Sanjay Madria Author & Editor

Vimal Kumar is a lecturer with the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, in 2013 and was previously Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida and software engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation. His research interests are broadly in the areas of wireless sensors, cloud computing, and security. He is particularly interested in the development of secure wireless sensor networks, sensor clouds, and the ""Internet of Things"" and is also looking into the security of wearable devices and other issues in secure cloud computing.Amartya Sen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA in May 2018. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE Transaction on Services Computing and IEEE Cloud Computing. His research interests are in the broad areas of cybersecurity and risk assessment in Cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, and Internet of Things.Sanjay Madria is Curators' Distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1995. He has published over 250 journal and conference papers in the areas of mobile and sensor computing, mobile data management, cloud, and cyber security. He won five IEEE best papers awards in conferences such as IEEE MDM 2011, IEEE MDM 2012, and IEEE SRDS 2015. He is a co-author of a book published by Springer in 2003 and co-author of a new book by Morgan & Claypool in 2018. He is an Associate Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Distributed and Parallel Databases, and Knowledge and Advanced Information System. He has served/serving in international conferences as a general co-chair, pc co-chair, and steering committee member (such as of IEEE MDM, IEEE SRDS), and presented tutorials in the areas of secure sensor cloud, mobile computing, cloud computing, big data, etc. NSF, NIST, ARL ARO, AFRL, DOE, Boeing, and Hangsoft, among others, have funded his research projects. He has been awarded the JSPS (Japanese Society for Promotion of Science) visiting scientist fellowship in 2006 and the ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) fellowship from 2008-2018. He was awarded the NRC Fellowship by National Academies in the year 2012 and 2018. He received faculty excellence research awards six times from his university for his research contributions. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and ACM Distinguished Speaker. He served as IEEE Distinguished Speaker and is an IEEE Senior Member as well as IEEE Golden Core Awardee.