Biographical note

Ashish Khanna has 16 years of expertise in Teaching, Entrepreneurship and Research & Development. He received his Ph.D. degree from NIT, Kurukshetra. He has completed his M.Tech. and B.Tech. GGSIPU, Delhi. He has completed his postdoc from Internet of Things Lab at Inatel, Brazil, and University of Valladolid, Spain. He has published and accepted around 45 SCI indexed papers in IEEE Transaction, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley and several journals with cumulative impact factor of above 100 to his credit. He has more than 100 research articles in top SCI/ Scopus journals, conferences and edited books. He is co-author and co-editor of around 20 edited and textbooks. His research interest includes MANET, FANET, VANET, IoT, machine learning and many more. He is Convener and Organizer of ICICC conference series. He is currently working in the CSE department of Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Awadhesh Kumar Singh received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India, in 1988, and his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, in 1991, where he is presently a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Applications. Earlier, he also served as Head of Computer Engineering Department during 2007–2009 and 2014–2016. He has published 150 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. scholars. He has visited countries like Thailand, Italy, Japan, UK and USA to present his research work. His research interests include cognitive radio networks, distributed algorithms, fault tolerance and security.   Prof. (Dr.) Abhishek Swaroop completed his B.Tech. (CSE) from GBP University of Agriculture & Technology, M.Tech. from Punjabi University Patiala and Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra. He has 28 years of teaching and industrial experience. He has served in reputed educational institutions such as Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Sharda University Greater Noida and Galgotias University Greater Noida. He is actively engaged in research. One of his Ph.D. scholar has completed his Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra, and he is currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students. He has guided 10 M.Tech. dissertations also. He has authored 3 books and 5 book chapters. His 7 papers are indexed in DBLP and 6 papers are SCI. He had been part of the organizing committee of three IEEE conferences (ICCCA-2015, ICCCA-2016, ICCCA-2017), one Springer conference (ICICC-2018) as Technical Program Chair. He is member of various professional societies like CSI and ACM and editorial board of various reputed journals.