Neha Nandal Editor

Rohit Tanwar, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Sciences, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching. His areas of interests include network security, optimization techniques, human computing, soft computing, cloud computing, data mining, etc. Dr. Tanwar has published one book, Information Security and Optimization, and three others are in progress with reputed international publishers. He is associated with some highly indexed international journals as guest editor/onboard reviewer. He has more than 30 publications to his credit to date in reputed journals and conferences. He has been associated with many conferences throughout India as member, session chair, etc. He is currently supervising two PhD research scholars in the fields of security and optimization. Dr. Tanwar received his bachelor’s degree in CSE from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, and master’s degree in CSE from YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad, India. He has received his PhD in CSE from Kurukshetra University, India.

Prashant Kumar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. Previously he has worked with the Department of Systemics in the School of Computer Science at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India. His research interests include opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks, device-to-device communications, wireless and adhoc networks, and security in wireless networks. He has published more than 25 research papers in journals and conferences of international repute. He is a member of IEEE, International Association of Engineers, and the Internet Society. Dr. Kumar received his PhD and MTech degrees from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India.

Malay Kumar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India. Earlier he was associated with the School of Computer Science of the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has authored more than 20 research papers in international journals and conferences. His research areas of interest are application of machine learning and deep learning in medical sciences, and security and privacy issues in cloud computing. He has served as chair and technical program committee member for numerous international conferences and workshops. He was a guest editor of several international journals and a lead editor of several books. Dr. Kumar earned his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from CSJM University Kanpur, his MTech from NIT Kurukshetra, and his PhD from NIT Raipur, India

Neha Nandal, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. She has published 19 articles in her research area in different journals and conferences, including SCI- and SCOPUS-level journals. She is a life-time member of IETA. Dr Neha has participated in different workshops; completed courses on Python, machine learning, and deep learning on Coursera; and also hosted different faculty development programs. Her research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning. She earned her BTech in CSE from the Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences, Bhiwani, and her MTech in CSE from Amity University Jaipur, India, with distinction. Recently, she has been awarded a PhD in Machine Learning.