Research Advances in Network Technologies

Dr. Anshul Verma received M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India. He has done Post-doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. He has also served as faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering Department at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India. His research interests include IoT, Mobile ad-hoc networks, Distributed systems, Formal verification, and Mobile computing. He is serving as Editor of the Journal of Scientific Research of the Banaras Hindu University.

Dr. Pradeepika Verma received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. She has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India. Currently, she is working as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. She is also Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at K L Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India and is presently on study leave. Prior to this, she has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and as Faculty member in Department of Computer Application at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. Her current research interests include IoT, Natural Language Processing, Optimization Approaches, and Information Retrieval.

Dr. Kiran Kumar Pattanaik holds Bachelor degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering followed by Master and Doctorate in Computer Science & Engineering. He is presently working as Associate Professor at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is enthusiastic about exploring various engineering application domains involving Distributed and Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensor Network protocols, IoT, and Edge Computing. His Wireless Sensor Network laboratory is equipped with the necessary computing facilities (simulation and hardware) and is accessible round the clock for learning. The competitive ambiance of the laboratory is instrumental for a number of public funded research projects and high impact factor research publications. Dr. Pattanaik (Senior Member of IEEE) is a reviewer for several leading Journals in the areas of communication and networking.

Dr. Lalit Garg is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Msida, Malta. He is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has also worked as a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Ulster, UK. He is skilled in solving complex problems using machine learning and data analytics, especially from medicine and healthcare domain. He has published over 90 technical papers in refereed high impact journals, conferences and books and has more than 622 citation count to publications, and some of his articles awarded best paper awards. He has delivered more than 20 keynote speeches in different countries, organised/chaired/co-chaired 16 international conferences and contributed as a technical committee member or a reviewer of several high impact journals and reputed conferences. He is awarded research studentship in Healthcare Modelling to carry out his PhD research studies in the faculty of computing and engineering at the University of Ulster, UK. He completed his Post Graduate in Information Technology from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India and his first degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. He has also consulted numerous public and private organisations for their information system implementations.