Biographical note

Prof. Dr. Soumen Banerjee is Head of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata. He was also the Guest-Faculty at the Department of Applied Physics, Science College (Razabazar Campus), University of Calcutta and also Ex-Faculty of Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata. He has a teaching experience of 18+ years. He obtained B.Sc degree with Honours in Physics from University of Calcutta and both B.Tech and M.Tech degrees from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta, India. He obtained his PhD degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. He carried out research in the field of Millimeter wave and Tera-Hertz (THz) semiconductor devices and systems in the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta for a period of 5 years. He also carried out research in the field of Antenna Engineeringat Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur for a period of 4 years. His research interest includes wide band gap semiconductor based Impatt diodes design, fabrication and characterization in D-band, W-band and THz frequencies, SIW technology based antennas, printed antennas and arrays, FSS, Dielectric Resonator antennas and Body wearable antennas. He has published 75+ research papers in International Journals and International/National Conferences. Prof. Banerjee has authored 10 books and 3 book chapters in fields of Communication Engineering, Electromagnetic Field Theory, Microwave and Antenna. His profile is included in IBC, Cambridge, England and Marquis Who’s Who in the World, USA. He is a corporate member of IEEE (USA) and IEEE AP Society, IETE (New Delhi, India) and IE (India). Prof. Banerjee is reviewer of several International Journals like IEEE Sensors Letter, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL-Wiley), Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (Taylor & Francis), Radioengineering Journal (Czech and Slovak Technical Univ.), Journal of Computational Electronics (Springer-Nature), Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (American Institute of Physics-AIP), Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (Springer-Nature), etc.

Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, M. Tech. in Computer Science from University of Calcutta in 1987, awarded Ph. D. (Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently working as Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management, KU for two consecutive terms during 2008-2012. Director, IQAC, Kalyani University and Chairman, CIRM, and Placement Cell. Served as Professor Computer Applications, Kalyani Government Engineering College for two years, as Associate Professor Computer Science for eight years at North Bengal University, as Assistant Professor Computer Science North Bengal University for seven years, as lecturer at NERIST, Itanagar for one year. 32 years of teaching and research experience in Coding theory, Data and Network Security and authentication; Remote Sensing & GIS based Applications, Data Compression, Error Correction, Visual Cryptography and Steganography. Awarded 23 Ph. D. Degrees, one submitted and 8 are pursuing. Supervised 03 M. Phil, more than 70 M. Tech and more than 125 M.C.A Dissertations. Guest Editor of MST Journal (SCI indexed) of Springer. Published more than 400 research articles out of which 170 articles in International Journals. Published 7 books from LAP Germany, IGI Global etc. Organized 31 International Conferences and Corresponding Editors of edited volumes and conference publications of Springer, IEEE and Elsevier etc. and edited 32 volumes as volume editor.