Biographical note

Atulya K. Nagar holds Foundation Chair as Professor of Mathematical Sciences and is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is also Head of the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, which he established at the university. He is Internationally Respected Scholar working at the cutting edge of theoretical computer science, applied mathematical analysis, operations research and systems engineering. He received a prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship to pursue his doctorate (D.Phil.) in Applied Nonlinear Mathematics, which he earned from the University of York (UK) in 1996. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.), an M.Sc. and M.Phil. (with distinction) in Mathematical Physics from the MDS University of Ajmer, India. His research expertise spans both applied mathematics and computational methods for nonlinear, complex and intractable problems arising in science, engineering and industry.  

Dharm Singh Jatreceived his Master of Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from prestigious universities in India. He is 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’s research scholars. He is Author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and Author or editor of more than 20 books. His interests span the areas of multimedia communications, wireless technologies, mobile communication systems, edge roof computing and software-defined networks, network security, Internet of Things. He has given several guest lecturer/invited talks at various prestigious conferences. He is Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (I), Fellow of Computer Society of India, Chartered Engineer (I), Senior Member IEEE and Distinguished ACM Speaker.  He also developed experiments based on simulation software for network experiments, research and project work for undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research is in developing video communication platforms for solving QoS issues in video communications and also developed a framework for video transmission over wireless networks for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Durgesh Kumar Mishra has received M.Tech. degree in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore, in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2008. Presently, he has been working as Professor (CSE) and Director, Microsoft Innovation Center at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore, MP, India. He is also Visiting Faculty at IIT-Indore, MP, India. He has 24 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. He completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. M. Chandwani on Secure Multi-Party Computation for Preserving Privacy. He has published more than 90 papers in refereed international/national journals and conferences including IEEE, ACM conferences. He has organized many such conferences like WOCN, CONSEG and CSIBIG in the capacity of Conference General Chair and Editor of conference proceedings. His publications are listed in DBLP, Citeseer-x, Elsevier and Scopus. He is Senior Member of IEEE and held many positions like Chairman, IEEE MP-Subsection (2011-2012) and Chairman IEEE Computer Society Bombay Chapter (2009-2010). He was Chairman in CSI Division IV Communication at National Level (2014-2016). He visited and delivered his invited talk in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Nepal, USA, UK and France. He has authored a book on “Database Management Systems”. He has been a consultant to the sales tax and labor department of the government of Madhya Pradesh, India. He has been awarded with “Paper Presenter award at International Level” by CSI. He visited MIT Boston and presented his presentation on Security and Privacy. He also chaired a panel on “Digital Monozukuri” at “Norbert Winner in the 21st century” at Boston. He became Member of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Government of India, for Information Security domain.

Amit Joshi is Entrepreneur and Researcher who has completed his graduation (B.Tech.) in Information Technology and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering and completed his research in the areas of Cloud Computing and Cryptography in Medical imaging with a focus on analysis of the current Government Strategies and World forums needs in different sectors on security purposes. He has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. He is Active Member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently, he is International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria). He has presented and published more than 50 papers in National and International Journals/Conferences of IEEE and ACM. He has also edited morethan 20 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. Apart from this academic involvement, he is also associated with the Business and Industry Community across the globe. He is currently Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, and his major work area is focused on building and making effective linkages among bureaucrats, industry associations, academic leaders and regulatory authorities for effective connectivity for taking up common issues related to research in different sectors. He is Director of Knowledge Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He majorly focuses on Academic Tie-ups for Medical, Engineering and Management sectors, and for the same, he is representing the organization in many delegations to countries including USA, UK, Canada, Israel and visited more than 15 countries. He always looks forward and strive for networking in various sectors with a focus on Education and Industry Sector.