Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues [S’01, M’06, SM’06, F’20] is a professor at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil; senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal; and collaborator of the Post-Graduation Program on Teleinformatics Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. Prof. Rodrigues is the leader of the Next Generation Networks and Applications (NetGNA) research group (CNPq), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council, and the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis – Covilhã Science and Technology Park. He was Director for Conference Development - IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, Technical Activities Committee Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Region Board, a Past-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth, a Past-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software, a Steering Committee member of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community and Publications co-Chair. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications and editorial board member of several high-reputed journals. He has been general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE HEALTHCOM, and IEEE LatinCom. He has authored or coauthored over 950 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, 3 books, 2 patents, and 1 ITU-T Recommendation. He had been awarded several Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a member of the Internet Society, a senior member ACM, and Fellow of IEEE.Parul Agarwal is associated with Jamia Hamdard since 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her area of specialization includes Fuzzy Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Sustainablecomputing, and Soft Computing. Her particular interest includes applications of Sustainable Computing in Agriculture, transportation and health care. She has published several papers in reputed and SCI, Scopus and Elsevier indexed journals and many book chapters published by CRC press, Springer, IGI-Global are to her credit. She is Editor of three books with reputed publishers like CRC, and Springer. She has chaired several sessions of International/ National Conferences of repute. Currently, several PhD. Scholars are working under her supervision in the field of Brain Signalling, Energy minimization in Cloud, Time series forecasting, and Smart Building management for smart cities. She has organized a workshop as Principal Investigator in 2017, on “Use of ICT in sustainable Computing” approved by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, worth 5.75 Lakhs. A member of several committees at university level and membership of several professional bodies like ISTE, IEEE are toher credit.Kavita Khanna has more than two decades of teaching, research and administrative experience. Currently she is associated with Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University as Campus Director of Dwarka Campus. She has done her PhD from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, New Delhi. Her research areas include Soft Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics and Algorithm Design. She has to her credit more than 60 publications in reputed journals and conferences including Elsevier, Springer and Taylor & Francis. She has organized multiple International Conferences in collaboration with Elsevier and Springer. She has been a part of many conferences as session chair and have delivered multiple guest lectures at platforms of repute. She has successfully guided 20 MTech & 2 PhD scholars and currently 5 research scholars are working under her supervision. Apart from teaching-learning and research, she has also worked as a Radio Jockeywith AIR FM Gold for 16 years. She believes that there is no end to learning and this motivates her to attend various National and International Conferences, Workshops and Faculty Development Programs.
