Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is
currently working as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS),
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science
Engineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad and Master degree in Computer Science and
Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. He
has more than 27 years of teaching and research experience. His research
interest includes machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence studies and
their applications to engineering. He has more than 98 publications to his
credit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He
has edited many volumes from Springer AISC and LNCS in past and he is also the
editorial board member in few international journals. He is a senior member of
IEEE and Life Member of Computer society of India. Currently, he is the
National Chairman of Division-V(Education and Research) of Computer Society of
India.
Dr. J.K. Mandal has M.Sc. in
Physics from Jadavpur University in 1986, M.Tech. in Computer Science from
University of Calcutta. He was awarded PhD. in Computer Science &
Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently, he is working as
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and former Dean, Faculty of
Engineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, Kalyani, Nadia,
West Bengal for two consecutive terms. He started his career as lecturer at
NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh in September, 1988. He has teaching and research
experience of 28 years. His areas of research include coding theory, data and
network security, remote sensing and GIS based applications, data compression,
error correction, visual cryptography, steganography, security in MANET,
wireless networks and unify computing. He has produced 11 PhD degrees, three
submitted (2015) and 8 are ongoing. He has supervised 3 M.Phil and 30M.Tech
thesis. He is life member of Computer Society of India since 1992, CRSI since
2009, ACM since 2012, IEEE since 2013 and Fellow member of IETE since 2012,
Executive member of CSI Kolkata Chapter. He has delivered invited lectures and
acted as program chair of many international conferences and also edited 9
volumes of proceedings from Springer AISC series, CSI 2012 from McGraw-Hill,
CIMTA 2013 from Procedia Technology, Elsevier. He is reviewer of various
International Journals and Conferences. He has over 355 articles and 5 books
published to his credit.
Dr. Siba K. Udgata is a Professor of School of Computer and Information
Sciences, University of Hyderabad,
India. He is presently
heading Centre for Modelling, Simulation and Design (CMSD), a high performance
computing facility at University
of Hyderabad. He has got
his Masters followed by Ph.D in Computer Science (mobile computing and wireless
communication). His main research interests are Wireless Communication, Mobile
Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks and Intelligent Algorithms. He was a United
Nations Fellow and worked in the United
Nations University/
International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macau
as research fellow in the year 2001. Dr. Udgata is working as a principal
investigator in many Government of India funded research projects mainly for
development of wireless sensor network applications and application of swarm
intelligence techniques. He has published extensively in refereed international
journals and conferences in India
as well as abroad. He was also in the editorial board of many Springer
LNCS/LNAI and Springer AISC Proceedings.
Prof. Vikrant Bhateja is Associate
Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Shri
Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow and also
the Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. His area of
research include digital image and videoprocessing, computer vision, medical
imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks,
soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90
quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings.
Prof. Vikrant has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the above
domain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been the track
chair and served in the core-technical/editorial teams for international
conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-ASIC Series and
INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is associate editor in International
Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also serving in the editorial
board of International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience
Publishers. At present he is guest editors for two special issues floated in
International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and
International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global
publications.