industrial R&D arm in IT and microelectronics. He joined MIMOS as a Research Fellow and now is the R&D Manager in the Technology Deployment department. His research interest areas are Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Real-Time Systems and Multimedia. He has participated in more than 30 national and international R&D projects as a team member, or leader on technical and management positions. He has seven patents registered under his name, mostly in IoT, wireless sensors, networks and smart agriculture applications.