Biographical note

Prof. H. R. Vishwakarma, an engineer turned academician, is serving VIT University, Vellore since 2004.  He has about 30 years of experience both in industry and academia. He served R&D Division of ITI Limited (A Govt. of India Undertaking), Bangalore during 1987–2001 and rose to the position of Deputy Chief Engineer (R&D). Subsequently, he briefly worked in software industry at Bangalore and with IIITM Kerala, Trivandrum. After joining VIT University in 2004 as Professor of IT, Prof. Vishwakarma also became a founder member of TIFAC-CORE on Automotive Infotronics (sponsored by DST, Govt. of India). Later, he contributed to the formation of School of Computing Sciences and served till 2009 holding various leadership positions. He is currently with School of Information Technology & Engineering as Senior Professor. During his entire professional career, Prof. Vishwakarma has been striving to promote industry–academia interaction. He is a Fellow of Computer Society of India (CSI) and active member of many professional societies including ACM and IEEE. He served CSI for over 15 years holding various positions including Honorary Secretary at national level during 2010–12. He also served as President, Engineering Sciences Section of Indian Science Congress Association during 2011–12. Prof. Vishwakarma has organized several conferences, published several technical papers and edited conference proceedings. He holds B.E. degree from Govt. Engineering College, Jabalpur and M.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay.

Dr. Shyam Akashe is a Professor in ITM University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He did his PhD from Thapar University, Punjab and M.Tech from Institute of Technology & Management, Gwalior in Electronics and Communication Engineering. There are more than 190 publications to his credit including more than 50 papers in SCI indexed journals. He has supervised approximately 50 PG students and 8 PhD scholars till date. Main focus of his research is low power system on chip (SoC) applications in which static random access memories (SRAMs) are omnipresent. He has authored two books entitled ‘Moore’s Law Alive: Gate-All-Around (GAA) Next Generation Transistor’ published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany and ‘Low Power High Speed CMOS Multiplaxer Design’ published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, USA. He has also published over 120 papers in refereed journals of national and international repute. Dr. Akashe has participated in many national and international conferences and presented over 100 papers.