Dr. Yashwant Singh is a Professor & Head of the Department of Computer Science & Information Technology at the Central University of Jammu where he has been a faculty member since 2017. Prior to this, he was at the Jaypee University of Information Technology for 10 Years. Yashwant completed his Ph.D. from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, his Post Graduate study from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, and his undergraduate studies from SLIET Longowal. His research interests lie in the area of Internet of Things, Vulnerability Assessment of IoT and Embedded Devices, Wireless Sensor Networks, Secure and Energy Efficient Routing, ICS/SCADA Cyber Security, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of computer science, particularly Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering. Yashwant has served on Thirty International Conference and Workshop Program Committees and served as the General Chair for PDGC-2014, ICRIC-2018, ICRIC-2019, ICRIC-2020, and ICRIC-2021. He currently serves as coordinator of Kalam Centre for Science and Technology (KCST), Computational Systems Security Vertical at Central University of Jammu established by DRDO. Yashwant has published more than 100 Research Papers in International Journals, International Conferences, and Book Chapters of repute that are indexed in SCI and SCOPUS. He has 2278 google scholar citations, i10-index 60 and h-index 25. He has Research Projects of worth Rs.1040.9413 Lakhs in his credit from DRDO and Rs. 12.19 Lakhs from NCW. He has guided 4 Ph.D., 24 M.Tech. students and guiding 4 PhDs and 5 M.Tech. He has visited 8 countries for his academic visits e.g. U.K., Germany, Poland, Chez Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania. He is Visiting Professor at Jan Wyzykowski University, Polkowice, Poland.
Dr. Yugal Kumar presently works as Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, STME, NMIMS Deemed to be University ( Category-1 University by MHRD), Chandigarh Campus. Prior join to NMIMS, he also worked as Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has more than eighteen years of teaching and research experience at reputed colleges and universities of India. He has published more than 120 research papers in reputed journals. He has total 2286 google scholar citations, h-index 25, i-10-index 53 and Scopus h-index is 22. He also guided more than seven students for PhD and currently, four students are pursuing his doctoral research under his guidance. He completed his Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Birla institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. His primary area of research includes meta-heuristic algorithms, data clustering, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition, medical data international journals and conferences of repute. He is serving as editorial review board member of various journals including Soft Computing, Neurocomputing, Cluster Computing, Applied Intelligence, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, PLOSE ONE, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Informatics, Journal of Information Processing System etc.
Prof. Marcello Trovati obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Exeter in 2007, specialising in theoretical dynamical systems with singularities, after which he accepted a position as algorithm tester and research specialist at a medium sized software development company. His main responsibility was to create, test and documents state-of-the-art statistical algorithms to analyse big datasets. He then moved to the newly created Dublin IBM Research Lab to carry out research mainly in the field of knowledge discovery, text mining, and mathematical modelling, where he gained valuable business and research experience through collaboration with several scientists both at IBM, and at academic institutions. He was involved in a number of research projects in collaboration with other IBM Research Centres and academic institutions. He then joined Coventry University to take up a position as Teaching Fellow, and subsequently the University of Derby as a lecturer, during which he was involved various multi-disciplinary projects focussing on mathematical modelling, algorithm design, and big data analytics. In 2016 Marcello joined the Computer Science Department at Edge Hill University as a senior lecturer and he was recently awarded a Professorship in Computer Science. He is involved in several research themes and projects. He is co-leading the STEM Data Research centre and is actively involved in the Productivity and Innovation Lab, aiming to collaborate and support SMEs in Lancashire. Marcello's main interests include: Mathematical Modelling, Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Network Theory, Machine Learning, Data and Text Mining.
Prof. Arpan Kar is full Professor and ASG Endowed Chair Professor in Information Systems in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Administratively he chairs the Information Systems group, Advisor for Corporate Affairs, and member of Advisory Committee for the Overall Curriculum Development Cell. He also supports multiple ministries and other universities in different advisory roles and staff selection committees. He works on the adoption, appropriation, user experience and impacts of emerging ICTs, often using computationally intensive machine learning methods. He has authored over 220 publications and edited 14 indexed books. Over 90 publications are in ABDC A, ABS 3 and WoS Q1 level journals, and 17 are ABDC A* publications. As of 2024, his research has been cited over 20,000 times, with an H index over 60. He is Associate Editor for ABDC A ranked journals like Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer Information Systems and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. He has held roles like Editor in Chief, Senior Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor, in multiple reputed journals like IJIM Data Insights, IJIM, DSS, JAIS, IMM, etc in the past. He has undertaken over 50 sponsored research, advocacy and training projects which generated funding over Rs. 300 Million. He received the Research Excellence Award by Clarivate in 2021 for highest WoS citations from 2015-2020 in India. He received the BK Birla Distinguished Researcher Award in 2020 based on the count of ABDC A* level publications in India. He is also recieved the Best Seller Award from Ivey / Harvard in 2020. In total, he has recieved over 20 awards from globally reputed organizations.
