Communication, Software and Networks

Vikrant Bhateja is an associate professor in Department of ECE, SRMGPC, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and also the dean (Academics) in the same college. He has doctorate in ECE (Bio-Medical Imaging) with a total academic teaching experience of 18 years with around 180 publications in reputed international conferences, journals, and online chapter contributions; out of which 31 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. He has been instrumental in chairing/co-chairing around 30 international conferences in India and abroad as the publication/TPC chair and edited 45 book volumes from Springer Nature as a corresponding/co-editor/author on date. He has delivered nearly 20 keynotes, invited talks in international conferences, ATAL, TEQIP, and other AICTE sponsored FDPs and STTPs. He is the editor-in-chief of IGI Global--International Journal of Natural Computing and Research (IJNCR) an ACM & DBLP indexed journal since 2017. He has guest edited special issues in reputed SCIE indexed journals under Springer Nature and Elsevier.

Jnyana Ranjan Mohanty received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, in the year 2008. He has more than 25 years of teaching experience (UG & PG levels). He joined KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, in July 1997 as a lecturer, and presently he is a professor. He has served KIIT in different administrative capacities too (as an associate dean & controller of examinations). Presently, he is the registrar of KIIT Deemed to be University. Prior to joining KIIT, he served as a lecturer at Institute of Business Administration and Training, Bhubaneswar. He is actively engaged in research work and has a number of Ph.D. scholars under his guidance. He has authored books and has to his credit innumerable publications in reputed international Scopus/ SCI indexed journals and in international conference proceedings. He has also edited books published by Springer and IJCA Volumes. He has conducted several conferences and workshops as the organizing chair/program chair. His research interests include queuing theory, computational intelligence, and cloud computing.

Wendy Flores-Fuentes received the master's degree in engineering from Technological Institute of Mexicali in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in science, applied physics, with emphasis on Optoelectronic Scanning Systems for SHM, from Autonomous University of Baja California in June 2014. She has more than 115 publications which include journal articles in Elsevier, IEEE Emerald and Springer, chapters and books in Intech, IGI global and Springer, proceedings articles in IEEE. She has been Panel Reviewer of Taylor and Francis, IEEE, Elsevier, and EEMJ (Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi). Currently, she is a full-time professor-researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, at the Faculty of Engineering.

Koushik Maharatna received the Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2002. From 2000 to 2003, he was a research scientist with Innovations for High Performance, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, as a lecturer, in 2003. Since 2006, he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, where he is currently a professor. His current research interests include biomedical signal processing, next generation healthcare systems development, and very large-scale integration design for signal processing systems.