Biographical note

R. Asokan received his B.E. degree in electronics and communication from Bharathiar University and M.S. degree in electronics and control from Birla Institute of Technology. He obtained M.Tech. degree in electronics and communication from Pondicherry Engineering College, with distinction. He obtained Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Anna University, Chennai. He is currently the Principal, Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Thottiyam, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 65 papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has over 25 years of teaching experience. He is a member of various scientific and professional societies. His areas of interest include wireless networks, network security, and image processing.
Diego P. Ruiz received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He was a teacher in the University of Malaga in 1994–1995, and he is currently associate professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada. He is also coordinator of courses in the open training classroom of the University of Granada. He is interested and participates in several commissions and projects for the assessment of teaching quality and teaching innovation, and collaborates in science dissemination activities through the Scientific Culture Unit of the University of Granada. His current research interests are environmental pollution and its modeling, especially acoustic and electromagnetic pollution, signal processing and energy efficiency in buildings. His main contributions have been in the development of signal processing algorithms for the automatic classification of radar objects, analysis, and modeling of data coming from physical agents (noise and vibrations), development of indoor air quality indices and new technologies for pollution control.
Zubair A. Baig is currently Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security with the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia. He is also Co-Director of the Security and Privacy in IoT (SPYRiT) Research Lab and Division Lead, IoT, Critical Infrastructure and CPS Security, Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI). He has authored/co-authored over 85 journal and conference papers and book chapters. His research interests are in the areas of cyber-security, the IoT, artificial intelligence, and optimization algorithms. He is serving as Editor for the IET Wireless Sensor Systems Journal and PSU—A Review Journal. He has served on numerous technical program committees of international conferences and has delivered more than 15 keynote talks on cyber-security.
Selwyn Piramuthu is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Florida, where he has taught since Fall 1991. Trained in machine learning, his research interests also include cryptography with applications related to IoT/RFID, privacy/security, supply chain management, among others. His (co-authored with Wei Zhou) book titled, “RFID and Sensor Network Automation in the Food Industry” was published by Wiley in 2016. He received his B.Tech., M.S., and Ph.D., respectively, from IIT-Madras, University of Arizona, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.