Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications

Gaurav Dhiman received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He has completed his Master Degree of Computer Applications from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Government Bikram College of Commerce, Patiala. He was selected as an outstanding reviewer from Knowledge- Based Systems (Elsevier). He has published more than 25 peer-review research papers (indexed in SCI-SCIE). He is also in editorial board member of Artificial Intelligence Evolution journal. His research interest includes Single-, Multi-, Many-objectives optimization (Bio-inspired, Evolutionary and Quantum), Soft computing (Type-1 and Type-2 fuzzy sets), Power systems, and Change detection using remotely sensed high-resolution satellite data. His research articles can be found in Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier), Advances in Engineering Software (Elsevier), Applied Intelligence (Springer), Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier), Engineering with Computers (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and so on.

Dr. Mehdi Gheisari is a researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology (QS ranking=320, top 10 universities in China) with several years of experience in Network Security, 5G, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Semantic Web (SW), Internet of Things (IoT), privacy-preserving, and Autonomous Vehicles. He has almost eight years of experience of being a lecturer at several universities, research collaboration, research projects proposal preparation and completion, project progress documentation, and he has been involved in undergraduate students’ supervision. Nowadays, he is taking part in responsible roles in various international, and national research projects. He has an excellent publication record over 327 Citations score and holds the h-index of 10.

Marimuthu Karuppiah received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India in 2003, M.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2005, Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VIT University, Vellore, India in 2015. Presently, he is a Professor in Department of Computing Science and Engineering, SRM University, Delhi-NCR, India. Before joining SRMIST, he was with the VIT University, Vellore, India as an Associate Professor. He has published more than 30 research papers in SCI indexed journals. Also, he has published more than 40 research papers in SCOPUS indexed journals and international conferences. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) and Computer Society of India (CSI), senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. His main research interests include cryptography and wireless network security, in particular, authentication and encryption schemes.

Dr. Venkata Krishna received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from VIT University, Vellore, with the Thesis entitled: “A Study on Quality of Service Metrics for Wireless Systems” in 2008. He has about 22 years of teaching experience and 2 years of Industry experience. In 2018, he received IEEE Systems Society Best Research Paper Award. Dr. Krishna was a recipient of Cognizant (CTS) Best Faculty Award in 2010 (awarded with a Gold Medal). As well as, he was a recipient of VITs Best Researcher Award (2009-14). He has an H-index of 25 with over 2550+ citations and so far he has published more than 200 papers in various International conferences and Journals which are indexed in Scopus, SCI, Thomson Reuters, google scholar etc. Moreover, he has published many papers in IEEE Transactions, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley-Interscience, Inderscience etc. Dr. Krishna’s biography is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the world 2009-2010 edition. He has been acting as a reviewer for IET, IEEE, Wiley-Interscience, Elsevier and Inderscience Journals. Presently, he is a Professor of Computer Science, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, AP, India.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar is working as Director R&D and Professor at Sreyas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in Embedded System from OPJS University, Churu Rajasthan affiliated by UGC with the dissertation entitled: “Design & Development of A Multimode Low-Cost Power Assisted Smart Wheelchair”. His research interests mainly focused on Embedded Systems, Biometrics, Image Processing, and Machine Learning etc. He sits on various international and national journals as an Editorial Board Member / Advisory. He has been acting as a reviewer of several SCI and Scopus Indexed Journals. Dr. Kumar has an h-index of 20 and he has published over 60 research articles and 9 book chapters etc.

Dr. Vijay Kumar received the BTech degree (Information Technology) from MM Engineering College, Mullana, in 2005. He received MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Jambheshwer University of Science and Technology, Hisar, in 2008 and obtained a PhD degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, in 2015, with the dissertation entitled: "Development of Efficient Data Clustering Techniques Using Metaheuristics''. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India. He has over 10 years of teaching and research experience. He has more than 52 research papers in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His main areas of interests and research focuses on soft computing, image processing, data clustering, metaheuristic techniques, pattern recognition and multi-objective optimization.

Dr. Raju Pal is an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) in the Department of Computer science and engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India where he established E-yatra robotics Lab and wireless sensor networks lab in the department and completed a DST funded research project on Histopathological image analysis. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Vision from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2019. He has research experience with knowledge across the domain of histopathological image analysis, meta-heuristic methods, and wireless sensor networks. As an author / co-author, Dr. Pal has published more than 30 research articles in various international conferences and journals which are indexed in Scopus, SCIE, SCI, google scholar, ESCI etc., accumulating over 237 citations with an h-index of 10.

Dr. G. Prabhakar is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, V.S.B. Engineering College, Karur, India. He has been awarded with Ph.D. degree under Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, with the thesis entitled: “MODELLING, CONTROL AND CYBER THREAT MITIGATION FOR NONLINEAR PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IN RTOS ENVIRONMENT”. He has about nine years of Experience in Embedded System Domain. He’s expert in doing Real Time Projects relevant to domains such as: Robotics, Control Systems, and Embedded Systems. Dr. Prabhakar is actively involved as editor, reviewer and editorial board member in many well esteemed journals. So far, he has published almost 30 manuscripts in his fields / areas of interest.

Chaolong Zhang received a PhD degree from the Hefei University of Technology in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, China. He is also an Associate Professor at School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Anqing Normal University, China. His current research interests include fault diagnostics and prognostics of analogue and mixed-signal circuits, and battery capacity prognostic. He has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Luming Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, China. Currently he is a Professor at Zhejiang University. Previously he was a Senior Research fellow at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He was a visiting scholar at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. His research interests include multimedia analysis, image enhancement, and pattern recognition. He has authored/co-authored more than 130 scientific articles at top venues including IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, T-MM, T-CYB, CVPR, ACM MM, IJCAI, AAAI and KDD. He was the program committee member/organizer of many international conferences, such as MMM, PCM, ACM Multimedia. He served as a Guest editor of 10+ international journals, such as IEEE Trans. Big data, Neurocomputing , Signal Processing, Multimedia tools and applications, Multimedia systems ,and JVCI. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing and KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. As the first author, he received the best paper award at PCM 2015. He is an adjunct investigator at NUSRI.