Biographical note

Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Singh Rathore Presently working as Professor-CSE, Jaipur Engineering College & Research Centre, Jaipur (India), and in addition he is also Membership Chair, ACM Jaipur Chapter, and Past Chairman, CSI Jaipur Chapter. Having Teaching Experience of 20+ Years, 5 Patents published, 20 PhD Supervised, Published 94 Research Papers and 10 Books, Edited 12+ Conference Proceedings with Scopus/SCI indexing and associated as Editor & Reviewer in some reputed Journals, Received 20+ National and International Awards of Repute. His core research areas include Internet Security, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and IoT. He has organized and participated 25+ National & International Conferences of repute.His foreign visits for various academic activities (Delegate/Invited/Keynote Speaker/Session Chair/Guest) include USA, UK, Canada, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal etc. He had been member of Indian Higher Education Delegation and visited 20+ leading universities at Canada (May, 2019), UK (July, 2017), and USA (Aug, 2018) supported by AICTE and GR foundation. Other Delegation visits include University of Amsterdam (2016), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2018), University of Lincoln, QMUL, Brunel University, Oxford Brookes University (2020) for discussions on academic and research collaborations.He is an active academician and always welcoming and forming innovative ideas in the various dimensions of education and research for the better development of the society.

Prof. Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (1989). He is Full Professor in computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). He has been Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and visiting researcher at George Mason University, USA.His main research interests are: artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing architectures, fault tolerance, cloud computing infrastructures, and internet-of-things. Original results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He is IEEE Region 8 Director-elect (2021-22), will be IEEE Region 8 Director (2023-24)

Rosalina Babo is Coordinator Professor (Tenure) of Information Systems Department, Porto Accounting and Business Scholl of Polytechnic of Porto (ISCAP/ P.Porto), Portugal. From 2000 to 2022, Rosalina was Head of the Information Systems Department, and for about 12 years acted as a member of the university scientific board. Rosalina's international recognition was improved with the opportunity to be a Visiting Professor at several universities in different countries, namely Belgium (KU LEUVEN), Croatia (University of Split), Kosovo (University of Prishtina), and Latvia (Latvia University of Agriculture). Rosalina was one of the founders of CEOS.PP (former CEISE/STI) research center and its director for 5 years. Rosalina has served on committees for international conferences, and acts as a reviewer in scientific journals and conferences. As Book Editor, Rosalina collaborates with publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and IGI Global in the fields of data analysis in social networks and e-learning. Having several published papers, her main areas of research are e-learning, e-assessment, e-business, Internet applications focusing on usability and social networks.

Dr. Vivek Tiwari is currently with ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior as Associate Professor in Computer Sci. & Engg. Department from June 2023. Earlier, he was associated with IIIT-Naya Raipur, C. G. India as Professor Incharge (Department of Data Science and AI) and faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT-Naya Raipur, C. G. India from June’16 to June’23. He received the B.Eng. Degree (Comp. Sci. & Engg.) from the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, in 2004, and the M.Tech. degree (Comp. Sci. & Engg.) from SATI, Vidisha (MP) in 2008. He has obtained Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MA-NIT), India in 2015 in the area of Data mining and warehousing. Earlier, he has professional work experience with industries like NIC Delhi, Caresoft Incorporation (based at Middlesex, NJ, USA) as Software Engineer, and with an academic institute also.Dr. Tiwari is a recipient of the Young Scientist Fellowship (MPYSC_2014_814) for the year 2014-2016 by the MPCST (Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology), Govt. of M.P. He has handled8 external projects (worth more than 1 crore) sponsored by agencies like Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), IIT Bombay, MHRD India, National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU) Delhi, Agriculture University, CG. Dr. Tiwari also gives his services in consultancy, currently handling three consultancy projects worth Rs. 20 crores with the Government of Chhattisgarh. He is an active member of various professional societies, recently elected as Chair Newsletter committee IEEE MP Section, and as vice-president, Computer Society of India (CSI), Raipur (CG.) chapter for the year 2021-22. Dr. Tiwari has successfully organized three reputed International conferences sponsored by IEEE and Springer. He has shown his interest to conduct various Faculty Development Programs (FDP) funded by external agencies. He has received around 27 lakhs for organizing such more than 20 workshops. Dr. Tiwari has developed and established various labs (Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Lab (AIDL), Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Lab, IoT lab, Data Science lab, and Computer Programing lab) of worth 3.5 crores in IIIT Naya Raipur. Dr. Tiwari has published research work (more than 80) in various reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, conferences, etc. Two edited books, one Indian patent, and one international patent are in his credit. He has also received travel and registration grants for attending various conferences. His current research interest is in Machine/Deep Learning, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Business Analytics, Data Warehousing.