Biographical note

Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) and Senior Researcher at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, India. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Pondicherry Central University, India. He is a member of the IEEE society. His current research focuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyber-physical systems, smart & secure computing, and privacy. He has contributed to several projects such as “AARIN” and “P3-Block” to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications (such as parking) and medical cyber-physical systems.
 
Ajith Abraham is the Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence connecting industry and academia. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As an Investigator and Co-Investigator, he has won research grants worth over 100+ Million US$ from Australia, the USA, EU, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, and China. His research focuses on real-world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, Web intelligence, Web services, and data mining. He is the Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is the editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and serves on the editorial board of several International Journals.
 
Arturas Kaklauskas is a Professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. His areas of interest include affective computing, neuro-marketing, intelligent tutoring systems, effective intelligent tutoring systems, massive open online courses (MOOCS), affective Internet of Things (IoT), smartly built environment, intelligent event prediction, opinion mining, intelligent decision support systems, life cycle analyses of built environments, energy, climate change, resilience management, healthy houses, sustainable built environments, big data and text analytics, intelligent library, and IoT. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Associate Editor of the Ecological Indicators Journal. He has published 09 books. The Belarusian State Technological University (Minsk, Belarus) has awarded him an Honorary Doctorate.