Agri 4.0 and the Future of Cyber-Physical Agricultural Systems

Seifedine Kadry is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Norrof University College, in Norway. He has a Bachelor’s degree in 1999 from Lebanese University, MS degree in 2002 from Reims University (France) and EPFL (Lausanne), PhD in 2007 from Blaise Pascal University (France), HDR degree in 2017 from Rouen University. At present, his research focuses on data Science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics. He is an ABET program evaluator for computing, and ABET program evaluator for Engineering Tech. He is a Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE, and Fellow of IACSIT. He is a distinguished speaker of IEEE Computer Society.Dr. Vandana Sharma is an Associate Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR, India. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of Women in Engineering Society and member of IEEE Consumer Technology Society popularly known as CTSoc. As a keen researcher, she has published 50+ research papers in SCI and Scopus-indexed international journals and conferences. Dr. Sharma has contributed voluntarily as a keynote speaker, session chair, Reviewer and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for reputed International Journals and IEEE Conferences and has presented her work across India and abroad. Her primary areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology and the Internet of Things (IoT).Dr. Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj is a professor at the Symbiosis International (Deemed University) in Pune, India. His research and publication interests include cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Computer Science Teacher Association (CSTA) and member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He is an expert advisory panel member of Texas Instruments Inc. (USA), and an associate editor of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (Emerald Publishing). Dr. Rutvij H. Jhaveri is an experienced researcher in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU/PDPU), Gandhinagar, India. He was among top 2% of scientists around the world as per the 2021 statistics provided by Stanford University and Elsevier. He serves as an editor/ guest editor in various journals of repute, he also serves as a reviewer in several international journals and also as a program committee member/reviewer in renowned international conferences. He authored several papers/book-chapters published by prominent publishing houses such as IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Hindawi, ACM, IET, INTECH and others. Apart from Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE), he possesses memberships in technical societies CSI, ISTE, IAENG, IDES and others. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board in Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management since 2021. In 2017, he was awarded "Pedagogical Innovation Award" by Gujarat Technological University. Dr. S. Gandhiya Vendhan has been awarded Post-Doctoral Fellow from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) New Delhi, IIT, India, Ph.D., M.Tech in Information Technology from Anna University and Six Sigma Black Belt from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and also Data Science, Big Data & IoT from SAS. He completed his M.Sc, M.Phil in Statistics from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He is having 8 years of teaching experience and 10 years of research experience. He received Independent Scientist Awards 2020 from You Tube. He has published 30+ papers in top journals.

• 1. Journey to Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems: Digitalization and Technological Evolution2. Tools and Framework for Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems3. Convergence of IoT, ML, Blockchain, Big Data, Cloud, 5G for Building the Ecosystem for Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems4. Issues and Research Challenges for Implementing Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems5. Economic, Social and Environmental Challenges in Agri 4.06. Explainable AI for Security Surveillance in Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems7. Smart Multi-Layer Architecture for Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems8. Blockchain based Smart Supply Chain and Transportation for Agri 4.09. Towards Precision Agriculture in Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems10. Autonomous Systems and Smart Farming Environment for Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems11. Blockchain based Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems12. Smart Production Monitoring using drones in Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems13. AI based Pest Detection and Recovery Model in Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems14. Government Policies and Practices for Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems15. Sustainable Industrial Practices Ensuring Food Security via Cyber Physical Agricultural Systems: A Case Study 16. Automated Crop Cultivation and Pesticide Scheduling: A Case Study

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