Dr. Debasis Giri is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he also held academic positions as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Dean in the School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He did his masters (M.Tech. and M.Sc.) both from IIT Kharagpur, India, and also completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India. He is tenth all India rank holder in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 1999. He received a certificate from All India Science Teachers’ Association in Science Aptitude & Talent Search Test in 1988. His current research interests include cryptography, information security, e-commerce security, and design & analysis of algorithms. He has authored more than 75 research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He is serving as an Associate Editorial of the Journal of i) Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), ii) Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley), iii) International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), iv) Security and Communication Networks, v) Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovations, and vi) Azerbaijan Journal of High Performance Computing. Dr. Giri has been involved as Technical Program Committee members of several international conferences in repute. He is the Founder of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. He is also program committee member of several international conferences. He is a member of IEEE, and a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India, and the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the university, commercializing its innovations in cloud computing. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012–2016. He has authored over 625 publications and seven textbooks including “Mastering Cloud Computing” published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese, and international markets, respectively. He also edited several books including “Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms” (Wiley Press, USA, February 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=132, g-index=294, 92,500+ citations). “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” for four consecutive years since 2016, a Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and recently (2019) received “Lifetime Achievement Awards” from two Indian universities for his outstanding contributions to cloud computing and distributed systems. Software technologies for grid and cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established 50 years ago.
Dr. S Ponnusamy is a Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics of IIT Madras. He has earned his B.Sc. (1980) and M.Sc. (1992) from the University of Madras. He completed his Ph.D. (1989) at IIT Kanpur. His current research interest includes complex analysis, quasiconformal and harmonic mappings, special functions, and functions spaces. Dr. S Ponnusamy is the founding “Fellow of the Forum de Analystes, Chennai, India”, 1992. He was elected as a “Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India” in the year 2002. He served five years as Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Centre (October 2012–October 2017). He is the currently the President of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, India. Dr. S Ponnusamy has been associated with a number of organizations for popularization of science and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed international journals. He is often invited to give plenary talks at international conferences and to give lectures in universities all over the world. He took part as a researcher in many funded projects in India and Abroad. He has been refereeing for more than 100 journals. Dr. Ponnusamy has written four books and another book with Herb Sivlerman. One of his books won the Best Selling Author Award in 2002. He has edited several volumes, and international conference proceedings. He has published more than 250 technical articles in reputed international journals (such as Advances in Mathematics, Annales Academia Scientiarum Fennica Mathematica, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Archiv der Mathematik, Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques, Bulletin /Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Computational Methods and Function Theory, Indagationes Mathematicae, Journal of London Mathematical Society, Integral Equations and Operator Theory, Journal Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Mathematika, Mathematishe Annalen, Mathematische Nachrichten, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Monatshefte fuer Mathematik, Nonlinear Analysis, Potential Analysis, Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, Results in Mathematics, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics The Journal of Geometric Analysis) and has solved several long standing open problems and conjectures. Dr. Ponnusamy has been a Visiting Professor of number of universities in abroad (e.g. Hengyang Normal University and Hunan Normal University, China; Kazan Federal University and Petrozavodsk State University, Russia; University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia; University of Aalto, University of Turku, and University of Helsinki, Finland; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA).
Prof. Debashis De earned his M.Tech. from the University of Calcutta in 2002 and his Ph.D. (Engineering) from Jadavpur University in 2005. He is the Professor and Director in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Maulana Abul kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (Former West Bengal University of Technology), India, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Australia. He is a senior member of the IEEE, life member of CSI, and member of the International Union of Radio science. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Herriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award during 2008–2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist Award both in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 at Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Head Quarter, Belgium. His research interests include mobile cloud computing, and Green mobile networks. He has published in more than 250 peer-reviewed international journals and 200 international conference papers, six research monographs, and ten textbooks. His h-index is 26 and i10 index is 91. Total citation is 3330. He is an Associate Editor of journal IEEE ACCESS, Editor Hybrid computational intelligence, Journal Array, Elsevier.
Dr. Andrew Adamatzky is Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He does research in molecular computing, reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata, slime mould computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity, nature-inspired optimization, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology, nonlinear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation. He authored seven books, mostly notable are “Reaction-Diffusion Computing”, “Dynamics of Crow Minds”, and “Physarum Machines” and edited twenty-two books in computing, most notable are “Collision Based Computing”, “Game of Life Cellular Automata”, and “Memristor Networks”; he also produced a series of influential artworks published in the atlas “Silence of Slime Mould”. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Cellular Automata” and “Journal of Unconventional Computing” and Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Parallel, Emergent, Distributed Systems” and “Parallel Processing Letters”.
Dr. Jemal H. Abawajy (SM’11) is a full professor at Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia. Prof. Abawajy has delivered more than 60 keynote and seminars worldwide and has been involved in the organization of more than 300 international conferences in various capacity including chair and general co-chair. He has also served on the editorial board of numerous international journals including IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing. Prof. Abawajy is the author/co–author of more than 400 refereed articles and supervised numerous PhD students to completion.
