Biographical note

Himansu Das is an as Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. He holds B. Tech and M. Tech degrees from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha, India. He has published several research papers in various international journals and conferences and has also edited several international books. He is a member of the editorial and review boards of a number of journals and conferences and has served as the organizing chair, publicity chair and as a member of the program committees of several national and international conferences. He is also associated with various educational and research societies like IACSIT, ISTE, UACEE, CSI, IET, IAENG, and ISCA. His research interests include grid computing, cloud computing, and machine learning.

Prasant Kumar Pattnaik, PhD (Computer Science), fellow of the IETE, and senior member of the IEEE, is a Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIITUniversity, Bhubaneswar. He has more than a decade of teaching and research experience, and has published several papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. His areas of specialization are mobile computing, cloud computing, brain computer interface and privacy preservation. He has also edited various volumes for Springer and IGI Global.

Siddharth Swarup Rautaray, PhD (Information Technology), and member of the IET, IEEE, ACM is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. His research interests include big data analytics, human computer interaction and image processing. He has published research papers in various international journals and conferences. He has been an organizing chair/committee member for a number of international conferences, workshops and symposiums, and a reviewer for various journals and conferences.

Kuan-Ching Li is currently a Distinguished Professor at Providence University, Taiwan. He is a recipient of awards and funding support from several agencies and industrial companies, as he also received distinguished chair professorships from universities in China and other countries. Besides publication in refereed journals and top conference papers, he is co-author/co-editor of more than 25 technical professional books published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Springer, and McGraw-Hill. Dr. Li’s research interests include GPU/manycore computing, Big Data, and cloud. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of the IET.