Advances in Signal Processing, Embedded Systems and IoT

V. V. S. S. S. Chakravarthy is a Professor, Dean R&D in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam. He is senior member of Communication, Signal Processing and Antenna and Propagation Societies of IEEE. He is serving as Vice Chair of IEEE COMSOC/SPS Joint Chapters of IEEE Vizag Bay Section. His research interests include Computational Intelligence, Smart Antenna, Data Modelling, Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computing Tools. He has 18 years of teaching. He served as a co-editor to proceedings of third and fifth International Conference on Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications published in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. He is also a life member of professional bodies like Instrumentation Society of India, International Computer Science and Engineering Society (ICSES) and Soft Computing Research Society. He published more than 40 journal and conference papers along with one Book Chapter which are indexed in SCOPUS and SCI.

Vikrant Bhateja is associate professor in Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE), Shri Ramswaroop Memorial College of Engineering and Management (SRMCEM), Lucknow (Affiliated to AKTU) and also the Dean (Academics) in the same college. He is doctorate in ECE (Bio-Medical Imaging) with a total academic teaching experience of 19 years with around 180 publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions; out of which 31 papers are published in SCIE indexed high impact factored journals. Among the international conference publications, four papers have received "Best Paper Award". Among the SCIE publications, one paper published in Review of Scientific Instruments (RSI) Journal (under American International Publishers) has been selected as "Editor Choice Paper of the Issue" in 2016. He has been instrumental in chairing/co-chairing around 25 international conferences in India and abroad as 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 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. He is Senior Member of IEEE and Life Member of CSI.

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 includes journal articles in Elsevier, IEEE Emerald and Springer, book chapters and books in Intech, IGI global and Springer, proceedings articles in IEEE. She has been a 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.

Jaume Anguera is the founder of and CTO at Ignion. Prior to this he was the Partner and R&D Manager at Fractus, Barcelona, Spain. He is also serving as Associate Professor at Universitat Ramon LLull, Barcelona, Spain. He is an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Distinguished Lecturer. He holds more than 150 patents. His biography is listed in Who´sWho in the World, Who´sWho in Engineering. Author of more than 250 scientific widely cited papers and international conferences with citations above 7500, h-index 50, and i10 index of 150. Author of 6 books. He has participated in more than 21 competitive research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry. He is the author of 6 books, directed more than 100 bachelor and master thesis and 3 Ph.Ds. He is inventor of Virtual AntennaT technology, which enables full functional multi-band wireless connectivity to wireless devices through miniature and off-the-shelf antenna boosters. He has taught more than 20 antenna courses around the world (USA, China, Korea, India, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Tunisia, Spain). With over 21 years of R&D experience, he has developed part of his professional experience with Fractus in South Korea in the design of miniature antennas for large Korean companies such as Samsung and LG. He has received several national and international awards. He is associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation, Electronics Letters, International Journal of Electronics and Communications, and reviewer in several IEEE and other scientific journals. He is vice-chair of the working group "Software and Modeling" at EurAAP.

K. Padma Vasavi is Professor and Head, Department of ECE at Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women. She has 20 years of teaching experience for undergraduate and post graduate students. She has contributed immensely towards the development of assistive technology products for the physically and mentally challenged people along with elderly persons. She has done her Ph. D in Digital Image Processing with title "Multi Scale Multi Directional Edge Detection using Statistical Thresholding" from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. She pursued her M. Tech in Digital Systems and Computer Electronics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad and B. Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Kakatiya University, Warangal. She was the Principal Investigator two DST sponsored projects sponsored by Department of Science and Technology. She has published more than 15 research papers in peer reviewed and refereed international journals. She has presented more than 15 papers in reputed International Conferences in India and abroad. She is a Fellow of IETE and IE and life member of ISTE, ISOI and BMI. She is the mentor for several projects which won International and National Laurels. She has received Appreciation Award from the office of the Honorable President of India for the project "Buzzing Band for Hearing Challenged People". Her areas of interests include: Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Embedded Systems, VLSI, Pattern Recognition and Classification, Brain Computer Interface, Assistive Technology.