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 Chairman, Shree KKarni Universe College,

Jaipur, and 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).

Dr. 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 mainareas of research are e-learning, e-assessment, e-business,

Internet applications focusing on usability and social networks.

Professor Dr. S.Karthik is presently Professor & Dean in the Department of Computer Science &

Engineering, SNS College of Technology, affiliated to Anna University- Chennai, TamilNadu, India. He

received the M.E and Ph.D degree from Anna University, Chennai. His research interests include

network security, Big data, cloud computing, web services and wireless systems. In particular, he is

currently working in a research group developing new Internet security architectures and active

defence systems against DDoS attacks. Dr. S.Karthik published more than 200 papers in refereed

international journals and 125 papers in conferences and has been involved many international

conferences as Technical Chair and tutorial presenter. He is an active member of IEEE, ISTE, IAENG,

IACSIT and IndianComputer Society.