Prof. Brij B. Gupta is working as Director of International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Distinguished Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. In more than 20 years of his professional experience, he published over 600 papers in journals/conferences including 35 books and 12 Patents with over 40,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, GoI, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), respectively. Prof. Gupta has been recognized as a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (top 0.1% globally) in Computer Science for both 2022 and 2023. Additionally, he has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2020-2024). He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI, and IJCAC as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of a Book Series with CRC and IET press. He also served as TPC members in more than 200 international conferences also serving/ served as Associate/Guest Editor of various journals and transactions IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE TCE, IEEE Big Data, IEEE CEM, IEEE IoTM, FGCS, ASoC. He also organized special track/ session chairs in ICCE 2021 Las Vegas, GCCE 2014-2021, TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM:CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, and Symposium Chair Big Data in IEEE ICC 2025. His research interests include information security, Cyber physical systems, cloud computing, blockchain technologies, intrusion detection, AI, social media and networking.Prof. Amiya Nayak is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), where he specializes in distributed systems, wireless networking, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo (1981) and a Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University (1991). Before his full-time move to academia, Dr. Nayak accrued over 17 years of industrial experience in software engineering, avionics, and navigation systems. An IEEE Fellow and licensed Professional Engineer, his 2026 research focuses on cybersecurity, including intrusion detection systems and privacy-driven frameworks for health data and vehicular networks. He actively serves as an Associate Editor for several high-impact publications, such as the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.