Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems : COMSYS 2024, Volume 1

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2024) held at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, during December 13 – 15, 2024. The book covers research in AI, machine learning, and data science; devices, circuits, and systems; computational biology, biomedical informatics, and network medicine; communication networks, cloud computing and IoT; image, video and signal processing; and security and privacy.

Dipak Kumar Kole received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Bengal Engg. & Science University, which is currently known as IIEST, Shibpur, India in 2012. He also received an M.Tech. and B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering and B.Sc. in Mathematics Honours from Calcutta University. He has approximately 22 years of professional experience. Dr. Kole has been a faculty member of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College since 2014, where he is currently working as a Full Professor. His research interests include Synthesis & Testing of Reversible Circuits, Social Network Analysis, Digital Watermarking & Agriculture Engineering. He published more than 67 research articles in various international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in the areas of VLSI, Reversible Circuits, Social Network Analysis, Agriculture Engineering, Image & Video Processing and Cryptography.

Snehanshu Saha received the PhD degree in mathematical sciences from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a senior member of ACM and a fellow of IETE. He is a professor of Artificial Intelligence with BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus. His current and future research interests lie in the theory of optimization, learning theory, activation functions in deep neural networks and Astro Informatics.

Subhadip Basu is a Full Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, where he joined in 2006. He received his PhD from Jadavpur University and did his postdocs from University of Iowa, USA, and University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr Basu holds an honorary position as a Research Scientist at the University of Iowa, USA, since 2016. He is the Co-Founder and Honorary Advisor of Infomaticae, a technology startup headquartered in Kolkata, India. He has also worked in reputed International Institutes like, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan, Bournemouth University, UK, University of Lorraine, France, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland and Hannover Medical School, Germany. Dr Basu has 250+ international research publications in the areas of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Image Analysis etc. He has edited ten books, received two US patents, supervised 10 PhD students and received several major research grants from UGC, DST and DBT, Govt. of India. Dr Basu is the recipient of the ‘Research Award’ from UGC, Govt. of India in 2016. He also received the DAAD Senior-Scientist fellowship from Germany, Hitachi Visiting-Research fellowship from Japan, EMMA and CLINK Visiting-Researcher fellowships from the European Union, BOYSCAST and FASTTRACK Young-Scientist fellowships from DST, Govt. of India. He is the past Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society Kolkata, a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM and life member of IUPRAI.

Paweł Górecki is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw. He also served as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Paweł Górecki earned M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Warsaw. In 2006, he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics with a focus on computer science, contributing theoretical and algorithmic advancements in detecting horizontal gene transfers and modelling evolutionary scenarios. As a member of the Polish Bioinformatics Society, his research centres on computational biology and bioinformatics, exploring mathematical properties, algorithms, and combinatorial optimization problems in phylogenetic tree and network models. Dr. Górecki's work is dedicated to advancing our understanding of complex biological relationships.

Debotosh Bhattacharjee is working as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University with twenty-five years of experience. His research interests pertain to the applications of machine learning techniques for Face Recognition, Gait Analysis, Hand Geometry Recognition, and Diagnostic Image Analysis. He has authored or coauthored more than 332 journals, conference publications, including several book chapters in the areas of Biometrics and Medical Image Processing.  Six patents have been granted on his works. Prof. Bhattacharjee has been granted sponsored projects by the Govt. of India funding agencies like Department of Biotechnology(DBT), Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), University Grants Commission(UGC) with a total amount of around INR 3 Crore. For postdoctoral research, Dr. Bhattacharjee has visited different universities abroad like the University of Twente, The Netherlands;  Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Bologna, Italy; ITMO National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and Heidelberg University, Germany. He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE, New Delhi), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), senior member of IEEE (USA) and a fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.