Rajendra Prasad Mahapatra Editor

Prof. Rajendra Prasad Mahapatra is the dean admissions and head – Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prof. R.P. Mahapatra is a pioneer in the field of computer science and engineering. He has vast experience of 21 years as an academician, researcher and administrator. During his 21 years of experience, he has worked in India and abroad. He has been associated with Mekelle University, Ethopia for more than two years. Prof. R.P. Mahapatra has authored more than 100 research papers which are published in international journals like Inderscience, Emerald, Elsevier, IEEE and Springer. He has authored ten books, ten book chapters and five granted patents. His 06 students have successfully completed their Ph.D. under his guidance and 8 students are pursuing their Ph.D. He is a fellow member of I.E. (India), senior member of IACSIT, Singapore, life member of ISTE, member of IEEE and many more reputed bodies. He is a recipient of the Institution Award from Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta, on 56th Annual Technical Session on 15th Feb.2015, Madhusudan Memorial Award from Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta, on 57th Annual Technical Session on 14th Feb.2016, Certificate of Excellence from SRM University, NCR Campus, on 9th Feb 2015.

Sateesh K. Peddoju is an associate professor at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He is the senior member of ACM and senior member of IEEE, and recipient of Cloud Ambassador Award from AWS Educate, IBM SUR Award, Microsoft Educate Award, university merit scholarship, best teacher award in his previous employment, best paper/presentation awards and travel grants. He has publications in reputed journals like IEEE TIFS, IEEE Access, IEEE Potentials, MTAP, WPC, IJIS and PPNA, and conferences like ACM MobiCom, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE MASS, ACM/IEEE ICDCN and ISC. He is the co-author of the book “Security and Storage Issues in the Cloud Environment” and co-editor of the book “Cloud Computing Systems and Applications in Healthcare”. He is on board for many conferences. He is the program chair for IEEE MASS 2020 and founding Steering Committee Chair for SLICE. He has received grants from NMHS, MEITY, Railtel, MHRD, DST, IBM, Samsung, CSI and Microsoft. He is involved in various committees including him being the coordinator for communications sub-group of IoT Security Workgroup constituted by MEITY, Government of India, expert member in CERT-Uk committee constituted by Dept. of IT, Government of Uttarakhand. His research interests include cloud computing, ubiquitous computing and security.

Dr. Sudip Roy is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, since July 2014. He is also an associated faculty member of the Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) in IIT Roorkee, India, since April 2015. He is a JSPS fellow (long-term) in the college of information science and engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, during April 2021 to January 2022. He has authored one book, one book chapter, two granted US patents including 25 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 40 papers in international peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His current research interests include computer-aided design for digital systems, electronic design automation (EDA) for microfluidic lab-on-a-chips, algorithm design, optimization techniques, information and communication technologies (ICT) for disaster risk reduction (DRR). He is a recipient of JSPS Invitational Fellowship Award (Long-Term) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Govt. of Japan in 2021, Early Career Research Award from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in 2017 and Microsoft Research India Ph.D. Fellowship Award in 2010. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Dr. Pritee Parwekar is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology. She has been an academician from last 21 years. She has been awarded Ph.D. in the area of wireless sensor networks. She holds a life membership of IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISTE. She has also contributed as Computer Society of India (CSI) State Student Coordinator for two years. Her research interests include Internet of things, cloud computing, machine learning, wireless sensor networks, software engineering, information retrieval systems, social media and data mining. She has published more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed journals with SCI, SSCI, Scopus Index, and in conferences. She has been a resource person for workshops, FDPs and international conferences. She has also been invited to many workshops and international conferences as speaker, organizer, session chair and member in advisory/program committees. She is associated with IEEE Network Magazine, Springer, IGI Global, Inderscience, Evolutionary Intelligence (EVIN) Journals, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Expert Systems and many more international journals as peer reviewer.