Dr. Pranav Kumar Prabhakar is currently working as a Professor and Head at Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University, Meriema, Kohima, Nagaland, India. He is among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (list published by Stanford University, USA, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025). He completed his PhD in Biotechnology from IIT Madras. His research focuses on elucidating molecular mechanisms and strategies for oral insulin delivery and mimicking signaling pathways in metabolic disorders (diabetes) using natural products. Dr. Pranav is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. He serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for many reputed national and international journals. His honors include a travel grant from IIT Madras and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to attend ATTD 2009 in Greece, approved by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). He has published over 160+ research articles, authored/edited 24 books, and 48 book chapters, and delivered 9 oral and poster presentations at scientific meetings.Arun Kumar Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy at University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rayat Bahra University V.P.O. Sahauran, India. He completed his M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics from Galgotias University, Greater Noida. His research interests include nano-formulation, blockchain, IoT, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, cancer biology, and neuroscience. He has contributed to academic books and book chapters and has published review articles in the areas of pharmaceutical sciences and healthcare technology. His work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches integrating pharmaceutical research with emerging digital and computational technologies. Prateek Agrawal is professor and deputy dean at the School of Computer Science & Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. His research areas include natural language processing, computer vision, video processing, expert systems, deep learning applications, and other related topics. He is a senior member of IEEE and core member of IEEE India Council for Sustainable Development Activity, and is also a member of different reputed organizations like IET, MIR lab, and IAENG among others. Dr. Agarwal has published over 70 research papers in Scopus/SCIE indexed journals and conferences, 60 national patents, five edited books, and 10 book chapters. He is book series editor of the IOP series on next generation computing, and is a reviewer for many SCIE journals like Multimedia tools and Applications, Plos One, PeerJ, Oxford computer science, IEEE Access, and Ambient Intelligent & Humanized Computing.Radu Prodan is professor of distributed systems at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He was an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck until 2018. His research interests include performance, optimization, and resource management tools for parallel and distributed systems, as well as middleware system tools for cloud, fog, and edge computing. He has participated in numerous projects, including coordinating the Horizon 2020 project ARTICONF. He has coauthored over 200 publications and received three IEEE best paper awards. He is a member of ACM.
