Emerging Trends in Expert Applications and Security

Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Singh Rathore presently working as Professor-CSE and Director-OutReach, Jaipur Engineering College & Research Centre, Jaipur (India), Membership Chair, ACM Jaipur Chapter, and Past Chairman, CSI Jaipur Chapter. Having teaching experience of 20+ years, he has 5 patents published, 20 Ph.D. supervised, published 94 research papers and 10 books 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 in 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, 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, and Oxford Brookes University (2020) for discussions on academic and research collaborations. He is Active Academician and always welcoming and forming innovative ideas in the various dimensions of education and research for the better development of the society.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001 and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). João Tavares is Co-editor of more than 75 books, Co-author of more than 50 chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been Committee Member of several international and national journals and conferences, is Co-founder and Co-editor of the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" published by Springer, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering" published by Taylor & Francis, and Co-founder and Co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS, and BioDental. Additionally, he has been (co-)Supervisor of several M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis and Supervisor of several postdoc projects and has participated in many scientific projects both as Researcher and as Scientific Coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction, and new product development.

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, 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, faulttolerance, cloud computing infrastructures, and Internet of things. Original results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and 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) and will be IEEE Region 8 Director (2023-24).

Dr. B Surendiran is working as Associate Professor, Dept of CSE, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal. He has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience. He had completed his Ph.D. in the year 2012 from NIT Trichy. His research interests are medical image processing, machine learning, dimensionality reduction, etc. He had 50+ international journal and conference publications to his credit. He has delivered 85+ lectures, reviewed 500+ research papers, and guided 12 Ph.D. scholars. He has received Best Reviewer Award in 2019 by publons.com, Web of Science, and also Outstanding Reviewer Award by Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal in the year 2020. He is Active Reviewer for IEEE sensors, IET image processing, and various SCI/Scopus journals.