Ripon Patgiri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, New Delhi, in 2009, M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2012 and a Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, in 2019. Dr. Patgiri has numerous papers published in reputed journals, conferences, and books. His research interests include bloom filters, networking, security, privacy, secrecy, and communication. He is a member of several professional bodies such as IEEE, ACCS (India), ACM, EAI, and IETE. He is Area Editor of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on the Internet of Things. Dr. Patgiri serves as Editor of several conference proceedings.Sivaji Bandyopadhyay is the Director of NIT Silchar since December 2017. He is a Professor of the Department of Computer Scienceand Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, where he has been serving since 1989. He is also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Silchar. Dr. Bandhyopadhyay has over 300 journal publications and 2 books to his credit. His research interests are natural language processing, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and medical imaging. He has organized several conferences and has been Program Committee Member and Area Chair in several reputed conferences. He has completed international funded projects with France, Japan, and Mexico. At the national level, he has been the Principal Investigator of several consortium mode projects in machine translation, cross-lingual information access, and treebank development. He is presently the Principal Investigator of an Indo-German SPARC project with the University of Saarlandes, Germany, on Multimodal Machine Translation and the Co-PI of several other international projects.Malaya Dutta Borah is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Silchar. She received her Ph.D. degree from Delhi Technological University. She has published several papers in reputed journals, conferences, and books. She has rich experience in conducting conferences and workshops.Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas authored over 350 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to InternationalJournal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Member of Editorial Board Member of several national and international journals, and is evaluator expert for national, international projects, and Ph.D. thesis.
