Sujit Kumar Pradhan Editor

Professor Srinivas Sethi is a Professor in Computer Science Engineering & Application, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang (IGIT, Sarang), India, and has been actively involved in teaching and research since 1997. He did his Ph.D., in the area of routing algorithms in mobile ad hoc network and is continuing his research work in the wireless sensor network, cognitive radio network, and cloud computing, Big-Data, BCI, Cognitive Science. He is a Member of Editorial Board for different journal and Program Committee Member for different international conferences/workshop. He is a Book Editor of four international conference proceedings published in Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has published more than 80 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He completed eight research and consultancy projects funded by different funding agencies such as DRDO, DST, AICTE, NPIU, and local Govt. office. He has delivered more than 125 talks as keynote speaker, resource person in different international and national conferences/workshops, conducted by different important national reputation institutions such as SAG group of DRDO, New Delhi, JNTU GV College of Engineering Vizianagaram, Pt. Rabishankar Sukla University, Raipur, CSIT, Raipur, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, etc.

Dr Mufti Mahmud’s research vision is to contribute toward a secure, smart, healthy, and better world to live in. In todays digitized world, converting the everexpanding amount of raw data to smart data, and building predictive, secure and adaptive systems aiming personalized services are essential and challenging, which require cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaborations. Toward these goals, Dr Mahmud conducts problem-driven `Brain Informatics research where he works with problem domain experts to find multidisciplinary solutions to real-world problems. Dr Mahmud’s research involves Computational, Health, and Social Sciences, and uses Neuroscience, Healthcare, Applied Data Science, Computational Neuroscience, Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and Software Engineering and plans to develop secure computational tools to advance healthcare access in low-resource settings.

Dr. Rabinarayan Sethi is affiliated as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IGIT, Sarang, India. He received a PhD degree. His research interests are broadly in the area of Mechanical Vibration, Machinery
Condition Monitoring, Engineering Mechanics, M/c Dynamics, Strength of Materials, and Machine Design. He has 22 years of teaching and research experience in different capacities in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has more than 22 research publications in various International & National journals/conferences. He received a Fellowship from Global Institute of Science and Technology, Australia, in 2012. He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) (MIE), a registered member of other national and international professional societies, like, lifetime member of the Indian Society for Technical Education, Member of the Society for Automobile Engineers India, New Delhi. He participates as an expert in a weekly Science Programe Gyana Vigyana, Doordarshan-6 (DD-6), Odia. He chaired a national and international conference session. He delivered an expert lecture on various short-term courses.

Sujit Kumar Pradhan is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology Sarang, India. He holds PhD in Transportation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. His area of research includes pavement material characterization, pavement analysis & design, performance evaluation of asphalt binder and recycling, and geotextile and porous concrete. He has about 13 years of academic and research experience. He has published reputed international journal and conference papers and successfully completed TEQIP-III funded research and development projects. Also, he has reviewed many technical papers for various international and national journals.