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Dr. Anil Saroliya is working as an Associate Professor in Amity University Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His core research area is related to Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Peer to Peer networks and Artificial Intelligence. He has published more than 35 research papers in reputed International Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences. He also has two patents in the field of IOT. He has conducted various seminars, workshops and delivered several guest-lectures in the field of IOT and related areas. He was also a key member of e-Yantra Project of IIT Bombay, successfully established the Robotics lab under e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) in Mody University of Science & Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar. He had also established IoT and Drone lab in Mody University campus. It is now helping the students and faculty members in their research and development related experiments. Dr. Saroliya was also the founder member of RAIOT Lab (Robotics, Automation and IOT Lab) in Amity University Rajasthan.

Prof. (Dr.) Ajay Rana is the Vice Chancellor of Shobhit Institute of Engineering & Technology He is an educationalist, a teacher, an innovator, a strategist, and a committed philanthropist. Dr. Rana possesses deep organizational ethics, equality, and believes in holding the hands of every individual who wishes to succeed in life. He possesses an outstanding academic record, a product of prestigious system throughout. Obtained M.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. His areas of interest include Machine Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality, Software Engineering, and Soft Computing. He has 180 plus patents under his name in the field of IoT, Networks, and Sensors. He has published more than 306 Research Papers in reputed Journals like ACM, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and others, and International and National Conferences, Co-authored 08 Books, and co-edited 36 Conference Proceedings.Dr. Rana is the Founding Chairman of AUN Research Labs, Executive Committee Member of IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section, Senior Member of IEEE, and Life Member of the CSI and ISTE. He is also a member of the Editorial Board and Review Committee of several Journals. With an intent to provide a robust learning environment to students and to strengthen the Indian Education System, Dr. Rana has visited many Top Universities & Colleges like Oxford , University of Nottingham, University of Wales, University of Southampton, University of West England, University of Newcastle, University of Poole, University of Bournemouth, Bangkok University , Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation , Milano , Ducati - Bologna , FERRARI - Maranello (MO) and many more , which have a legacy of more than 1200 years of producing leaders on the global front in entire Europe, UAE, and the UK & Asia. Dr Rana has excellent networking and social skills and a vision for enhancing professional connect with Top Academicians, Industrialists, and Bureaucrats at both national and international levels.He has undertaken 45 Sponsored Research Projects and 18 major systems-based Management / HRD Consultancies in several reputed organizations both public and private, in India and abroad. 18 students have completed their Ph.D. under him. He has organized more than 504 conferences, workshops, faculty development programs, Seminar and Talk sponsored by IEEE, Springer, CSI, and others.Dr Ajay Rana has been honoured with 243 awards & recognition for his extraordinary work in the field of Education and Research including Corona Warriors Award 2020 , Life Time Achievement Award , Frontiers of Knowledge Award , Man of Academic Advisory Award, Icon of Healthcare Award, Med Achievers, Leadership Award BRICS - MSME, Most Influential 100 Directors of India, Educlusion Award Singapore, IT Next CIO, International WHO’S WHO USA , Italian Machine Tool Technology Award Italy and many more.He has been conferred with Honorary Professorship from ULAB Bangladesh. He is currently, also a Member of the Consultative Group NEP 2020 CBSE, Ministry of Education, Government of India. Dr Rana is well-regarded for his deep commitment, indestructible determination, humbleness and passion for societal upliftment. He is a renowned educationist, and researcher is the Vice-Chancellor of Shobhit University, Meerut. Before that he has served Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida for more than 20 years as Dean , Director , Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Senior Vice President (RBEF - A Trust of Amity), Amity Education Group.

Prof. (Dr.) Vivek Kumar is founder Vice Chancellor of Quantum University, Roorkee. Dr. Kumar is a Professor of Computer Science & having experience in industry, teaching and administration. He is Masters in field of Computer Engineering from BITS, Pilani and Doctorate in Engineering (Artificial Intelligence) from Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Deemed University.Prof. Kumar is a Fellow of IETE, Senior member of IEEE, ACM, CSI and International association of engineers, USA. He is a member of the board of studies of many reputed university.Prof. Kumar is well respected personality in engineering education in Delhi NCR for his contribution in research and academics and as a NBA and UGC Accreditation expert.Dr. Vivek Kumar has 29 years rich experience in Academics, Research and Consultancy. Since his joining at Quantum University, he has established strong foundation for university automation, practices and procedures in teaching learning, examination system, inter- disciplinary education system, and industrial presence. He has been instrumental for industry tie-ups with IT giant like Xebia, Palo-Alto USA, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Certiport USA to make university courses more acceptable in industry during last year. Before joining Quantum University as VC, he has worked as Director-Principal of Delhi College of Technology and Management, for more than a decade.He started his career as software engineer at Hexaware Limited. He has served SIT Mathura as Dean Academic and as head of department in Lovely Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He has served Galgotias College Engineering and Technology as "Professor" and Head of Information Technology and MCA Departments for eight years. He played a major inning in placing Galgotias to the national platform.As a professor, he has taught many IR 4.0 technologies like Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logics, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Digital Image Processing and Theoretical Computer Science around three decade. He has developed many intelligent and expert systems as a part of his research contribution.He has published more than Eighty international research papers and has attended many conferences and seminars in India, USA, Europe and Singapore as key note speaker. He has filed eight patents. Prof. Vivek Kumar has guided more than Fifty Eight M.Tech. and M.Phil level projects. He has supervised eight Ph.D. Presently six Ph.D. are being supervised under his guidance in MDU and YMCA university on cloud computing and cancer research.

Sebastián Gutiérrez is Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at San Sebastián (TECNUN-Universidad de Navarra). He received the Engineering degree in Electronics from Universidad Bonaterra (Mexico) in 2003, the MSc degree in Robotics from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico) in 2005, and the PhD in Automation and Industrial Electronics from Universidad de Navarra (Spain) in 2012. He has participated in 10 industrial projects. He has authored more than 60 journals and conferences papers. His main research interests are internet of things, wireless sensor network, home automation, smart buildings, solar energy, mechatronics systems, and robotics. He is a member Level I of the Mexican National Systems of Researchers (SNI).

Dr. Senthil Athithan, He is working as Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has done B.E. in CSE, M.Tech(CSE) and PhD. (CSE). His primary research area is related to Cellular Automata, Computational Epidemiology, and Internet of Things. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed International Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences. He also awarded with "Vishisht Sikshak Puraskar" (Best Faculty award) by SGI in 2007. He is a Program Evaluator of CAC-ABET, USA. He has also authored a book on "Optimized Landmine Detection using Cellular Automata", Lambert Academic Publishing-Germany in 2011. He is consistently striving to create a challenging and engaging learning environment in which students become life-long scholars and learners. He also accomplished programming skills in Brix-CC, Lex, YACC, EPISIM, Oracle, Access, Moodle, etc