Martin Margala Editor

Dr. Manisha Guduri is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is the author/ coauthor of more than 52 research papers in reputed journals, book chapters, and international conferences. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Applications, VLSI/CAD design. She is currently working on VLSI and AI in the biomedical field. She published 5 patents out of which 2 are under FER. She received one patent grant. She is the reviewer of IEEE TVLSI, Microelectronics Journal, IET digital circuits, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, etc. She has one on-going funded project from the Department of Science and Technology.

Dr. Chinmay Chakraborty, SMIEEE, MACM is an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. He completed a Post-doctoral fellow at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil. He worked as a Sr. Lecturer at the ICFAI University, Tripura, India. He worked as a Research Consultant in the Coal India project at Industrial Engineering & Management, IIT Kharagpur. He worked as a Project Coordinator of the Telecommunication Convergence Switch project under the Indo-US joint initiative. He also worked as a Network Engineer in System Administration at MISPL, India. His main research interests include the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), AI/ML, Communication & Computing, Telemedicine, m-Health/e-health, and Medical Imaging. Dr. Chakraborty has widely published 200+ articles in peer reviewed international journals, conferences, book chapters, 25+ books, 4+ patents, and 20+ special issues in the field (Google h-index 35 / i10-index 88, Scopus h-index 26, ISI-WoS h-index 22). He is also an Editorial Board Member in several journals and conferences.

Prof. Martin Margala, PhD joined the School of Computing and Informatics as Professor and Director in August 2021. Before joining UL Lafayette, from September 2011 to July 2021, Dr. Margala was Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Co-Director of the Center for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SCyPS). He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada (#61 in Global Ranking in North America region; #13 in Global subject specific ranking Electrical and Electronic Engineering in North America region USNews) in the spring of 1998. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, and SPIE with more than 50 journal and 200 peer reviewed conference publications in the areas of Design for Testability for Energy Efficient Architectures and Systems, High-Performance Reliable Low-Power Architectures and Reconfigurable Secure Architectures and Systems. Dr. Margala has directed 22 PhD students and 19 MS students, many of whom now hold leading positions in academia and industry. He has served on numerous program committees of international conferences and on workgroups (such as the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) that have a great impact on the future direction of academia and industry.