Biographical note

Pethuru Raj PhD works as chief architect and vice president of site reliability engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. Bangalore. Previously he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Bangalore. He worked as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained more than 18 years of IT industry experience. He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has authored and edited 18 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as Containerized Clouds; Big, Fast, and Streaming Data Analytics; Microservices architecture (MSA); Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms; Blockchain Technology; The Internet of Things; and Edge Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. Dr. Pushan Kumar Dutta is an Assistant Professor Grade III at Amity University Kolkata, specializing in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University and completed a Postdoctoral fellowship as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the University of Oradea. His research interests include data mining, AI, edge computing, and predictive analytics, focusing on applications in smart cities, healthcare, and sustainable development. Dr. Dutta has published over 114 articles in Scopus-indexed journals and has edited more than 30 books for prestigious publishers in 2023-2024. He is recognized as a reviewer for leading academic publishers and has received accolades such as the 'Mentor of Change' from NITI Aayog. Committed to innovative teaching, he authored "Innovative Digital Teaching and Learning for Professional Readiness" and holds two Indian patents. Dr. Dutta is a Threws Fellow member and a senior member of the Indian Institute of Engineering. Professor Peter Han Joo Chong is the Associate Head of School (Research) at the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Between 2016 and 2021, he was the Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at AUT. He received the B.Eng. (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1993, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He has visited Tohoku University, Japan, as a Visiting Scientist in 2010 and Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, between 2011 and 2012. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, CUHK. He is an Honorary Professor at Amity University, India. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), UK. Prof. Chong is listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University in 2022. Before joining AUT in 2016, Professor Chong was an Associate Professor (tenured) from July 2009 to April 2016 and Assistant Professor from May 2002 to June 2009 at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Assistant Head of Division of Communication Engineering. Between 2013 and 2016, he was the Director of Infinitus, Centre for Infocomm Technology. He was the recipient of ‘EEE Teaching Excellence Award’ and ‘Nanyang Award Excellence in Teaching’ in 2010, and ‘Nanyang Education Award (College)’ in 2015. In 2015, he became a Fellow of the Teaching Excellence Academy in NTU. From February 2001 to May 2002, he was with the Radio Communications Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Between July 2000 and January 2001, he worked in the Advanced Networks Division at Agilent Technologies Canada Inc., Canada. He co-founded P2 Wireless Technology in Hong Kong in 2009 and Zyetric Technologies in Hong Kong, New Zealand and US in 2017. His current research projects focus on machine learning techniques applied to software defined vehicular networks. He has been developing techniques of deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based resource management for future 5G-V2X networks. His research interests are in the areas of wireless/mobile communications systems including radio resource management, multiple access, MANETs/VANETs, green radio networks and 5G-V2X networks. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers, 1 edited book and 13 book chapters in the relevant areas. Houbing Song, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, USA. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity and privacy, IoT, big data analytics, connected vehicles, smart health, wireless communications, and networking. Dr. Song has edited and authored several books in the field, including Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications. Dmitry A. Zaitsev received the Eng. degree in applied mathematics from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute, Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1986, the Ph.D. degree in automated control from the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine, in 1991, and the D.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Odessa, Ukraine, in 2006. He is a professor of Computer Science Department, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, senior member of the ACM and IEEE, recently visiting professor to Université Côte d’Azur, France. In 2017, he was a visiting professor to The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA on a Fulbright scholarship, working in the Innovative Computing Laboratory headed by Jack Dongarra. As a result, a joint paper was published and software ParAd issued. Dmitry A. Zaitsev developed: theory of linear system clans; small universal Petri and Sleptsov nets in explicit form; generalized neighbourhood for cellular automata; theory of infinite Petri nets; Sleptsov net computing; equivalent transformations of timed Petri nets, algorithm for fuzzy logic function synthesis. He designed the Opera-Topaz system for production control, models of protocols and networking technologies TCP, BGP, IOTP, MPLS, Bluetooth, PBB, offered and implemented in the Linux kernel a new stack of networking protocols E6.