Biographical note

Dr. S.Vijayalakshmi, received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 1995 and Master of Computer Application degree in 1998 from Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India. She completed her Master of Philosophy in 2006. Mother Teresa women’s University, Kodaikanal, TN, India, awarded her with a Ph.D. degree in 2014. She has served as an Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2013 in the Department of Computer Science and Applications, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, TN, India, and in the School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, UP from 2013 to 2021. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Data Science Department in CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune, Lavasa Campus. She is having many academic portfolios associated with her current position. Her research area is on Image Processing and IoT. She has contributed to many international and national level conferences and reputed journals. She has published many book chapters and a few books are under process. She is also a member of many academic bodies such as IFERP. Other than teaching she is guiding the students in their research as well as academic-related activities.

Dr. S.P. Gayathri finished Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Applications in Gandhigram Rural Institute (DU), Dindigul, TN, India and currently working as a Guest Lecturer in Government Arts College for Women, Nilakottai. She has 15 years of teaching experience in the field of computer science in various colleges and in Gandhigram University. She has published many research articles in reputed journals and contributed book chapters. Her research interest is Digital and Medical Image Processing. She has published patents and books.

Dr. Samiksha Shukla is currently employed as an Associate Professor and Head, Data Science Department, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus. Her research interest includes Computation Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Big Data. She is a certified AWS Educator. She has presented and published several research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has 16 years of academic and research experience. She is serving as a reviewer for the Inderscience Journal, Springer Nature’s International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSA), and IEEE and ACM conferences. Dr Shukla is an experienced and focused teacher who is committed to promoting the education and well-being of students. She is passionate about innovation and good practices in teaching. She has constantly engaged in continuous learning to broaden her knowledge and experience. Her core expertise lies in Computational Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Healthcare-related projects. She is skilled at adopting a pragmatic approach in improvising solutions and resolving complex research problems. Dr. Shukla possesses an integrated set of competencies that encompass areas related to Teaching, Mentoring, Strategic Management, and establishing a Centre of Excellence via Industry tie-ups. She has a track record of driving unprecedented research and development projects with international collaboration and has been instrumental in organizing various National and International Events.

Dr. Parma Nand is PhD. in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Roorkee, M.Tech & B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi. Prof Parma Nand is having more than 27 years of experience both in industry and academia. He had received various awards like the best teacher award from Union Minister, the best students project guide award from Microsoft in 2015, and the best faculty award from cognizant in 2016. He had successfully completed government-funded projects and spearheaded the last five IEEE International conferences on Computing, Communication & Automation (ICCCA), IEEE students chapters, Technovation Hackathon 2019, Technovation Hackathon 2020, International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Intelligent Systems (ICCCIS-2021). He is a member Executive Council of IEEE UP section (R-10), a member Executive Committee of IEEE Computer and Signal Processing Society, member of Exec. India council Computer Society, member Executive Council Computer Society of India, Noida section and has acted as an observer in many IEEE conferences. He is also having active memberships of ACM, IEEE, CSI, ACEEE, ISOC, IAENG, and IASCIT. He is a lifetime member of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) and ISTE.

Dr. Balamurugan Balusamy is currently working as Professor in the School of Computing Sciences and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. His contributions focus on Engineering Education, Blockchain, and Data Sciences. His Academic degrees and twelve years of experience working as a Faculty in a global University like VIT University, Vellore have made him more receptive and prominent in his domain. He does have high-impact factor papers in Springer, Elsevier, and IEEE. He has done more than 50 Edited and authored books and collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS-ranked universities. 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 bachelor’s, Master and Ph.D. Degrees from Top premier institutions in India. His passion is teaching and adapting different design thinking principles while delivering his lectures. He has published 30+ books on various technologies and visited 15 plus countries for his technical course. He has several top-notch conferences on his resume and has published over 150 quality journals, conferences, and book chapters combined. He serves on the advisory committee for several startups and forums and does consultancy work for the industry on Industrial IoT. He has given over 175 talks at various events and symposiums. He is currently working as a professor at Galgotias University and teaches students and does research on Blockchain and IoT.