Dr. V. Nath was born in Gorakhpur (U.P.) India in 1976. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physics and master’s degree in Electronics from DDU Gorakhpur University, India, in 1998 and 2001. He received PGDCN (GM) from MMMUT Gorakhpur in 1999 and Ph.D. degree in VLSI Design & Technology from Dr. RML Avadh University Ayodhya in association with CEERI, Pilani, in 2008. From 2000 to 2001, he was Project Trainee in IC Design Group, CEERI, Pilani. Presently, he is Associate Professor in the Department of ECE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (JH) India, and joined this institute in 2006. His research interests include micro & nano-electronics, analog & digital VLSI design, ASICs, embedded systems designs, Internet of things & machine learning. He has to his credit around 195 publications in reputed Scopus & SCI journals and conferences, and 3 scholars were awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision. He has successfully completed two R&D projects funded by DST New Delhi with DRDL Hyderabad and MHRD New Delhi, and the third project is in ongoing stage funded by RESPOND SAC ISRO Ahmedabad. He has received 100 crore projects as Co-PI in NM-ICPS (TIH) in BIT Mesra (Spokes) for development of e-farming platform for enhancement of production marketing and income of Indian farmers in August 2020. He is the editor of Nanoelectronics, Circuits & Communication Systems, Proceeding of NCCS-2015, NCCS-2017, NCCS-2018, & NCCS-2019 published in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 & the editor of Microelectronics, Computing & Communication Systems, Proceeding of MCCS-2015, MCCS-2017, MCCS-2018 & MCCS-2019 published in 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 in Scopus book series: LNEE, Springer. He is a member of several professional societies and academic bodies including IETE, ISTE, ISVE and IEEE. Prof. J.K. Mandal received his M.Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1986 and M.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta and was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Currently, he is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, West Bengal, for two consecutive terms. He started his career as a lecturer at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, in September 1988, and has 30 years’ teaching and research experience. 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 to his credit more than 30 proceedings volumes, 6 books, 160 journals and 300 other articles. He is one of the editors for the Springer AISC and CCIS Series, and 23 scholars were awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision.
