Biographical note

Dr. Smita Sharma is a Senior IEEE member and member Executive Committee IEEE UP Section. She has completed her PhD degree from Uttarakhand Technical University (Central Govt University) in the field of Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. She received her B.Tech from Galgotias College of Engineering and M.Tech degree from Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Uttar Pradesh, India in Electronics and Communication Engineering. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has published over 35+ articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences of international repute. Apart from that, 04 Book Chapters and 03 Indian Patents are under her credit. She has various Edited books and collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS-ranked Universities. Her current research interests include IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Security, and AI. Her current focus in WSN is improving the lifetime and efficiency of sensor networks. She serves as a reviewer of many peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She is the organizer for several IEEE conferences like ICIPTM2022, ICIEM2022, ICCAKM2022, ICTACS 2022, IC3I 2022,23, UPCON2023, IC3SE 2024. She has given several talks at various events and symposiums. She has also served on the publication team of several conferences of internationally reputed journals and member of IAENG and CSI societies. Her main research interest is in Wireless Sensor networks, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.

Prof. Balamurugan Balusamy is currently working as an Associate Dean Student in Shiv Nadar University, Delhi- NCR. Prior to this assignment he was Professor, School of Computing Sciences & Engineering and Director International Relations at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. His contributions focus on Engineering Education, Block chain and Data Sciences. His Academic degrees and twelve years of experience working as a faculty in a global University like VIT University, Vellore has made him more receptive and prominent in his domain. He does have 200 plus high impact factor papers in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE. He has done more than 80 Edited and authored books and collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS ranked university. Prof. Balamurugan Balusamy has served up to the position of Associate Professor in his stint of 12 years of experience with VIT University, Vellore. He had completed his Bachelors, Masters and PhD Degrees from premier institutions from India. His passion is teaching and adapts different design thinking principles while delivering his lectures. He has published 80+ books on various technologies and visited 15 plus countries for his technical course. He has several top-notch conferences in his resume and has published over 200 of quality journal, conference and book chapters combined. He serves in the advisory committee for several start- ups and forums and does consultancy work for industry on Industrial IOT. He has given over 195 talks in various events and symposium.

Dr. Manikandan Thirumalaisamy working as a Professor in the Department of CSBS, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India.He holds a PhD degree in Information and Communication Engineering at Anna University Chennai, India. He secured a Master of Engineering in the CSE Department at Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. He has been in the teaching profession for more than 18 years. He has published 15+ research papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His research and publication interests include Networks, Cybersecurity, Intrusion Detection Systems, computational intelligence, Wireless Networks, and congestion control. He is a Senior member of the IEEE, ACM, Member and CSI Life Member.

Professor Naveen Chilamkurti is the Head of the Cybersecurity discipline and Associate Dean (International Partnerships) at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He also received the Australia-India Cybersecurity Infrastructure Grant, jointly funded by DFAT and the Indian government. He is a keynote speaker at various international conferences and has been recently elected as an IET (UK) fellow. He has an extensive research record in cybersecurity. He has published 360 journals/conference articles in Cybersecurity, IoT, Anomaly detection in IoT, the Internet of Medical Things, Wireless Security, Federated Learning in IoT, wireless multimedia, wireless sensor networks, and software-defined networks. He is active in editing and authoring 9 books with reputed publishers. He has successfully attracted 20 research grants since 2000 to support PhD Scholarships, fellowships, and travel grants for research collaboration. Prof. Chilamkurti secured 24 competitive grants from various sources, including SMART SAT CRC, Data61/CSIRO, Defence Science Institute, Australian Academy of Science, and OPTUS telecommunications. He was instrumental in designing and developing cybersecurity micro-credentials and other short courses now delivered online. He has taught networking, security, and cyber areas for 26 years and has supervised 51 research students to complete their master's and PhD programs. He is also the director of La Trobe Cybersecurity Innovation Node, primarily focused on research, upskilling, and certification in cybersecurity programs.