S Nagini Editor

Dr. A. Brahmananda Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNR VJIET), Hyderabad. Dr. Reddy holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapuramu (JNTUA), Anantapuramu, in the area of Text Mining, M.Tech.—Computer Science in 2007 from JNTUCEA, Anantapuramu, and B.Tech. in 2004 in Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Reddy has over 15 years of experience in the field of academic research and technological education, has more than 25 research papers published in various reputed national/international conferences and journals listed in Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE, Inderscience and Springer Proceedings etc., and also edited two books published by Springer Book Proceedings. He is Member of IEEE and Lifetime Member of ISTE and CSI. Dr. Reddy’s research interests include data mining, text mining, natural language processing, semantic Web and social networks, machine learning, deep learning, and image processing. He is conducting many seminars/workshops/FDPs for the benefit of students and faculty in and out by the eminent personalities from various reputed institutions and delivered guest lectures on various topics in various academic institutions. Dr. Reddy guided many UG and PG projects in various mezzanine technologies and in charge for students industrial visits, establishing MoUs between institute and industries to reducing the gap between academia and industry. Dr. Reddy is Jury Member for the Smart India Hackathon Grand Finale (SIH 2018, SIH 2019, and SIH 2020) Software Edition and Evaluator for Toycathon-2021 organized by AICTE and MHRD in association with state governments and reputed industries and performed as Session Chairs for various international conferences, and also Reviewer for various reputed international conferences and Journals.

Dr. S. Nagini working as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VNR VJIET, has over 22 years of experience in the field of academic research and technological education. She has a multi-disciplinary approach due to varied roles taken up, including but not limited to teaching, research, and administration. She has organized several programs and workshops for the students to provide hands-on experience and bridge the gap between academics and industry—data structures, Linux fundamentals, unified modeling language, block chain technologies, and many more. She has successfully executed one UGC minor project on “Electricity Theft Analysis”. She has published more than 29+ research papers which are indexed by Scopus and with good number of citations. Also, she has published four patents. She initiated a coding club “TURING HUT” whose mission is to create a diverse and inclusive tech community to empower the future generation of responsible students through numerous hackathons and coding competitions. She was Faculty Coordinator for annual technical fest convergence, at VNRVJIET during 2018.   She is Member of several committees at VNRVJIET Academic Council, IAC, and at department level, she is Member of DAC, DDC, and BoS. Dr. Nagini is honored with “Top Performer” and “Award of Excellence” organized by IIT Bombay and sponsored by SAP India Pvt. Ltd. She is certified by NPTEL as “Top Performing Mentor”.

Dr. Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is Author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), Member in Editorial Board of several national and international journals, and is Evaluator Expert for national, international projects, and Ph.D. thesis.

Dr. Balas is Director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university. She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in nine editions organized in the interval 2005-2020 and held in Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair, Member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Committees, and Keynote Speaker. She has published many books as an editor.

Now she is working in a national project with EU funding support: BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures—For Digital Integrated Circuits, 3M Euro from National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation. She is Member of European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and Senior Member IEEE, Member in Technical Committee—Fuzzy Systems (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), Chair of the Task Force 14 in Technical Committee—Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), and Member in Technical Committee—Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (responsible with Awards) of IFSA—International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015), is Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India, and Recipient of the “Tudor Tanasescu” Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019). She edited more than 140 reputed Book volumes.

Dr. K Srujan Raju is currently working as Dean Student Welfare and Heading Department of Computer Science & Engineering at CMR Technical Campus. He obtained his Doctorate in Computer Science in the area of network security. He has more than 20 years of experience in academics and research. His research interest areas include computer networks, information security, data mining, cognitive radio networks and image processing, and other programming languages. Dr. Raju is presently working on two projects funded by Government of India under CSRI & NSTMIS, has also filed 7 patents and 1 copyright at Indian Patent Office, edited more than 14 books published by Springer Book Proceedings of AISC series, LAIS series, and other which are indexed by Scopus also authored books in C Programming & Data Structure, Exploring to Internet, Hacking Secrets, and contributed chapters in various books and published more than 30 papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Raju was invited as Session Chair, Keynote Speaker, Technical Program Committee Member, Track Manager, and Reviewer for many national and international conferences also appointed as Subject Expert by CEPTAM DRDO—Delhi & CDAC. He has undergone specific training conducted by Wipro Mission 10X & NITTTR-Chennai which helped his involvement with students which is very conducive for solving their day-to-day problems. He has guided various student clubs for activities ranging from photography to hackathon. He mentored more than 100 students for incubating cutting-edge solutions. He has organized many conferences, FDPs, workshops, and symposiums. He has established the Centre of Excellence in IoT, Data Analytics. Dr. Raju is Member of various professional bodies and received Significant Contributor Award and Active Young Member Award from Computer Society of India also served as Management Committee Member, State Student Coordinator, and Secretary of CSI—Hyderabad Chapter.