Biographical note

Rituparna Chaki is Professor of Information Technology in the University of Calcutta, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University in India in System Executive in the Ministry of Steel, Government of India for nine years, before joining academia in 2005 as a Reader of Computer Science & Engineering at the West Bengal University of Technology, India. She has been with the University of Calcutta since 2013. Her areas of research include optical networks, sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, Internet of Things, and data mining. She has nearly 100 publications to her credit. Dr. Chaki has also served on the program committees of various international conferences, and has been a regular Visiting Professor at the AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland for last few years. Dr. Chaki has co-authored a couple of books published by CRC Press, USA. 

Agostino Cortesi, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.He served as Dean of Computer Science Studies, as Department Chair, and as Vice-Rector for quality assessment and institutional affairs. His main research interests concern programming languages theory, software engineering, and static analysis techniques, with a focus on security applications. He has published more than 110 papers in high-level international journals and international conference proceedings. His h-index is 16 according to Scopus, and 24 according to Google Scholar. Agostino served several times as a member (or chair) of program committees of international conferences (e.g., SAS, VMCAI, CSF, CISIM, ACM SAC) and he is on the editorial boards of the journals “Computer Languages, Systems and Structures” and “Journal of Universal Computer Science”. Currently, he holds the chairs of “Software Engineering”,  “Program Analysis and Verification”, “Computer Networks and Information Systems” and “Data Programming”. 

Khalid Saeed is a Full Professor in the Facultyof Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, Poland. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology, in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his D.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He was a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the Bialystok University of Technology, where he is now working as a Full Professor. He was with AGH University of Science and Technology from 2008–2014. He is also working as a Professor with the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Warsaw University of Technology. His areas of interest are biometrics, image analysis and processing and computer information systems. He has published more than 220 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and edited 28 books, including 10 text- and reference books. He supervised more than 130 M.Sc.and 16 Ph.D. theses and given more than 40 invited lectures and keynotes in Europe, China, India, South Korea and Japan. He has received more than 20 academic awards and is a member of the editorial boards of over 20 international journals and conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member and was selected as IEEE Distinguished Speaker for 2011–2016. Khalid Saeed is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Biometrics, published by Inderscience. 

Nabendu Chaki is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He first graduated in Physics from the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Calcutta. He completed his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India in 2000. He shares 6 international patents, including 4 U.S. patents, with his students. Prof. Chaki has been active in developing international standards for software engineering and cloud computing as a member of the Global Directory (GD) for ISO-IEC. As well as editing more than 25 book volumes, Nabendu has authored 6 text- and research books and has published over 150 Scopus indexed research papers in journals and at international conferences. His areas of research interest include distributed systems, image processing and software engineering. Prof. Chaki also served as a Researcher in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is a visiting faculty member for numerous Universities in India and abroad. In addition to serving on the editorial board for several international journals, he has also been on the committees of over 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata.​