Digital Technologies and Tools for Smart Agriculture

Dr. R. Madhumathi completed her Ph.D from Anna University, Chennai in November 2016. She has around 22 years of Teaching Experience including 12 years of research experience. Her area of interest includes Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Quantum Computing. She has published many papers in SCI International Journals and IEEE, Springer conferences. She has received research grant from Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST - SERB) under Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) scheme. Recently she has received visiting scientists fellowship from Indian National Science and Academy (INSA) to work in IIT-Madras. She has also received grants from Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), Science and Engineering Research Board and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to conduct various workshops and seminars. She has chaired sessions for many National and International Conferences. She is a life member in CSI, ISTE, ISAE and member in IEEE Women in Engineering.

Dr. M. Karthigha, is presently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science and Engineering, PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore, India. She completed her PhD degree in the area of Network Security and Deep Learning. She has 12 years of experience which includes both teaching and research. She has been guiding undergraduate and post graduate in all the recent areas of Computing Security. She has published more than 20 research papers in national and international journals, international conferences and book chapters. She has delivered technical talks in the areas of cyber security, AR/VR. Her research areas include Cyber Security, Deep Learning, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

Dr. Pethuru Raj Chelliah - Working as a chief architect at Edge AI Division, Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. (JPL) Bangalore. Previously, worked in IBM global Cloud center of Excellence (CoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, I have gained more than 22 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai and continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, I was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. I am a professional member in ACM. Focusing on some of the emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model engineering and optimization, Big, fast and streaming Analytics, Blockchain, Digital Twins, Cloud-native computing, Edge and Serverless computing, Reliability engineering, Microservices architecture (MSA), Event-driven architecture (EDA), 5G, etc.

Dr. Kai Sheng received the B.E. degree in information engineering from the Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2000 and Ph.D. degree in risk engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 2006. He is currently a Professor of the Guangzhou Institute of Technology and the Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Xidian University, China. His research interests include computational intelligence, remote sensing image understanding and AI technologies application to the V2X-based automated driving that from the collaborating environment sensing, communication algorithms, motion planning to the system security and safety.