Biographical note

Prof. Dharm Singh Jat received his degree Master of Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from prestigious universities in India. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). From 1990 to 2014, he was with the College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural and Technology – [MPUAT], Udaipur, India. He has guided about 8 Ph.D. and 24 master research scholars.

He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and the author or editor of more than 20 books. His interests span the areas of multimedia communications, wireless technologies, mobile communication systems, edge roof computing software-defined networks, network security and Internet of things. He has given several Guest Lecturer/Invited talk at various prestigious conferences. He has been the recipient of more than 19 prestigious awards, such as Eminent Scientist Award, Distinguished Academic Achievement, Eminent Engineering Personality, CSI Chapter Patron, CSI Significant Contribution, Best Faculty Researcher, Best Technical Staff, Outstanding University Service Award and Distinguished ACM Speaker Award. Prof. Dharm Singh is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (I), Fellow of Computer Society of India, Chartered Engineer (I), Senior Member IEEE and Distinguished ACM Speaker.

Dr. Samiksha Shukla is currently employed as an Associate Professor and Head, Data Science Department, CHRIST (Deemed to   be University), Lavasa, Pune Campus. Her research interest includes computation security, machine learning, data science and big data. She has presented and published several research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has 15 years of academic and research experience and is serving as a reviewer for Inderscience Journal, Springer Nature’s International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSA) and for IEEE and ACM conferences.

Dr. Aynur Unal, educated at Stanford University (class of ’73), comes from a strong engineering design and manufacturing tradition, majored in Structural Mechanics-Mechanical Engineering-Applied Mechanics and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University. She has taught at Stanford University till mid 80’s and established the Acoustics Institute in conjunction with NASA-AMES research fellowships funds. Her work on “New Transform Domains for the Onset of Failures” received the most innovative research awards. Most recently she is bringing in the social responsibility dimension into her incubation and innovation activities by getting involved in social entrepreneurial projects on street children and ageing care. She is also the Strategic Adviser for Institutional Development to IIT Guwahati. She is a preacher of Open Innovation, and she always encourages students to innovate and helps them with her support.

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra has received M.Tech.degree in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore, in 1994 and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering in 2008. Presently he is working as Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Centre at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is having around 24 years of teaching experience and more than 6 years of research experience. His research topics are secure multi-party computation, image processing and cryptography. He has published more than 80 papers in refereed international/national journals and conferences including IEEE and ACM. He is a senior member of IEEE, Computer Society of India and ACM. He has played very important role in professional society as Chairman. He has been a consultant to industries and Government organization like Sales tax and Labor Department of Government of Madhya Pradesh, India.