Evolution of Digitized Societies Through Advanced Technologies (Advanced Technologies and Societal Change)

This book provides an understanding of the evolution of digitization in our day to day life and how it has become a part of our social system. The obvious challenges faced during this process and how these challenges were overcome have been discussed. The discussions revolve around the solutions to these challenges by leveraging the use of various advanced technologies. The book mainly covers the use of these technologies in variety of areas such as smart cities, healthcare informatics, transportation automation, digital transformation of education.  The book intends to be treated as a source to provide the systematic discussion to the bouquet of areas that are essential part of digitized societies. In light of this, the book accommodates theoretical, methodological, well-established, and validated empirical work dealing with various related topics.

Dr. Amitava Choudhury is currently Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Engineering Science, and Technology, Shibpur, India. He has more than nine years of experience in teaching and two years in research work. He serves as a reviewer of IEEE Biomedical Transaction and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. His research interests are computational geometry, micromechanical modeling, pattern recognition, character recognition, machine learning. 

Dr. T P Singh is currently Professor and Head, Department of School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He holds Doctorate in Computer Science from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. He carries more than 25 years of rich experience with him drawn from academia and industry. Dr. Singh is a senior member of IEEE, fellow of IETA and member of various other professional bodies including ACM, IAENG, CSI etc. His research interests include machine intelligence, pattern recognition, and development of hybrid intelligent systems 

Dr. Arindam Biswas received his Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur in 2013. He was Post-Doctoral Researcher at Pusan National University, South Korea, with prestigious BK21PLUS Fellowship, Republic of Korea. He got Visiting Professor at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizouka University, Japan. Presently, he is working as Associate Professor in School of Mines and Metallurgy at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, WB, and India.  His research interests are in the area of carrier transport in low-dimensional systems and electronic devices, nonlinear optical communications, and THz semiconductor sources. 

Mr. Mrinal Anand is Director of Security architecture-VISA at Austin, Texas, USA. He is dynamic and quality-driven Senior Security Architect with 11+ years of hands-on experience and broad expertise in the design and review of large-scale information security architectures, providing technical leadership and subject matter expertise in various company-wide security initiatives including cloud security architecture, application security, CVEs, threat and vulnerability management, and security industry standards. Detail-oriented self-starter with excellent oral and written communication with reputation for ability to bake “Security as a feature” into products and solutions. He is passionate about learning new technologies, performing CVE research, writing exploits in my free time.