Biographical note

Dr. Anandakumar Haldorai, Professor (Associate) and Research Head in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has received his Master’s in Software Engineering and PhD in Information and Communication Engineering from PSG College of Technology under, Anna University, Chennai. His research areas include Big Data, Cognitive Radio Networks, Mobile Communications and Networking Protocols. He has authored more than 148 research papers in reputed International Journals and IEEE conferences. He has authored 12 books and many book chapters with reputed publishers such as Springer and IGI. He is Editor in Chief of KeAi – Elsevier IJIN, Associate Editor - IEEE Access, Academic Editor - PLOS ONE, Academic Editor - Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Academic Editor - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Associate Editor- International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Area Editor - EAI Energy Web and served as a reviewer for IEEE, IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier journals. He is also the guest editor of many journals with Elsevier, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, and Panellist in several conferences. He is senior member of IEEE, IET, ACM and Fellow member of EAI research group.

Dr. Arulmurugan Ramu is a Professor, Presidency University, Bengaluru, India. His research focuses on the automatic interpretation of images and related problems in machine learning and optimization. His main research interest is in vision, particularly high-level visual recognition. He has authored more than 52 papers in major computer vision and machine learning conferences and journals. He is the recipient of Ph.D. degrees in Information and Communication Engineering from the Anna University at Chennai, M.Tech in Information Technology Anna University of Technology and B.Tech degree in Information Technology. He is guided many Ph.D. research scholar under the area of Image Processing using Machine Learning. He is an Associate Editor of Inderscience IJISC journal. He is awarded as Best Young Faculty Award 2018 and nominated for Best Young Researcher Award (Male) by International Academic and Research Excellence Awards (IARE-2019).

Dr. Sudha Mohanram has graduated from Government College of Engineering, Salem and has obtained her master’s in engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. She has completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering in Anna University Chennai in the year 2010. She started her teaching profession as a Lecturer in Government College of Technology, Coimbatore. She possesses 20 years of teaching experience. When she was about 13 years into teaching profession, her family founded Sri Eshwar College of Engineering in 2008. She has been playing the role of Secretary till 2011 and became the Principal of the institution in 2011. She has steered the institution to be one of the most sought after institutions in Coimbatore, within a short span of time through its laudable achievement in Academic excellence and Placement. She has published many papers in leading journals. She is a member of IEEE and EAI research group.

Dr. Rita Zgheib is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Computational Science, Canadian University Dubai, UAE. She has 5+ years of academic and research experience in different university institutions in France and the UAE. Her research interests include - disease and epidemic detection, healthcare applications, IoT architecture, ontologies, semantic reasoning, Machine Learning, and software engineering. She has authored and co-authored several papers with experts from different countries (France, Italy, Norway, UAE) in international conferences and journals. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an active member of International Program Committees, Technical Program Committees, and Advisory Committees of several academics conferences.