Attention-Driven Deep Learning for News-Based Prediction of Disease Outbreaks

Avneet Singh Gautam is a Ph.D. research scholar at the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Applications, both earned with first position, and is UGC-NET qualified. His research interests include natural language processing, attention mechanisms, deep learning, healthcare text analytics, and internet-sourced text mining.

Dr. Maria Lapina is an Associate Professor of the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at North Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol, Russia. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. She received PhD in mathematics from Stavropol State University in 2005. She defended her master's thesis on information security at the North Caucasus Federal University with honors in 2015. Her research interests include data science, machine learning, big data, cybersecurity, cryptography, trusted artificial intelligence, Edu-Tech, teacher education, and higher education. She has published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and WoS. She has more than 80 research papers. She is an active editorial board member for Springer Nature, IGI Global. She is an active reviewer of MDPI publishing journals. She is the organizer, co-chair, and editor of the proceedings of international scientific events: AISMA-2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: International Workshop on Advanced in Information Security Management and Applications, DMAI-2021: International Workshop on Data Mining and Al. She has participated in international internships at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2018, the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2018, the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in 2019, and the 2nd ASEF Innovation Laboratory of Higher Education (ASEFInnoLab) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 2020.