This book includes high-quality research papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Human-Centric Smart Computing (ICHCSC 2025), held in Jaipur, India, during October 10–11, 2025. The topics covered in the book are human-centric computing, hyperconnectivity, and data science. This book presents innovative work by leading academics, researchers, and experts from industry.

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya [FRSA (UK), FIET (UK), FIEI (I), FIETE, LFOSI, FSCRS, SMIEEE, SMACM, SMAAIA, SMIETI] is currently serving as a senior researcher in the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the scientific advisor to the Algebra Bernays University in Zagreb, Croatia. He is a co-author of 8 books and the co-editor of 117 books and has more than 450 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has two PCTs and 21 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several international conferences. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Applied Soft Computing Journal, Senior Editor of IEEE Access, and an associate editor of several reputed journals, including Evolutionary Intelligence, CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Technology, and IET Quantum Communications.

Dr. Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee is currently serving as the Associate Professor & Head of the Department in the Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) Department at the Techno Bengal Institute of Technology (formerly known as Bengal Institute of Technology), Kolkata, India. He is also the Professor-in-Charge, R & D and Consultancy Cell & Nodal Officer of the IPR Cell of BIT. Since 2024, he also works as a Remote Researcher in the Internet of THings & AppliCAtions Lab (ITHACA) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. Dr. Banerjee is also working as the Adjunct Research Faculty under the Lincoln Global Postdoctoral Researcher (LGPR) Programme at Lincoln University College, Malaysia. He is the former Remote Research Fellow of the Cognitive Computing and Brain Informatics Research Group (CCBI) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. Dr. Banerjee did his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Nottingham Trent University, UK, in the Department of Computer Science. He also completed the Post Graduate Diploma in IPR & TBM from MAKAUT, WB. He has teaching and research experience spanning 21 years and completed one IEI funded project. He is the Execom Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter for 2025-2026. He is the present Secretary-cum-Treasurer of the ISTE WB Section and Secretary of the IETE, Kolkata Centre. He is the Past Secretary of the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter. Dr. Banerjee is presently the Chairman of the Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter for the year 2026-2027.

Mario Köppen studied Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received his master’s degree in Solid-State Physics in 1991. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals, and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as Chair or Member of the program committee, including the WSC online conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is a founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing, and since 2016, has been the editor-in-chief of its Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal.

Sayak Pramanik is currently serving as the head of the department of Computer Applications and an assistant professor at the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Jaipur, India. He also leads the University Incubation Centre and the Entrepreneurship Cell, fostering research-driven innovation and startup initiatives within the university. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, and holds an M.Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology. With over 12 years of teaching and academic leadership experience, his research interests span Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Edge Computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Jan Platos is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and, since 2025, the Vice-rector for Research, Science and Doctoral studies, VSB-TUO, Czech Republic. He's focused primarily on the industrial applications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, industrial data processing, text processing, data compression, bioinspired algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, data structures, and data prediction. He's authored more than 280 scientific publications in journals and conferences.