Dr. Deepa Jose works as Head of Department of Sponsored Research and Consultancy and Professor of ECE at KCG College of Technology, Chennai, India, and is an IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Women in Engineering Chair. She has done various outreach activities for women empowerment through IEEE WIE. She has completed Ph.D. in VLSI Design from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai in the year 2015. She is a life time member of IEI and IET. She has more than 18 years of teaching experience. She has Guideship from Anna University and produced one Ph.D. student and currently guiding eight Ph.D. students. She has Indian Patent Granted, two FER completed and one International Patent Grant. She has published more than 60 research papers in Journals, International Conferences in India and abroad. She is a member of Technical Committees of conferences and journals. Her areas of research interest include VLSI for wireless communication, deep learning, biomedical signal processing, IoT for healthcare, GIS initiatives, soft computing, and AI. She is recipient of Best Academic Practitioner Award from IET Chennai and IEEE Award for Professional Achievement. Deepa Jose has conducted 3 International Conferences and more than 30 Fdps/workshops/webinars. She has won three Best Paper awards. She has won two Best Research Paper Awards in the Fifth International Congress and Expo on Biotechnology and Bioengineering held in the United Kingdom and at IEEE INDISCON 2023 conducted by IEEE India Council.Dr. Preethi Nanjundan is an Associate Professor (SRG) in the Department of Data Science at Christ University, Pune, Lavasa campus, Maharashtra, India. She received her Doctorate degree from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, in 2014. She received her Master of Philosophy in computer science from Bharathiar University in 2007 and earned Master’s degree in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University in 2004. Her research and teaching experience spans 18 years. Besides publishing over 20 papers in international refereed journals, she has contributed chapters to various books and published 5 books. Four of her patents have also been granted. In 2020, she received the Best Professor award from Lead India and Vision Digital India. Her contributions to a book titled “Covid 19 and its Impact” have been inducted into the Indian and Asian books of records. Her research area includes machine learning, natural language processing, and neural network. She is a lifetime member of professional societies, including Computer Society of India (CSI), International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Computer Science Teachers Association, and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).Dr. Sanchita Paul is presently working as Associate Professor in BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand. She received her Ph.D. Degree from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, in the year January 2012. She received her M. Tech Degree from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, in the year 2006 and BE Degree from Burdwan University, West Bengal, in the year of 2004. Her research areas include artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of Things, machine learning and deep learning. She has guided five Ph.D. Scholars. She has published 60 International Journals of International repute. She also has six patents in area of health informatics, IoT and Cloud Computing. She has acted as session chair and editorial member of many international journals and conferences. She has published one book on cloud computing in Scholar’s Press, Germany and five book chapters. She has completed two projects and one ISRO-funded project is ongoing. She is life member of CSI. She is principal investigator in setting of cloud computing lab at BIT Mesra, Ranchi. Dr. Sachi Nandan Mohanty received his PostDoc from IIT Kanpur in the year 2019 and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India, in the year 2015, with MHRD scholarship from Govt of India. He has authored/edited 28 books, published by IEEE-Wiley, Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, NOVA, and DeGruyter. His research areas include data mining, big data analysis, cognitive science, fuzzy decision making, brain-computer interface, cognition, and computational intelligence. Prof. S N Mohanty has received four Best Paper Awards during his Ph.D. at IIT Kharagpur from International Conference at Beijing, China, and the other at International Conference on Soft Computing Applications organized by IIT Roorkee in the year 2013. He has awarded best thesis award first prize by Computer Society of India in the year 2015. He has guided nine Ph.D. scholars. He has published 120 International Journals of International repute and has been elected as FELLOW of Institute of Engineers, European Alliance Innovation (EAI), and Senior member of IEEE Computer Society Hyderabad chapter. He is also the reviewer of Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier), Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), Spatial Information Research (Springer).
