Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks

Sabu M. Thampi is Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITM-K), Technopark Campus, Trivandrum, Kerala State, India. He has completed Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Sabu has several years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India. His current research interests include sensor networks, Internet of things (IoT), cognitive computing, affective computing, social networks, nature-inspired computing, image forensics, and video surveillance. He has authored and edited few books published by reputed international publishers and published papers in academic journals and international and national proceedings. Sabu has served as Guest Editor for special issues in few international journals and Program Committee Member for many international conferences and workshops. He has co-chaired several international workshops and conferences. He has initiated and is also involved in the organization of several annual conferences/symposiums. Sabu is currently serving as Editor for Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, and Journal of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier; Associate Editor for IEEE Access and International Journal of Embedded Systems, Inderscience, UK; and Reviewer for several reputed international journals. Sabu is Senior Member of IEEE and Member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE SMCS, and Senior Member of ACM. He is Founding Chair of ACM Trivandrum Professional Chapter.

Jaime Lloret Mauri received his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in Physics in 1997, his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2006. He is Cisco Certified Network Professional Instructor. He worked as Network Designer and Administrator in several enterprises. He is currently Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC), and he is Head of the "Active and collaborative techniques and use of technologic resources in the education (EITACURTE)" Innovation Group. He is Director of the University Diploma "Redes y Comunicaciones de Ordenadores," and he has been Director of the University Master "Digital Post Production" for the term 2012-2016. He has been Internet Technical Committee Chair (IEEE Communications Society and Internet Society) for the term 2013-2015. He has authored 22 book chapters and has more than 380 research papers published in national and international conferences and international journals (more than 140 with ISI Thomson JCR). He has been Co-Editor of 40 conference proceedings and Guest Editor of several international books and journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the "Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks" (with ISI Thomson Impact Factor), the international journal "Networks Protocols and Algorithms," and the International Journal of Multimedia Communications, and IARIA Journals Board Chair (8 journals), and he is (or has been) Associate Editor of 46 international journals (16 of them with ISI Thomson Impact Factor). He has been involved in more than 400 program committees of international conferences and more than 150 organization and steering committees. He leads many national and international projects. He is currently Chair of the Working Group of the Standard IEEE 1907.1. He has been General Chair (or Co-Chair) of 38 international workshops and conferences. He is IEEE Senior and IARIA Fellow.

Xavier Fernando is Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He has (co-)authored over 200 research articles and three books (one translated to Mandarin) and holds few patents and non-disclosure agreements. He is Director of the well-funded Ryerson Communications Lab. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 50 invited talks and keynote presentations all over the world. He was Member in the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) Education Board Working Group on Wireless Communications. He was Chair of IEEE Canada Humanitarian Initiatives Committee 2017-2018. He was also Chair of the IEEE Toronto Section and IEEE Canada Central Area. His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003, and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. He was General Chair for IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2017 and General Chair of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014. He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was Member of Board of Governors of Ryerson University during 2011-2012. He is a program evaluator for ABET (USA). He was avisiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK, in 2008, and MAPNET Fellow visiting Aston University, UK, in 2014. Ryerson University nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in 2012 in which he was a finalist.

Rajendra Boppana is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. Boppana's research interests include computer networks security and performance and high-performance computing. Dr. Boppana is currently working on the analysis, visualization, and mitigation of denial of service attacks on software-defined networks. He published 75 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, in addition to several book chapters on these topics. Dr. Boppana served as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI for over 12 research grants from US federal funding agencies and is the sole or lead inventor for three patents. Dr. Boppana received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Boppana directed the UTSA's Quantitative Literacy Program (QLP), which is a university-wide curriculum enhancement program, 2011-2016. Dr. Boppana served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science from 2012 to 2018.

S. Geetha is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT University, Chennai Campus, Tamil Nadu, India. She has received the B.E., and M.E., degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, India, in 2000, and Anna University of Chennai, India, in 2004, Ph.D. degree from Anna University in 2011, respectively. She has more than 19 years of rich teaching and research experience. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed international conferences and refereed journals. Her research interests include steganography, steganalysis, multimedia security, intrusion detection systems, machine learning paradigms, and information forensics. She joins the review committee and editorial advisory board of journals like IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Springer Multimedia Tools and Security, Elsevier Information Sciences. She has published 5 books. She has given many expert lectures and keynote addresses at international and national conferences. She has organized many workshops, conferences, and FDPs. She is a recipient of University Rank and Academic Topper Award in B.E. and M.E. in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is also the proud recipient of ASDF Best Academic Researcher Award 2013, ASDF Best Professor Award 2014, Research Award 2016 and High Performer Award 2016, from VIT University, and Best Poster Award in ISCA 2018.

Axel Sikora holds a diploma of Electrical Engineering (M.Eng.) and a diploma of Business Administration (M.B.A.), both from Aachen Technical University. He has done a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute of Micro-electronics Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, with a thesis on high-temperature SOI-based ASIC design. After various positions in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry, he joined at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach in 1999 as Professor. Since 2011, he holds the professorship of Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. His major interest is in the system development of efficient, energy-aware, autonomous, secure, and value-added algorithms and protocols for wired and wireless embedded communication. He is Founder and Head of Steinbeis Transfer Center Embedded Design and Networking (stzedn). Dr. Sikora is the author, the co-author, Editor, and Co-Editor of several textbooks and numerous papers in the field of embedded design and wireless and wired networking. Amongst many other duties, he serves as Member of the Steering Board of Embedded World Conference.