Biographical note

Prof. Dr. Debashis De is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He received M. Tech. from the University of Calcutta, in 2002 and a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2005. He is a Senior Member-IEEE, Fellow IETE, and Life member CSI. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008–2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Belgium. In 2016 he received the JC Bose research award from IETE, New Delhi. In 2019 he received the Shiksha-Ratna Award from the Govt. of West Bengal. He established the Center of Mobile Cloud Computing (CMCC) for IoT applications. He published in 390 journals and 200 conference papers, fifteen books, and has four patents granted. He has projects sponsored by AICTE, UGC, WBDST, DST, WBDST, World Bank, AWS, and MeitY. His research interest is Mobile Cloud Computing, AI, IoT, and Quantum Computing.

Dr. Diganta Sengupta is a Fellow of IETE, Senior member of IEEE and ACM, Life member of Computer Society of India and The Institution of Engineers (India). He is also a senior member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has served as the State Student Coordinator for West Bengal, India for Computer Society of India (CSI), and as the elected member of the Managing Committee CSI Kolkata Chapter. He received his B. Tech. (2004) from University of Kalyani, WB, IN, his M. Tech. (2010), and Ph.D. (Engg.) (2016) from Jadavpur University, WB, IN. Dr. Diganta Sengupta is presently working in the capacity of Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE, Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata, IN. Formerly he was associated with Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India in the capacity of Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE, and Faculty-In-Charge for the Dept. of Computer Science and Business Systems (additional responsibility). He has a cumulative teaching exposure of 19 Years and counting. His research interests include Computer Vision, Computational Healthcare, Bio-Informatics, Intelligent Ocean Health Management, and Intelligent Agriculture. He is the funded investigator of SERB-SURE, Govt. of India in bioinformatics. He is the Editorial Board member of multiple International Journals, and has also served as reviewer. He has also been associated with reputed international IEEE and Springer conferences in multiple committee member capacities. He has served as the guest editor of IET Quantum Communication, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Elsevier and Springer Nature Computer Science.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran is a Senior Researcher at Seoul National University, Seoul city, South Korea. He is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Department of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong City, Vietnam. He is an Honorary Professor at School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India and an Honorary Adjunct Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University (LPU), India. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Faculty at SIMATS Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Tamilnadu, India. He received B.Eng and M.Sc at Vietnam Maritime University, Vietnam in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He got Ph.D. Degree at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China in 2018. He is an Editor/Guest Editor for journals such as Environment, Development and Sustainability, IET Intelligent Transport System, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology, International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Mathematics. In 2015, he was awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) for the full funding of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in China. In 2019, he was awarded the NEPTUNE prize for the outstanding researchers by Vietnam Maritime University, and in 2022 was one of five outstanding scientists in Vietnam to be nominated for Ta Quang Buu prize by the National Foundation for Science & Technology Development (NAFOSTED). Additionally, he had been selected and awarded the full scholarship for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of National Research Foundation (NRF) for Foreign Researchers by the Government of South Korea.